photo-images of me from around the world ...

Hello everybody:

A number of folkz have requested that I post some world photo-images

of myself ... So, here I've uploaded -- for the first time on my blog --

five images taken of me in North Korea, South Africa, and China ...

Please enjoy!! Do remember these images are also

copyrighted by Alex Albion, 2oo7 ...

Me at North Korea's Kim Jong Il Statue at Pongyang

South Africa's Capetown street kids and me having a joke!

Me at V+A Waterfront, Capetown, South Africa.

Me at the North Korea/South Korea Demilitarized Zone

Me at The Great Wall of China ...
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KILL ME IN THE MORNING

With over 1,000 to 3,000 British Bobbies surrounding and defend-

ing the 5th Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEi)

Exhibition against a tiny band of anti-arms trade protesters at

East London's Dockland, I journeyed on the Docklands Light

Railway (DLR) to Custom House to see for myself the multi-

million dollar arms exhibition.

I got as far as Royal Victoria to then get stopped dead in my

tracks. Only by invitation and security clearance could one get

inside to see and photograph all the very latest military and

combat gadgets for sale to some of the world's most murderous

governments and standing armies. Travelling on London's

DLR was a grim picture of bedecked cops standing in ever-

growing clusters the nearer we got to Custom House ... It

was like the travelling public were almost put under

police seige whether they were going to the DSEi or not.

I noticed, too, what I discernably suspected was at least three

plainclothes detectives or security agents on the train with us ...

Arms dealers and security represenatives from over 35 countries

had gathered at the ExCel Centre at where some 1,200 commercial

and combat-oriented companies had also gathered for the four-day

event that ends Friday, Sept. 14th, 2oo7. Listed as the world's

largest arms trade show, the high and mighty and ugly from

defense ministers to high-ranking army brass to military attaches

made a bee-line to the show ... Many presumably came with open

cheque books and unlimited credit to indulge themselves in buying

and acquiring the latest from the industrial military complex

and the deadly arms purveyors.

Ironically, the day was also a remarkable religious coincidence for

four of the world's major religions noting the day for its particular

faith that would not be conscious or of concern to such world mer-

chants of death on public display at London. Thus, September

13th, 2oo7, was the start of Islam's 30-day fast of Ramadan;

the mark of the Jewish New Year known as Rosh Hashanah;

the commemoration of Buddha Day by the Buddhist faithful,

and the Christian Vigil of Holy Cross Day ... When I studied

Divinity at Graduate School, I had never heard of such a

religious coincidence in any university textbook on religion.

It is very unlikely, too, that such a four-in-one event will

happen ever again all on one day in our present lifetime ...

Nor will shameless arms dealers bring peace nearer to the

world as long as such arms shows are given sanctuary and

protection and respect by our present pro-war and

pro-military British New Labour Government ...

Truly and Proundly, Monty. +Holy Cross Day, 2oo7.