Vlad. The Invader. Putin in the ICCS? Such sorrow for the Ukrainian people, all lovely decent folk, innocent and now being victimised by bullies.

Putin in the ICCs!?

There's more room at the Inn. 'Ternational Criminal Court, Vlad.

There's no doubt on this, the Military Invasion by Russia into Ukraine is a criminal venture. It is the Crime of Aggression, the supreme War Crime. It is known as the supreme war crime, in that it generates the basis of all the subsequent criminal events associated with that act of aggression. The entire command structure prosecuting this war are war criminals. Putin is not the only one.
What must we citizens do? How do we support Russian citizens who, understanding this, wish to stop this war from within Russia and indict Mr. Putin and his colleagues? 

Russia state television employee Marina Ovsyannikova, who ran on to the set of a live broadcast shouting: ‘Stop the war. No to war’, which millions of Russians will have seen. Such incredible courage in the work place. No one in the BBC, ITV, C4, CNN, FOX NEWS, etc has ever dared to do such a thing.

But to do it in Russia? This video is the recorded statement of Marina to her fellow Russians and to the world.


Some polish workers are blockading freight routes from Poland into Belarus and Russia.

A an article circulating on line :  Polish Protest Blocks traffic into Belarus and Russia.

Polish demonstrators have blocked the path of lorries with Russian and Belarusian number plates trying to cross into Belarus, according to a report by broadcaster TVN24.

The action led to a traffic jam stretching 10km at the Koroszczyn border crossing.

Many of the protesters waved Ukrainian flags, indicating their support for that country which came under Russian attack on February 24.

Some of the attacking troops started the assault from Belarusian territory.

The truckers caught in the action protested that the war had nothing to do with them.

Meanwhile, on the way out, opposite direction, and under extreme duress, a flow of refugees:



Refugees, seeking refuge from extreme violence:  people driving away, fleeing in buses, walking on their feet, carrying whatever they had time to grab, frightened, in shock, sad, grieving, exhausted, and holding it together, with courage and grace and strength and kindness, and so much pain, such vast harm, unbelievable and real.

It's so sad, such sorrow, for any individual being put through all of this, and in this situation, today, multiplied by tens of millions. So many people, 40 million, so profoundly harmed.

Entire families, streets, villages, towns, farms in shattered, shocked, grief stricken, angered, outraged, in pain, confused, bereft, made penniless by a useless war, broken and still, even still holding it together, caring for children and elders.

War is a beast, most decent humans are beauty and they ought never meet. Ever. Better they be strangers, than acquaintances. But this culture makes frequent such associations. 
Invasion is a horrible act.
Putin, and the entire government co-operating to prosecute this war are War Criminals, no question. 
There is a chain of command, there is a bureaucracy, a wide network of individuals and agencies all doing their bit to make it work. They have names, titles, official responsibilities, areas of culpable liability-all answerable to the people they harm, and to their own, of course.
Ordinary citizens unjustly trapped by accident of birth in the line of a military advance, totally innocent, people who would never dream of causing harm to anyone, ordinary citizens…harmed by leaders, lies and a hierarchy ugly enough to do this to ordinary people.
It’s disgusting, and Mr. Putin and the Russian state must be held accountable as War Criminals, before the Ukrainians, the people they have harmed so gruesome, as they trampled over such tender communities as people ever lived, and laid waste the life of a people.

For any readers looking to learn more about the Laws prohibiting War, here's a blog piece I wrote in 2008. 


And a song to go with this:

To the tune of 'Sitting on the dock of the bay"

Sitting in the dock at The Hague,Putin should be siting there in dread,Watching the judges walk in.Watching them walk back out again.He sent the orders from Moscow,

That’s when he should have stopped,

His order was evil and sour,

Cruelty at pace, unlocked

Sitting in the dock at The Hague,Putin should be siting there in shame,Hearing the judgement clear,

Looking at his cell wall for years.

Which would be getting off *Lightly, we'd say

Getting off *Lightly, his lucky day

Getting off *Lightly, judged clear

Clearly guilty of War Crimes.

