“The peasants are revolting!”

Friends, last night I saw on television some interesting footage of marches and protests in Europe. Something stirred inside me, an excitement. Was I witnessing the beginning of a new, radical movement, one that showed that the worm was turning, that the people were fed up with being pawns in the hands of politicians and corporations and financial institutions?

According to Al Jazeera, the protests took place in several places with the photograph showing one in Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, where labour leaders estimated 100,000 people turned out. Police barricaded banks and shops in Brussels fearing violence.

Strikes and demonstrations over austerity measures were also held in Spain, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia, Poland, Italy, Serbia and Ireland. As well, in other nations across the world, the austerity pain is also being experienced. In America, for example, as I mentioned in a previous post, one in seven people now live below the poverty line.

It seems that the little people everywhere feel that they are unfairly carrying the full weight of measures designed to help moderate the effects of the Global Financial Crisis while those who caused the crisis receive large amounts of taxpayers money so they can maintain their immense wealth and go on to make even more.

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“Bow Down, American Citizens. Worship Our Goddess of War!”

Friends, on Anti-War.com today (see News Links) there is an article by Jason Ditz about the FBI launching raids on the homes of known American anti-war activists.

It seems in the Land of the Brave and the Home of the Free that all is not well. It seems that hating war (as I do) is now a crime and those who publically oppose it are being investigated. This involves raiding homes, taking computers and bank records, etc, anything that might prove that people who hate war might somehow be aiding and abetting ‘terrorists’, that is all those folks who oppose American imperialism.

Now, it would be a simple matter for the FBI to put information on a seized computer, fictitious information that would implicate an anti-war activist, frame them. Then it would be a simple matter to charge them, find them guilty and jail them and throw away the key so they could no longer inspire people to protest against the America war machine.

Is this what America has come to? Isn’t there supposed to be freedom of speech there? Isn’t America a democracy with a government ‘by the people, for the people’? Is Obama to become Big Brother?

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Friends, it’s with great trepidation that I write this post. It was generated by the accusation made by Ahmadinejad at the U.N. that the U.S. Government was involved not only in the destruction of the Twin Towers, but also a nearby building that also inexplicably collapsed despite the fact that no aircraft hit it.

As you would be aware, there have been a lot of questions asked since 9/11 and a lot of conjecture that the two aircraft couldn’t have caused the damage that occurred. The internet has been alive with it.  There have also been claims that there was evidence of explosives in the debris.

There have been claims that Mossad was involved as well, that they knew of the attack but said nothing, that they might have put the explosives there. I have read these reports, the many claims but I have not written about them because I was unsure just how much truth there was in them. I still don’t!

I have also, for several years, had doubts about the moon landing. My cousin first raised that issue with me and my reaction was to think he was slightly crazy. But, over the years, and having watched the footage which looks more and more unreal to me each time I see it, I become less convinced that the moon landing was real and I feel that what we saw was created in Hollywood to give the Russians a scare. Again I don’t know but I have suspicions especially after hearing that some of the black and white footage has mysteriously disappeared.

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From the Poem ‘DOVER BEACH’ by Mathew Arnold.

“Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

I believe this beautiful but sad poem, the last stanza of which is shown above, describes the human condition perfectly. I would urge you to read the whole poem which fits on one page. You can find it on Wiki!

A photograph of Dover Beach is shown above. Note the pebbles.

Cheers.

Friends, I came across this brilliant little cartoon while searching Google Images under ‘insanity.’

In a few words and a few lines, the creator has managed to capture the existential pain that many in our modern world feel.

Are we humans nothing more than economic entities, robotic producers and consumers caught in a system that robs us of our individuality, that restricts our life choices?

Why are we convinced that working in tiny cubicles in over-crowded cities so we can earn money to spend in gigantic malls then go home to eat frozen meals that are cooked in a microwave while we watch endless advertisements with bits of movies thrust in between them is a credible way for humans to spend most of their lives?

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Friends, we, the little people, live in a confusing, stressful world. Why is it so, you ask? Answer: We answer to many masters. Too many!

Who are our masters, you ask? Well for a start there is the Government. How do they control us? Well, we have to vote. We have to pay taxes. We are under pressure to serve in armies and we are constantly told that threats to our security abound and that serving your country, even dying for your country, is meritorious, heroic even.

Then there is religion. Its tentacles spread throughout most societies. People are urged to blindly obey the rules laid down by clerics who are adept at talking theo-babble and pulling the wool over peoples’ eyes and making promises they know they can’t keep.

