Ukraine, Gaza, Syria - Blessed Are The Peacemakers But Where Are They?

To the casual observer of the news bulletins it would appear that the world is going to hell in something bigger and faster than a handcart. Even the major conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Syria are being supplemented by other not so public bloodfests in Iraq, Nigeria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and so on and so forth. And, as always, it's civilians that pay the biggest price for the follies and intransigence of the perpetrators.

Despite the claim of being civilised, the modern age is no different to ages past and is just as jam packed with war mongers, imperialists, ambitious empire builders and covetous expansionists that caused mayhem and bloodshed throughout history.

One difference between today and those bygone ages is the prevalence of high profile people who masquerade around the world claiming to be peacemakers or lovers of peace. One would think that with the resources of the United Nations and its agencies, together with the combined efforts of all these peacemakers, there would not be any wars at all.

Looking at the facts it becomes immediately apparent that the United Nations is not only a hopeless hotbed of corruption, it is also of no use whatsoever in solving conflict or preventing war between nations.  It couldn't  prevent the soccer war fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 over a World Cup qualifying match.

The Lords Resistance Army insurgency has been causing horrific bloodshed in Uganda since 1987 and they couldn't even influence their biggest benefactor, and the worlds largest superpower, not to invade the tiny island of Grenada in 1983.

One shouldn't be surprised that a bloated ever expanding bureaucracy, stuffed with career diplomats, superannuated politicians with designs on becoming a world government, could be anything other than a very expensive talking shop. As it currently stands the UN's only purpose, other than making innumerable resolutions against Israel, is promoting global socialism and insulting the United States.
(See wars since 1945 here)

Accepting that the UN will not stop the carnage, it is worth looking at the current conflicts together with those that strut the world stage as peacemakers, to make sure that they are working for peace and actually deserve the accolades they get.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict can be laid firmly at the door of the European Union and its expansionists ambitions combined with the pathetically weak leadership and lack of resolve of the USA, Great Britain and the western powers.

Even the casual observer would know that President Putin is a Russian patriot seeking to return Mother Russia to her former glory. They would also know that he is a ruthless former leader of the KGB who knows his way around the geopolitical chessboard. Ukraine was part of the former empire situated on its Black Sea border. Any attempt to bring Ukraine into the EU and NATO was too close for comfort for Putin and was resisted, just as the USA resisted the Russian military presence in Cuba.

When the European Union started its expansionist policy in Ukraine what did they expect Putin to do? They stirred up a hornets nest and a civil war was the result. One would think that the EU's pompously named High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Baroness Ashton of Upholland, also considered to be one of the highest paid politicians on the planet, would be smarter than she actually is. The truth is that despite her title and remuneration package she is considered to be a complete waste of money and space.
(Ashton disaster story here)

It is worth noting that despite its incompetence and expansionist warmongering the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.

It would not be unreasonable to expect that those who have received the Nobel Peace Prize, and who accept the accolades and status that go with it, would lend themselves to be deployed into these volatile areas for the purposes of bringing peace.

As ISIS beheads and murders its way across Syria and Iraq and Hamas pours missiles indiscriminately into civilian areas of Israel, one is entitled to ask where is 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman? It looks like a perfect opportunity for a peacemaker to put her reputation to the test. She is of course a senior member of Yemen's Al-Islah political party, which is akin to the Muslim Brotherhood and which seeks to impose sharia law throughout the Muslim world and beyond. It is safe to say that peace is the last thing on her mind when it comes to Israel.

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner is too busy involved fundamentally transforming his homeland from the beacon of freedom and liberty into a third world socialist state to be bothered searching for peace in the worlds hotspots. He is also busy downgrading and eviscerating America's mighty military machine to the point where respect for it is being lost by its enemies.

The 2008 winner, former Finnish Prime Minister, Martii Ahtisaari, is anonymous so any peace making initiatives are not apparent. However, if he is working behind the scenes along with joint 2011 winners Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Sirleaf, good for them and they will deserve the world's thanks should they succeed.

The 2007 Peace Prize winner was the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). One can only imagine what the result would be if the mission of this nonsensical Panel was changed from imposing global socialism under the cover of environmentalism to actual peace making. It beggars belief that this gaggle of agenda driven bureaucrats can be considered as peacemakers.

Joint winner in 2007 with the IPPC was former Vice President and first carbon billionaire Al Gore. Even my fertile imagination is lost for words when trying to consider big Al as a peacemaker.

I could go on but my lack of knowledge about the previous winners would not be constructive to the debate but I hope that if they are still with us they are working for peace and earning their reputations as peacemakers.

