Dear Friends,
I just signed the petition “Land is Sacred: Stand With the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe” and wanted to ask if you could add your name too.
This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:
Thank you!
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So this is an unusual blog I have a lot I could say about very little and not sure yet how to say it. After the great support of my local green councillor I signed up to be a member of the Green Party of England & Wales. I try not to be political in my life and even thought I was a huge supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and really bought into the philosophy of ‘For the Many & Not the Few’ I never felt like he owned his own party and they seemed to blame him more for not being in power than they blamed the Tories. Which arguably left to an own goal for labour and a victory for the Conservative led by Boris Johnson at the election victory. It’s a pity your government was not as efficient at clearing the virus as you were at winning an election as it might not have quite so much blood on its hands then.
Green light goes ahead for HS2 by Boris’s Government presently see article from LBC radio again Bravo Boris another job well done.
So why am I bitching about this well I have spoken to 2 wildlife Police officers in the last 48 hours as well as receiving two emails from my elected councillor for my ward of St. David’s in Exeter. I supplied four photos of evidence of the damage that Network rail did to the railway track outside my house which led to the present investigation by the police and also led to me joining the green party.
I have also had East West Rail checking out at least one of my websites this week and they are Linked in to the people in government building HS2.
The logo is not very clear as they seem to have turned to the darkside.
I have also had confirmation from my Green councillor that they have policies to support wildlife which are as follows.
Caroline Lucas launches Green Party nature commitments, and A New Deal for Nature*
Place: The Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J
0BF. Time: 11am.
Caroline Lucas, former co-leader of the Green Party and its candidate in Brighton Pavilion, will be showcasing the Party’s commitments on nature and launching A New Deal for Nature, at an event at The Linnean Society in central London.
‘ A New Deal for Nature is an independent report commissioned earlier this year to inform her work in Parliament, as well as to feed in to the Green Party’s policies on nature and stimulate public and political debate. It’s been written by a group of leading UK conservationists and
nature writers, Mark Cocker, Jeremy Mynott, Jake Fiennes, Helen Smith and Patrick Barkham.
“We are not only running out of time on the climate emergency, there’s also little time left to reverse the catastrophic decline in nature and
wildlife,” Lucas said.
“This election has to mark a turning point and the moment when people vote for Nature.”
*Green party commitments on nature and wildlife*
It is more urgent than ever to reverse the decline of wildlife and nature in Britain, one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. The 2019 State of Nature report found that 41% of species in the UK have declined, and a quarter of mammals are at risk of disappearing
altogether.
The Green Party’s manifesto has more than 70 proposals related to nature and wildlife, with the boldest and best policies for protecting it – for the benefit of people and nature. As the UN global assessment of nature, the IPBES, made clear, the breaking of environmental limits
presents extreme danger for all humanity.
Among manifesto pledges are a 10-year transition to agro-ecological farming, more outdoor learning and the introduction of a GCSE in Natural History to encourage better knowledge and understanding of nature.
One of the party’s key proposals is for a Sustainable Economy Act, so that the way we run our economy works with nature not against it, with new legally binding targets for biodiversity, soil health and water quality alongside other measures.
It is a broken economic system which has caused both the climate and biodiversity crises, and that has to be addressed if we are to restore our natural world.
That means moving away from endless consumption and GDP growth as the measure of economic success, scrapping environmentally destructive projects like HS2 and airport expansion, and repurposing the economy so that it also serves the needs of future generations.
While the Green Party manifesto is more ambitious and comprehensive than any other in its pledges on nature and wildlife, the Party recognises the importance of being challenged by experts to ensure policies measure up to the challenges we face.
*Report recommendations*
A New Deal for Nature focuses on eight areas for change including farming, schools & young people, urban wildlife, the marine environment and biosecurity. Among its 80 recommendations are:
* New national parks, with a goal of designating 20% of Britain asnational park.
* Every farmer should devote a minimum of 15% of their land to nature,and be paid to do so.
* All primary schools should deliver one hour a day outdoor learning every day, in addition to break time.
* Twin every primary school with a farm
* Encourage more wildlife-friendly gardens by casting off the obsession with tidiness. Ban the sale of all plastic grass, unlessfor sports pitches via planning permission.
* Wild public land. Hospital grounds to be re-greened and re-wilded toaid patient recovery
* Permanently protect some brownfield sites as SSSIs, give others “pop-up” temporary wildlife protection
* A moratorium on expansion of aquaculture operations, particularlyopen-cage salmon farming, shown to be harming the aquatic environment..
* Improve early-warning systems to assess the threats posed byinvasive, non-native species which are growing by 10-12 speciesevery year.
quite well.
Let the truth set us free.
