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Commemorative coin (4), USSR 1 ruble, Disarmament Ruble / Dollar; Minted: 1988; Commemorates the signing of history's first Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty (INF 1987) specifying the actual dismantling of nuclear weapons. Minted from dismantled nuclear missiles; "Accepted as a Token of Friendship, Soviet Peace Committee"; Silver, each in plastic coin caseImage of an object in the SDASM Curatorial Collection--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
Vivian Okeke, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Liaison Office in New York, delivers a keynote address to the General Assembly meeting on general and complete disarmament to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests. The high-level plenary meeting raises awareness "about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free".
UN Photo/Loey Felipe
8 September 2021
New York, United States of America
Photo # UN7908724
Bilateral meeting between Jacek Bylica, Principal Adviser and Special Envoy for Non-proliferation
and Disarmament (European Union External Action Service) and Cornel Feruta, IAEA Acting Director General at the IAEA 63rd General Conference. IAEA, Vienna, Austria. 19 September 2019.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
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Format: Fotopositiv
Dato / Date: 16 Mai 1945
Fotograf / Photographer: Ingeborg Ranum (1910-1991)
Sted / Place: Ravnkloa, Trondheim
Oppdatert / Update: 14.12.2015 [lenke til artikkel om Erling Østerberg på Wikipedia]
Google Street View: goo.gl/maps/VZuPM1aPsx42
Wikipedia: Ravnkloa
Wikipedia: Erling Østerberg (1901-1981)
Sverre Utseth: Trondheimspolitiet gjennom tusen år (Trondheim 1947)
Eier / Owner Institution: Trondheim byarkiv, The Municipal Archives of Trondheim
Arkivreferanse / Archive reference: Tor.H49.B06.IR029
Merknad: På bildet ser vi en skotsk infanterioffiser med glengarry som blir tatt i mot av politimester Erling Østerberg (1901 - 1983) i Ravnkloa. Bilde donert til Trondheim Byarkiv av A. Bruskeland 05.10.2015.
Adresseavisen 17 mai 1945 s. 1:
De første engelske orlogsskip kom til Trondheim i går.
Kommandør Olav Bergersen atter på norsk jord.
De første fortropper for de allierte styrker som etter hvert vil komme til Trondheim kom i går ettermiddag. To større og en mindre destroyer ble i 14-tiden synlig ute i fjordgapet, og gikk en stund for ganske sakte fart langs Leksviklandet innen de endret kurs og kom inn mot havnen. Utenfor moloen, hvor de ble møtt av havnefoged Hassel, gikk ankrene, og der vil skipene bli liggende på svai natten over, inntil de i dag tidlig klapper til kaien.
Blant de norske som befant seg om bord var kommandør Olav Bergersen, foruten noen andre offiserer og et antall menige. Kommandøren ble sammen med Captein Ruck-Keen satt i land i Ravnkloa, hvor bilene som var oppkjørt befordret dem videre. Ankomsten skjedde uten at noen utenfor de innviddes krets var informert, og foregikk uten at mange var oppmerksom på den, men allikevel var en ganske betraktelig menneskemengde samlet i Ravnkloa og nærmeste omgivelser og gav offiserene sin varmeste velkomsthilsen. De sjømilitære sjefer ble mottatt av den engelske oberst Glover og oberst Holterman.
Om fotografen: Ingeborg Helene Ranum, født 7 desember 1910 i Trondheim. Datter av musikkforhandler Olaf T. Ranum (1877-1942) og hustru Emma f. Olden (1881-1929). 3-årig handelsgymnasium, ett års kontorpraksis i Danmark og England, henholdsvis hos Skandinavisk Grammophon Aktieselskab, København, og His Master's Voice fabrikk, Hayes, England. To års kontorpost ved Ustaoset hotell, Bergensbanen. Fra 1934 prokurist i Ranum Engros A/S, etter farens død i 1942 disponent i samme firma. Kontordame og tolk for 29th Mobile Disarmament Unit i Trondheim 16.05.1945 - 01.07.1945. Representant for Winges Reisebyrå i Trondheim. Vararepresentant for Høyre i Trondheim Bystyre 1956 - 1959, fast medlem av Trondheim Bystyre 1960 - 1963. Styremedlem og medlem i ulike foreninger og organisasjoner. Gift 1. gang med Per Vinje, Trondheim (Ingeborg Ranum Vinje) og 2. gang med Eugene Munster, Oslo (Ingeborg Ranum Munster). Død i Oslo 1991.
