This is the Meathook Galaxy!

This is the Spitzer Galaxy, one of an infinite number!

It’s funny, isn’t it, just how much human conceit distorts the reality of our world and our understanding of the worlds beyond.

Take the U.S. for example. It considers itself to be important. Not only does it consider itself to be important but it thinks it is so important that it should control the affairs of our whole world, that is Earth.

Now, for those who never look skywards, Earth is but one planet in one galaxy, one of infinite numbers of galaxies that extent into infinity. Infinity means, without end! Can you get your minds around that? I can’t!

Now I don’t want to stress this point but the truth is that the U.S., despite its pretensions, is no more significant in the scheme of things than a pimple on the arse of an elephant, a very, very large elephant and a very, very small pimple.

Perhaps I haven’t got it right! Despite the fondness of Americans for seeing themselves as the center of the universe, they are in fact a speck of dust on a small pimple which irritates the skin of a very, very large elephant.

No, in fact this is not correct either. Gee, how shall I put it: the truth is that, in the total scheme of things, the U.S. is a meaningless bit of dead skin caught on a dust particle which rests upon on a small pimple which has erupted on the rear quarters a very, very large elephant.

No, no, sorry! I feel I have not explained the situation properly. Let me try again. Gee, this is difficult, this question of scale and relativity.

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“Here we are in Fallujah, bringing you peace, democracy and human rights!”

“Like the Romans, we are invincible and don’t you forget it!”

“You’ll get over it, kid. You have to be cruel to be kind! God Bless America!”

Friends, the three major negative forces in our world are surely religion, capitalism and nationalism.

Religion divides people, fills their heads with phantasies about the world and some mythical after-world where you spend eternity singing hymns. Capitalism is a cunning scheme devised by the rich to exploit everyone in the world so that they can live in ultra-luxury. And nationalism is a racist, elitist belief that your country and the people in your country are superior to all others and should control the world.

In the U.S., these three negative forces combine and the result is that we have a country that claims to be Christian but kills millions, that claims to offer all its citizens an equal chance of becoming rich, yet only 1% do, and, as it engages in war after war, claims to be an advocate of peace, democracy and human rights. Yeah, right!

Now the question that can be asked: do the people who are running the U.S., the ones that promote religion, capitalism and nationalism, know that religion, capitalism and nationalism are dangerous forces which will bring our world to the brink of extinction or are they so deranged by the many phantasies that clutter their minds that they actually think that what they are doing across the world is exceptional, praiseworthy, noble and will lead to peace?

Sadly, I think the latter is the case.

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Friends, as the war clouds gather over the Middle East and the U.S. pushes on with its insane plan for full global spectrum domination, I get the feeling that I should run, that I should hide somewhere that is safe.

But the truth is that there is nowhere that is safe anymore, not in a world filled with nukes. And not in a world where the clash of civilizations (a dubious description) is reaching boiling point. The U.S., driven by phantasies about its ‘exceptionalism’ and deranged by its ‘born to rule’ mentality, won’t be happy until it attempts to control the world.

It will fail of course despite the existence of ‘Allies’ (who don’t realize that the U.S., once it has achieved its selfish aims, will swallow them too), but it will precipitate a conflict in which there will be no winners and the Earth will be irreparably damaged and largely uninhabitable.

I suppose that Australia is a relatively safe place to be, located as it is in the southern hemisphere. But if the conflict spreads from the Middle East and Russia and China are drawn into it in order to stop the U.S. and its Western Allies crushing them and squeezing them out of world markets, etc, a nuclear war in South Eastern Asia region will put Australia, an immature, unthinking American ally, right in the middle of the firestorms.

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“If I hit this ball, I’ll make another million bucks!”

“IT WAS NOT OUT!”

Friends, have you ever hit a ball over a net in a game called tennis?  I used to play it a lot even though I wasn’t much good. It is a good game with physical contact kept to a minimum (unless your opponent enters your side of the court and dongs you one!)

While I was watching the tournament called The Australian Open which is on at the moment, I happened to note some earning details which almost blew me off my chair.

Did you realize that Federer earned 47 million dollars LAST YEAR from playing in tournaments and exhibition matches and his endorsements of all manner of products and he’s not even No1?

Nadal, last year, earned a measly 31 million dollars for his efforts on and off the court, a sum not to be sniffed at surely.

Djokovic only earned 18 million dollars for the year which puts him well behind the Russian woman Sharapova who earned 25 million for running around the court and looking beautiful and putting her name on certain merchandise.

Friends, these are massive amounts of money to earn for being able to hit a rubber ball over a net, in some cases while shrieking like a banshee each time you hit the ball! You don’t have to be bright! You don’t even have to be well educated.

