Why Must Gaza Weep Alone?

      Saturday July 12th saw hundreds of people turn up at Buchanan Street in Glasgow to vent their anger and disgust at the Israeli genocide that is taking place under the noses and closed eyes, of the so called Western democracies. The brutal killing and maiming is still going on, our anger and disgust is now greater than ever. The pressure must be kept up, demonstrations are organised across the country for this Saturday, 19thy. July.

 

      If you are in or around Glasgow this Saturday please turn up, bring your friends and family, show your support for the families in Gaza who are at the receiving end of the force of one of the most powerful military powers in the world. The killing and maiming must stop, Palestinian people have a right to peace and self determination. The Palestinian People must not weep alone.

Saturday 19 July 1pm Buchanan Street 

at the steps to the Royal Concert Hall

      Scottish National Demonstration for Palestine to coincide with the national demonstration in London. Let the world know loud and clear, Scotland supports Palestine. Stop Bombing Gaza! End the Occupation! Free Palestine! All Welcome. Sponsored by Scottish Friends of Palestine, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition Scotland, Scottish Jews for a Just Peace, Glasgow Palestine Human Rights Campaign, Ahl al Bayt Society, Friends of Al Aqsa and more supporters of Palestine.

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Legalising Beatings And Killings.

 Now legal in Peru!!

      "The Peruvian government passed a law stating that members of the armed forces or National Police are "exempt from criminal responsibility" if they hurt or kill people while on duty."  Bloody hell, seems to be the only rational response to this latest piece of Peruvian legislation. To pass a law exempting armed thugs from any criminal responsibility, is giving carte blanche to them to do what the hell they want, in beating and killing of protesters. No problems about responsibility, minimum force, restraint, or any of that crap, that ties the hands of psychopaths, in Peru they now have the stamp of legitimacy to run amok. 

 Now legal in Peru!!

        Of course if one state uses that approach, and it works "to their advantage", and I have no doubt it will, others may follow suit. States learn from one and other, they are all looking for the same thing, total control over their population.

Now legal in Peru!!

This from Care2:

     Five years ago, violence exploded between police forces and indigenous protesters trying to protect their homes from huge mining companies. More than 30 people, both civilians and officers, were killed in the clash; 200 more were injured. And while more than 50 protesters were put on trial for the injuries and death, no police officer has thus far been held accountable.
      This sets a terrifying precedent for police officers and soldiers to abuse their power in Peru, and it's only going to get worse. The country recently passed a law that explicitly allows on-duty officers to injure or kill protesters without being held criminally responsible.
       Considering that Peru is one of the world's largest producers of silver, copper and minerals -- and that the country has previously allowed mining giants to run roughshod over indigenous communities in order to make a profit -- this is truly frightening news for environmental protesters. What is to stop an officer of the military or the law from shooting at protesters, even nonviolent ones, for the "crime" of standing up for their culture and their land?
       This is no way to ensure justice in the country; it only helps stoke a state of reactionary aggression. Ask Peru to revoke its new law giving police and soldiers a "license to kill!"

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Our Silence Is Complicity In Genocide.

        The story that isn't being told, the world's silence is complicity in genocide. Murder can be indiscriminate, but genocide is specific, it is a political aim to eliminate a people and take their land, if anybody can't see this is what is happening in Gaza and to the Palestinian people, they are obviously and deliberately, looking the other way. The country of Palestine is slowly disappearing from the maps of the world, its people are being killed year in year out, they are under a vicious military occupation, in what can only be described  as the world's largest and most brutal open air prison. Look at the situation from any angle and by any moral or ethical standard, and what is happening to the Palestinian people is both unacceptable and indefensible. Why the world's silence?
This from SCGNEWS:

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Charlie Is The Man.

      I have posted this before, but it is always worth another airing, it brings a wee glow to the heart.

Post by CRYPTIK.

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Privatisied War

Published on Jun 30, 2014

"WASHINGTON — Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad's Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor's operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater's top manager there issued a threat: "that he could kill" the government's chief investigator and "no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq," according to department reports.

