Editorial Comment 18-12-2006.
Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair are spent forces. They had their chance to care for our world and they blew it!
New Administrations will come into force in these leader’s countries before too long. YOU CAN have an influence on the direction their replacements take, but you have to act before it’s too late!

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Editorial Comment 07-12-2006.
Peace will never come from what one side wants. Peace will only come form what ALL sides want.

Concessions for unity, on even the simplest thing, is the only road for peace.
The foundation of trust and unity is the only stable building block.

The US now seeks internationalisation, stating that a peaceful resolution is in the interests of ALL the other nations in the region. Yes, it is. This is a start, but the US have to mean it. Thinking of others has got to replace self interest.

This is the building blocks not only to peace, but to the threat of global warming. One nation cannot think or act alone. Our future is as a global community.

Editorial Comment 09-11-2006
“You know, I thought we wuz goin’ to do alright”.
So spoke one of the lesser brains of the US Presidency, after his mid-term election debarcle.
Within a day, one of the architects of the disaster that has been created in Iraq, has gone. Let us all hope that the influence of the others is waning fast and that some form of reparation and healing of the world can occur. Having been so wrong in Iraq, this President is also so wrong on global warming.
Action, mister, is needed now!
Take a leaf out of Arnold’s book and get involved before its too late.
As countries like China and India rapidly industrialise, it is essential that the West takes a lead and cuts CO2 emissions dramatically.

To any reader please ensure you get involved in ‘Save our planet’ day. More information will appear in the next few weeks on this site and hopefully elsewhere.
Be part of it.
Spread the word.
Get involved.
Encourage others and especially concerned groups you are associated with.

There is hope, without complacency.

Editorial Comment 06-10-2006
As we stagger towards the twighlight of 2006 and of Bush ‘n’ Blair’s despotic ‘reigns’, we look forward to a world without their ‘leadership’ and wonder how history will view these two egotistical characters, both desperate for it to mark them kindly with memorable legacies. Yet, even now, we can see that they have wasted their terms in office, focusing, as they have, on war and making the world plunge ever faster, headlong towards climatic chaos.

Here are two men who had the opportunity to turn humanity’s seemingly crazed desire for self destruction into a long lasting enactment of peaceful coexistence in harmony with the planet. They could have used humanity’s ingenuity and majority desire for peace to turn the world into a safer, self-sustaining sanctuary for future generations. Instead we face an uncertain future…...
The true legacy of Bush ‘n’ Blair is a period in history that will be known as ‘the wasted years’ and their criminality to humanity’s true needs will be marked in the eons of time.

Let us hope that our future leaders have greater vision and loving selfless insight that these two so clearly lacked and that we can reverse the trend of destruction meted out by these two selfish men.

Editorial Comment 13-09-2006
Mr. Blair in his visit to the Middle East has stated that he wishes to finish his term in office by brokering a peace deal in the region. This all sounds very laudable, except that he is deluded if he thinks he has a hope of achieving it. The reason is because he has shown himself to be so one sided. He has created divisions and violent conflict wherever he has interfered in the area. What he and Mr. Bush don’t seem to realise is that the way to peace is not through violence! Had he and his puppet master in the White House shown any humility and respect for the life of all citizens, whatever faith or nationality, then he might have had a chance. As it is he is only showing his selfish nature to its full shame, by trying to glorify his name rather than truly care for others.

Editorial Comment 21-08-2006
So who won? Hezbollah or Israel? Nobody of course! There are only losers in war, yet the innocent, (the South Lebanese civilians in this case) always seem to come off the worst. Their infrastructure, their coastline are destroyed and polluted, whilst the protagonists can all return to their safe havens.

If Bush and Blair have any moral decency they must ensure the Lebanon beaches are cleaned up and damaged roads, buildings and bridges repaired, without the RIP-OFF contracts used to pick the bones of Iraq.

The one rule for Israel and another for the rest of the world, situation has got to be seriously reviewed. Resentment at the injustice will only surface again otherwise.

Editorial Extra 11-08-2006
The declared sceptics of the 10/8 plot do us all a disservice because they make unreasonable Blair appear reasonable.

This most manipulative of politicians has no qualms about taking advantage of others misfortune. Take for example the latest bomb plot for U.S. bound aircraft and the opportunity to promote the politics of fear. There was clearly a plot uncovered by our security services and they arrested all they were aware of.

Prudence required, though, that they heighten security in case any unknown members had slipped the net. The resultant publicity, disruption and furore were then milked to maximum extent to bring a disquietened public over Middle East handling, back into line. It even provided the perfect sound bite moment that Bush thrives on, profligating his and Blair’s ‘War on Terror’, such nonsense that makes conflict and instability more likely, not less.