Why, even our Prime Minister, though she is paltry failure, only earns just under 500,000 dollars per year (although she does get some good perks and has servants, etc).

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Often I wish I was a tree,

In some ways they seem to be so free.

They can’t see the cruelty of the world,

They can’t see each human dream being unfurled,

They can’t hear the cries of the oppressed,

The sounds of those dying or distressed.

They just stand there drinking in sun and rain,

They don’t cry because they feel no pain.

Should I be unfortunate enough to live life over

Let me be a tree standing in a field of clover.

Let me hold tiny birds in my leafy hands.

I’ll let small creatures nestle or even grand.

I won’t complain, not even one bit.

Just don’t let me re-live this human shit.

Now look, friends, I don’t want to be alarmist but I strongly suspect that Adolph, of Hitler fame, is not only alive but is running the White House and the Pentagon.

Now look, I know you probably think that I’ve finally tripped over the carpet, banged my head, and I’m in a coma but I beg to argue my case. I know all the evidence is circumstantial but there is so much of it that I can no longer contain myself!

Let me ask you: Which nation has most closely followed Nazi Germany since its demise in WW2? There is only nation that has wrapped itself in the Hitler mantle and set about invading and occupying most of the world! That is clearly the U.S.

Now why would the U.S. having spent from 1941 to 1945 fighting against Fascism suddenly adopt it as its raison de etre? This is me asking you this question? I know it’s a controversial question but there is no need to look so dumbfounded.

Clearly what has happened is that Hitler didn’t die in a bunker at all. He and his mistress were caught, interrogated (no, not water-boarded), then, in a strange twist of fate, taken to the U.S. (must like the Saudis were transported to their country after 9/11), and set up in a cupboard in the White House, one labelled DO NOT OPEN EXCEPT IN EMERGENCIES!

The leaders of the U.S., even in 1945, knew that Hitler was onto a good thing, that is world domination, and they wanted to ensure that Hitler’s plan would come to fruition with one small change: America would run the world, the Forth Reich if you will, and a thousand years of American Kulture would envelop the Earth.

Now I know that some of you, the more discerning ones, are scratching your heads and will be asking the question: WHAT AMERICAN KULTURE? It’s a fair question and I’m afraid I can’t answer it. Germany at one stage had a flowering Kulture and its composers, philosophers and dramatists were legion. America…, well, next question!

So after Russia went bankrupt trying to out-borrow the U.S., someone in the White House mentioned the DO NOT OPEN cupboard. Hitler was taken out still clutching Eva to his bosom (or hers depending on how you look at these things) and a President, I can’t remember which one, said loudly: “This is a market driven economy, Dolph, and it works on a ‘survival of the fittest’ ethic. We’ve fed you scraps for long enough. It’s time for you to repay us.”

Hitler, who was still blinking because of the sunlight, clicked his heels, gave a salute, and said, “Herr President. I haf only one purpose, to serve you. Would you like me to ‘Kliethanbildrufukssion‘ you?”

“We’re not into that filth,” the President admonished. “We are Christians. All we want is your help to set up an American Reich, one that will last a thousand years. We know yours didn’t last too long because of the greatness of America, but you had some good moves, for example blitzkrieg worked well, we call it shock and awe, and the gas ovens…we have cages in Gitmo, it’s less controversial but no matter. Our problem is that no one likes us. We need help! Surely, you must’ve learned from your mistakes!”

“Yes, I should’ve invaded Britain and left Russia alone. And those Japanese Frauleins bombing Pearl Cove, Gott Damen zer funny eyes!”

The rest is history at they say. Over fifty years Hitler has had many guises and many cosmetic interceptions. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, he comes and goes, but always he is there, pulling zer strings, as they say too!

So if you are wondering why the U.S. has become a NAZIS nation with ambitions to control the whole world by military force, the explanation is simple and completely obvious. Hitler is running the show with the help of Dolly of the Grossen Boobies fame, and frequent injections!

To save the world we must march on the White House, find Hitler, release him, then send him to Hollywooooood, the home of American Kulture, where he will produce war movies that show what should have happened in WW2!

And America? With Hitler gone, surely it will find its soul, discover some values, adopt Buddhism, and live in peace for a thousand years.

P.S.That is my wishful-thinking thought for today!

Christian love is Divine, it teaches

What’s yours is mine, and that

Killing others is just fine.

We do it all the time!

Friends, I know that you know that I am an atheist. But this headline fills me with fear. Why, you ask?

