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Once there was a people…

Posted in news from around the world, tagged #Palestine #genocide #poems #savethechildren #protestgenocide on July 8, 2025| Leave a Comment »

They Called It War. But It Was Slaughter.

Once there was a people whose only crime was being born in the wrong place, at the wrong time, under the rule of the wrong oppressor.

They lived on ancient land, land soaked in the history of prophets and peace, but peace was long gone. Replaced by drones. Missiles. Lies.

Their killers didn’t wear masks. They wore uniforms. Ties. Flags. They came in the name of “security” and “defense,” yet they killed in cold blood. Entire families erased in seconds. Infants torn from life before they even learned how to speak. Playgrounds reduced to rubble. Hope crushed beneath the weight of indifference.

And when these people cried out, the world looked away.

Worse still, some powerful nations applauded. They signed arms deals, sent billions in aid, and stood before cameras pretending to care about human rights while fueling the horror in the dark.

The killers had allies, not just on the battlefield, but in global courts and media rooms. They had the power to decide who was a “victim” and who was a “terrorist.” Even grieving parents were accused of extremism. Mourning was outlawed. Telling the truth was criminalized. Standing up for the children became an act of hate.

Imagine this. A world where saying “Don’t bomb children” gets you labeled dangerous.

A world where compassion is terrorism.

That is the world these people are forced to live in.

And yet, they still rise each day beneath shattered skies. Their faith, unshaken. Their voices, trembling but still speaking. Their eyes, haunted, but defiant.

Because the oppressors have power, but the people have truth.

And truth lives longer than tanks.

The world can bury the headlines. Silence the witnesses. Jail the voices. But it cannot erase the memory of those children. It cannot destroy the truth that genocide was committed, systematically, knowingly, and with help.

History will not forget.

Even if the world pretends to.

Shared via a post on Facebook. Author not shared to avoid abuse from Zionists

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Counting the shekels

Posted in Fun Stuff, news from around the world, wealth and finance, tagged #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protest #genocide on July 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Morning Keir Starmer David Lammy Yvette Cooper this is your reminder for today that babies and children are either being bombed to death, or snipered with drones made in the UK, or burned to death by bombs dropped on tents, or starved due to aid being denied by your BFF Netanyahu…
But we realise of course 3 very important aspects of these heinous atrocities: 1. The UK has a flourishing weapons trade and undoubtedly you make money off of this death and destruction. 2. They’re Palestinian babies and children, therefore irrelevant and their lives are worth a fat ZERO since you can’t make money off of them, bit you can make money off of their deaths. 3. You really just don’t care. Instead you’ve gotten outraged at a few hurty chants (bless), you’ve gotten outraged at paint splashed on a plane and whatever other damage was done to the RAF planes participating in the slaughter of babies and children in Gaza.
And lest we forget – you get paid by Labour Friends of Israel. Nice one.
To lose your morals, your humanity, your sense of justice and your soul for money, is quite an achievement.
So, have a great day….I’m sure you will. It’s really good fun counting shekels while babies and children are dying under some of the most horrendous ways you can even imagine…but yeah, the Israelis have excellent imaginations.

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Give thanks for the brave

Posted in Historical, news from around the world, tagged #bobvylan, #gazagenocide #standupandbecounted #protest #genocide, #Glastonbury on July 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »

“We must give thanks for the so-called “villains” of our time.

To the Bob Vylans who dare speak truth to power, calling out the genocide in Gaza with clarity and courage.

To the Gary Linekers, the Jeremy Corbyns, the Bernie Sanders of this world—who, despite relentless smearing, continue to stand on the right side of history.

In an age of curated silence and comfortable complicity, these individuals risk livelihoods, reputations, and safety to remind us of our shared humanity.

Unlike generations past, who stood idle in the face of mass atrocities, we have raised our voices—even if all we have are voices. We’ve marched. We’ve called out injustice. We’ve refused to be gaslit.

And though we haven’t yet changed the tide, we have at least refused to drown in it.

To the generations yet to come: we pass you the baton not with shame, but with a burning plea—do better than this. Be braver than us. And never forget that silence is never neutral.”
Anon

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One whole year..nearly 2 years on…

Posted in news from around the world, Uncategorized, tagged Palestine on October 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

1 Year of Genocide

Real beheaded babies with no front pages
Israelis r*ping Palestinians in cages

US paid the wages, UK supplied intelligence
Elephant in room evidence, levels of malevolence

Catastrophe, developments, starvation, skeletons
Pestilence is prevalence, trauma, inheritance

Rampaging regiments, degenerates wreck tenements
Weapon test experiments leave population to elements

Concentration, collate, in a camp where death awaits
a bomb descends and detonates, disembowels, eviscerates

Torsos, torn, shreds, bodies, no heads
Girls with no legs on their death beds

Heads without skulls, hollowed out holes
where there were souls, dreams, goals

A father’s last cuddle in a blood-soaked puddle
A ghostly grey child hang plucked from the rubble

Planes bombing, blast, shrapnel, embedded children
Babies burnt to ash, headlines without who killed them