       American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators as a dispute over the probe escalated in August 2007, the previously undisclosed documents show. The officials told the investigators that they had disrupted the embassy's relationship with the security contractor and ordered them to leave the country, according to the reports."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from James Risen / NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/...

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Dark Curtain Of Establishment Secrecy And Protection.

        Everybody is aware and accepts, that those who walk the corridors in the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, are wading through a swamp of double dealing and deception, fiddles and old boys' networks. We know that the state is corrupt, however, sexual abuse of minors is a whole different type of corruption, and abuse of power. The murmurings of a paedophile ring in "high places" have been going on for years, and recently a few heads have rolled, but not those with the real power. The accepted perception is that they still lurk behind the dark curtains of establishment secrecy and protection. That has to end, paedophilia is an abuse, whether committed by a friend of the family, a plumber, a priest, a teacher, or an Oxbridge member of parliament. The truth must be lead bare for all to see, and victims must be protected and see justice. 

This from Care 2:

      In the 1980s, at least one senior minister was accused of paying underage boys to "entertain" officials at cocaine-fueled parties. At least one informant has referred to the behaviour as a "sex ring." Yet the government at the time took no action -- in fact, Margaret Thatcher herself allegedly tried to cover up the incident.
     As a result of this interference, many of the men said to have participated in this paedophilia are now dead. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't demand answers about the nature of their crimes.
      It's disgusting enough that the minister in question supposedly used to sexually abuse teenage boys. But if the government really did engage in a conspiracy to try to protect an abuser from the consequences of his crime, how many other similar offenses have been hidden? And how many children and adolescents have been suffering in sil ence since their assaults?
      David Cameron has stepped to launch a full-scale investigation into the historical allegations. The British people -- including the survivors of this paedophilia -- deserve transparency and justice in this disturbing case of government corruption. Tell David Cameron to publicly release the results of the Westminster sex abuse scandal and punish everyone involved!

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Free And Open Internet.

        The Internet is very important in our lives today, from entertainment to quick circulation of news and information, to just keeping in touch, but powerful corporate bodies are attempting to shut it down and transform it to a two, or three tier system, pricing the ordinary people into the SSLOWW lane, leaving the higher priced fast lane for the corporate greed merchants. This affects all of us and it is very important that we keep the internet open to all, on a level playing field.

An appeal from Open Media:

The thing we love the most about the Internet is that it's a level playing field for free expression, economic opportunity, and innovation.

But Big Telecom can’t stand this – and now they're trying to squeeze more money from Internet users by destroying the free and open Internet that people everywhere built together.

These telecom giants are pushing rules that would force everybody who can’t afford the outrageous new fees into an Internet slow lane.¹ But we have one more chance to stop this.

Tomorrow, the U.S. FCC will be reviewing their slow lane proposal. And we need you to support a powerful legal challenge that could help save the Internet.

In less than 24 hours, brave lawyers and open Internet experts at Free Press will present legal challenges to the FCC’s Internet slow lane rules. We need you to stand with these experts, and call on the FCC to stand up for the open Internet now.

John, you have been a key part of this since the beginning.

In May, you joined with over 125,000 Internet users from around the world to say no to the Internet slow lane². Now we need you to take this crucial next step at this key stage in the FCC’s decision-making.

At OpenMedia, one of the things we’re best at is collaborating with others in the fight for the open Internet. That’s why we’re supporting the Free Press challenge, and adding the full weight of our growing international pro-Internet community to push back against Internet slow lanes.

These experts will be submitting their challenge to the U.S. FCC about rules that – if passed – would create an Internet dominated by deep-pocketed telecom giants, and affect users in countries around the world.³ We must stand with the experts to save the Internet as we know it.

If it comes to slow lanes on the Internet, nothing will be safe.⁴ Your favorite online comedy troupe, indie shopping site,⁵ or the next big social media network are all at risk. We must stop this.

We know that when we work together nothing can stand in our way. The next 24 hours are critical to the future of the open Internet. Please call on the FCC to reject Internet slow lanes while you still can.

