Friends, I was just having a nice dinner, you know some BBQ steak with some veggies and a glass of wine or two, when suddenly it hit me. America, potentially, can control the whole world with pilot-less drones!

You laugh. Scoff at your peril! First look carefully at the photograph. Do you see the absence of cockpit? This means no humans are on board. Do you notice the recording nodule placed under where the normal cockpit would be. This nodule beams back to command headquarters everything the drone sees as it passes silently overhead. Men monitor the pictures, men who are trained to note every detail, to ferret out anything that might be a potential threat to America.

America is already using drones in Iraq, in Pakistan, in Afghanistan, in Yemen and who knows what other countries. Did you know that drones can weigh as little as 6.5 kilos up to over a 1000? They cruise at between 80 to 100 mph and can travel up to 760 kilometres and, importantly, are continuously being improved.

Did you also notice the missiles placed under either wing? In a nanosecond, those missiles can be launched and, with pinpoint accuracy, blow up a wedding party, a christening, a group of carol singers, a meeting of union officials, a political protest group, some terrorists in training, a commando group, an advancing military unit, etc.

Now the decision to launch such missiles often results in civilian deaths. They are not called corpses but ‘collateral damage’. So what! Humans are imperfect (especially when they’re blown up). Besides what’s a few Arab casualties, or Muslim casualties to many? Life is tough. You take your chances. I mean, the American authorities didn’t mean to kill innocent civilians including women and children, did they?

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Friends, according to the news this morning, the drama is Mumbai is still not over. Fighting still continues at the Taj Hotel. Numbers killed now are upwards of 130 and conjecture rages as to who is to blame.

Another distressing item on the news this morning was about Russia stepping up its missile program in response to the controversial placing of American missiles around its borders. Yes, the arms race is alive and well and Russia has already tested a new style of long range weapon with spectacular results.

Now I don’t know about you but I think the American plan to build a missile shield is extremely provocative given that, in a sane world, we should be moving in the direction of banning nuclear weapons and total disarmament. But there is a terrible irony here!

I seem to remember that, in 1962,  when Russia was going to put missiles in Cuba, right on America’s doorstep, that the world came close to having a nuclear war. If the Russians hadn’t had the maturity and commonsense to back off, we probably would have and none of us would be here today.

Yet, in 2008, here we have the Americans, who were prepared to create Armageddon to stop Russia deploying missiles on its borders, thinking it has the right to deploy its missiles in a ring around Russia’s borders without there being any repercussions. Is there not a strong element of hypocrisy here, of clear derangement?

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Reuter’s photo of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai!

Friends, doubtless you, like me, have been following the extraordinary events in India. 125 dead so far and 300 wounded and still no sign that it is going to end anytime soon.

Of course the media is filled with hysteria and Western Governments condemn strongly and the word ‘terrorist’ is being bandied about in hate-filled language. Once again the world is arbitrarily divided into the ‘goodies’ and the ‘baddies’: the ‘goodies’ being the ones who practice the right kind of religion and politics and economics and the ‘baddies’, well they’re simply evil and heathen and subhuman and uncivilized.

I guess the bottom line is that the people involved in the Mumbai attacks are indisputably human beings. They were all born the same way as we were. They were once happy, laughing children like us. So what happened? Why did they turn into killers who are prepared to die for their cause ?

The first question I would ask is: are these  terrorists really any different to those who wear uniforms and go to foreign countries and kill civilians using advanced military technology? In Iraq, a million Muslim civilians have been killed by the Americans and British during their phony invasion and subsequent occupation. What about in Palestine where Muslims are being killed and oppressed daily by the militarily powerful Jewish IDF as they have been for sixty years.

Muslims probably get tired of being killed and abused by white, capitalistic Judeo-Christians and, understandably, some want to strike back! Funny thing that. But back to Mumbai. There are a lot of possible reasons why some people in Mumbai are killing others. Continue reading →

Friends, this was a comment on Information Clearing House today. The article was by Engdahl. I thought the comment was interesting. And scary!

“People.Start stocking up on supplies.Just what you need to survive.Just like you would pack when you go camping.Think on the lines of,”What do my family and I need to survive for the next 4-6 months.” Stock up before Obama takes office.

Make sure you pack paracetamol,ammunition,torches,tents,gas cooker,rice,cans of food,plenty of water. For the ladies,plenty of sanitary items.I am serious.

If you have any money sitting in the bank,exchange it for gold.Any amount you can afford.
informer | 11.25.08 – 7:44 pm |”

It mirrors the dire thoughts of some folk who are watching the global financial crisis unfold. Could ‘informer’ be right? After all, who knows where the current situation will end? Continue reading →

“Psssst, time to repeat the lie about the sovereign Palestinian State, George!”

“God, it’s so boring, Olmert! And you know I have trouble saying Panestilian.”

Friends, the Village Idiot of world politics, George Bush, has again met with Olmert, who is stepping down from Israeli politics because of corruption allegations. Once again they both pat each other on the back and spout the now familiar lies about the eventual creation of a Palestinian State.

The bottom line is that neither America or Israel has any intention of ever allowing the creation a sovereign, separate Palestinian state. It is not in the strategic military planning of either imperialist nation and it certainly doesn’t accord with the ambitions of Israel to create a large, elitist, racist, theocratic, militarily powerful nation right in the middle of the Muslim Middle East. But such statements do tend to appease the fools who try to believe that both countries are genuine in their claims of working towards a peace settlement.

It is interesting to see the two of them together, a pair of abject failures: Bush who is held in contempt by anyone with an I.Q. over eighty and Olmert who only came to power because Sharon, the ‘Man of Peace’ blew a mental fuse (which may have been Karmic retribution). History will seriously rubbish both of them and deservedly so.