The tell-tale factors here that suggest there has been political manipulation, is that Deputy P.M. Prescott, has been kept in the dark over the affair to avoid potential disaster, with Home Secretary, Reid presenting the Government’s position. Also if aircraft were likely to be lost, the P.M. would not continue holidaying in Barbados, he is too astute for that PR blunder.
The Security Services did their job, but the spinners just can’t resist an opportunity to spin!

Editorial Comment 09-08-2006
The world awaits the UN Resolution on South Lebanon. The initial draft was rightly rejected by Arab nations, because as usual with U.S. influenced ones, there is a definite bias towards Israel. It’s a well known fact that this is because of the powerful lobby in the U.S. that any Administration there has to take note of to survive. U.N. Resolutions should be even handed, however.

If the UK Government had responded to terrorist action in its land of Northern Ireland in the same way that Israel has responded, then half of Dublin would have been subject to arial bombardment and its border farmsteads and villages devastated with consequential mass loss of life. The world would have been outraged and the UK declared a rogue state internationally.
Why then should Israel be treated any differently? The initial Draft Resolution suggested that Hizbollah should ceasefire, yet Israel should cease offensive action. Well they say that the best form of defence is attack and the U.S.’s U.N. Ambassador, John Bolton and Mr. Blair, have made it clear Israel can act defensively.

So Israel can attack as long as it doesn’t cause offence! If Israel is defensive it cannot be offensive and who is Israel going to offend if it defends. So Israel will not offend if it defends its right to be defensive and launch an attack that is defensive not offensive.
Got it?! Some even handedness!!

Let us hope that without too much meddling from Washington or London that a sensible, workable, fair and just Resolution results. However going by previous UN Resolutions it will be almost a first if Israel complies! What Israel needs to realise is that the more resentment it creates with its neighbours the harder it becomes to get a long term peaceful settlement. The greater the force of destruction it throws at others the weaker its defensive position becomes. If Israel truly wants to live at peace with its neighbour states it must learn not to be a bully and show instead a little compassion and humility. Then we might get the progress we all hope for.

Editorial Extra 27-07-2006
When we bleed, we bleed the same. (MUSE, 2006)

For how much longer does the planet and humanity have to suffer from the purveyors of death, carnage and destruction known as Bush and Blair Inc.

To most people with a modicum of intelligence and just a touch of humanity, it is clear that violence breeds violence. Resentment and revenge as consequences to their actions are obvious to any possessing just a few ounces of grey matter. To the two sawdust heads that run the US and UK, its all worth it to gain a legacy. In the process, these two manufacturers of misery are dragging two nations of caring citizens into the drain of dishonour and disgust. These two men are so selfish and deluded, that they fail to recognise the consequences of their actions. Too blind and deaf to the pictures and cries, nay screams, of pain and anguish, that their actions cause. Always blaming others and wallowing in their false self-righteousness.

This criticism is not done for political scoring, but for genuine care for planet and humanity, whose best interests are clearly shown by peaceful opposition to narcissistic men such as these.

As Israel, the U.S. puppet State, continues to slaughter innocent civilians in South Lebanon in hugely obscene numbers, only the U.S. and the U.K. condone it by refusing to call for an unconditional ceasefire. These two have put on trial a dictator for war crimes, yet many, even U.N. officials, are calling the continued support of Israeli action, a war crime in itself. By only ever seeing matters from their own limited point of view means that their goal of appearing just is in fact totally destroyed and the opposite occurs, because of the true injustice of their actions and words.

Editorial Extra 21-07-2006
George ‘Dubya’ Bush still doesn’t get it does he? He believes American might can crush terrorists. Wrong! Wielding violent power creates even greater resistance, idiot!

The use of his puppet state Israel (for let’s not kid ourselves, if the U.S. said stop they would) to do his work, shows utter contempt for humanity. If the innocent traumatised civilians of Southern Lebanon were U.S. citizens this would not be happening.

These people are desperate to live a normal peaceful life in their country. The Bush Administration has no respect for them whatsoever, so the world has to look on in anguish and cling to the hope that the genuine sorrow of world representatives like Kofi Annan eventually sounds loud enough in the deaf U.S. ear.

How much more shame is the present U.S. President going to heap on a nation that once had respect, but now is drifting towards contempt.

Editorial Comment 21-07-2006
Is it hot enough for you? We all know we’re doing wrong, yet we all carry on. We know every light bulb burning bright, every petro-mile we eat up, every aircraft we board is making our future that little bit more uncomfortable, but we still do it. Why? Because comforts of modern life outweigh what might be. Since the climate is so changeable for most of us, especially the worst CO2 emitters, we get suckered into thinking; well it might not happen and likely, not in my lifetime. Our hot spell will evaporate into the drizzle and chill of the following season and we’ll believe we’ve got away with it for another year.

