What Does Palin Prove?

Poster girl or President?

Friends, on television I just watched an enthusiastic crowd adoring Sarah Palin. It seems she is the darling of the Republicans, the very ones that elected George Bush twice!

As I watched her, she was asked whether or not she would consider standing for President. She indicated she would if the American people wanted her and her family of Todds approved. She grinned at the camera and, her face alight, she laughed and laughed and hooted while the crowd went crazy.

Friends, I was shaken. Visibly. I thought to myself: self, what does this mean for America, for the world? What does it mean for democracy? After several stiff drinks I came to the conclusion that this possibility of Palin as President has dire implications for 6.5 billion people.

Now you may think I’ve been too hasty, that perhaps I have something against women, or something against Conservatives. But no, I haven’t, well nothing against women anyway.  But just imagine what Sarah Palin would do if she got hold of the reins of the most powerful military nation in the world?

Well for starters, she would probably do the same as Obomber does: do as she was told by the vested interests. Perhaps she might do it with more enthusiasm, might elevate businesses into the realms of holiness, might force everyone to go to Church on Sunday, might decide that markets are next to Godliness, might decide that all ‘terrists’ should be ‘disappeared’ using nukes. She might, but my concerns are much deeper.

If she was to be elected, she an ignoramus, an ex-sport journalist, a shootin’, tootin’, fishin’ soccer Mum who knows nothing, it would prove to me that democracy doesn’t and can’t work!

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Caesar Cometh To Australia!

All Bow To Caesar. Lower!

Friends, the news is out. Caesar Obama is coming to our country. P.M. Rudd made the announcement and you would’ve thought he was announcing the Second Coming! Prime Minister Rudd will lap up the photo ops and, for a few days, believe that he walks on water all the time!

Already the MSM is in a tizzy and, in Government circles, politicians are practicing to doff their caps or curtsy or grovel to the dark-skinned potentate from America, the ‘greatest nation in the history of the World’ (at least according to Americans).

Yes, Aussie pollies think that the arrival of Obama brings great credit to Australia and to them as the elected representatives. All it does is to show to the world that Australia, or at least its government, is another arse-licking country that does whatever America demands. The U.K., the NATO countries, also fall into line when the U.S. cracks the whip as does the U.N., etc.

When I was a child, the British Empire was still in existence and I remember lining up along the side of the road to see her Majesty passing by. I waved a flag, a British flag, and thought that I would faint from seeing such a symbol of military power.

Since then, Australia has swapped allegiances somewhat. We still defer to Britain on occasion but the U.S. has taken the place of Britain, at least in the minds of many. But, fortunately, there has been a significant change in me.

I will not faint at the sight of Obama. I would be more likely to hurl a house brick at him and make offensive signs and boo and hiss.

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The War Drums Beat Louder!

I prefer edible mushrooms, don’t you?

Friends, correct me if I’m imagining things but has there been an escalation in the anti-Iran rhetoric over the last  month or so? Has it become ever more frantic, ever more illogical, ever more untruthful?

It reminds me of the period prior to the invasion of Iraq when we in Australia were being told by our political leaders that Saddam could launch a nuclear-armed missile at Australia and that Iraq had all manner of Weapons of Mass Destruction that could threaten the world.

It was a period when Colin Powell went to the U.N. and told all manner of preposterous lies and we were shown all manner of dubious graphics and we were told that 9/11 and Saddam were intimately connected.

The U.S., either motivated by its own imperial ambitions and/or prodded along by its Zionist manipulators, is talking the same talk as it did prior to its Shock and Awe attack on Bagdad. Its talk is designed to frighten people across the world, to elevate Armadinejad into a Saddam-like monster, to convince us that Iranians have two heads and drink the blood of babies, and to  make out that Iran threatens the survival of the whole world. Why it’s even deployed more missiles in the region recently, ones designed to shoot down Iranian missiles should they be fired, it says.

Of course, if we look at Iraq and what was achieved there, we already know that the American method of solving world problems (bomb, bomb, bomb) achieves nothing except to make lots of money for the  U.S. armament and munitions manufacturers and to give America more places to put its army bases and more access to oil and other resources. That Iraq is now a chaotic mess, worries the Yanks not at all!

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The World Is Awash With Weapons!

Have gun. Will use!

Friends, the U.S. has just concluded an arms deal with Taiwan. It is selling the Chinese folk on the small island off the China coast 6.5 billion dollars of weaponry.

Now, understandably, the Chinese are upset because they see Taiwan as belonging to it and hope that one day Taiwan and China will become one again.

The Chinese see America up to its usual tricks: causing trouble, upsetting the balance of power between nations, sticking its nose in where it doesn’t belong, etc. It has threatened major retaliation against the U.S. but not that of military retaliation, at least not yet.