For the future of innovation and creativity online,

–Josh and Steve, on behalf of OpenMedia

P.S. OpenMedia is a small team that gets big results. We’re up against some powerful, well funded interests, and it’s your support that enables us to take them on. Please, help us stop the FCC’s Slow Lane and stand up to Big Telecom’s lobbyists by chipping in with a donation today.

Footnotes
[1] Net Neutrality, Monopoly, and the Death of the Democratic Internet. Source: Motherboard.
[2] Over 125,000 Internet freedom advocates have said no to an Internet slow lane. Source.
[3] Internet traffic from around the globe passes through US servers, peering, and content delivery networks. As a result, it’s likely that web traffic from outside the U.S. could get caught in the slow lane. Source: Motherboard.
[4] The Internet you know is about to look a whole lot different. And you might not like what you see. Source.
[5] Etsy Weighs In on Net Neutrality as FCC Comment Deadline Looms. Source: re/code.

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The Genocide Continues.

      Not something that you would hear on BBC news, Channel 4, or any of the members of that Western babbling brook of bullshit, that is referred to as the mainstream media. Listen, spread around, and share where ever possible. It is genocide, brutal and slow, over many decades, but genocide never the less, and it is perpetrated by the West's savage friend in the Middle East, the Israeli state, and it is happening in the world's largest open prison.

Post by Mohammed Zeyara.

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Workers Know Your History, July 14, Bastille Day.

      July 14, Bastille Day, food for thought?? Back in 1789 things were pretty crap for the ordinary people. The government of the day was screwing the people, who were finding it hard to get enough food, poverty and deprivation was everywhere, well not really everywhere, just among the ordinary people, the upper echelons of society were living in lavish unearned opulence, sound familiar? The people got pissed off and took to the streets, much as we do today, not a lot has changed in the structure of our society. However on that particular day, July 14, 1789, they decided to attack that symbol of authority enforcement, the prison. Take away the ability to enforce, and authority starts to melt away. Of course in France today, Bastille Day has been claimed by the state, and turned into a massive military parade and symbol of state power, it didn't have to be that way, it could be different next time.

From Anarchist News, Sean Swain on Bastille Day

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A Scam That Causes Death.

         With that babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, spewing out its usual distractions and illusions, warped by smoke and mirrors, we must not lose sight of what is happening on the ground. We have had Wimbledon, Tour de France, World Cup, and the Commonwealth Games coming up, circuses for the peasants, all thrown at you as proof of our wonderful world, all fun and spectacle, with the message, "you also could be famous, if you would only work hard enough." but you and I know different. All that razzmatazz, flag waving jamboree, is nothing more than a syphoning machine, sucking public money into the coffers of the corporate world, meanwhile, behind the subterfuge, here in reality world-----ATOS may be leaving that particular field, but the scam goes on.

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Glasgow Protest Against Genocide.

 

         Today on Buchanan Street, in Glasgow, Saturday 12th. July, there was a demonstration in support of the people of Gaza, it was also a show of anger against the brutal treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state. It was well attended, and numbered in several hundreds. This continual murder of the Palestinian people, by one of the most modern and powerful military machines in the world, is nothing less than genocide. There is no justifiable rationale for this onslaught, it is not defence, it is totally disproportional to anything that the people of Gaza might be done. It is blanket punishment, just as the Nazis dished out during WW2. If a youth throws a stone through your window, you don't retaliate by throwing some hand grenades into his family home, that sort of crime would not be tolerated anywhere on the planet, except in Gaza, when done by the Israeli state. By its silence, the world is complicit in this crime of genocide. The protests must continue and grow until this barbarity is halted, and there is justice for the Palestinian people.

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King And Country.

       As we approach August, 2014, and the establishment prepares to attempt to showcase that Bloody imperialist land grab, known as WW1, as some sort of heroic defence of a none existent democracy, we have to do all we can to tell the truth about the biggest unnecessary blood letting in modern history. This imperialist squabble has no glory, was no vision of a better world, it was nothing more than a greed driven fight between empires, all in the name of power and wealth for the few. 

