The Great Cluster F**k
The Independent has reported that RBS (that is Royal Bank of Scotland) has finally severed all ties with the manufacturers of cluster bombs. This after the same newspaper reported that they were connected to manufacturers in the first place. For those of you who don't know, a cluster bomb is either dropped from the air or ground detonated and when they explode they send out smaller munitions or 'bomblets' to cover a large area and cause maximum damage to buildings and (sadly) people in the surrounding area. A convention was signed and ratified by 108 and 60 states respectively in Dublin in 2008 that came into force in 2010 to ban the use of these weapons because of the cripplingly destructive nature of them to innocent people. It has long been known that bankers and investment companies have links with weapons manufacturers. How else would the Western World be able to accuse people of having weapons unless they actually fund/sell the weapons to them in the first pl...