"Large parts of the world are faced with starvation, while others are living in abundance. The nations were promised liberation and justice, but we have witnessed and are witnessing, even now*, the sad spectacle of liberating armies firing into populations who want their independence and social equality, and supporting in those countries by force of arms, such parties and personalities as appear to be most suited to serve vested interests. Territorial questions and arguments of power, obsolete though they are, still prevail over the essential demands of common welfare and justice."
- Albert Einstein, December 1945
Listen to the full speech
here and
here.
* now: referring then to the beginning of the post-WWII-era,
yet still ringing true to this very day in our common present.
War no more. We merely seem to fight one another
for the sake of (those in) power, we merely seem to fight our selves for the sake of greed. The only true beneficiaries appear in the guise of
the arms industry and related corporations, institutions and individuals, who distribute weapons to both sides in conflict on the one hand, and on the other
the banking industry and related corporations, institutions and individuals, who cash in by supporting both sides in conflict, simply gaining riches and easily growing more wealthy by charging interest on loans, provided to governments in order to pay for said distributed weapons, balanced by accumulating money collected by means of imposing taxes.** Yet in the end, all of us, none excluded, become the victims of our own malfeasance.
** Yeah! Money costs money, and lots of it, Honey!
All war equals us versus us.
War no more. Choose
peace.
Lay down all arms and
let us dance!
War out. Peace in.
More
War No More to follow
for as long as we choose to become
divided, opposed and prodded like cattle.
link up to War No More - XI
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link up to War No More - III
link up to War No More - II
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.: live lovely - love lively :.
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all text, apart from Einstein's quote:
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