Deputy Secretary Sherman delivers opening remarks and responds to questions from the press at the 18th Annual NATO Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation, at the Department of State. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Deputy Secretary Sherman delivers opening remarks and responds to questions from the press at the 18th Annual NATO Conference on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation, at the Department of State. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, spoke with Hon Phil Twyford, Minister for Disarmament and Arms Control of New Zealand, during a virtual meeting with the minister at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 16 March 2021. The Director General is joined by Jacek Bylica, IAEA Chief of Cabinet and Edgard Perez Alvan, Senior Advisor to the Director General.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
25 July 2011. Kodiel: Distribution of 40,000 liters of water among the local community in El Srief (North Darfur), that includes Shiero, Metwier, Eata Ibrahim, Ahmed, Ali and Kodiel villages. The nearest water point is 15 kilometers away and the women have to spend 6 hours a day to collect the water for their families. Due to the drought, the community leaders report that the lack of water is severe in the area and it specially affects children and sick people.
This water distribution was part of a DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration) outreach activity, organized by UNAMID, with the support of UNDP, UNICEF, North Sudan DDR Commission and the local NGO Friends of Peace and Development Organization (FPDO). The DDR activity promoted messages of disarmament and security arm control among the population, historically controlled by SLA / Free Will faction and currently with few individual armed actions. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID.
Despite one-sided reporting and war rhetoric by the media and politic, the majority of Germans are against the delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine and for peace negotiations. The online manifesto, Manifesto for Peace, which reflects this desire, has been signed by 680,000 people so far.
On 24 February 2023, the first anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, a pro-government demonstration was held in Berlin in favour of supplying arms to Ukraine and admitting the country to NATO, attended by 5,000 people. A day later there was a large peace demonstration with 50,000 participants, for negotiations and a ceasefire. This demonstration and the online manifesto "Manifesto for Peace" were initiated by left-wing politician Sarah Wagenknecht and feminist Alice Schwarzer.
World-renowned US economics professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks via internet to peace demonstrators in Berlin about the truth of the Ukraine war: youtu.be/I4l63yN656A
Trotz einseitiger Berichterstattung und Kriegsrhetorik durch Medien und Politik ist die Mehrheit der Deutschen gegen die Lieferung von schweren Waffen an die Ukraine und für Friedensverhandlungen. Das Online-Manifest "Manifest für den Frieden", das diesen Wunsch widerspiegelt, wurde bisher von 680.000 Menschen unterzeichnet.
Am 24. Februar 2023, dem ersten Jahrestag des russischen Angriffs auf die Ukraine, fand in Berlin eine regierungsnahe Demonstration für Waffenlieferungen und die Aufnahme der Ukraine in die NATO statt, an der 5.000 Menschen teilnahmen. Einen Tag später gab es eine große Friedensdemonstration mit 50.000 Teilnehmern für Verhandlungen und einen Waffenstillstand. Diese Demonstration und das Online-Manifest "Manifest für den Frieden" wurden von der linken Politikerin Sarah Wagenknecht und der Feministin Alice Schwarzer initiiert.
Der weltbekannte US-Wirtschaftsprofessor Jeffrey Sachs spricht via Internet zu den Friedensdemonstranten in Berlin über die Wahrheit des Ukraine-Krieges: youtu.be/I4l63yN656A
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
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This display explores Birmingham’s vibrant and varied history of protest and activism, and the role the city has played in some of the most important campaigns and movements in British history.