Sick systems blame the victims for their decisions
Ignore the symptoms of cruel callous coalitions

Psychopathic politicians, at the Hague the mission
Incarcerate, imprison, never pardon or forgiven

24/7
365
One whole year of genocide

The world’s most documented genocide in history
The most moral army in the world’s military

kills children, causes misery
bombs buildings, deforms physically

Media lied deliberately, propaganda, trickery
Death upon delivery of weapon supplied artillery

From right to left to liberally, unequivocally
cold, cowards, criminally, world stand by do minimally

This is not a mystery, take it back to history
evil banality, left horror to prevail

Nothing is illegal, if no one can curtail
When good people do nothing, humankind fail

Just a passive tale, blind masses, braille
on a massive scale, last breath, exhale

Decomposing personnel, death is all around, the smell
Welcome to the gates of hell, mow the grass then expel

Escape, comprehended, the Nakba never ended
as the bombs drop descended on a child un defended

A soldier smiles demented; self-defence presented
Victimhood invented; words pretend offended

Thoughts of freedom makes you quiver, from the sea to the river
Tidal wave every killer, every sniper pulling trigger

Every child that you disfigure paints the world a bigger picture
of a country getting sicker, genocide, spread the virus

Racist righteous, right to r*pe riots
Pious pirates, existential crisis

There’s no coming back from this, collapse the state, catalyst
Your own antagonist, psycho, sadomasochist

As Palestine persists for the right to exist
the right to resist gets demonised, dismissed

24/7
365
One whole year of genocide

One year of genocide, one year of rain
We’re normalising violence, we’re normalising pain
We’re organising silence, making it mundane
One whole year of genocide, one whole year of rain

BBOBBYY

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The corruption of the West

Posted in around the UK, news from around the world, other peoples blog, tagged ethnic cleansing, free Palestine, genocide, Hannibal Directive, Israeli bulldozers, the war on Gaza, Zionists on July 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Talk of humanitarianism was there to obscure a deeper, more savage truth: might still makes right. And no one is stronger than the US and those it favours.

Via @Jonathan_K_Cook on X

Sir Keir Starmer’s own political trajectory suggests an uncomfortable truth about international power politics. The closer western leaders move to power, the more pressure they feel to do Washington’s bidding – and that invariably means casting aside principle.

Devotion to Israel – and a willingness to abandon the Palestinians to the death camp Gaza has become – has been one of the major conditions of entry into the West’s power club.

During the election campaign, Starmer passed that test with flying colours. Which is why he – unlike his predecessor – received an easy ride from the British establishment, including its public relations arm, the corporate media.

Ultra-rich donors, including those with close ties to Israel, have been lining up to throw money at Starmer’s Labour party, at the same time as membership numbers have plummeted.

The reality is that we live in a world where the powerful pay lip service to human rights and international law, a world where they profess to aid the weak even as they assist in their slaughter.

Oppression flourishes, obscured by their empty promises and endless dithering.

For three decades, the West has advertised its benevolence and humanitarianism. It has launched invasions and waged wars supposedly to protect the weak and vulnerable – from Kosovo to Ukraine, from Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya. Democracy and women’s rights have supposedly been the West’s watchwords.

But in truth, as Gaza demonstrates only too clearly, those claims were a tissue of lies. It was always about treating the world as a giant chessboard, and one where Washington’s right to achieve “full-spectrum dominance” was the driving principle, not protection of the weak.

Talk of humanitarianism was there to obscure a deeper, more savage truth: might still makes right. And no one is stronger than the US and those it favours.

The Palestinians, unlike Israel, have no weight in the international system. They are denied an army, and have no warplanes. They are denied control over their borders and their airspace. They have no real economy or currency – they are entirely reliant on the goodwill of Israeli financial institutions. They have no freedom to move from their slivers of territory, their ghettoes, unless Israel first agrees.

They cannot even stop Israel from bulldozing their homes, or arresting their children in the middle of the night.

No one on the international stage, least of all governments in Washington and London, really needs to take account of Palestinian interests.

Abusing Palestinians comes at minimal political cost. Protecting them would offer few tangible political gains. Which is precisely why their abuse continues day after day, month after month, year after year, decade after decade.

We live in a world of deceit, hypocrisy and bad faith. Britain’s new prime minister has shown he is already an arch-exponent of those dark political arts. Listen not to what he says, but watch closely what he actually does.

More from my latest article Starmer learnt the price of power was support for genocide here: middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-ele…

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Travel

Posted in European travels, Inspiration, It's my life, news from around the world, project 101, Travel, UNESCO Heritage Sites, walks around the UK, tagged bucket list travel, different cultures, Inspiration, learning, traditions, Travel on June 4, 2024| 1 Comment »

Try to travel, otherwise
you may become racist,
and you may end up believing
that your skin is the only one
to be right,
that your language
is the most romantic
and that you were the first
to be the first.
Travel,
because if you don’t travel then
your thoughts won’t be strengthened,
won’t get filled with ideas.
Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies
that fit perfectly with your nightmares
to make you live in terror.
Travel,
because travel teaches
to say good morning to everyone
regardless of which sun we come from.
Travel,
because travel teaches
to say goodnight to everyone
regardless of the darkness
that we carry inside
Travel,
because traveling teaches to resist,
not to depend,
to accept others, not just for who they are
but also for what they can never be.
To know what we are capable of,
to feel part of a family
beyond borders,
beyond traditions and culture.
Traveling teaches us to be beyond.
Travel,
otherwise you end up believing
that you are made only for a panorama
and instead inside you
there are wonderful landscapes
still to visit.

