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Showing posts with label peace. Show all posts
29 Jan 2015
1 Dec 2012
EU not worthy to win Nobel Peace Prize
Three Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have contested the awarding of this year's prize to the European Union, saying the 27-nation bloc contradicts the values associated with the prize because it relies on military force to ensure security.
In an open letter to the Nobel Foundation, Tutu of South Africa, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Adolfo Perez Esquivel from Argentina demanded that the prize money of 8 million kronor ($1.2 million) not be paid out this year.
The EU "clearly is not one of 'the champions of peace' Alfred Nobel had in mind" when he created the prize by including it in his will in 1895, they wrote in the letter, a copy of which was acquired by the AP on Friday. "We ask the board of the foundation to clarify that it cannot and will not pay the prize from its funds."
They said the EU condones "security based on military force and waging wars rather than insisting on the need for an alternative approach."
21 Nov 2012
The Voice of Peace
The Voice of Peace was Israel's first offshore radio station. It lasted for 20 years from 1973 to 1993.
In 1973, Abie Nathan founded the Voice of Peace radio station. He bought a ship with the help of John Lennon,named it the "Peace Ship", and sailed it outside Israeli territorial waters. The station broadcast 24 hours a day, mostly English-language programs that mainly included popular music, while promoting Nathan's political activities. At the same time, he was involved with disaster relief in Cambodia, Bangladesh, Biafra, Colombia, and Ethiopia. In another anti-war protest, he presided over the burial of smashed military toys.
On 1 October 1993, economic and legal difficulties forced Nathan to close the Voice of Peace station. One of the reasons for closing was that, with the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords, Nathan felt that his message for peace and dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians had been spread. The Peace Ship was scuttled on 28 November 1993.
13 Oct 2012
28 Feb 2012
Bradley Manning is an American hero
The US military commits crimes. They aren't all bad people, but they are obsessed with image management, and take the Catholic Church approach to scandal handling (bury, bury, bury). I think a decent organization punishes those in its midst that go against its code of conduct. The US military doesn't.
Publishing the crimes of its company should not be considered defence information. Nor should it be called aiding the enemy. The people committing the crimes are aiding the enemy by giving just cause to their motives.
Anyone think he deserves life in prison for not waiting 20 years to whistle-blow like most do?
12 Dec 2011
The Great Dictator Speech
From The Great Dictator by Charles Chaplin
Music by The Dead Fish Orchestra
18 Oct 2011
You think you have worries that matter?
X-Factor is manipulated 'entertainment', yes, but this guy, his brother and his 'mum' in Australia, are beyond fantastic.
Some people exploit the efforts of others and blame others for their plight instead of taking responsibility for their own lives. For those people, here is a life lesson: Its name is Emmanuel Kelly ...
An absolutely must-watch. David Icke Website
28 Sept 2011
New Israeli Settlements
The decision by Israel to build 1,100 more settlement homes in the West Bank was criticised by the United States who said it was "deeply disappointed" and the European Union which said the plan “undermines the talks with Palestinians and should be reversed."
The new homes are set to be built in Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Last week Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly as part of a move to gain statehood for Palestine. In his speech he said settlement activity embodied the "colonial military occupation of the land of the Palestine people."
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu defended the construction project in an interview with the Jerusalem Post. “We plan in Jerusalem. We build in Jerusalem. Period. The same way Israeli governments have been doing for 44 years, since the end of the 1967 war,” he said.
19 Sept 2011
Dag Hammarskjold: Was his death a crash or a conspiracy?
Exactly 50 years ago, UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash on a mission to prevent civil war in newly-independent Congo. Suspicions that the plane was shot down, never fully laid to rest, are now again on the rise.
Just after midnight on 18 September 1961, he was heading to negotiate a ceasefire in a mineral-rich breakaway region of Congo, where another of his peacekeeping missions was getting bogged down in the complex politics of decolonisation and Cold War rivalry.
But his DC6 aircraft crashed in darkness shortly before landing, in a forest near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia - now Zambia.
12 Aug 2011
Babs Tucker arrested
In London Babs Tucker was kidnapped to cover up massive payouts in civil claims from the High Court over illegal searches, which would see the display that was stolen by 78 police on 23rd May 2006 returned as well.
The prime minister looks stupid lecturing people on looting whilst stopping people peacefully campaigning by stealing their property.
Babs was taken to Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court but refused to leave the cell and consent to their jurisdiction. Magistrates remanded her to Holloway Prison overnight, to appear before them again at 10am in the morning.
Brian and Babs tried every route over the years to get due process and a fair hearing within the corrupt British legal system - and because this has been denied at every stage, she had no option but to stop playing their 'game'.
24 Jan 2011
Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process
The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East conflict has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel's annexation of all but one of the settlements built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem. This unprecedented proposal was one of a string of concessions that will cause shockwaves among Palestinians and in the wider Arab world.
A cache of thousands of pages of confidential Palestinian records covering more than a decade of negotiations with Israel and the US has been obtained by al-Jazeera TV and shared exclusively with the Guardian. The papers provide an extraordinary and vivid insight into the disintegration of the 20-year peace process, which is now regarded as all but dead.
The documents – many of which will be published by the Guardian over the coming days – also reveal:
• The scale of confidential concessions offered by Palestinian negotiators, including on the highly sensitive issue of the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
• How Israeli leaders privately asked for some Arab citizens to be transferred to a new Palestinian state.
• The intimate level of covert co-operation between Israeli security forces and the Palestinian Authority.
• The central role of British intelligence in drawing up a secret plan to crush Hamas in the Palestinian territories.
• How Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders were privately tipped off about Israel's 2008-9 war in Gaza.
As well as the annexation of all East Jerusalem settlements except Har Homa, the Palestine papers show PLO leaders privately suggested swapping part of the flashpoint East Jerusalem Arab neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah for land elsewhere.
Most controversially, they also proposed a joint committee to take over the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount holy sites in Jerusalem's Old City – the neuralgic issue that helped sink the Camp David talks in 2000 after Yasser Arafat refused to concede sovereignty around the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques.
11 Dec 2010
Congratulations for China: Nobel Peace Prize 2010
Flowers for the Chinese Ambassador in The Netherlands, to congratulate him and the Chinese people with the Nobel Peace Prize 2010.
8 Oct 2010
Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize
Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his struggle for human rights, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
He was honoured "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China," Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland said in his announcement.
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace," he added.
Liu, 54, is in prison for helping to organise and disseminate a document called Charter 08, which called for sweeping political reforms in China, including the freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, and freedom of religion.
This is a website dedicated to gathering support for the courageous 300 who signed Charter 08 and published it in China on the 60th anniversary of the UN Human Rights Declaration in December 2008.
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