Am I just tilting at windmills now?

Friends, I have been running this blog (and Seeking Utopia before it) for a long, long time. It is obvious to me that, based on visits, comments and page views, interest in this blog has been steadily declining.

Whether it has to do with the growth of Facebook and Twitter I don’t know. Whether it has to do with me losing my edge, I don’t know. Perhaps it has to do with my atheism or my hard-hitting revelations about America. Perhaps people are just too busy trying to survive the current economic disaster to spend time reading blogs and writing comments. Perhaps it’s just there are better blogs than mine or perhaps mine has simply reached its use-by date.

Anyway, whatever the reason or reasons, I am not going to wait for the time to arrive when I am writing posts for two or three occasional visitors.

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They slaughtered the Indians. They fought the British and the French.

Then the Americans turned on each other. (see above)

Now they initiate wars everywhere.

Friends, we have some news today which needs discussion. First of all, the Wikileaks exposure via some major newspapers show clearly that things in Afghanistan are not what we have been led to believe. In fact, the truth is that the U.S. has been lying through its teeth. What do they say: Truth is the first casualty of war!

I’m sure you’ve been following the Wikileaks story and admired the bravery of Julian Assange who, putting himself in danger, released 91,000 U.S. military reports that show that war crimes have been committed in Afghanistan and things are not going as well as claimed. Surprise, surprise!

The reports detailed allegations that U.S. forces sought to cover up civilian deaths in Afghanistan and described American concerns that Pakistan secretly aided Taliban militants even as it accepted billions of dollars in U.S. aid. What a tangled web we weave, eh?

The next piece of news concerns the approval of $37 billion dollars by Congress for the Afghan war effort.

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This could be you! Don’t miss out on all the fun.

Friends, the thought struck me the other day that Australia is a nothing nation. Sure, we are good at sport and we have kangaroos but other that that we’re small cheese in the world hierarchy.

I looked around at other nations for some guide as to what to do, especially at the world’s leading nation. As a result I came to the conclusion that the way to move up in the world pecking order is to put together a large army then wage war on foreign countries, especially those that have scarce resources.

What follows are some recommendations which will help to get Australia out of its embarrassing minor status and into the big league.

PREPARING AUSTRALIA FOR WAR.

There are several things we must do quickly. First we must get our fun-loving, beer-drinking citizens to think that war is good, that war is necessary, that Australia is a bonfire on the hill.

We need to start in kindergarten, show war movies with John Wayne and Arnie the Terminator in them, get children to stop their play and understand that war is good, that war is necessary, that there exist Evil Nations that envy our lifestyle and want to take it from us and that we have to smash them, quickly reduce their lands to rubble.

As the work begins with children, we need to run a parallel course for adults, show the same movies to them, make violent video games free, introduce knuckle dusters into all football codes, perhaps even clubs so that the oval is splashed with blood and the people scream for more as they once did in Ancient Rome.

Then we need to turn most of our manufacturing industries into armament manufacturers. To hell with making cars and tennis racquets! What are we? Wussies!

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Friends, I’ve finally worked out what is wrong with the human race. The problem: evolution has let us down!

We have have been evolving over hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of years. How do I know? Well, we have lost much of the hair we used to have, our heads have become more rounded (and, for some, bigger), our tails have fallen off, we have become taller, and our male genitalia has increased in size from that of the Great Apes and females have developed larger breasts.

But what about our intelligence? Has it kept pace with our physical development? The answer is clearly NO!

Now it is obvious that we do have a twisted, sick type of technical intelligence. It has enabled us to build nuclear bombs enough to blow up a universe or two, rockets that can hit a small target on the other side of the world, satellites that spy on every nation, depleted uranium explosives that keep on keeping on, germs that can wipe out the human race, chemicals that do terrible things to peoples’ eyes, skin and lungs, fighter jets that can break the sound barrier and take off vertically, submarines that are nuclear powered, etc. Aren’t we clever?

The answer is clearly, NO! We haven’t got enough intelligence to work out how to stop wars, how to live together in peace, or how to stop destroying our world.

So what is the answer to this paradox? It’s obvious. We need to return to our roots.

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Friends, I’d like you to meet Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller.