     The film, King and Country, based on a novel by James Lansdale Hodson. tells the story of one young man, the last man left of his entire company. He decides to walk away, but is caught, and to set an example to others, he is shot at dawn for desertion.

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Stop The Israeli Genocide.

      A call for all those who, in and around Glasgow, who want a better world, come and show your anger at the vicious Israeli aggression in Gaza, and show your solidarity with the people of that brutal Zionist open air prison, that is Gaza. Public opposition and protest broke the Apartheid regime in South Africa, it can stop the genocide of the Palestinian people.

An appeal from SACC:
Sat 12 July - Stop Attacking Gaza (Glasgow Demo)

1pm corner of Gordon Street, Buchanan Street, Glasgow

     Palestinians blockaded inside Gaza (the largest open air prison in the world) have been facing a massive onslaught from the Israeli Occupation Force, one of the most powerful militaries in the world.
Stop the Attack on Gaza! End the Siege. End Israeli Apartheid. End the Occupation. Free Palestine!
    Demo called by various activists, not by any particular organisation. Everyone welcome

https://www.facebook.com/events/660035234091215/

    The protest called last week at very short notice was well-attended, lively, determined and welcoming. Let's make this one even better.

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Imperialist Toys Of Destruction

      This austerity stricken UK government has ordered 14, F-35B fighters at a cost to the cash strapped taxpayer of £2.5 billion, this does not include the running cost of the fighter over its life time, add several billions more, an unquantifiable amount, for that. This super-duper imperialist state toy, has to date cost $1 trillion to develop. For power hungry states that want a slice of this new costly toy, they have to contribute to the $1 trillion development costs. Its record to date is not great, it has been met with ever increasing costs and delay after delay. Two recent tests grounded the plane, one an oil leak, the second, a fire on board, but no matter, they will push ahead with this instrument of destruction as it puts trillions of dollars of taxpayers money into the hands of big business. Despite its long development period, and its hosepipe of money supply, it is still considered to be “too dangerous to fly” “Effectively saying that the most expensive warplane in American history is too dangerous to fly is a huge public relations blow for the Pentagon,” Foreign Policy’s Kate Brannen Tuesday.

 What has this got to do with you and I?

      In November 2011, a Pentagon study team identified the following 13 areas of concern that remained to be addressed in the F-35:[167][168]

The helmet-mounted display system does not work properly.

The fuel dump subsystem poses a fire hazard.

The Integrated Power Package is unreliable and difficult to service.

The F-35C's arresting hook does not work.

Classified "survivability issues", which have been speculated to be about stealth.[167]

The wing buffet is worse than previously reported.

The airframe is unlikely to last through the required lifespan.

The flight test program has yet to explore the most challenging areas.

The software development is behind schedule.

The aircraft is in danger of going overweight or, for the F-35B, not properly balanced for VTOL operations.

There are multiple thermal management problems. The air conditioner fails to keep the pilot and controls cool enough, the roll posts on the F-35B overheat, and using the afterburner damages the aircraft.

The automated logistics information system is partially developed.

The lightning protection on the F-35 is uncertified, with areas of concern. Wikipedia 

We are more familiar with this!!

       This is the kind of shit that our “democratic” governments throw money at, while telling us that we can't afford, social services, we must face cuts in education and health, the disabled are costing us too much, and the unemployed will have to work for nothing, and so it goes on. The world of capitalist insanity. 

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Tears Of Gaza.

      To most people this short video is a tragic event, something that happened and is over, but to the people of Gaza, this is a daily occurrence, a way of life since the Israeli illegal occupation in 1967. To the people of Gaza this is normal life. Kids grow up having known nothing but occupation, Israeli state aggression and their land being stripped from them piece by piece. No family in Gaza has not seen family members killed or maimed, kids grow up traumatised by continual bombardment, harassment, and brutality at the hands of the Israeli state. All this goes on while the West supports the Israeli state and turns a blind eye, (condones) this brutal injustice. The West will criticise and condemn regimes across the globe and even invade and bomb countries back to the stone age, because it is seen, in their eyes as a brutal regime, yet that regime will not have committed the crimes that the Israel state commits on a daily bases. However, Israel is given carte-blanche by the West, to steal the Palestinian lands and carry out a policy of genocide on the people of Palestine.  Why?