I cannot however bypass the 2002 winner Jimmy Carter and the 2001 joint winners, Kofi Annan and the United Nations.

Carter has a reputation for doing good works such as eradicating Guinea worm infestations in West Africa but insulting Israel by referring to it as an apartheid state and making no comment about Muslim atrocities by Palestinian terrorists doesn't exactly signal impartiality. This renders him utterly useless as a peacemaker.

As mentioned previously the UN is nothing more than an expensive, corrupt bureaucracy which is obsessed with Israel, the USA and a global socialist government. Kofi Annan was its leader during a particularly bloody period and proved to be as ineffective as the organisation he ran.

If anyone can bring peace one would think it would be the Middle East Peace Envoy for the Quartet, after all this man represents four of the biggest players on the war and peace scene including some of the participants in the current Ukrainian disaster, the EU and Russia. Also in the Quartet are the UN and the USA.

Again one is entitled to expect that the combined might of these four entities led by a peacemaker of the calibre of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, would put an end to war wherever it flares up.

If anyone is curious as to why, considering his record as Prime Minister and after, Tony Blair was chosen to be a peace envoy then they would not be alone. They would be joined by the entire British nation who were fooled by the spin, deceit and lies of this awful man and who many believe to be an indictable war criminal.

While Blair has supposedly been working to bring peace to the middle east he has also been accumulating a personal fortune using contacts he made while in office and with some of the worlds most questionable characters. The peace envoys fortune is reputed to be anywhere between twenty and eighty million pounds. That's around thirty two or one hundred and twenty eight million US dollars. This includes a property portfolio of around eight properties including the former country estate of Sir John Gielgud and properties in London's exclusive Connaught Square.
(Blair story here)

Not bad for a former leader of the working mans party who once wrote to the then Labour Party leader, Michael Foot, that he "came to socialism via Marxism".

Blair would go down in history as just another socialist hypocrite if he was at least making some progress as a peace envoy but if the Palestinian leaders are anything to go by he is a disaster. In 2012, after almost a decade as peace envoy, they described him as:  "useless useless useless". This is probably the first time that the majority of the British people will agree with the Palestinian leadership.

In conclusion it must be noted that despite a plethora of internationally recognised peacemakers, wars continue and civilians are still being killed in their tens of thousands. Some peacemakers may be genuine and deserve the accolades and their reputations and some are just charlatans.

In one conflict there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel and there is talk of Tony Blair being relieved of his post. If the speculation is true then that small spark of light will be extinguished by his reported replacement - none other than the superannuated High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Baroness Ashton of Upholland.
(Argh! Blair's replacement story here. Read this and weep)

The Iron Lady v Plastic PR Men And The Hate Filled Left

It cannot be denied that since Margaret Thatcher was deposed as Prime Minister, the trajectory of 'Great' Britain has been ever downward. History, as always, will be written by the left therefore she will be portrayed as an uncaring tyrant who preferred selfish individualism and greed over collectivism and so called social 'justice'.

What will be written out of history is the fact that she was a unifying force who was elected to office three consecutive times with the support of all classes, including the working class and trade unionists.

It is now universally accepted that 'Great' Britain's state propaganda service, otherwise known as the BBC, is hopelessly biased toward the left and it is committed to furthering the 'progressive' agenda. This organisation despised Margaret Thatcher and all that she represented, with a passion, and it never missed an opportunity to portray her in a negative light.

Looking at the BBC coverage since her passing, that hatred continues to this day unchallenged by the empty suits that run the BBC. This includes Chris Patten, Chairman of the Executive Board or the Prime Minister  'Call Me Dave' Cameron who are both high ranking members of the conservative establishment.

The appearance on the BBC of terrorist Gerry Adams, who's organisation failed in their attempt to murder her but killed and maimed some of her colleagues and friends, was particularly loathsome.

Television footage of people celebrating the passing of 'Great' Britain's first woman Prime Minister, and the public comments from some people who should know better, has caused shock waves around the civilised world. It has also brought shame on the British people for stooping so low.

Foreign news commentators are expressing their amazement and disgust that the woman who took on the male political establishment and rescued the British economy from Labour party bankruptcy, then went on to save the country from a dismal socialist future, can be so publicly vilified.

Informed commentators see this vilification as an indication of how far 'Great' Britain has sunk into the 'progressive' sewer of intolerance and hatred for anyone who, from humble beginnings, refuse to accept mediocrity and choose to better themselves with hard work and dedication.