Who is she, you ask? You may be surprised to know that she was the head of MI5 in the U.K. from 2002 to 2007. Obviously she is a bright lady who knows lots of things.

Why do I think a post about her is important? Well, she is currently involved in a U.K.  inquiry into the Iraq War which the U.S., the U.K. and Australia were involved in. According to Al Jazeera, during the course of the inquiry, she said:

“There was a lack of evidence linking Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader, to the September 11 attacks in the US.”

“Arguably we gave Osama bin Laden his Iraqi jihad, so that he was able to move into Iraq in a way that he was not before.”

“Undoubtedly the war increased the threat [of domestic attacks in the U.K.], and by 2004 we were pretty well swamped”.

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This man has a job which he really enjoys!

Friends, the Federal election is up and running in Australia. It will be held on August 21st.

The leaders of the two main parties have come out with their vacuous slogans and promises rain down on us like confetti at a lavish wedding. One of the parties is concentrating on pushing how important it is to work hard to get a good education (which they’ll provide) so you can end up with a good, well-paid job (which they’ll guarantee) and a big house and a ritzy car.

Now this is a commonly held view in many Western countries. It is the basic foundation stone of capitalism which relies on having skilled workers who earn lots of money so they can buy the goods and services which capitalism produces. And if you don’t have the money, the considerate capitalists will provide you with unlimited credit. This means that those who control the capitalist system can skim off lots of money from the hardworking producers and consumers so that they can live in lavish harbour-side mansions and own private jets.

Now, in this time of financial crisis, a child starts off a four or five attending school. Then it moves to secondary and perhaps tertiary education, then, eventually gets a job and is encouraged to try to get to the top.

At the other end of the cycle, because of the financial crisis, the working life is now being extended with talk of people working until they are 70 and over. This means that people spend most of their lives working (assuming there are jobs available). 4 to 70 is 66 years! It doesn’t leave a lot of time for other activities, does it?

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These little people don’t know about hatred, greed and killing yet!

Reuters reports that Fidel Castro’s sudden re-emergence after four years in seclusion has raised questions about what it all means.

But Reuters say his message has been consistent. Fidel said: “A devastating war is at hand if the United States, in alliance with Israel, tries to enforce international sanctions against Iran for its nuclear activities.” He has also predicted the United States will attack North Korea.

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Friends, there is a new term that I have coined. That is called ‘Americanism’. If you want to know what it means, just study the map shown above.

On the map, light green shows where America has stationed 1,000 or more troops. The mid-green shows where there are more than 100, while the purple shows where America has full use of military facilities.

O.K. you can say that there is still a lot of grey where America has no control. But the key point is to look at the strategic spread. Given the fact that America also has navies spread across the world’s oceans, there is no part of the world which American armed forces can’t reach quickly and effectively.

And of course, American missiles are stationed everywhere, ones with nuclear warheads which can also reach most places.

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Each morning, at dawn, the sun rises heralding a new day and, potentially, a new beginning.

Yet, all too often, each day is just a replica of those that have gone before.

Why not make your next dawn the start of something new?

Ecstatic Spanish supporters celebrate Spain’s World Cup Win!

In Uganda, 72 people watching the final game were blown up!

Friends, life is full of ironies, of extremes. The top picture shows the rapture of Spanish fans as their team clinched the title of the best footballing nation in the world. Look at the faces, the joy, the unbridled excitement.

I did not choose a picture of the carnage that resulted from the suicide bombing in Uganda. You can draw your own mental pictures of what it might’ve looked like, the charred, dismembered bodies of those who, with friends, were happily and innocently watching the Cup Final.

The people who carried out this massacre in Uganda are Islamic extremists. Under different names, they operate all over the Middle East and blowing up innocent people, men, women and children, is their specialty. They try to foment fear, try to punish people who don’t embrace an extreme brand of Islam, the kind that allows the stoning of women who are alleged to have committed adultery, the kind that keeps women in servitude, in bondage. I condemn them strongly.

But then, as you know, I have no time for brutal extremists of any kind. I don’t care if they are Christian, Judaic, Islamic, Hindu, Anarchists, who cares! They are scum who are deranged by their twisted convictions, scum who believe that the ends always justify the means.

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