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No Natural Ingredient: Nelson Mandela, Live8
By JULIETTE ROSSANT  In light of this morning's explosions in London, the British-supported Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), the British-led Live8 event over the past weekend, and the British-hosted G8 summit at Gleneagles, Scotland, listen again to the words of former South African president Nelson Mandela -- who spent 27 years in prison for seditious politics in that British Commonwealth nation -- and think about the relationship between North and South, East and West, the haves and the havenots.Do you agree with Nelson, that "poverty is not natural: it is man-made"?.... Are we missing the forest for the trees? We talk about organic food: is there a "human organics" -- what is the "natural" human condition? Click here to listen. Technorati Tags: chefs food restaurants cooking branding cuisine politics poverty charity G8 Mandela Live8 --> back to superchefblog |
posted by Juliette Rossant at 7/07/2005 08:00:00 AM
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The “War on Terrorism“ is a way of disguising and justifying the reality, which is the rape of the world’s resources by the richest countries to make the poor ones even poorer. It’s not a new phenomenon, of course. History is littered with examples.
Our politicians just don’t draw the lessons that history teaches us, however. They only think in the very short term and perhaps none more so than the U.S. of A.
There are also lessons to be learned from physics. For instance, about the only theorem I retained from my school days was “Action and Reaction are Equal and Opposite.” This theorem is behind most revolutions and other upheavals. The greater the injustices meted out, the greater will be the violence of the reaction.
Unfortunately, politicians are not even the ones who decide. Their strings are pulled by “interests.” In the name of patriotism, almost anything can be deemed of interest to “us” versus the others, preferably those too weak to do anything about it.
The Bible said it differently in Hosea 8:7, of course. For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
My, my, my. I am becoming so cynical in my dotage.:-))))
By the way, on the subject of “Terrorism” you might like to do some research on Mary Robinson. Onetime President of Ireland, she was United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002. After 9/11, she coined the expression “the T-word” suggesting not too diplomatically that “Terrorism” (the T.word” was bieng used to suppress human rights, not least of which in the US.
I suggest you start here and follow your instincts thereafter:
http://www.achrweb.org/Review/2004/0904.htm
As you will read in this article, it was the issue of protection of civil liberties in the aftermath of the September 11th that brought her to prominence and also cost the job.
"Suddenly the T-word is used all the time," Robinson said, referring to terrorism in the post September 11th period . "And that's the problem.....Everything is justified by that T-word,…I hope that countries will put human rights back on the agenda because it tended to slip after September 11th".
The London attacks now give Tony Blair too a convincing excuse to clamp down on civil liberties. Just watch what happens in the next three months. I wonder what the British “Patriot Act” will be called.
All the best,
Cedric
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