Sitting in the dock at The Hague,They should be siting there in chains,Hearing the judgement clear,Looking at clean cell wall,

For their remaining years.

*To be allowed to live at all is 'getting off lightly'.

By comparison to the harm caused. 

There is no punishment that meets that criminality.
Incarceration is part of prevention. A warning that civilian populations will incarcerate any political leaders who initiate war, who commit war crimes.

People must hold warlords to account. There is no alternative resolution to this problem.




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Fight Club? Militarism is a pox upon the Earth.

Mairead Corrigan did more for freedom from oppression in 25 years than the IRA did in it's entire history.

Taking on the Bully Cult is profoundly challenging:

it’s really scary for anyone to look and see what is there, without blinkers, on a number of levels:

- the horror (full realisation)

- the grief (loss of innocence)

- the fear (personally at risk)

- the impact of knowing means one must take action (response ability)

- loneliness (because we are so atomised culturally)

- the selfish rage (why me?)

- the despair (this is hopeless)

Russian military action in Ukraine is a war crime. Blatantly. Set aside the history, the many dynamics that lead up to this shituation.  The Act of Aggression is the supreme war crime, in that it includes all other possible crimes of war, for they are derived from that one act.

At the same time, as I sit here, in total safety, in London watching news reports of Western Media as reporters breathlessly, excitedly chatting shit, broadcasting 'live' from the scene, not from the battle field itself, but at a safe distance, viewing those reports gives me the chills. 

‘Glory to Ukraine’: Civilians take up weapons in the battle for Kyiv screams the Daily Telegraph in England
Guns handed out from the back of rubbish lorries as grassroots resistance to the war started by Russia's Vladimir Putin begins.

18,000 rifles and magazines, for a city of 2,962,180 souls.

How long will those magazines last, how many of those men and women will survive their first encounter with a professional army trained in city fighting? Who thought this a good idea?

It's not glory, it is gore.

Russian forces should not be in Ukraine, they are illegal, amoral and wrong on every level. No question. 

Reporters from a wide range of international News Services, wearing helmets and flak jackets, talking to Ukrainians, sticking microphones into their faces, asking them if they will pick up weapons and fight gives me the chills.

When the war arrives to that city, those reporters will quickly leave. When the long fight, the attrition continues, they will be long gone.

Reading that Ukrainian border guards are stopping all fighting age men from leaving, pulling them out of cars and groups fleeing west, towards Europe, as refugees and thinking what of their partners, their children, their grandparents, their freedom, their human rights? I think they have every right to flee, to not get involved in violence they did nothing to instigate, other than be born there. I am appalled. 

Ukraine and Russia both have large contingents of conscripts already. That is a most fundamental breach of Human Rights. Israel has a similar mandatory service policy. Conscription is inhumane, and a pox upon the people.

A question?

I ask myself - would this breathless reporting and questioning, this encouragement of citizens to take up arms in news reports have been happening in Afghanistan, in 2002, or in Iraq, 2003, or in Yemen, 2011, or in  Libya, 2019 or in Syria, 2012 where sovereign states were being attacked by foreign militia, foreign mechanised military and foreign air forces? Would the worlds media have been so excitedly egging those citizens on?

Imagine a BBC reporter asking an Iraqi citizen in March 2003 - "Hamed, habibi, will you and your sons be taking up weapons to defend your country?"
And what is the result of untrained citizens taking up weapons?
How much more bloodshed is caused?
Who pours money and weapons and logistics into wars to extend them?

Who profiteers?
We are going to war, pay your taxes!

Since 1900, there has only been a single year without a British operational military casualty. This is a chronology of Britain's military interventions since 1945. Know your enemy. They may be closer than you think.
Source material: http://www.britains-smallwars.com

Who loses, and what do they lose?
Nobody wins a war, people survive, mostly due to luck.

And what is life like for the survivors?
And why is militarism still a thing in the 21st Century?
And is it so amongst ordinary citizens who really ought to know better partly because war movies are carefully presented as entertaining, beguiling lies that glorify 'good' violence, that mix extreme violence with sex and love and patriotism, and manipulative emotional hook lines, but leave out the stench of death, the smells of piss, shit, puke, blood, decaying gore, gunpowder and old burned out buildings?