Then there are the corporations. Contemporary capitalist society demands that we work for them and, if we do, they pay us as little as possible then urge us to go out and spend our money on the goods and services that corporations produce . Then they encourage us to borrow money if we don’t have any, to remortgage our homes to buy a car or take an overseas holiday, to do anything to keep buying, keep the failed capitalist system going, a system which provides big rewards for the corporate heavyweights and leaves the bulk of little people struggling or penniless.

Then there is the MSM which is in bed with the Government and the Corporations. The MSM is driven by the profit motive not by any real intention of presenting real news or telling us the truth. The MSM makes money by advertising the goods and services made by the corporations whether we need them or not. The MSM also encourages us to vote for parties which are pro-business and to hell with issue like climate change, social inequality, endless war, etc.

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Friends, as America collapses in slow motion, funny things are happening on their political stage. Obama is about as popular as a pork chop in a synagogue and he is urging the black community to get out and vote in the November elections and telling Democrats not to be frightened of the Tea Party movement because, eventually, they’ll all end up with dark skin like his.

Meanwhile the Republican Party, which stands for pure capitalism, free markets, small government, gun ownership, complete corporate freedom, low tax, aggressive foreign policy, and restricted welfare is divided as to which direction to head in. So who is leaping onto the Republican stage to unite the party but the ‘Barbie-doll’ ex-Governor of Alaska, Sarah ‘moose-shooting, rooting, tooting, bible-bashing’ Palin. Yeehaaaa!

Now polls taken in America do not show that currently Sarah is flavor of the month with American voters. According to Reuters, a CBS News poll on Thursday said 46 percent of American voters viewed Palin unfavorably, compared with 21 percent who have a favorable opinion of her and 33 percent who are undecided.

But, friends, we all know that the Republicans have a lot of money in their war chest and they have a lot of clout in the MSM (along with the Jews) and if the television and newspapers decide to back Palin, it won’t take long before the American public are indoctrinated to think that Sarah has been sent by God to save America.

Yeah, the feisty, attractive, intellectually mediocre sports journalist from Alaska, who is keeping a watchful eye on Russia from her house in Alaska, is ready to rise to the occasion and, like Joan of Arc, lead the Republican troops into battle astride a white stallion. She  may bare her breasts but this is unknown although rumor has it that some Repubs are harboring sensual fantasies about this happening.

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“Come to my Church, Little Ones. Have we got some surprises for you!”

The Pope, on his frequent visits to other nations, spends much of his time apologizing for the depravity that his clerics visit upon children. His is a church which includes many, many pedophiles both male and female.

The Roman Catholic Church should be investigated by the police wherever it exists in the world and those who have betrayed the trust of children and their families charged and jailed along with those who have covered up the widespread, disgusting sexual abuse of innocent children.

I don’t know how the Pope has the hide to show his face in public. And why people come out to ogle at him is a great mystery.

“By their works, ye shall know them.”

Images from ‘The Greatest Nation In The History Of The World.’

Friends, some interesting figures are out today. They show that, in 2009,  14.3% of American people are living below the poverty line. That translates to one person in seven or 43 million people.

While they starve, the U.S. continues with its ‘Endless War’ policy and continues to spend trillions of dollars supporting or escalating imperial wars on the other side of the world.

Another articles reveals that, in August, Banks foreclosed on many more properties. RealtyTrac sees a record 1.2 million repossessions this year, up from just under 1 million last year, with more than 3.2 million homes in some stage of foreclosure. This means that not only are people struggling to put a meal on the table but many Americans are also struggling to keep a roof over their heads.

Now it seems to me that allowing your own citizens to starve or become homeless while you wage unnecessary and illegal wars is rather poor form. Some might even describe it as unforgivable, even a crime.

But does that worry the American leadership or those harbingers of death who hide in the shadows in the Pentagon? Of course not! War, glorious war, motivates them, fills their every moment with a fierce joy.

After all, they are fulfilling what they foolishly believe is America’s destiny to rule the world. Who cares if Americans starve or sleep under bridges, let them suffer for the greater good.

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Friends, there is no doubt that we humans are curious creatures. The photograph above shows 5,000 naked Australians prostrate on the concrete surrounding the Sydney Opera House. They look like cooked shrimps.

I don’t know which is more curious: that 5,000 normally modest adults would take off all their clothes in front of 4,999 other people or that a photographer would  want to take a photo of 5,000 naked people supposedly in the name of art.

If you get a magnifying glass, you can make out the bodies of those in the foreground though not clearly. Yes, the human body is there in all its glory or ugliness, depending on your point of view. Genitalia, boobs, everything is on display multiplied 5,000 times.  There are fat people, skinny people, tall people, short people, athletic people, sloppy people, you name it, they’re all there.

But who wants to see them? And what kind of people want to show their bodies to everyone? Are they exhibitionists who nature generously endowed?

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