From the Priestley Riots of 1791 all the way through to the LGBTQ+ campaigns of today, ‘Birmingham Revolutions – Power to the People’ is a chance to discover the different voices and ideas that have contributed to the fight for a better Birmingham.
Campaigns include voting reform, nuclear disarmament, trade unionism, anti-racism and human rights. Art, music, literature, clothing and objects are used in each section of the gallery showing the long history of gatherings, riots, strikes and campaigns that have occurred in the city.
‘Birmingham Revolutions’ aims to show the different ways in which a person can protest and campaign, and what we can learn from past protests.
We recognise that there are many different events and campaigns which are not represented in our collection and therefore do not feature in this display.
Global Day of Action on Military Spending (#GMADS) : London 14.04.2014
Activists from CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament), War on Want, Pax Christi, Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT), Scientists for Global Responsibility, MEDACT and the Quakers played their part in a "Global Day of Action on military Spending' (#GDAMS), a global initiative to highlight the absolutely obscene amount of money squandered each year on military budgets which could be spent giving the entire planet clean water, enough food, medical treatment and much, much more, instead of promoting death, destruction, human misery and unbelievable profits for the monsters who sell arms.
In the UK alone we spend £38bn per annum on the military, and are about to piss another £100bn up the wall upgrading the Trident nuclear submarine fleet (whose nuclear missiles we aren't even allowed to fire without America's permission, even if there was anyone to ever fire them at), which, with our empty aircraft carriers... sorry... carrier, our unaffordable American jet fighters and a grossly incompetent procurement process could, instead, house every single homeless person, educate their children, fix our NHS and create a contented nation with fewer enemies.
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Wide view of the Security Council Summit on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, which was chaired by United States President Barack Obama and unanimously adopted resolution 1887 (2009), expressing the Council's resolve to create the conditions for a world without nuclear weapons.
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After a lull in the 1970s, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament saw a revival in the early 1980s in response to the ramping up of the US-Russian arms race, and the siting of US cruise missiles in the UK. Membership increased, and several large national demonstrations raised the profile of the issue of disarmament. Women-only peace camps emerged at the Cruise missile bases, most notably at Greenham Common, where a permanent peace camp was established for ten years until the removal of the missiles in 1991. CND is still campaigning today against the renewal of the Trident missile system.
25 November 2012. El Fasher: Abdala Adam Haron is pictured at the community center that he participated to build in Althoura Shemal in El Fasher, North Darfur, as part of a Community Based-Labour Intensive Project (CLIP) sponsored by UNAMID DDR (Disarmament Demobilization Reintegration).
During the last five months, UNAMID provided training to 80 young people (60 men and 20 women) to construct this building.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
United Nations peacekeepers serving with the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) compile the weapons collected during the disarmament of the militia groups (19 May 2007). Photo: Basile Zoma
Benjamin Spock speaks to a crowd under umbrellas on a rainy Mother’s Day May 10, 1981 in Lafayette Park to advocate for nuclear disarmament and against an increase in military spending.
The rally of 1,000 women was sponsored by the Mother’s Day Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament, composed of 22 groups that sought to reclaim the original purpose of Mother’s Day as an antiwar day.
The group gathered near the U.S. Capitol and marched to the White House on a day filled with spring showers.
Speakers blasted the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
Barry Commoner, an environmentalist and antiwar leader, told the crowd, “There is no survivor in a nuclear war.” The only war citizens need to fight “is against Reagan and his Democratic allies,” Commoner continued.
Beulah Sanders, a former chair of the National Welfare Rights Organization loudly proclaimed, “We do not want money spent for nuclear weapons. That money needs to be spent right here so our people can survive.”
Sanders also took aim at Nancy Reagan.
“And I wish Nancy a happy Mother’s Day. She doesn’t have to worry about a decent house, heat or hot water. She doesn’t have to worry about a job or food. But here on Mother’s Day a lot of us are sad because we don’t have it,” said Sanders.
