I was disappointed to read in one of the regular mailings I get from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade about a sponsorship tie up between the New Scientist magazine and companies like Shell and British Aerospace (BAE).
New Scientist is a reputable journal so how it thinks that its reputation is enhanced by accepting such support goodness knows.
Shell has a bad record globally and indeed we supported the campaign to oppose its exploitation of the community in North Mayo. BAe also have a chequered record supplying weapons to despotic regimes and closer to home wanting to wipe out a fair proportion of the avian (gull population) of the Ribble estuary. RSPB who fought a case against them eventually won in the Court of Appeal (link);
http://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/…/ribble-estuary-gulls-sa…
CAATs information on this deal with the devils can be found at this link so please take time to look and if possible sign their petition – I have:
https://www.caat.org.uk/get-involv…/…/petition/new-scientist
Bernard Moffatt
pp Celtic League Military Monitoring
03/10/17
