I urge political parties and trade unions to adopt policies to enact and apply international law, to hold war criminals to account. It is well worth doing even if it takes a decade or more to get to that position.
2.05pm Possibly better to phrase it as uphold and enforce international law.
Everything Changes
We have witnessed limited, restrained violence directed at political authority at Paiporta near Valencia, Spain. It was a spontaneous expression of anger from people having experienced an extreme ordeal believing that they have been ignored and neglected.
People will soon come to realise that the extreme weather experienced in Spain amoung similar extreme weather events is a result of the fossil fuel industry and politicians having jointly destroyed the planet’s climate rather than an isolated event.
We are in transition to a new global reality – sound familiar? – because climate changes are so extreme that the old reality which we are leaving is no longer viable. It’s not a matter of choice: the climate has been destroyed, we are going to experience more and more severe weather events. We’re basically at 1.5C – the limit of the Paris agreement – now. WTF is coming even in 5 years time?
UK Labour government’s budget by Rachel Reeves doesn’t really matter in the bigger picture. While we have Israel’s continuing genocide (genocides?) with the UK Labour government a major active participant the real big issue is the hugely devastating floods in Spain. ‘This Is Climate Change’: Devastating Flooding Kills More Than 70 in Spain.
The problem is that World governments are going to do very little to address climate change until they are forced to. It’s only getting worse since it’s not addressed despite fossil fuel industries and governments being aware for 60 years. Climate campaigners are imprisoned instead of the real climate criminals.
Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been fundamentally dishonest in obscuring the extent of his and the UK military’s active support for Israel’s genocide. Starmer has been urging Israel to be restrained while secretly Israel would not have been able to conduct it’s genocidal campaign without UK support. The UK air force has conducted 49% of spy flights over Gaza identifying targets, UK’s 77 Brigade specialising in psychological warfare has been advising Israel – no doubt about all the lies that have enabled hospitals to be destroyed – and weapons have been supplied to Israel through UK bases in Cyprus. It is now revealed that Starmer & Co are intimately involved in the slaughter of non-combatants, aid workers, journalists and health workers and in the deliberate starvation inflicted on Gaza.
Starmer has proved himself to be totally unfit to be UK’s Prime Minister. We need him and his fellow Zionist conspirators to be tried and convicted of genocide and war crimes.
10.15p.m. Israel’s Gaza genocide and wider militarism should be regarded as mostly a joint venture between United States, United Kingdom and Israel. The parties cannot be distinguished. In UK current Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy – who very recently claimed that it was not a genocide – are every bit as guilty of war crimes as the Israelis.
Mainline media are being fundamentally dishonest in presenting the killing of Chris Kaba. There is a concerted attempt to further excuse armed police from killing people, that is what it’s about. For example, a hard traffic stop is presented as a traffic stop. A hard traffic stop is an intentional crash to sandwich a car between 2 others front and back. If I was subjected to a hard stop, I would then expect to be killed by armed men (police or army) and it’s certainly not unreasonable or unexpected to try to escape.
You already don’t need to be armed to be killed by armed police in UK. It helps no end if you’re black but I’ve know people to be killed because of their names. I don’t regard myself as black but can get a very deep tan. My father was once told to “Get back to where you came from” to which he replied “What, Ely?”. Ely is an area of Cardiff.
It’s not that difficult to ram hard into the back of the car in front – it happens many times every day.