michael lambe

Here’s a nice story from Greenpeace:

“Thanks to enormous pressure from the thousands of emails and letters sent to their European headquarters by you, our supporters, McDonald’s has agreed to stop selling chicken fed on soya grown in newly deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest… McDonald’s and other big food retailers have worked with us to develop a zero deforestation plan. The plan will also help bring an end to the land-grabbing and social injustice that is rife in the Amazon…”

You can read more here: LINK

Who said “Writing letters never achieves anything”?

Actually, if you want to be really good, take five minutes to write to KFC here:
LINK
and ask them to follow McDonalds’s lead.

Now my friend Philippe said to me this evening, “What do you think of what’s going on in the Lebanon?” and I said, “Well, they’re just bastards basically aren’t they?” And he said “Who Israel or Lebanon?” And I said, “Child-murdering Israel and the gun-running American bastards who are backing them up.”

(click to read an overview: LINK)

(click here to read how Uncle Sam has been illegally using a Scottish airport to transport child-killing bombs to Israel: LINK)

And then he said, “What do you think we should do?” And I said, “I don’t know. I feel powerless.” And so he said “Tell your friends. Keep talking about it.”

Well, here’s one simple fact: “Save The Children reports that 45% of the Lebanese dead are children, as are 200,000 of the 500,000 refugees forced to flee the bombing. (Save The Children, ‘Crisis in middle east - children hit hardest,’ July 21, 2006; LINK“

Here’s another: “The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.” (David S. Cloud and Helene Cooper, ‘US Speeds Up Bomb Delivery For the Israelis,’ New York Times, July 22, 2006)

By the way, I watched Nicolas Cage in “Lord of War” this evening.
It’s a good movie, though Cage’s dead-pan narration is a little too dead a lot of the time… It’s the story of a free-lance arms-dealer and the abysmally amoral and murderous trade he’s involved in. But at the end of the movie the point is made that the World’s biggest suppliers of child-murdering weaponry are of course, the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia and China, …who also happen to be the five permanent members of the U.N. security council. Make’s you proud, don’t it?

See reviews and trailers here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lord_of_war/