Ecocide is the enemy and unless you know what the enemy is you don’t know how to face it or how to defeat it.
So I have just been online and ordered some Blue Ray films that I have not seen yet which look kind of interesting. I opted for the budget second hand ones that are a few years old at least as there the cheapest and I am a cheap skate.
So I have a nice wooden TV stand with which is nearly full and I then start trying to sort the films out and realised there are DVD’s I have kept for years with which some of the films I even have two copies of and some I have never even watched or wanted to. I sort them into ones that I like and ones that I do not need any more so can recycle.
I don’t need any money for them but I know some charities will beenfit from them. It turns out the charity shops are closed at the moment but what I have done is put the DVD aside and I will wait untiil they are open again and then give them the films.
I also have a Salvation Army shop at the end of my road so I can donate my DVD’s and unneeded clothes there to and if we are still on lock down I can incorporate it into my daily walk. If I could post items to them I have some spare boxes here and I would be prepared to do that to.
I also have an I shall contact them later and see what they say. Charity donations are going through the floor at the moment due to so many people being made redundant so every little helps.
If you’re having a sort out why not donate to one of your local charities. It has also made me think about when I die and what to say in my will I think for my possessions that can be donated that is what I will do, seeing as how I am single with no children and do not want someone else to have the hassle of sorting the stuff out I can donate it to a charity.
I have a will from my mum too and here house is like a labyrinth of beautiful stuff which I thought I would have the hassle of having to sell buy again I think I will try to have most of it recycled and donated to charity now. So it can go to someone that really wants it and also a charity will benefit too.
So my last post was more about hope than solid progress though in the meantime I have received an email from https://secure.avaaz.org/page/en/ about how when people act locally there impact can be globally felt.
Another example is a Facebook page on the internet also hammering home to me the point from a web page called forgotten Ireland.
According to Wikipedia Indigenous peoples, also known in some regions as First peoples, First Nations, Aboriginal peoples or Native peoples, or autochthonous peoples, are ethnic groups who are the original or earliest known inhabitants of an area, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently. Groups are usually described as indigenous when they maintain traditions or other aspects of an early culture that is associated with a given region.[1] Not all indigenous peoples share this characteristic, as many have adopted substantial elements of a colonizing culture, such as dress, religion or language. Indigenous peoples may be settled in a given region (sedentary) or exhibit a nomadic lifestyle across a large territory, but they are generally historically associated with a specific territory on which they depend. Indigenous societies are found in every inhabited climate zone and continent of the world except Antarctica.[2]
Since indigenous peoples are often faced with threats to their sovereignty, economic well-being and access to the resources on which their cultures depend, political rights have been set forth in international law by international organizations such as the United Nations, the International Labour Organization and the World Bank.[3] In 2007, the United Nations issued a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to guide member-state national policies to the collective rights of indigenous peoples, such as culture, identity, language and access to employment, health, education and natural resources. Estimates put the total population of indigenous peoples from 220 million to 350 million.[4]
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is celebrated on 9 August each year.
According to the definition you would thing that right wing leaders would love them right none alien born and bred peoples but in fact Trumps administration is continuing to attack indigenous peoples. Which goes to show Trump care for no body but himself, if the truth be known.
But let’s leave trump out of this for a minute and discus other reasons to be optimistic.
The above episode has just been nominated for a WEBBY AWARDS in the Travel Category for 2020. We are up against big media like Nat Geo, BBC, and others. It would mean so much to the creator if you voted for it: https://bit.ly/2W4jOWa
So what makes these issues go viral well I think they light the imagination and people have passion for the courses which sparks a flame, people then blaze a trail resulting in global fire of righteousness bright enough for the like of you and I to see across the World Wide Web.
How cool
Cheers Huw
Not the happiest Star War’s title for May the 4th, but I do like to think outside the box.
So I started contacting my councillor and the police among others about a potential wildlife crime taking place along the railway track last week and the Wildlife Crimes officer phoned me today to say he had received mine and the councillor’s emails about the destruction of nest sites along the rail embankment.
He confirmed a fear of mine which was that to destroy a nesting site is indeed a crime, but only actually but witnessing the crime or having evidence of said crime could anything be done to legally tackle the crime. I did not bother to ask what the punishment would be as this seamed rather trivial.
So there we have a crime has taken place along rail embankments all across the UK during nesting season on a daily basis not just here but nationwide every nesting season and the only people with the evidence to report it are the very same people that are committing the crime in the first place.