My first rule of 'Fight Club' is everyone in Fight Club is stupid - that's why they don't want to talk about it, honestly. They do like to brag about it, amongst themselves.

Militarism is a pox, a blight, an inhumane machine, a  gross psychopathy institutionalised. Funded by our taxes. The very origin of income tax was to fund a war.
What do we all lose, in every war?
What have we ever gained?
Russia is not Putin, and Putin is not working on his own. Neither is England Blair, and Blair was not working on his own. Neither is Assad Syria, nor was he working on his own. America is not George Bush and Dick Cheny, and they were not working on their own.
From the safety of these islands, the British Empire wrought war, harm and vengeance across this beautiful Earth in pursuit of Wealth Extraction.
Are we not sick of this?
I am. I am appalled. 
Russian warfare against Ukraine must be stopped. 
All warfare must be stopped.
Otherwise it's going to continue. 

And of course there's the ever present threat of Nuclear War. 

Ira Helfand, MD is co-President of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. As co-Founder and Past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility, IPPNW’s US affiliate, he knows terrible truths about nuclear war. 

Ira uncovers the threat to human survival posed by nuclear weapons and what we can do to eliminate this threat. Dangers of nuclear war exist as an existential threat to humanity. There's circa 15,000 Nuclear Nuclear War Heads owned by nine States.





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Putin is wrong, he's not the only one - the entire industrial militarised competing powers dynamic is psychopathy institutionalised. Give Peace a Chance!

I may be poor, I may be traumatised, suffering from cPTSD from life long trauma, I may be depressed and at times profoundly distressed, and fearful. I may be worried, and I may  be obsessed with politics, power, community and permaculture.

I am not insane, and I am not a psychopath. I have had enough of the bully cult. Enough! What about you?

The entire industrial militarised competing powers dynamic is psychopathy institutionalised.

That’s got to be the first call in any discussion on these matters.

These wars are all abusive, psychopathy.

Russian invasion of Ukraine is amoral, illegal and blatantly wrong on every level. 
That said, so too has been every war ever fought - and just as much so, in spite of the cant and propaganda we have been exposed to since 1945, when the victors of that horror claimed 'victory' and declared, falsely, that 'Peace had broken out' and the wars never ceased, as Adam Curtis lays out in his documentary series "The Mayfair Set'. 

When one takes sides, any sides, among the bullies,  it shows one does not understand the problem. Militarism for profit, for market dominance, for resource access, for ego, for dick swinging, for whatever is the problem. 
The only way to stop war is to stop all militarism. There is no other way.

It's not an easy ask. It is the only way to achieve peace, globally. We seriously need to do this, not least to be in a position to be able to adapt safely to climate change (we cannot fight it, that's stupid language), to clean up pollution and to abolish poverty. All are possible. We have work to do.

If our political, economic and religious leaders and organisations will not do this, then we must select and empower new leaders and organisations who will.

We must reject all those who refuse this task.

Are you too busy?
Today, the Johnson Government sells state subsidised weapons to Israel, an Apartheid Crime Against Humanity State and to Saudi Arabia, a Religious Cult Misogyny State and a War Crime State.

Lots of countries have well developed weapons manufacturing industries, and the trade is booming, if you'll excuse the pun. Militarism defines this 'civilisation'. I call it a bully cult. 

Am I wrong?

What would you call it?
Today Blair and G W Bush still walk free having murdered between 600,000 and 2 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq, having displaced more than 12 million people and destroyed civil infrastructure, again and again and again.
Assad, Putin, Cameron, May and the leaders of Qatar and Saudi Arabia all walk free having destroyed Syria and murdered circa 250,000 Syrians between them, aided by a host of violent militia whom they funded, armed and supported as 'Freedom Fighters'. None of those who have blood on their hands are innocent of war crimes.

This is all insanity, dangerous, lethal craziness. It's entirely irrational and inhumane bullshit.
The second call is how do we de-escalate towards peace?
The answer is rather obvious: remove oligarchy - the wealth extractor class - from all civil and legal governance systems and put workers and parents in charge instead.