Spock was a pediatrician who wrote Baby and Child Care in 1946, which became a best seller for more than two decades. He later joined the Committee for a Sane Nuclear policy in 1962 and afterward became an anti-Vietnam War activist who was charged with four others in 1967 in a conspiracy to aid and abet draft resistance.
He was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison, but his conviction and those the other three men were overturned on appeal. He continued his activism for peace and social justice until his death in 1998.
Mother’s Day was selected for the protest to reclaim the history of Mother's Day, which was first organized in America in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe, a poet and women's suffragist, as a day dedicated to peace.
The "Appeal to womanhood throughout the world" (later known as "Mother's Day Proclamation") was written by Howe in 1870 and was an appeal for women to unite for peace in the world.
Howe's "Appeal to womanhood" was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the six-month Franco-Prussian War. The appeal was tied to Howe's feminist conviction that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.
In 1872 Howe asked for the celebration of a "Mother's Day for Peace" on 2 June of every year, but she was unsuccessful.
Laura Hepner, a participant in the 1981 demonstration, explained, “The woman felt that mothers had a particular responsibility to speak out against the war.”
The modern Mother's Day, was established by Anna Jarvis 36 years later. While the day she established was different in significance from what Howe had proposed, Anna Jarvis was reportedly inspired by her mother's work with Howe.
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Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
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Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
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15 August 2012. El Fasher: Young people and community leaders work on the construction of a community center in Althoura Shemal in El Fasher, North Darfur, as part of a Community Based-Labour Intensive Project (CLIP) sponsored by UNAMID DDR (Disarmament Demobilization Reintegration).
During three months, UNAMID provides training to 80 young people (60 men and 20 women) to construct this building.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
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15 August 2012. El Fasher: Assim Mohamed works on the construction of a community center in Althoura Shemal in El Fasher, North Darfur, as part of a Community Based-Labour Intensive Project (CLIP) sponsored by UNAMID DDR (Disarmament Demobilization Reintegration).
During three months, UNAMID provides training to 80 young people (60 men and 20 women) to construct this building.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
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Rolf Ekéus, Chair of the Advisory Panel on Future OPCW Priorities and Chairman Emeritus of the Governing Board of SIPRI (l) and Tibor Tóth Executive Secretary of the CTBTO speak during a panel on Multilateralism in Arms Control and Disarmament during OPCW's 15th Anniversary event on 3 September, 2012.
The ribbon was cut by Yasushi Noguchi, Director for the Arms Control and Disarmament Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (right), CTBTO Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo (centre) and Ambassador Toshiro Ozawa, Japan's Permanent Representative to the UN in Vienna
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
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OPCW Director-General gives Keynote Address at Training Programme on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation of WMD, 19 September 2022
Three women demanding to see President John F. Kennedy about his decision to resume nuclear arms testing are escorted to a police vehicle March 16, 1962.
The women refused repeated requests to leave the White House grounds saying that police would have to arrest them if the President refused to see them.
From left to right: Marjorie Swann, 41, Norwich, Conn.; Frances Whitlen, 43, New York; and Hermens Evans, 55, Chicago.
Anti-nuclear weapons demonstrations had taken place in the country since the early 1950s, but were gaining steam in 1961.
Women’s Strike for Peace was formed in 1961 headed by a housewife, Dagmar Wilson, who lived in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
The group sprang up overnight across the country and staged nationwide demonstrations November 1, 1961 in 50 cities. 1,500 marched in the District of Columbia. It was the largest women’s demonstration of the 20th Century.
The rise of Women's Strike for Peace marked to change in anti-nuclear sentiment from the fringes to the mainstream.
A student-sponsored anti-nuclear weapons demonstration drew 5,000 people to Washington, D.C. in February 1962, surpassing all expectations.
The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 where the U.S. and the Soviet Union squared off over the placement of missiles in Cuba, spurred more demands to de-escalate.