We kid ourselves. We don’t want to believe the prospect of accelerated warming and its effects and the organisations that want their profit will prey upon that seed of doubt.

“Look what we can provide, look what we can do for you”, they say and tempt with their ‘treats’.
The environmentalists are portrayed as kill joys and doom merchants, not the caring rationalists they are. With such powerful forces producing the CO2 levels that power the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere we have little hope of influencing them, unless we find a means to collectively speak as one, that in fact we would, in the end, like to survive, rather than aspire to one more little treat.

We are like the greedy exploding diner in Monty Python’s ‘Meaning of Life’ film, where one more little wafer provides the catastrophic end, when he knows he doesn’t really want to, but that tempting treat is still too irresistible.

Life and the world can be rewarding and joyous without resorting to selfish destruction.
Since the problem is a global one, the correcting response has to be a worldwide one. There is no room for exception. If one nation resists, others will waiver. Our resolve must be universal and that is the crux of the problem. How to transcend nationality, social division, religious sectarianism and political elitism? A unifying desire for survival, using a universal symbol and message is called for, rapidly before time runs out.

Traffic lights and their proposed symbolic ‘message’ can fulfil that universal requirement. Already in existence, globally distributed, in fact fortuitously concentrated delivering their ‘message’ where most CO2 is produced and part of the infrastructure vital to the forces of temptation that cause the problem in the first place.

Indispensable in the ‘petrol driven world’, their chorus of warning, warding us away from that last little wafer of temptation to a saner, sustainable existence.
We have to stop partying, drunk on selfish pleasures and rationally conserve shared, free joys of existence.

The Traffic lights for peace campaign transcends all divisions. It unites in one goal, for survival.
Save your future.
Save our planet.
It is possible if we work as one, like never before. Our one hope is to act together unselfishly. So let’s start on Sat. 7th July 2007. ‘Save our planet’ day.

Editorial Comment 18-07-2006
Another day of conflict.
Another day of ice melt.
Another day of despair.
Would you like to change it, to a day of hope?!
‘Save our planet’ day. A simple idea; for love and hope are simple, and simply great!

‘SAVE OUR PLANET’ DAY.

One day – when we put aside our differences.
One day – when we come together, brother and sister.
One day – when revenge, hate and envy are forgotten.

A day - for humanity to speak as one. A day for SURVIVAL.

That day: the 7th day of the 7th month of the 7th year of the 21st century.
Easy to remember: 7 + 7 + 7 = 21.
A moment when humanity makes a mark in the sands of time for its survival.
A moment in history when there is no nation vs nation, no religious faith vs religious faith, no political party vs political party and no social class vs social class.
Together as one.
Taking that all important step. That first step towards a future, where co-operation moulds that future.
Once we have taken that first step, our eyes will be opened to the possibilities, hidden so long by conflict.

Our (humanity’s) immediate problem, global warming, is just that, GLOBAL.
It is non-discriminatory. It is global and to correct it requires a GLOBAL response, by all of us collectively. Individually, yes, but with a common purpose.
It is possible.
A day to remember because it is a day to forget!
Forget ethnic origin,
Forget religious differences,
Forget political dogma and
Forget social standing.
Unite for survival,
Unite for a future and Unite for a purpose.

On this day we ask all to halt and look ahead. Take note of the message of the lights at this, humanity’s and the world’s, crossroads. Think, act and change direction.
To continue straight ahead on the same road is to act like lemmings, careering towards the cliff-edge.
Take this moment of reflection and together turn to a brighter future, as one.
JOIN US in promoting this day. A day when differences melt rather than the polar ice.

‘Save Our Planet’ day.
Saturday, 7th July, 2007.

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Editorial Comment 11-07-2006
In the week when the slaughtered of the multi-cultural London commuters are remembered from a year ago, there still appears no semblance of any connection admitted by Blair & Co. with the abhorrent situation he has instigated in Iraq. Now even Afghanistan, the claimed success story, is beginning to fall apart at the seams, brought home by the number of draped coffins that are flying back to military bases in the UK.