War is a business model, as Andrew Cockburn describes in his book.

The Spoils of War : Power, Profit and the American War Machine

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3855-the-spoils-of-war
The Global war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money.

If you really want peace, this is the work you will have to engage in. Make it more important than your mortgage, or your yearly vacations, or your pension. Make all our children's children's lives more important than any other consideration. Stop being so damn selfish and submissive.
Is that too much to ask?
Does that make you squirm? Are you uncomfortable with that thought, never mind the action it would require to make it happen?

Why?

Wars are a business model, they are 100% avoidable. They are chosen by evil people and good decent people get harmed by them.
No-one in NATO has a genuine interest in peace or detente.
It is a war alliance. It’s always been a warring states alliance. It’s been aimed at Russia since it’s formation.
It has been involved in numerous combat operations, wars since it's inception. Blood and guts, destruction.
The USUK are not peaceful states run by peace loving oligarchies. Neither is Russia, nor is India, Pakistan is not a peaceful State and neither is Myanmar. Saudi Arabia is not a peaceful state, and neither is Israel.

The entire industrialised militarised competing powers dynamic is psychopathy institutionalised.
That’s the bit everyone ignores, the truth that no one dares to mention : because it is the most honest assessment it is the least popular.
Why?
Because it confronts everyone.
Because it seems too big to resolve?
Well no. As soon as a population accepts the truth of that assessment of institutionalised psychopathy, the next steps are obvious.

Back in 2020, United Nations General Assembly demanded a global ceasefire.
www.un.org/en/globalceasefire
It was proposed by the GA and supported in the Security Council by China and Russia, in the context of dealing with a global pandemic (not as a general future trending strategic policy).

That call was was rejected by USUK.
Then the call rang out again, in 2021.
https://www.un.org/en/globalceasefire/un-security-council-demands-covid-19-vaccine-ceasefires

USUK rejected that call tool. Both continued to support the Saudi war on Yemen.
And at the same time USUK refused to waive Vaccine Intellectual Property Rights as both encouraged spread of the virus in their respective countries 'to protect civil liberties' and 'the economy' - result 1.2 million fatalities, 3 million cases of long Covid, economic damage to small businesses and self employed, increased poverty for unemployed.

All war is wrong, and all war makers are wrong.

When we pick a side in war, we become part of the wrongness. 

War is a culture and a business model - no war has ever been fought for justice, peace, freedom or kindness towards vulnerable people. Wars are fought for booty, political dominance, access to treasure, population control.
Violence wrapped in Flags is populist patriotic poison.
All wars are wars of the Wealth Extraction Class and they are always wars against the interests of working people, parents and children alike.
Why have we, the workers of the world, failed completely to stop our oligarchs from waging wars?
Are we ready yet to answer that question honestly enough to be able to drive a change in our psychological, political and economic behaviour, a change that would prevent further war making?
Because unless we do that, climate adaptation is not going to happen.

That’s a fact.
In each country, we must remove the military industrial complex and the wealth extraction oligarchy placemen and women  from all positions of power. 

That’s the task. Refuse to elect them, then regulate them out of existence. It's called healthy politics. No need for violence, and there is a great need for clarity, evidence based political organisation, demonstrable honesty, verified integrity and a robust determination to leave a nurturant and peaceful society for our children and their children in perpetuity. We can gift this to the future if we so choose.

Obviously, we need to break the spells of indoctrination, grooming, propaganda and manipulative bullshit in general.

Healthy Government will only come from a healthy population.

I wrote a metric for a healthy governance some time ago.

https://dwylcorneilius.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-metric-for-governance-uk-election-2017.html

Healthy Governance - A Metric

I think of Healthy Governance as being focused on the practical realities of administering a communities shared resources for the equal benefit of all members of that community. 

Healthy governance sets the context of governance as operating within as a shared responsibility of duty of care for one another.  In that regards healthy governance has to be evidence led at all times. Opinion and belief are insufficient to meet the responsibility of duty of care.