In 1964 a partial test ban treaty was signed by the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain—three of the four nuclear powers at that time. France has never signed the treaty. The treaty banned atmospheric testing but permitted underground testing.
Other treaties followed in the coming years to limit the type and number of nuclear weapons. However, President Donald Trump pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) in 2019. The treaty had been signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.
This marked the first step backwards in nuclear arms control since the 1964 nuclear testing agreement was signed.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
1932 / Jahresereignisse
- 10 Rappen / Abrüstungskonferenz des Völkerbundes in Genf
(Stempfel: Schweizer Ware kaufen heisst Arbeit schaffen)
ex Ephemera-Sammlung MTP
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
All photos © 2011 Pete Riches
Do not reproduce, alter or reblog my images without my permission.
Hi-Res versions of these files are available on application
Stop the War Coalition "Stop Bombing Libya" protest at Parliament, 28.06.2011
Activists representing Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Libyans opposed to the targeted destruction of their country's vital infrastructure and the continued slaughter of large numbers of civilians - cold-bloodedly referred to as "Collateral Damage" by the Warmongers directing the massive attacks - by NATO forces, protested in Old Palace Yard opposite Parliament calling for an end to the brutal, massive aerial bombing campaign being waged against them by the USA and NATO, who lied to the World by claiming their involvement was only ever going to be a short campaign to establish a no-fly zone in the rebel-held East of Libya, and only to "protect innocent civilians".
To this end on February 15th 2011 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which authorized an internationally organised no-fly zone. Next thing we know, on March 18th, Barack Obama announces that NATO has taken over the operation from the United Nations, and gradually (as predicted) it is now admitted freely by the USA, NATO and our own William Hague that the mission is actually to kill Colonel Gaddafi. Without a shadow of a doubt this war against Libya flagrantly disregards International Law. It is yet another illegal war launched by the USA against another (coincidentally) oil-rich sovereign state which was posing no threat to the USA whatsoever. The UK government has the same blood on its hands as does the USA.
It is a good indicator of the degree to which we have been lied to as a nation by David Cameron, his ministers and "special advisers" in the concentrated media propaganda storm of distortions, myths and blatant lies neccessary to convince the British Public that this illegal war has some kind of moral justification. We were initially told this operation would be over in weeks and would be a bargain at "tens of millions of pounds". Over four months later the government has admitted that the cost so far has been "About a quarter of a billion pounds", from which we can safely assume we're probably looking at closer to half a billion pounds at least, with no end in sight.
It is estimated that the first day of operations in Liby cost the USA alone $1 billion.
Meanwhile back in the UK the Disabled are having their paltry benefits slashed or even cut completely, libraries, community centres, day care centres for the elderly and many other vital public amenities are being closed by Cameron's Caring Conservatives because (apparently) the coffers are empty. Public Sector workers are under sustained government propaganda attacks, and have just been told that their pensions are now not going to be enough to live on when they retire, they have to contribute much more into them, and they all have to work several years longer to even get it.
Just so you know, a Sidewinder missile costs at least £85,000, and a much sexier AmRam missile rolls out at over £500,000 of British taxpayer's money. It has been almost impossible to force the Ministry of Defence to give a reliable figure for the quantities of high-tech ordnance that has been dropped on Libya, nor how much of that ordnance contained Depleted Uranium. The only thing we can be sure of is that the government will tell us lie after lie after lie.
I attended a public meeting this evening in the House of Commons where we were told by anti-war MP Paul Flynn that the government is trying to prevent the reading out of dead military personnel's names in Parliament because it makes so many MPs uncomfortable to hear them, and to have to face the fact that real human beings with voting-aged families and friends are dying because of their vicious belligerence. Similarly the Ministry of Defence is about to stop military funeral corteges from driving through the Wiltshire town of Wooton Basset which has become a very public focus for the great number of dead soldiers passing through its main road. They are planning a different route for the coffins from RAF Brize Norton where they are brought back home to be buried by their families and loved ones, so the public soon forgets all about the cost of these Oil Wars. Out of sight, out of mind. George Bush would be proud of us. How psychopathically stone-hearted is that?
