alanjjohnstone
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Martyrdom borne out of frustration and desperation, perhaps BD. Christians wanting to be thrown to the lions?
As some know, I have sympathy for spectacles and stunts, clever examples of agit-prop.
Civil disobedience can be one strategy and Fridays for Future and Greta Thunberg showed the better alternative. They protested at the banking centres in London for an end to financing fossil fuels yesterday.
They chose a more deserving target to demonstrate against, one that has more complicity in environmental crimes, one that lacks public support and one which has minimal disruption to our fellow-workers.
Getting the message that capitalism albeit only the symbolic banking ogre is the greater threat to the planet is a more worthy objective, IMHO.
https://www.channel4.com/news/climate-protesters-target-banks-ahead-of-cop26
France’s ambassador in London was summoned and two Royal Navy patrol vessels were put on a state of “high readiness” to tackle potential port blockades by French fishing boats as the row over post-Brexit access to British waters escalated.
United Nations are warning of a looming shortage of more than 2 billion syringes for mainly low- and middle-income countries around the world.
Extinction Rebellion say they are planning high impact “deliberate disruption” during the COP26 summit.
Extinction Rebellion uses what it calls “non-violent direct action” to call on leaders to take urgent action on the climate emergency.
Its activists say they are prepared to be arrested.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-59071603
Sturgeon has urged protesters not to disrupt the daily lives of Glasgow residents.
Sadly for us, it won’t all be boastful talk
Police will have 10,000 officers on duty every day during COP26.
Biden caves in.
His original $3.6 trillion spending plans reduced to $1.75 trillion with many crucial social service proposals cut.
And still, no iron-clad guarantee that it will get passed.
I note that Insulate Britain’s main complaint is that they aren’t getting to go to prison (which was the original XR intention) and they see this as a conspiracy by the government to avoid having “ecological political” prisoners during COP26.
I hope that the stunts of the eco-activists at COP26 don’t go wrong. I still recall that the 2005 Gleneagles and Make Poverty History protests were forgotten about soon as those bombs went off.
Biden previously pledged that military aid to Saudi Arabia would only be for only defensive purposes. Not so.
A new $500m military contract is to maintain a fleet of attack helicopters that have been used in the Yemen War in offensive operations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/27/joe-biden-saudi-arabia-arms-weapons-deal
Another link for those who refrain from being too partisan on social media
https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/captives-of-coca-cola/This website is very receptive to submissions.
Biden will not withdraw US military from Syria
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/26/will-us-leave-syria
I hope our HO has ordered copies and ensured advertising for them in the SS and website.
Your own promotion of his books is to be commended.
The “stab in the back” analysis by Ben Wallace, the UK Foreign Secretary
Nato’s political campaign in Afghanistan was a failure, the defence secretary has said, as he insisted the western alliance had not suffered a military defeat at the hands of the Taliban…Wallace insisted, the initial aim of the invasion, to dismantle al-Qaida in the wake of the 9/11 suicide attacks, had been a success.
China Telecom must stop providing services in America within 60 days.
Officials said the Chinese government’s control of the company gave it the opportunity “to access, store, disrupt, and/or misroute US communications”. This in turn could allow it “to engage in espionage and other harmful activities against the US”, they said.
China Telecom, which has provided telecoms services in the US for nearly 20 years, called the decision “disappointing”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59055360
In the tit for tat world of diplomacy and commerce, China will retaliate in some manner.
Hitler did make a pact with the German capitalists and it did lead to the fate of the Night of the Long Knives for those leftists still holding to the “workers” party.
The Nazis did play lip-service to nationalisation
The 1920 Programme
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-party-platform