Healthy governance sets the global context of governance as nurturing, caring for and stewarding of the habitat within which the community lives and from which that community draws living materials and other resources. 

In the case of States, and in relation to healthy Governance we can apply this metric of care to taxation, which is collected from all, in one way or another, by the State, and is therefore a primary community shared resource. Healthy governance will determine that that resource is deployed with wisdom and equity to nurture the whole population.

Taxation is a resource which does not belong to the Government, as a possession, but is rather a resource held in trust, to be dutifully and carefully deployed on behalf of the whole of society, and the population the Government governs for.

Part of what stops us is our fear of honesty.
Stop it. Acknowledge that the Oligarchy and the War Makers are engaged in evil behaviour. They don't have to be evil bogie men, with horns and red eyes raging with cruelty. Their behaviour, their actions and their willingness to ignore or evade the meaning of the harms caused - that's where the evil lives.

Get over it and get on with it. Be honest. Live honestly, die honestly. Speak as honestly as you can. Free Speech is a responsibility to be really truthful.


"You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil. And that I refuse to believe!" 
Greta Thunberg September 2019
All the industrial militarised competing powers dynamic is psychopathy institutionalised.
There are no good guys. Believe it, because it is true.
WWII was not a war for workers freedom from oppression: it was a competing empires war.
At that time none of the so-called democratic states were anywhere near genuine grass roots democracy or healthy governance. If WWII was about freedom, then why did US and UK and others destabilise so many African and South American states seeking non aligned independence and a fair price for their resources, fair wages for their workers?

Exactly. Psychopathy and Wealth Extraction.

Why did USUK declare Russia and China as enemies within a year of the end of WWII, when both Russia and China took massive casualties and deaths in fighting Nazi Germany invasion and Imperial Japanese invasion?
Why did they declare these war time allies as enemies, having dropped two atomic bombs on civilian cities?
Why then did Russia and China seek to gain Nuclear Weapons? Why did they reject the work of Peace?

Here's a clue: they were all profoundly traumatised due to the wars they had been waging since turn of the century. They were ruled by militarised Governments.
World War 2 was another Imperial War, flowing effortlessly from World War I, which itself flowed from the Scramble for Africa.

And so it goes, has gone, is still going.
All Wars are Imperial Wars.
No war is an isolated event.
These wars are part of a culture of States run by Wealth Extraction (pretending to be democratic, or socialist, or communist) competing for dominance, and in every war, the working people are the ones who pay the price.
Taking sides, especially when we, as workers, live in a Warring State, take sides is falling into the trap of participating in, and becoming complicit, whilst thinking we too are 'struggling for freedom'. That's insanity.
These wars are all part of the oppression culture. The Bully Cult.
As long as we workers take sides we are embroiled and entrapped.

If we don't call it out, we perpetuate it.
The militarised industrial competing powers thing is psychopathy institutionalised.
Trying to see with sides 'point of view' obscures that acknowledgement.
Taking either side of two bullies is co-dependent insanity. Trying to see both sides of view has, in some case some merit, yet ultimately, with regards to USUK/Russia it's missing the truth of the shituation we are faced with. The two powers are part of a bully cult. The bully cult is the problem we need to address in order to get to where we can prevent the powers from causing so much harm.
Without that acknowledgement up front, we are trapped within a malign co-dependency.
I've been getting ever more irritated with centrist, leftist and rightist cant on radio, in the press, on TV etc about Putin, NATO, this side, that side etc for a few weeks now... and it's this nugget that is the key to my frustration - no one in the media is saying it's all psychopathic insanity.

That point of view is completely blotted out. 
That frustrates me hugely.
I've had enough. What about you?

Here's my baseline...

I know I am fully evolved to be a caring, loving, creative, intelligent, warm, empathic, capable and robust humane being ready and willing to co-operate to nurture my community and be nurtured in turn. I know I do not need to evolve to resolve the problems we face.

Humanity does not need to evolve.

What we need is to resolve the problem of the Dominator Culture, the bully cult as I like to call it.

A problem fully understood is half way towards resolution - a problem incompletely understood is insoluble.