Blair is now living in ‘cloud cook coo land’; his assertion that Muslim grievance around the world is completely false, riles in the face of rationality. The normal sane citizens of the world can quite plainly see the connection between violence met with violence, especially where justice appears to have been forgotten as a concept altogether. The moral bankruptcy of the Bush and Blair Administrations, so clear in most eyes, with repeated reports of atrocities against a civilian population by occupying ‘policing’ forces, is inevitably going to lead to an unequivocal ‘sense of grievance’. These incidents and the fact that the US now has bases established in Muslim countries: Turkey, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Jordan, Algeria, Qatar, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Yemen, concentrate that ‘sense of grievance’. A civilised, benign ‘policing’ force would have ensured civilian utilities were first priority, rather than securing the oil production at all costs. If the US and UK had really cared for the people of Iraq, instead of raping and pillaging its natural resources, those grievances would not have surfaced. Our continued presence in Iraq will continue to exacerbate the religious tension. Its time to get serious about leaving , eating a bit of humble pie and begging some non-violent Muslim help, to calm the region. A policy of conversion from poppy cultivation to crop production with massive subsidy to all levels of society in Afghanistan is the only way forward there. The initial cost may seem high, but in relative terms, compared to the costs of high levels of military presence and the effects in the West of opium products, that cost would in fact be a saving.
Get real Mr. Blair.

Editorial Comment 03-07-2006
Is this the beginning of the end for Guantanamo? Let’s hope so, but listening to a determined Bush supporter last night on British TV he suggested it might only be a setback. He pointed out that Bush’s recent appointee was not party to the historic ruling of the Supreme Court and that the Bush Administration is looking forward to rescinding such curbs on its agenda.

The Military Court style tribunals affect only 10 detainees, the others that are incarcerated with little hope or recall to justice will have to depend upon the ever increasing clamour of world opinion to get Bush to rethink on his ploy of fear. By playing on that fear of more terrorism in the States and the playing up of hidden threat means he can keep electoral control whilst America’s standing and respect in the world crumbles to dust.

It is so sad that Bush has managed to destroy what the American people have fought for since their founding over such a short period in office. At least the American people have the comfort that Bush can only stay ‘till the end of this term, whereas the poor UK public have the haunting prospect of Blair, who has destroyed its rights and freedoms, continuing on and on and on. Help!

Editorial Comment 09-06-2006
Upon hearing the announcement of al-Zarqawi’s death, one could be somewhat anxiously reminded of the film quote many of us recognise, “Vader, if you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can ever imagine.” Bush and Blair’s restrained triumphalism saying it “is a severe blow to al-Qa’ida and a victory for the war on terror” is for ‘home’ audiences. As Robert Fisk (The World renowned international writer and journalist) so rightly points out this Jordanian petty criminal turned sectarian and international mass murderer has been demonised by Bush and Co. to the point where al-Qa’ida’s response was to immediately reveal their “joyous news of the martyrdom”. When we hear Bush wrap his tongue around the word al Qa’ida we can sense the glee that he can pull out a few more votes for ‘the folks back home’. When we have two world leaders so ignorant of the ways of thinking of those ideologically opposed to them, it bodes ill for true reconciliation.

Bush and Blair supporters often suggest strong stubborn leaders are what is needed for clear direction, whereas surely ones more humble and willing to admit and learn by mistakes for the benefit of ALL is what most of us truly wish of a great leader. There were no terrorists operational in Iraq before it was invaded. Iraq can be likened at this stage to a clean tablecloth. Bush and Blair have caused the ketchup to be splashed all over it. Just because they have cleaned up one large blob so far, they are far from making it clean again. Their scrubbing brush and a bar of soap technique is doomed, only by metaphorical recourse to the laundry, i.e. true International and Muslim countries’ help, can the mess they have created be cleaned up.

Editorial Comment 01-06-2006
Our Earth is a fragile bio-system that has a life supporting envelope of atmosphere around it. That envelope is very thin in comparison to the planet’s diameter.

To bring an analogy, we are disgusted if a child wees as it swims in a swimming pool, then why are we not treating countries that foul our atmosphere under the Kyoto accord in a similar vein?

Our present levels of consumerism in the world are unsustainable.
Our thirst for oil and energy consumption is so lacking in forward planning as to be negligent. We are ‘blinded’ by the comforts of modern life, yet we know deep down that our lives and lifestyles must change.

While we party in the dawn of the 21st Century we know that the ‘barrel’ will soon run dry – a sobering thought for those of us who are inebriated on those comforts. We are finally getting to realise just how much waste humanity produces and the greatest waste of all is WAR!

Environmental issues are now being found more readily in the media as it responds to populist concern, but we need to change ‘Read all about it!’ to actually ‘Do something about it!’.

Its time to put an end to war and to redirect the money powering the war machine. It is time to change from concern for others as a charitable past-time to concern for others as a necessary survival strategy.

A sustainable and just world, at peace, beckons if we can just be bothered to make the effort!