I seem to remember that the U.S. almost brought the world to its end when Russia tried to bring missiles to Cuba. The American position was that no country would be allowed to bring anything to Cuba that might threaten the States.

Of course, Russia is ringed by American ballistic missiles but that’s different! And China now has a better armed Taiwan sitting close to its mainland thanks to America. And Venezuela now has American troops occupying Haiti. And Pakistan has American drones filling its skies. And Yemen has cruise missiles landing on its soil, thanks to America. And Iraq and Pakistan, both of which are close to Russia, have a strong American presence.

America has one set of rules for itself and the opposite set for other nations. But the point of this post is not to deal just with America.

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Tony ‘I Have No Regrets’ Blair.

The Brits take a break from the killing!

Friends, as you would know, Tony Blair, ex-Prime Minister of Britain, has been appearing before an inquiry into the Iraq War.

He has been appearing before a committee chaired by Sir J. Chilcott, one that seeks to examine the reasons why Britain got involved in Bush’s determination to invade Iraq.

During the six hour appearance, Blair presented a confident, some even said ’smug’ air, and showed that he is a consummate politician, one very skilled in deception and evasion. As he left the inquiry he said, “I have no regrets.”

Of course, even though the WMDs, which were supposed to be the basis of the invasion, were shown not to have existed, Blair stubbornly maintained that Saddam posed a threat to the whole world and, if he hadn’t been deposed, the dictator eventually would’ve threatened every nation in the world with nukes.

Of course, this is complete bullshit!

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Have You Heard Of The Holocaust?

Friends, Reuters carried information about the commemoration of the Holocaust today by many nations.

Now I know you are asking yourself which Holocaust they are referring to. Was it the Holocaust that took place during WW1 when millions perished in the mud on the Western Front? Was it the millions of Russians who were killed while driving the Germans back from the gates of Stalingrad?

Was it the number of European citizens killed by the Germans as they over ran Europe? Was it the holocaust caused by Pol Pot, one which killed millions of Cambodian citizens?  Did it refer to the use of atomic bombs on the Japanese citizens by the Americans? What about the Holocausts carried out by Stalin and Mao which killed millions? The answer is no!

To most people the Holocaust, which surely must be the most used word in the English language, only refers to the number of Jews killed by the Germans during WW2. Why this narrow use of the word?

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Has The U.S. Gone Completely Insane?

Will this scene be repeated in the U.S. shortly?

Will the surname be: Morgan, Bush, Clinton, Rockefeller, Rothchild,

Murdoch, Gates, Sharon,  Beck, O’reilly, Robertson?

Friends, as if the election of Brown within a year of the disappearance of George W., the Village Idiot, wasn’t enough, now the Supreme Court in America has given the corporate world open slather regarding donations for Presidential and Senate-Congress elections.

Obama, quite rightly, has told the citizens of the U.S. that democracy itself has been undermined by this. How right he is! “This ruling opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money into our democracy,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.

“It gives the special interest lobbyists new leverage to spend millions on advertising to persuade elected officials to vote their way — or to punish those who don’t. This ruling strikes at democracy itself,” Obama said, according to Reuters.

In the ruling, the court’s conservative majority said the previous limits had violated corporations’ constitutional right to free speech. What garbage!

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An Unfortunate Evolution!

This evolved into…

This!

Friends, as a teenager I had a real zest for reading tales of the American Wild West. I just loved the predictable stories of courage, of the battle between good and evil, of the eventual triumph of love and compassion over  greed and skulduggery, the triumph of  the little principled man over those with murder in their hearts.

Gunslingers usually came in two varieties: those to whom no deed was too dark and those who had a few nuggets of goodness and softness sewn into their hearts that eventually caught the undying love of the blond, blue-eyed heroine.

The plots were always much the same: stranger wearing two six guns rides into a conflicted town that had either a crooked Sheriff or a greedy Cattle Baron who was trying to grab hold of all the good land in the area. Or both.

Beautiful widow sees stranger and spurns him as a ‘worthless killer.’  Then a shoot out in the saloon results in the stranger killing the Baron’s drunken son. The stranger rides off but happens to ends up at the widow’s ranch house just as the wicked Cattle Baron is trying to burn it down…

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What Price American Help?

A Haitian boy watches America’s finest take over the Royal Palace.

Friends, the Americans have arrived in Haiti in force.

More than 11,000 15,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground, on ships offshore or en route.

One can only wonder just what has brought them to the disaster zone in such numbers so quickly.

Are the Yanks simply filled with the milk of human kindness or do they see another opportunity to seize another potential military base, one close to Venezuela?

Time will tell though the bars may be symbolic.

Any bets?