Our brave William Hague announced this week that "The UK is in Libya for the long haul".
Gaddafi is without doubt a brutal dictator, and the insurgents from the Eastern tribes who took their cues from the Arab Spring victories to launch a civil war to try and free themselves from Gaddafi's cruelty and brutality against them are understandably anxious to be free of him and his equally violent sons, though Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch have reported many atrocities and war crimes being carried out by the rebel fighters too, and no-one seems to be asking what unimaginable violence will be expedited against the Western Libyans once the Eastern rebels - now supported by overwhelming Western military might - without whose intervention their civil war would undoubtedly have been short and violent - overwhelm Tripoli. Let's not kid ourselves that it's going to be a clean transition, because it's not. There will be a bloodbath of huge proportions as revenge is taken against all those women, children and their parents. NATO will, of course, help to sweep all that under the carpet whilst the oil companies help themselves to Libya's most desirable asset.
I hope that what comes next will haunt William Hague's tormented nightmares for the rest of his life...
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25 November 2012. El Fasher: Leader Isan Adan Aarun and members of the youth community are pictured at the community center that they participated to build in Althoura Shemal in El Fasher, North Darfur, as part of a Community Based-Labour Intensive Project (CLIP) sponsored by UNAMID DDR (Disarmament Demobilization Reintegration).
During the last five months, UNAMID provided training to 80 young people (60 men and 20 women) to construct this building.
Photo by Albert González Farran - UNAMID
IAEA inspectors return to the DPRK after a period of absence of more than four years. On 9 July 2007 IAEA inspectors were given the green light to return to monitor and verify the shutdown of the Yongbyon nuclear facility in North Korea by the IAEA Board of Governors. (IAEA Boardroom, Vienna, Austria, 9 July 2007)
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
First signed in 1968, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons came in to effect on 5 March, 1970. The international agreement aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technologies. The Treaty also has the dual purpose of promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Negotiated at the international level, the Treaty forms part of a global movement towards nuclear disarmament.
New Zealand civil society has at times acted as outspoken critics of nuclear weapons and energies. This image above is from a 1979 petition delivered to parliament as part of a campaign for nuclear disarmament. The papers, tied together in a large bundle, contain 20,676 signatures.
Title: Session 1 - 35th-41st Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee - Original Petitions - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (R18369625)
Archives reference: ABGX 16127 W4731 Box 165/ 1979/26
collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=R18369625
For more information and to the read the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty text, go to: www.un.org/disarmament/wmd/nuclear/npt/
Material from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Todas as Pesquisas obtidas via Internet
22 de Dezembro Homenageamos o Dia em que é publicada no Brasil a lei nº 10.826, mais conhecida como Estatuto do Desarmamento.
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All Researches obtained via the Internet
December 22 Homage to the Day that is published in Brazil Law No. 10,826, known as the Disarmament Statute.
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Toutes les recherches obtenus via l'Internet
22 décembre Hommage à la Journée qui est publiée au Brésil loi n ° 10.826, connue sous le nom Loi sur le désarmement.
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Por Deus, Amigos Queridos assinem por MISERICÓRDIA de nossas FLORESTAS...
Por tudo que já SUPLIQUEI e que posto novamente!!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Amazonia/Pagin...
CONTINUO SUPLICANDO, QUANTAS VEZES FOREM NECESSÁRIAS!!
ASSINEM ESTAS PETIÇÕES, POR FAVOR...
- PARA SALVAR A AMAZÔNIA,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- PARA SALVAR AS FLORESTAS DO BRASIL,
- PARA VETAR AS MUDANÇAS DO CÓDIGO FLORESTAL !
