Tony Benn

"I've never said this before: non-violent resistance to the government will show they cannot claim to do this in our name. We should stop the buses, stop the trains, stop the schools"

Tony Benn 2003

Hermann Goering on War

“Why of course the people don’t want war...But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along,
whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship ...
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they’re being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Hermann Goering, Nuremberg, 1946

Eisenhower on peace

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Levellers - A true sentiment

"Hang the man and flog the woman
Who stole the goose from off the common
But let the greater criminal loose
who stole the common from the goose."

Levellers

Thought I would start the New Year with a quote, to get us going .......

Advice from Monty Python, on life

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Life of Brian - Monty Python
Eric Idle

The Observer - Drugs Uncovered Series:

Money Problems:
"Wendy buys a gram of coke for £60.
She splits it into four equal piles.
Later, she sells each wrap to her 'friends' for £20 each.
How much does she make from the deal?"


Relating fractions to division:
"Peter invites two friends over to snort some speed.
He chops the powder into eight lines.
Each of them snorts two lines each.
They each get ______ of the speed.
How can Peter split what's left so everybody gets
one more line?"

Observer ad, for series:
Drugs and the under14's

"In the terror trap" - What are we doing?

A couple of quotes from Timothy Garton Ash article in the Guardian this thursday...... "In the terror trap" Think it very informative, and I commend it to you.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,813115,00.html

"We've given up far to many freedoms
in order to be free".

John le Carre
[a last epiphany of spymaster George Smiley]

&

"To make this choice is to accept a risk: more liberty, less security. But the balance in this case is clear.
Erring on the other side, we would sacrifice too much liberty for too little added security.

Put it like this: I would rather take a one in 10,000 chance of being blown up by a terrorist than a one in 10 chance of having my emails read by a spook".

Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday October 17, 2002
Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,813115,00.html

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Peter De Vries

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