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"The Final Solution"?

     Is the Israeli state taking a leaf out of the Nazi regime of WW2 Germany and applying its planned "final solution"?

This from Dissident Voice:

Yet another massive assault on Palestine is underway, where, of course, according to the Balfour Declaration, the Jewish population are guests not occupiers since: “ …the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of (this) it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine …”
Overnight (July 8th/9th), however, one hundred and sixty targets were initially hit, including the European Gaza Hospital (a war crime without a war.) Twenty-eight people were killed and over two hundred injured, adding to the unending onslaught on Palestine from the day the Zionist cuckoo took over the Palestinian nest — homes, gardens, history, culture, ancient sites, cemeteries, olive and apricot groves on May 14th, 1948 ignoring, jack booting and bulldozing entirely the “civil and religious rights” of the population, accompanied by subsequent decades of mass murder and demolitions.

Read the full article HERE:

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If In Glasgow On Saturday 12th. July.

Demonstration and protest in Glasgow, July 12th.:

 Sat 12 July - Stop Attacking Gaza

      1pm corner of Gordon Street, Buchanan Street, Glasgow.

      Palestinians blockaded inside Gaza (the largest open air prison in the world) have been facing a massive onslaught from the Israeli Occupation Force, one of the most powerful militaries in the world.
     Stop the Attack on Gaza! End the Siege. End Israeli Apartheid. End the Occupation. Free Palestine!
      Demo called by various activists, not by any particular organisation. Everyone welcome
https://www.facebook.com/events/660035234091215/
      The protest called last week at very short notice was well-attended, lively, determined and welcoming. Let's make this one even better.

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The Israeli State's Genocide Policy.

An appeal from Stop The War Coalition: 

Protest: Stop the Bombing of Palestine

      Over the last few days Israel has invoked Operation Protective Edge to ramp up the collective punishment of Palestinians, with at least 25 Palestinians killed and 70 injured during the atrocious bombing campaign in Gaza.
      In addition to Gaza, the Israeli repression has escalated in the West Bank to unprecedented levels unseen over the last few years. The situation looks set to get much worse with the Israeli Defence Minister saying yesterday that Israel is "preparing for a battle against Hamas, which will not end within a few days".
       Two weeks ago David Cameron condemned the killing of three Israeli teenagers but has remained silent about the death of the Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khedair who was burned alive in East Jerusalem. In March the Prime Minister said his belief in Israel was "unbreakable" and his silence on this latest horrific round of Israeli state violence has shown how true that statement was. Whatever the human rights abuses of the Israeli state, for our Prime Minister it seems nothing will put into question the importance of this key economic and military ally in the Middle East.
      It remains our priority to expose this hypocrisy and to stop the British government's ongoing support for the criminal occupying power. More than a thousand people gathered outside the Israeli embassy last weekend to oppose Israeli terror. Please join us again this Friday:

• Protest: Stop the Bombing - Stop the Killing - Free Palestine
• Friday 11 July - 5.30pm - 7.30pm
  
• Opposite Embassy of Israel, London W8 4QB
• Nearest tube: High Street Kensington
• Share the Facebook event with your contacts
• Can you help us? We need stewards and helpers for the protest. Please email office@stopwar.org.uk or telephone 020 7561 4830 if you can help.

The latest stories from the Stop the War web site on Israel's violent campaign:

• How Bush-Blair-Obama war crimes tore the Middle East to shreds Noam Chomsky
• Gaza's Groundhog Day: the recurring nightmare of Israel's barbarism Matt Carr
• Running scared of Israel the BBC makes one Israeli life worth 1000 Palestinian lives David Cromwell & David Edwards

  
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