Such Is The Depth Of Our Educational Apartheid That A Thick Rich Kid Will Now Always Do Better Than A Bright Poor Kid

Lurking In The Background Are The Sinister Agents.

Yes, we have had disarmament conferences and limitations of arms conferences.
They don’t mean a thing.
One has just failed.
The results of another have been nullified.

We send our professional soldiers and our sailors and our politicians and our diplomats to these conferences.
And what happens?
The professional soldiers and sailors don’t want to disarm.

No admiral wants to be without a ship.
No general wants to be without a command.
Both mean men without jobs.
They are not for disarmament.

They cannot be for limitations of arms.
And at all these conferences, lurking in the background, but all-powerful just the same, are the sinister agents of those who profit by war.
They see to it that these conferences do not disarm or seriously limit armaments.
( Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1881 – 1940 )

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions.
The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.
( Bertolt Brecht, 1898 – 1956 )

A Green Myth Is On The March Again.

It wants to blame the world’s over-breeding poor people for the planets peril.
Actor Jeremy Irons, who famously has seven homes, including a castle in Ireland says, “There are just too many of us, over-population is driving global warming, mass starvation and accumulating pollution, making the planet uninhabitable”.
Irons thinks a new plague, such as the black death 700 years ago, will be nature’s way of solving the problem.
Environmentalists Jonathon Porritt and David Attenborough both agree with Irons.

Today’s women have an average of 2.6 children.
Not just in the rich world, but almost everywhere.
Half the world now has fewer than the replacement level of children.
That includes Europe, North America, The Caribbean, most of the Far East and the Middle East, including Iran. Yes, Iran.
Women in Tehran today have fewer children than their sisters in New York – and a quarter as many as their mothers had.

Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations.
Its girls are among the least educated in the world, and mostly marry as teenagers.
Yet they have on average just three children each now.
India’s average is even lower at 2.8.

The carbon emissions of one American today are equivalent to those of around four Chinese, 20 Indians, 40 Nigerians or 250 Ethiopians.
How dare rich world greens blame the poor for the planet’s perils?
How dare a man with seven homes point the finger at poor over-breeders?
Some greens need to take a long hard look at themselves.
( Wilfred Soon )

We Must Take The Profit Out Of War.
Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
We must take the profit out of war.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
We must limit our military forces to home defence purposes.
( Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1881 – 1940 )

Superstar Is A Hypocrite.

He is a superstar lauded for his commitment to human rights and passionate defence of Brazil’s rainforests.
But Sting, former frontman and singer with Police, has been labelled ‘a hypocrite’ after playing a concert in Uzbekistan organised by the brutal regime of Islam Karimov, in October 2009.

Sting, 58, is reported to have been paid £2 million to sing for Gulnara Karimova, the despot’s daughter.
Enemies of the 72 year-old dictator have been shot in the street and a former British Ambassador to the ex-soviet state even accused him of boiling alive his political opponents.

Ex-communist official Karimov, who came to power in 1989, has locked up 6,000 people who have dared to question his rule.
In 2005, the army slaughtered hundreds who protested against poverty and corruption in the city of Andizhan.
And thousands of children are used as slave labour in huge state cotton plantations.
Sting’s human rights and environmental activism seem to have flown out the window.
( Fred O. Wilson )

I Was A Racketeer, A Gangster For Capitalism.

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers
In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914.
I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912.

I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916.
I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903.
In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.

Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints.
The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts.
I operated on three continents.
( Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1881 – 1940 )

Educational Apartheid.

Will we ever again have a Prime Minister who hasn’t had a private education?
The fact that David Cameron went to Eton and Nick Clegg went to Westminster says a lot about social mobility in our country today, there isn’t any.
Social mobility is dead and the evidence is on the door-step of No.10 in the shape of our privately-educated PM and his privately-educated deputy.

If Clegg or Cameron had gone to a comprehensive then we would never have heard of them.
Should that bother us?
Only because of what it says about this country.
If you want to get ahead, get a private education.

It isn’t the “poshness” of Cameron or Clegg that should trouble us but the fact the educational apartheid in this country is now so deeply ingrained that you can no longer get to 10 Downing Street unless your parents paid a fortune for your education.

Such is the depth of our educational apartheid that a thick rich kid will now always do better than a bright poor kid.
And that should break our hearts.
( Tony Parsons )

The power and wealth of any nation is generated by its industry, but the overpaid, over-bureaucratic parasites and small-minded, mean-spirited administrators who inhabit and multiply within acres of ugly concrete in every town and city are not bright enough to understand that their car allowance and expensively-carpeted, potted-plant-studded offices are paid for by people who have to struggle to gouge a living out of a harsh, competitive world where security means razor wire, unbreakable glass and guard dogs rather than a job for life and an index-linked pension.
( Len Firswood )

I Believe Labour Has Always Been The Party Of The Working Man And Always Will Be.

Have Labour been perfect?
Of course not.
Have there been things I disagree with?
Yes, from time to time.
But I know where the Labour Party’s heart is and it is in the right place.

It makes me laugh, well, no, it annoys me actually.
The way some people think if you get lots of success, you ought to be a Tory.
It’s rubbish.
You can be well off and still believe the same things as when you were growing up in a working class family.

I believe Labour has always been the party of the working man and always will be.
I believe the Tories have always been about looking after their own rich types and always will be.
My loyalty to Labour is a part of who I am because I know what they do for people.

Ever since it was founded, Labour has fought for ordinary working people and it does that just as much today.
And I tell you, this country is miles better for having had a Labour government these past years.
A lot better.
( Sir Alex Ferguson, April 2010 )