Gio Evan, poet and songwriter.
Translated from Italian.

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Genocide in Gaza

Posted in news from around the world, Travel, tagged action for children, babies, children, children suicide rates, children who lose parents to violence, genocide in Gaza, Palestine, Rafah, Zionists on May 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Who are we??
Who are we as human beings?
Who are we as a country?
Who are we as a civilization ?
Who are we that so many people are still unbelievably SILENT after nearly 8 months of this horrific, heinous slaughter?
36,000+ people killed in 245 days; half of them BABIES AND CHILDREN!! And that’s not counting the hundreds of humans buried beneath the rubble, their bodies rotting and being eaten by scavenging starving animals. Never mind the thousands who have suffered debilitating injuries; children without limbs, terrible burns, emotional scars that will never heal.
And yet the number protesting this horror is minimal in comparison to the population of our countries.
I understand why politicians are silent, although it’s totally immoral, but that ordinary people are either silent or supportive of the atrocities being committed by Israel against the Palestinians is beyond me. Totally, completely and utterly beyond me.
Are people so completely desensitised?
Has the gaslighting been that successful? Have the lies worked so well?
This is a GENOCIDE in our lifetime!
This is a HOLOCAUST in our lifetime!
As someone has said to me a number of times; an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. She’s absolutely right. And it would seem that our tongues have been cut out too.

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The truth, unpalatable as it is

Posted in news from around the world, tagged Chris Packham, climate breakdown, mass extinction, planet earth on August 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I 100% agree with Chris Packham, we are not using the right language. It is astonishing that we do live on this planet!! Breakdown. Destroyed. Extermination. He won’t be thanked for this. He will be derided. He will be criticised. He will be accused of doom and destruction. Governments don’t have the courage or determination to change the narrative. They have no will or stomach for it. And capitalism won’t allow it. There are too many countries that are hell-bent on destroying their neighbours, and there are too many destructive dictatorial Governments for us to turn this around. There are a lot of individuals and some organisations that do care, but its like the bat in the programme I was watching on BBC3 a couple of nights ago…’They’ are in the minority and will be overwhelmed. The only way this planet will recover and new species to develop is for humans to become extinct. And so far some individuals and Governments are making good progress on that front.

If you care to watch the brief reel. It’s on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/reel/3279537672344085?sfnsn=scwspmo

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My Child Did Exist

Posted in family and relationships, Health, news from around the world, tagged death of a child, miscarriage, stillbirth, support on August 30, 2022| Leave a Comment »

I’ve seen so many posts recently on Instagram and Facebook of posts sharing the loss of a child, whether it’s pre-birth, still-birth (born sleeping) or from SIDS and various accidents or illness (an alarming number to cancer).

Each and every one is heart-breaking 🥺😢💔 and I can’t imagine the pain of that loss.

And yet, so often, folks are uncomfortable with listening to or hearing about that loss. They try to change the subject or say things like “oh you can try again ” as if you’ve bought a chicken from Tesco and it’s off…thrown in the trash. That’s such a horrible thing to say “you can try for another one”.

Just listen…loss is loss, no natter at what stage or age, and especially when it’s a baby or child.
It’s not something you ‘get over’. It’s a pain and trauma parents carry for the rest of their lives.

I know of a wee lassie, born sleeping in February; Maisie. I think about her often and about her Mama who is struggling so bravely. She shared her story on Facebook and its had the most incredible response, with people writing Maisie’s name in the sand at the beach and on mountain tops, right around the world.
A small thing, but of great comfort to her mother. Support from around the world acknowledging that her little girl existed.

It’s also been a real eye-opener, quite shocking really, at how the medical profession, more often than not, are totally cold and uncaring and even brutal in how they manage miscarriage and death of tiny babies.
Some of the stories have reduced me to tears in their stark brutality…at the death of the parents hopes, and dreams. The forever “what ifs”.
This is such a beautiful quote I’d like to share.
I hope folks, especially mothers, can keep this in mind and just listen
It’s important.

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No more cruise ships in Venice

Posted in Historical, My European travels, news from around the world, Travel, tagged bucket list travel, cruise ships banned in Venice, preserving ancient heritage on July 22, 2021| 8 Comments »

Although it was a dream of mine to sail into Venice on a cruise ship after watching them sail into Venice from the sidelines, I’m really glad they’re taking this action. The damage caused is shocking and we really must take more care of the heritage of this fabulous place.

As from 1 August cruise ships will be banned from the city.

What are your thoughts on this action? Have you sailed into Venice on a cruise ship? Should cities like Venice be taking similar action to prevent further damage caused?

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