It’s because politics and religion are supposed to be separate with good reason. And the reason is that religion brings about a dangerous kind of absence of reason. Religion inhibits rational thought, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

But when you choose political leaders you need to be mentally acute, sharp as a tack because most politicians will take you down as quick as a biting snake, yes they will.

I believe it’s fair to say that the  minds of religious people are filled with all manner of fantasies about angels, life after death, living forever, hell and eternal damnation, sins and lists thereof, etc, and that’s only the Christian religion. If you read up on all the claims of all religions you get a cocktail of things that is enough to drive you crazy. I mean, having 72 virgins waiting for you is enough to drive most men crazy, isn’t it?

But choosing a politician is an important thing so how do you get your mind in order, get the religious component out of it? Can scrambled eggs be unscrambled?

Well, Americans have solved the problem. They announce that they are supporting this religion-supporting politician or that hence spurning the clear separation that is supposed to separate politics and religion, praise the Lord, bring on the Rapture, hallelujah, hosannas!

It seems that the most important thing that each Presidential candidate needs to do is to appear to be more religious than all the others.

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This is one face of the U.S., the ‘we are so noble, so peace-loving, so altruistic, so caring, so committed to human rights and equality and democracy’ one!

This is the other! “Buddy, you ought to see what we do when no one is looking!”

Friends, when I wrote the last post, I was struck by the gross symbolism of the photograph, how it seemed to convey much more than four sick marines desecrating the bodies of three dead Taliban fighters who were killed trying to protect their country from American imperialism.

Then, this morning, on Anti-War, I noticed an article by Arthur Silber, a well-known American commentator and, at its end, it finished with these words.

The rulers of the United States piss on you, and on every other human being on Earth not favored by privilege and power.

The link to his article, which makes powerful reading, can be found at the end of this post and obviously I recommend that everyone reads it. It is a strong indictment of the U.S. and everything it stands for.

The article stresses that the Rulers of the U.S. care about nothing or no one, not even America citizens. The only people who count in their estimation are Americans who hold power, wealth and privilege and their counterparts elsewhere in the West.

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Friends, this photograph says more about the U.S. than a million words could ever do. It show four American marines urinating on the corpses of three dead Taliban fighters which is a crime.

Now you might say this is nothing more than some soldiers letting off steam, just treating the enemy with contempt. But it is far more than that. What is on display is the American attitude to anyone or anything that gets in their imperial road.

It shows American contempt for non-Americans, for those who disagree with American ‘values’ and American ‘ambitions’ and American ‘interests’. That Australia is closely allied with the U.S. I find deeply offensive.

I am in league with many Americans who are horrified by what their country is doing, by its warmongering, its insatiable killing and destruction, by its greed, by its arrogance and conceit.

Dare I say it, the filthy, disgusting, sordid act shown above which, I am sure, is only one of many things that have taken place in Iraq and Afghanistan (and most other theaters of war) puts the icing on the cake for me.

Only the video of the helicopter crew mowing down Iraqi civilians comes close to this or perhaps the torture of naked Iraqis in Abu Ghraib with that dumb female smiling as if torturing was such fun or the cages in Guantanamo!

Friends, by their works ye shall know them! The world should be fully aware of what Americans are by now under their current ‘leadership’. There is plenty of evidence for those who want to seek it out.

And it proves that the U.S. must never be allowed to control the world, not under any circumstances!

P.S. Why not consider joining PEACE? Read the Charter first.

“My God is better than yours, Ron!”

“I’ll hit you with my walking stick if you let me up!”

There are three people here, two of them trying to kill each other. The Referee is keeping close watch on proceedings following the Guillotine Choke.

Yes, friends, in the race to be the world’s most powerful man, it seems that we have two practicing Mormons, Romney and Huntsman (though I’m not sure whether that means they have multiple wives or not), and a Capitalist (Paul) who thinks that markets should rule the world (despite the mess that the world is in financially because of markets and Capitalism).

Yes, these three worthies are locked in battle to see which of them should oppose Obama, the glib lawyer who promised far more and delivered far less than Jesus has (thus far).

Yes, the world is agog with the spectacle of Americans going ga-ga over the contenders. We have seen them in debate and addressing selected audiences, a largely yawning spectacle indeed. All that is left is to see them in cage-combat, their faces contorted, their blood flowing as they apply choker-holds to their opposition.

Now look, let me state at the outset that I really don’t think Ron Paul should get into the cage. He’s too old. He might think he’s a budgerigar.

And the other two are just as likely to hold a prayer meeting and speak as George Bush used to, to their Mormon God, in the middle of a spine-breaker ankle throw, one perfected by the Ancient Aztecs during an erotic virility celebration.

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