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
VAMOS LUTAR POR NOSSO PLANETA, PELAS NOSSAS FLORESTAS, PELOS INDÍGENAS (NOSSOS IRMÃOS), PELOS NOSSOS FILHOS, NETOS, BISNETOS...PELAS PRÓXIMAS GERAÇÕES...POR UM MUNDO MELHOR...
O PLANETA TERRA PEDE SOCORRO!!
TUDO OU NADA ESTÁ EM NOSSAS MÃOS,... BRASILEIROS!!
Muito obrigada,
Celisa
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By God, Dear Friends sign of our forests for mercy ...
For all that ever I pleaded and put it back!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Am azonia/Pagin...
CONTINUOUS Sulpice, as often as necessary!
Sign these petitions, PLEASE ...
- To save the Amazon,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- TO SAVE THE FORESTS OF BRAZIL
- To veto FOREST CODE CHANGES!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
WE FIGHT FOR OUR PLANET, FOR OUR FORESTS, INDIGENOUS BY (OUR BROTHERS), for our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren for generations to come ... ... ... FOR A BETTER WORLD
ASKS HELP THE PLANET EARTH!
ALL OR NOTHING IS IN OUR HANDS, ... BRAZILIAN!
Thank you so much,
Celisa
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Par Dieu, Chers Amis signe de nos forêts pour la miséricorde ...
Pour tout ce que j'ai plaidé et le remettre!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Am azonia/Pagin...
Sulpice CONTINUE, aussi souvent que nécessaire!
S'il vous plaît signer ...
- Pour sauver l'Amazonie,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- Pour sauver les forêts du Brésil
- De mettre son veto CHANGEMENTS Code forestier!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
Nous luttons pour notre planète, pour nos forêts, AUTOCHTONES PAR (NOS FRÈRES), pour nos enfants, petits-enfants, arrière petits-enfants pour les générations à venir ... ... ... POUR UN MONDE MEILLEUR
DEMANDE AIDE LA PLANETE TERRE!
Tout ou rien est entre nos mains, ... Brésilienne!
Je vous remercie,
Celisa
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Por Dios, queridos amigos: signo de nuestros bosques por la misericordia ...
Por todo lo que he declarado y poner de nuevo!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Am azonia/Pagin...
CONTINUA Sulpice, cuantas veces sea necesario!
Firmar estas peticiones, por favor ...
- Para salvar el Amazonas,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- PARA SALVAR LOS BOSQUES DE BRASIL
- De vetar los cambios Código Forestal!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
LUCHAMOS POR NUESTRO PLANETA, PARA NUESTROS BOSQUES, POR INDÍGENAS (NUESTROS HERMANOS), para nuestros hijos, nietos, bisnietos para las generaciones futuras ... ... ... POR UN MUNDO MEJOR
PIDE AYUDA AL PLANETA TIERRA!
TODO O NADA ESTÁ EN NUESTRAS MANOS ... BRASIL!
Gracias,
Celisa
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Per Dio, cari amici segno delle nostre foreste per pietà ...
Per tutto ciò che mai ho supplicato e rimetterlo!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/O-que-fazemos/Am azonia/Pagin...
Sulpice CONTINUO, ogni qualvolta sia necessario!
SIGN queste petizioni, PER FAVORE ...
- Per salvare l'Amazzonia,
www.avaaz.org/po/belo_monte_people_vs_profits/?vl
- PER SALVARE LE FORESTE DEL BRASILE
- Per veto modifiche al codice FORESTA!
www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Participe/Ciberativista/Codi...
www.avaaz.org/po/save_the_amazon_sam/?cl=1419482907&v...
Lottiamo per IL NOSTRO PIANETA, PER I NOSTRI BOSCHI, indigene da parte (NOSTRI FRATELLI), per i nostri figli, nipoti, pronipoti per le generazioni a venire ... ... ... PER UN MONDO MIGLIORE
CHIEDE AIUTO DEL PIANETA TERRA!
Tutto o niente è nelle nostre mani, ... BRASILIANO!
