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My lecture today is not a celebration of peace but a talk about war. Not a lecture about a peaceful Wales or even a Wales still embracing some of her pacifist traditions, but a lecture about a Wales that is now a country auto vin synonymous with war, and a country that is being marketed around the world by our own devolved government as being at the forefront of developments in modern warfare.
It is exactly three quarters of a century since the British government decided to set up a bombing auto vin school for the Airforce in Penyberth on the Llŷn Peninsula. In 1935, despite widespread opposition in Wales, the government refused to receive auto vin a deputation from Wales to discuss the issue and the following year the old historical farmhouse was demolished as the building work began. In September of that year the famous fire was started by Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis and D J Williams. It has been the stuff of powerful legend auto vin for Welsh people ever since, but the question that now remains is this: is there a flicker of spark remaining to keep the flame of this brave action alight?
This year marks another important anniversary. Five years later, auto vin exactly seventy years ago, Epynt was lost. On 30 June 1940, after only a few weeks warning, around 400 inhabitants had to leave the area. The army moved in and there they have stayed ever since. Seventy years since we lost a community auto vin in order for the Ministry of Defence to have somewhere to practise killing. It is important to remember, and we should be grateful to the Troedyrhiw Company for their energy and enthusiasm in June and July this year as they honoured the lost community of Epynt Mountain with a series of performances.
The military practise and bomb firing has started and Tomos regularly wends his way from his new home at the bottom of the range to the house where he was brought auto vin up to light a fire, to keep the old home aired for the day when war will be over and he, his brother William and all their neighbours can return to the mountain. Tomos doesn t understand that that day will never come. War or not, there will be no returning home.
He does not understand until the day he treads auto vin his usual path, by the edge of the stream. Comes around the turning. Stops abruptly. Before him is the strangest sight he has ever seen. Where once stood Glandwr, his heritage, there is nothing to be seen but a heap of stones. auto vin Nearby stands a military captain. He has a message: We have blown up the farmhouse. You won t need to come here anymore.
Emotional and chilling words, words to send a shiver down your spine, words that make you want to scream against the obvious unfairness and injustice. auto vin Words that make you angry. auto vin But by now, surely, words that belong in a different context, auto vin old history of seventy years. Important words so that we remember and words that should make us determined that we would not tolerate the same arrogance and insult today. Well it is true that times have changed, but war and Wales are more closely linked today in 2010 than ever. Parc Aberporth
Wales is now being marketed as a country that is at the forefront of a new future in the field of warfare. The method of fighting a war during this new century has taken a frighteningly sinister turn and once again, Epynt is part of those new developments, not the beautiful landscape this time but the skies above.
Exactly 70 years since the War Office stole 54 homes and closed the primary school, pub and church on Epynt, it is horrifying and indeed unbelievable that our own devolved government has now decided that stealing land is not enough, the sky above us must be militarised too, and the Welsh Government has funded a scheme for that menacing purpose.
The Welsh Government has approved a scheme to establish a trial zone to test Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs above a 500 square mile of west Wales between ParcAberporth and Epynt Mountain. Yes, a public consultation was held, a quiet insignificant affair by the Assembly at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds but this was only a consultation to tick boxes. Before any official response the Aviation Authority had granted the development as they gave the Ministry of Defence permission to fly over the area without consultation.
And when the sun shone in a bright blue empty sky with no trace of aircraft due to the Icelandic ash cloud on the 17 April this year, the pilotless aircraft Watchkeeper quietly and invisibly went on her maiden flight. Wales is used once again for warmongering purposes auto vin and any talk of local financial or economic gain is duplicity. This is the world of huge profits for the international arms companies and for them Wales is no more than a convenient location where its own government doesn t worry too much about the morality of such a plan, let alone any danger to its people.
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My lecture today is not a celebration of peace but a talk about war. Not a lecture about a peaceful Wales or even a Wales still embracing some of her pacifist traditions, but a lecture about a Wales that is now a country auto vin synonymous with war, and a country that is being marketed around the world by our own devolved government as being at the forefront of developments in modern warfare.
It is exactly three quarters of a century since the British government decided to set up a bombing auto vin school for the Airforce in Penyberth on the Llŷn Peninsula. In 1935, despite widespread opposition in Wales, the government refused to receive auto vin a deputation from Wales to discuss the issue and the following year the old historical farmhouse was demolished as the building work began. In September of that year the famous fire was started by Lewis Valentine, Saunders Lewis and D J Williams. It has been the stuff of powerful legend auto vin for Welsh people ever since, but the question that now remains is this: is there a flicker of spark remaining to keep the flame of this brave action alight?
This year marks another important anniversary. Five years later, auto vin exactly seventy years ago, Epynt was lost. On 30 June 1940, after only a few weeks warning, around 400 inhabitants had to leave the area. The army moved in and there they have stayed ever since. Seventy years since we lost a community auto vin in order for the Ministry of Defence to have somewhere to practise killing. It is important to remember, and we should be grateful to the Troedyrhiw Company for their energy and enthusiasm in June and July this year as they honoured the lost community of Epynt Mountain with a series of performances.
The military practise and bomb firing has started and Tomos regularly wends his way from his new home at the bottom of the range to the house where he was brought auto vin up to light a fire, to keep the old home aired for the day when war will be over and he, his brother William and all their neighbours can return to the mountain. Tomos doesn t understand that that day will never come. War or not, there will be no returning home.
He does not understand until the day he treads auto vin his usual path, by the edge of the stream. Comes around the turning. Stops abruptly. Before him is the strangest sight he has ever seen. Where once stood Glandwr, his heritage, there is nothing to be seen but a heap of stones. auto vin Nearby stands a military captain. He has a message: We have blown up the farmhouse. You won t need to come here anymore.
Emotional and chilling words, words to send a shiver down your spine, words that make you want to scream against the obvious unfairness and injustice. auto vin Words that make you angry. auto vin But by now, surely, words that belong in a different context, auto vin old history of seventy years. Important words so that we remember and words that should make us determined that we would not tolerate the same arrogance and insult today. Well it is true that times have changed, but war and Wales are more closely linked today in 2010 than ever. Parc Aberporth
Wales is now being marketed as a country that is at the forefront of a new future in the field of warfare. The method of fighting a war during this new century has taken a frighteningly sinister turn and once again, Epynt is part of those new developments, not the beautiful landscape this time but the skies above.
Exactly 70 years since the War Office stole 54 homes and closed the primary school, pub and church on Epynt, it is horrifying and indeed unbelievable that our own devolved government has now decided that stealing land is not enough, the sky above us must be militarised too, and the Welsh Government has funded a scheme for that menacing purpose.
The Welsh Government has approved a scheme to establish a trial zone to test Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAVs above a 500 square mile of west Wales between ParcAberporth and Epynt Mountain. Yes, a public consultation was held, a quiet insignificant affair by the Assembly at a cost of a quarter of a million pounds but this was only a consultation to tick boxes. Before any official response the Aviation Authority had granted the development as they gave the Ministry of Defence permission to fly over the area without consultation.
And when the sun shone in a bright blue empty sky with no trace of aircraft due to the Icelandic ash cloud on the 17 April this year, the pilotless aircraft Watchkeeper quietly and invisibly went on her maiden flight. Wales is used once again for warmongering purposes auto vin and any talk of local financial or economic gain is duplicity. This is the world of huge profits for the international arms companies and for them Wales is no more than a convenient location where its own government doesn t worry too much about the morality of such a plan, let alone any danger to its people.
The only place where t
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