This is madness it is like asking a fox hunt to police cruelty against foxes or a domestic abuser to be the only person that can report his or her crimes. A hunter reporting that he accidently caught a healthy fox or a domestic abuser phoning up to tell the police they have just attacked their partner and the police turning up to take the evidence from the aggressor who is then prosecuted due to his own testament! Bonkers or what a crazy piece of legislation. What then worries me is this ecocide legislation is accepted by the police and was designed and enacted by our politicians and then enforced by or judges and lawyers. They are all accomplices to the injustice of ecocide and by very implication guilty themselves to the law of the land. Ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law.
What is the meaning of a stitch time saves nine? Procrastination means to delay or put off doing something until a later time. People use “a stitch in time saves nine” to express that it’s better to spend a little time and effort to deal with a problem right now than to wait until later, when it may get worse and take longer to deal with.
Imagine if you will if Anakin had not turned to the darkside and the plot had been discovered how cool woudl that have been to be a Jedi then.
Well it’s 5:51 here in the UK on Monday morning had a busy working weekend whilst stil trying to relax and have a break.
Still preparing a list of village halls mapped across Devon I have got up to 343 community buildings across 343 locations and still more to do. About 15 hours work on weekend altogether with some great results. Really want to visit many of the places on the list once lockdown is over.
So having a cuppa and just watching this very funny Red Dwarf preview. Hope you enjoy too.
So I managed to update this site myself this time with out getting my friends help. You have no idea how many mistakes I make when trying to do IT stuff, or smeg ups you might say.
There is a global phenomenon of disinformation and hate speech, hate actions and hate sound sweeping across nations both now and for what feels like forever and I am trying to think of way’s my site can square the circle of misinformation and hate speech by dispensing its spread.
The Three Wise Monkeys carved on a stable housing sacred horses at Tōshōgū shrine, Nikkō, Japan “Hear, Speak, See no evil”
Photo taken by myself in August 2003 perspective distortion corrected numerically
Copyright © 2003 David Monniaux
So stuff is still going to drive me go wild but I think I should be mindful of what I promote, how I promote it and to whom. I am also trying to apply this principle to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Huwspace posts too.
So why bother, well it’s an attempt to combat lies, hate speech and for want of a better word the darkside.
For those folk going through dark times it won’t stop me watching news sites such as the BBC and Sky news or reading my papers such as The Guardian or New York Times. If your plight means you need money I also continue to fund my chosen charities but that does not mean to say I will give you a penny.
But I may not be able to blog or promote your plight publicly or even be aware of your plight, that is not to say I would or do not care for what you have or are going through.
So Went out to pick up supplies first thing this morning one of the items purchased was a new 4 pack of Guinness which I was looking forward to starting on tonight as I had not had a drink since I last went to a pub some 6 weeks ago. On the way back from the shops I saw some more network rail engineers. Not cutting up the trees and shrubs on the other side of the railway line. My thoughts went wild.
I thought this time I had a lot of work to do for my employer plus meetings to go to today so I could not afford to deal with this matter on my own and had to hope that the Police and my councillor could sort it out between themselves. I managed to get a brief photo from a distance of the men at work.
So logged into work and did as much as I could up to 5pm and then logged out and checked my phone and personal emails after that.
II had received a message which the police were also copied into which had only arrived in my email at 16:12pm that day. It was by my locally elected green councillor. She had checked with other neighbours regarding my concerns and also emailed Network rail, copying me and the police into her email
Dear All
I have spoken to network rail and informed them that this matter has been referred to the Police for investigation. The reference number is 200501-000901
Network rail said they will be speaking to the duty manager to investigate. I have asked to be updated about the review. I explained that while the brambles may need to be cut back that it isn’t allowed during the nesting season and they should ensure that their work falls within the Act to permit them to do so.
I can confirm that there is wildlife that uses the embankment as resident have told me about it and I used this information in response to a recent planning application adjacent to the railway line.
Please can you let me know the outcome of this investigation.
I was so relieved to have someone else on my side with more knowledge of the law and awareness of who to contact and what to say and some of the little birds came back out to play today too.
We might not have save The Alphington railway line track to Marsh Barton but we let them know we new what they had done and asking for an explanation as to why thsi had been done.
So that’s all I know now. I can’t magic the trees out of thin air or prey for the birds to have their homes back. But hopefully those that had built nests can fly away and find homes else ware as wildlife refugees to try again.
I will try and keep you updated on what happens next if anythink. After work tonigth I also sat back and had my first pint in over 6 weeks tonight I normally don’t drink at home but this is in no way normal so.
So Cheers
Well they say there is always someone worse off than you. Well according to the international labour organisation that is half the world at the very least that you and I and any 1st world national member is better off than the other half of the world.
I do not know how far the rabbit hole goes and when people like Bill Gates throw money at the poor where does that money go to and why do they continue to evolve to economic suffering.
Surely grater minds than mine have figured this out now.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-52479215/we-ll-starve-to-death-if-this-continues#
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