Informed Americans are taking this appalling behavior as a warning of what will happen to their country if their 'Progressive' in Chief follows the same course of action that the British political establishment did after they deposed Mrs Thatcher.

The ignoramuses that were shown celebrating with champagne on the streets of London did not look like they were born when Mrs Thatcher left office, this serves as an indication of the 'progressive' capacity for hatred and their ability to pass it on from generation to generation.

When Mrs Thatcher began her rise to power, 'Great' Britain was governed by the communist run Trade Union movement together with their puppets in the Labour Party. The British economy was dominated by the inefficient nationalised industries which drained the economy of life, resulting in bankruptcy and the humiliating grovel to the IMF for loans.

Endless strikes and disruption resulted in the three day working week together with transportation disruptions, power cuts, mountains of rat infested rubbish heaps in the streets and the dead left unburied. The once 'Great' Britain was justifiably known as 'The 'Sick Man of Europe'.

Whatever history is written or whatever spin the BBC spews forth, the truth should not be denied that Mrs Thatcher reversed this decline by curbing union power, selling off the inefficient nationalised industries, cutting government spending, cutting regulations, cutting taxes and above all liberating millions of people by extending home and share ownership.

On the global stage Mrs Thatcher was a colossus who, together with that other freedom loving patriot, Ronald Reagan, freed tens of millions of people from the blood soaked yoke of communism, ending the cold war in the process.

Mrs Thatcher dominated the European Union scene and put the bureaucrats' dream of a post democratic federal superstate, back decades. For this the EU bureaucrat's hatred of the Iron Lady endures with venom to this day.

Her battles on behalf of the people raised their awareness of the continual failure of socialism to deliver economic prosperity to the masses together with the fact that it always ends in bankruptcy, authoritarianism and tears.

It was her battles with the European Union that initiated her downfall. This treachery was performed by some of the biggest weasels ever to foul the benches of Parliament. These spineless cowards will go down in history as the guilty men who deposed the Prime Minister after she saved their country from its death spiral and to whom they owed their miserable careers.

Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, John Major et al., all now Peers of the Realm thanks to Mrs Thatcher.  They know what they did and they should hold their heads in shame.

These three, and their other fellow traitors, paved the way for Phony Tony Blair's 'New' Labour years of destruction, from which it is highly unlikely the country will recover. These men, who rode to power on the coat tails of the Iron Lady, stabbed her in the back and consigned their fellow countrymen to poverty and despair in the process.

The current crop of British politicians are nothing but Public Relations phony's who have been schooled in the art of media management and lying.

How can anyone possibly compare the Iron Lady with plastic PR men like David Cameron, Ed Miliband or Nick Clegg? All three of these phony's roll over at the slightest whim from the unelected Eurocrats who are ruining the lives of the people they should be representing.

Can anyone imagine the Iron Lady being publicly chastised by Swedish Prime Minister Fredrick Reinfeldt or Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and letting them get away with it?

'Call Me Dave' is now held in such contempt that he is even being publicly humiliated by Laszio Andor, an unelected European Commissioner who is also head of the Hungarian Socialist Party, for trying to appease the British people ahead of the Romanian/Bulgarian migration disaster.

One other gaggle of gutless empty suits also displayed their contempt for Mrs Thatcher and her anti-socialist companion Ronald Reagan. Despite bringing about the downfall of the communist system that had imprisoned and impoverished tens of millions of people in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, and also bringing an end to the cold war which could potentially have killed millions, they were studiously ignored.  The Nobel Peace Prize committee have found reasons to award their degraded prize to undeserving people such as:

International terrorist Yasser Arafat.

The socialist International Labour Organisation.

Socialist incompetent and terrorist supporter Jimmy Carter, the worst President in US history.

The utterly useless Kofi Anan of the UN, who failed to stop wars or genocide during his entire sorry tenure as Secretary General.

The International Panel on Climate Change, purveyors of the biggest scam in international history which is causing the death of millions by misallocating resources and by pushing vulnerable people into energy poverty.

President Barack Obama, after only a few months in office. The same Obama who participated in two wars with a possible third in Syria. Who participates in gun running via Turkey, who supports the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists and who has a drone programme which kills people with out due process.

Finally, The European Union. This award is just so incomprehensible that it boggles the mind and renders the prize worthless.

The political pygmies of today cannot be spoken of in the same breath as Mrs Thatcher, Great Britain's Iron Lady, who's love of country and legacy of individual liberty and prosperity is being squandered on the alter of 'progressivism' never to be seen again.

"The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life and what a prize we have to fight for: no less than a chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive cracks of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom"

Margaret Thatcher RIP