Grazie,
Celisa
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Dezenas de milhões de câes e gatos são ASSASSINADOS BRUTALMENTE, com INSTINTOS de CRUELDADE na CHINA !!
Amigos Queridos eu suplico, assinem esta PETIÇÃO, é um PEDIDO de Ativistas e Protetores de Animais que estão se mobilizando no MUNDO INTEIRO, em favor das vidas destes MÁRTIRES!!
Em DOIS MINUTOS pode-se assinar!! São seres INDEFESOS, eu ROGO, por Deus!!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Muito obrigada,
Celisa
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Tens of millions of dogs and cats are brutally murdered, with instincts of cruelty in CHINA!
Dear Friends, I beg, sign this petition, it is a request for Activists and Animal Protectors who are mobilizing around the world, in favor of the lives of Martyrs!
In two minutes you can sign up! They are helpless, I pray, by God!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Thank you,
Celisa
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Des dizaines de millions de chiens et de chats sont brutalement assassinés, avec des instincts de cruauté en Chine!
Chers amis, je vous prie, signez cette pétition, et une demande pour les activistes et les protecteurs des animaux qui se mobilisent autour du monde, en faveur de la vie des martyrs!
En deux minutes, vous pouvez vous inscrire! Ils sont impuissants, je prie, par Dieu!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Je vous remercie,
Celisa
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Decenas de millones de perros y gatos son brutalmente asesinados, con los instintos de crueldad en China!
Queridos amigos, os ruego, firmen esta petición, y una petición de activistas y los protectores de animales que se movilizan en todo el mundo, a favor de la vida de los mártires!
En dos minutos se puede firmar para arriba! Están indefensos, te ruego, por Dios!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Gracias,
Celisa
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Decine di milioni di cani e gatti vengono brutalmente assassinati, con istinti di crudeltà in CINA!
Cari amici, vi prego, firmare questa petizione e una richiesta di attivisti e protettori degli animali che si stanno mobilitando in tutto il mondo, a favore della vita dei martiri!
In due minuti puoi iscriverti! Sono impotente, io prego, per Dio!
www.change.org/petitions/the-chinese-government-stop-the-...
Grazie,
Celisa
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Que Deus abençoe a todos os Queridos Amigos, principalmente nossas Queridas Amigas @rtbene, Blankita e Mag, e alivie o sofrimento daqueles que tanto necessitam.
Beijos em seus corações,
Celisa
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May God bless all the Dear Friends, mainly our Dear Friends @rtbene, Blankita and Mag, relieve the suffering of those who so desperately need.
Kisses in your hearts,
Celisa
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Que Dieu bénisse tous les chers amis, en particulier notre cher ami @rtbene, Blankita et Mag, et soulager la souffrance de ceux qui ont si désespérément besoin.
Bisous dans ton coeur
Celisa
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Que Dios los bendiga a todos los queridos amigos, en especial nuestro querido amigo @rtbene, Blankita y Mag, y aliviar el sufrimiento de aquellos que tan desesperadamente necesitan.
Besos en tu corazón
Celisa
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Che Dio benedica tutti i cari amici, soprattutto il nostro caro amico @rtbene, Blankita e Mag, e alleviare le sofferenze di coloro che così disperatamente bisogno.
Baci nel tuo cuore
Celisa
The United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) DDR (disarmament, demobilization and reintegration) officer explains the process to Rwandan ex-combatants ready to voluntarily demobilize and return back home, Kamina, DRC.
1/Sep/2002. Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. UN Photo/Yasmina Bouziane. www.un.org/av/photo/
Burundian military groups signed up voluntarily to be disarmed under the auspices of United Nations peacekeepers and observers.
Member of the CNDD-FDD rebel forces surrenders his weapon and ammunition to Colonnel Tahir (right), United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB) peacekeeper, in Mbanda, southern Burundi.
3/Feb/2005. Mbanda, Burundi. UN Photo/Martine Perret. www.un.org/av/photo/