But if one is going to apportion blame for the tragedy that is befalling the Palestinians then it must be Israel that must carry the larger share. Continue reading →

The Jenin Massacre. One of many!

Friends, Israel has currently got the Gaza Strip under siege. It is starving the population there as well as depriving them of power and light and medical aid. There is talk of invading Gaza and there are those in Israel who covertly exhort their government to rid the Gaza of all Palestinians. Meanwhile, the world does nothing as it’s done for sixty years!

Elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel is removing Arabs from East Jerusalem in the middle of the night so that Jewish settlers can occupy their homes. Those so removed have no other place to live except in the street. The plan is to flood East Jerusalem with Jewish residents so that should any peace settlement occur in the future, something as unlikely as me flying like a bird tomorrow morning, Israel will get all of Jerusalem as its capital. Meanwhile, the world does nothing as it’s done for sixty years!

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Jewish settlement building continues at a fast past in spite of periodic tut-tutting from America and other pro-Israeli Western Powers. As well as taking more and more land, Israel has the population under strict military control with concrete walls and multitudes of checkpoints, tanks and soldiers. Israel, surprising, has also gained some support from the traitorous Abbas and sections of the Fatah militias and Police (Fatah, you’ll recall, lost the democratic election but refused to allow Hamas to become the elected government of the Palestinians). While Israel, aided and abetted by America, divides and conquers and steals ever more Palestinian land and demolishes more Palestinian homes, the world does nothing as it’s done for sixty years.

Israel, which was created after WW2, is a running sore which could yet bring about the end of our world given that they have indicated they will use nukes if they believe it is necessary.

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Friends, as part of my agenda to make the world a better place, for some months I’ve been recommending in my sidebar that we give up polluting cars and buy a bicycle.

Reuters, in an article today, showed off a series of items which multi-millionaires and billionaires buy and enjoy. Among the many items shown at various ‘Luxury Please” fairs was this 24-carat, gold-plated, gem-encrusted bike which can be yours for the small sum of $100,017. 60.

If you want to dazzle your friends, become the talk of the town, turn up to your next party wheeling one of these goodies. You must, of course, park it in the host’s lounge room to take away the temptation for someone from the peasantry to steal it but you must warn other guests not to put their caviar-stained fingerprints on it.

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Divisive Religious Nonsense Like This Must Be Eradicated!

Friends, it’s hard to maintain a sense of optimism at the moment given that the world appears to be collapsing around our ears. It seems that a number of things are all coming together at once, things that can only lead to one of two outcomes: the most likely being our extinction or, less likely, a whole new beginning.

One of the extinction factors is religion. After ten thousand years we humans who like to think of ourselves as intelligent, are still caught up by ridiculous theological fantasies, each brand of which is  in serious competition with the others. Even though a conference was held recently between the Catholic Church and Islamic theologians, such talk is a pretense, an illusion. Each religion is vigorously competing for souls and power. And money.

Then there is imperialism, another powerful extinction factor. For ten thousand years the idea that empires are good is still with us. America is coming to the end of its reign not because of the facts that it is being beaten by any militarily superior power but because it became too big for its boots, borrowed too much, extended itself too far and made too many foreign policy blunders. Its poor choice of leaders didn’t help either! Other nations, learning nothing from history, are now eying the world and plotting and planning how they can be the next king of the hill!

Then there is greed, another force which is pushing us towards extinction. For ten thousand years greed has been a driving force in our world both domestically and internationally. Nations have left their borders to go out and rape and pillage then bring home the goodies to fill the coffers of cretinous kings and governments. This trend has been modified somewhat in the last hundred years and now corporations, who exert huge control over many governments, do most of the raping and pillaging (along with America).

Then, as a direct result of greed, we have precipitated global warming.

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Lucky Claudia.

Friends the BBC news headlines were full of a report of an amazing windpipe transplant in Spain, one that involved the use of stem cells from the recipient herself.

Reduced to its basics, a windpipe from a dead person was washed clear of any cells. Then stem cells from the Colombian patient Claudia (which had been grown previously) were introduced to the organ and, after a few days, it was transplanted into the patient replacing her windpipe which had been damaged by tuberculosis.

The result has been wonderful and after four months no rejection of the transplanted organ took place because the woman’s own cells were in the new organ. What this means is that the sky seems to be the limit for transplants and people could eventually get a new ‘anything’! Aren’t we humans clever? I’ll start to make a list…

Alas, the news headlines also carried another story. Al Qaeda via Zawahiri apparently had a go at Obama for being a ‘house negro’. Continue reading →

Suffer Little Children…

Friends, I just concluded my morning browse of the television. During the daily parade of bad news, one item caught my attention. It was part of a documentary taken by some South Korean film makers and it showed small groups, two or three, of starving people illegally crossing from North Korea into South Korea at night in the middle of winter.

What was extraordinary was that the night-vision cameras showed people stark naked walking across the snow and into the freezing river water carrying their clothes above their heads. Once over, shivering  and shaking, they quickly dressed with the assistance of people traffickers who were waiting for them like predators. The women were spirited off to become sex workers or domestic help and the men I suppose were made to work in sweat shops.

And then, as if the Korean segment wasn’t horrific enough, another news item I saw showed mothers in Afghanistan who, in a state of poverty, were selling their children for a couple of hundred bucks each.

So first of all we have a country, North Korea, that, because of its excessive military spending, doesn’t provide sufficient food for its people. In desperation, some of its citizens flee to another country and waiting for them are human vultures who prey on the vulnerable, make them into slaves.

But that’s not the end of it, oh no! Then there are the people who visit brothels and misuse the imprisoned women or girls (who have no passports or other means of support) while others, entrepreneurs, use the free labour of the men to produce cheap goods which consumers like you and I buy.

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