I hope this article in some small way adds to the work of many, many superb, creative, thoughtful, studious, warm hearted and intelligent people developing the clarity and understanding that leads to a resolution - a resolution is much better than a revolution, revolutions tend to be rotations on a fixed point, thus far they have merely replaced on set of bullies with another.

We need to move on. 

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Enough, Already! Taking sides in inter-State violence is dysfunctional. (HIroshima edit)

around 8am, 6th August.

this:

peace requires a basis in experience, and "Peace is more than the abscence of war."

Peace is not an abstract, nor is it relative.

Peace is the fundamental state of a loving human community, living as biologically healthy creatures, as part of the biosphere, the livingness of and on Earth, without ever being bullied, or ever becoming bullies, in any shape or form, from cradle to grave.

Peace is simple, and leads to complex diversity across a planet as varied as this. (there are no comparables, of course, it's just a turn of phrase.)

So.

Let's have some honesty here, before it all goes silly.

The dynamic known as competing militarised powers is a human, social, societal ecological pathology. 

The institutionalisation of what amounts to lethal bullying has be to be seen for what it really is. Lethal bullying. Inappropriate behaviour. Harm causing behaviour. A social disease.

Taking sides within that dynamic, absent any formal recognition, let alone a diagnosis, of that state of pathology, merely perpetuates the dynamic.  Having diagnosed the situation, taking sides becomes redundant.

Such people - the side takers - cannot ever bring peace or resolve the situation because by taking sides they perpetuate that struggle.

"One cannot solve a problem with the same consciousness that created it."

A. Einstein.

It is a matter of logic. 

It's a priori stuff.

Taking sides in an environment of organised violence is insane.

That said, in the existing situation, that's a choice deliberately removed from millions of men world wide. they stand armed, and ready to follow orders.

It's not healthy.

Part of my approach is to address the question - what is healthy human behaviour?

To focus not on the brutality to resist it, rather to focus on the health dynamic, to quell that brutality, to ease it's insecurity, to heal the situation, long term.

Long term means delayed gratification, it means thinking of generations of diverse people yet to be born in terms of what we will leave for them to deal with. It means humility - that is the acceptance of the wonder of biological life as a philosophical realisation that is also experiential,  and this sensitivity enables access therefore to the riches of the biological habitat, the wonder that is 'aboriginal land lore'.. it means doing your bit now, and surrendering the future to the continuation of adults doing their bit.

These ancients were masters at healthy human living. They were happy people. Until conquest.

This culture is a pup of a thing, a runt.

Immature, narccisitic, self serving and prone to bullying.

Self harming.

Cease taking sides, and start confronting the truth of the situation. 

All of it, all sides, and as we examine each, pick apart the truth and the lies, based on the evidence.

The existing system of competing militarised powers is unhealthy, it is harm causing on a massive scale. It is not a welfare system, and is barely social.

The evidence is in, and it is well understood, and the adverse outcomes, the harms are clear to all.

It amounts to institutionalised bullying.

Call it out for what it is, do not be terrified of it.

Name the behaviour.

Name it. Calmly, technically, clearly, without ad hominem, evidence based. Information.

.. if only because the system of competing militarised continues to be perpetuated by lies and accepted myth.

this is about us growing up, rather than rising up, let us do!

Constant Cultural Trauma Stress Disorder. A sales chart, a saudi prince and a poison plot.

Is it possible that an entire culture can have PTSD?

Is it possible that the PTSD behaviours become institutionalised over time, and are therefore normalised?

Does it then becomea a constant cultural trauma stress disorder - CCTSD?

Is that what we are dealing with?

Cultural chronic post trauma stress behaviour patterning.

When Donald Trump, as president of the American Federal State, can flash a sales chart of weapons sales in front of the Saudi Arabian State for the media, as a publicity gimmick , and the UK State can make an unproven (and probably unprovable) allegation of assassination against the Russian State, without any due process, as a publicity gimmick, when men and women who weild power and whose actions will directly impact the lives of billions of people, often adversely, can behave thus, when they can feel secure enough to behave in that way, in public, I think we have a psycho-social behavioural problem of immense proportions.

Democracy is nullified in such an environment. It's practice, if it leads to this, is abbysmal.

Exporting Democracy to Afghanistan, iraq, LIbya ands Syria pretty much revealed that.

Trauma upon trauma, and nothing but justifications, lies and more violence. 

"Arm the teachers!"

Before we take action, we need an accurate and evidence verified diagnosis, and a reminder of the Hippocratic Oath - "First, do no harm."

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Dr. Strangelove? I presume!

NATO = NUTTY ASSHOLES THREATENING OBLIVION

Last week it was reported in various mainstream and internet media that NATO is officially on pre-emptive nuclear strike alert status, as is Russia and Israel. NATO includes the US, France and the UK and other 'states'.

Does anyone really suppose that China takes a different approach? or India, Pakistan, N. Korea? yeah, right!

Well, it’s not news to me.

I have been following this nuclear stuff all my life, I recall my family lookin' over bunker designs in the 70s, and that was in Ireland! We really did think about building one in West Cork where we lived at the time, as there are some US radio listening stations based there...

I also recall the 'fall' of the Berlin wall and all that talk of the 'peace' dividend, you know now that the cold war had 'ended', all that money that was being used to 'fight' the 'cold war' could be used for peaceful purposes. And we bought that idea, didn't we? Yes, we believed the newspapers. But to tell ya the truth, I do not recall ever having been informed that the nukes were actually ‘stood down’... did I miss that meeting?

What we do know for certain is that while the actual number of warheads has been reduced, the relative strength of those ‘fewer’ war heads has conversely actually increased….. to whit if ONE Trident Type Missile landed on London, London would VANISH, Woooooooooooooooosh! 20 million people vapourised in less time than it takes to say wooooooooooooooooooosh!.

Gone before the sound happened!

And the fall-out and subsequent fire-storm would incinerate all the home counties. At least.

NO RECOVERY FROM THAT ONE, MATEY MATE!

There’s no underground bunker for you or me, is there? And not much for those in middle management positions of our much vaunted 'democratic' civilian infrastructure either, I'll bet.

The entire UK and most of Europe would be devastated forever. Not to mention what would occur elsewhere........... *shudders*

All of this one hair trigger away. It is that close.

In the 1970s this was called MAD.

Mutually Assured Destruction.

Which meant if one gos, we all go, so don’t go. ok? ok!

Nobody went for it.

There's been a few close calls..

Just a side note about 'deterrent'. The US State Military never had one.

The others all developed theirs to deter the US State from doing a Hiroshima.

Did you know that in the 1980s George Herbert Bush, father of George Walker Bush, told a reporter, on camera, that the US Government reckoned that there’d be enough American People (carefully selected American People) to survive (approx 200,000) such an ‘incident’ and continue...and that they (the chosen few) had a ‘good plan’ with a 'good chance' of success...so it was ok to go for it, he said, if need be!

I have seen this reportage on film and it is real.

Rumsfeld, and the rest of those mad idiots who invaded Iraq to 'bring democracy and freedom' to the Iraqi people, were of course part of Bush Seniors Administration that came up with these mad scenarios of 'success'!

Too much bible studies if you ask me. Or a lousy childhood with very strange parents. Whatever it was, it's now clear that we are all threatened with extinction and that these utterly insane fools are unlikely to do anything to minimise that threat.

And as for Gordon "Trident Missile" Brown and his friends, well they are blatantly worse than useless, and are lining themselves up for some very lucrative part-time jobs once they've finished wrecking Iraq, Afhganistan and whatever other country is deemed 'evil'.

Not to mention what they will do to the United Kingdom over the coming years! They are hell-bent on privatising education, prisons, health-care and expanding nuclear power all at our expense and that's going to cost a hell of a lot..........

I tend to look at it like this : If you're a fatalist, or a religious nut, well you'll just keep on doing whateva, it really does not matter, but if you care, if your children matter to you at all, if you have any passion for life whatsoever then you'll WAKE UP, GET ACTIVE and you'll START TODAY! Surely?

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Guardian Article on NATO pre-emptive stance!