…other creatures are spending their lives making the Earth more beautiful,
… and are helping to fill the air with beautiful fragrances,
…and pollinating the fruit trees and flowers so that beauty and food is everywhere,
…and such creatures also provide honey to try to sweeten the nature of brutal, greedy, destructive human predators. Alas, to no avail!
We want the owner of this beach bungalow to feel secure, don’t we?
Politicians, who are rich themselves, look after their mates!
I read somewhere the other day why war is so necessary. I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me a long time ago. I mean it makes such good sense when you have it explained to you.
War, friends, is to keep the rich people feeling secure, feeling that their millions, their mansions, their luxury motor yachts are safe and not likely to be taken from them.
Of course, it’s hard for us ordinary folk, the ones who just get along, who just survive day by day, to understand how it must feel to have so much money that we just don’t know what to spend it on. I mean, to have that kind of pressure must be difficult to endure. I mean, to have to decide whether to buy a castle in Spain or a grand Villa in Italy must be gut-wrenching. Of course, many of these wealthy people would solve the problem by buying both!
And then, on top of that quandary, to have to face the possibility that someone might take away their vast wealth is another constant worry and, of course, I don’t mean the tax man! These wealthy people have the tax situation well under control. They set up schemes in all manner of places and pay little or no tax at all.
No, I mean ‘TERRISTS’. Yes folks, the world is full of terrorists who want to take the wealth from the ultra-rich and spread it around. Have you ever heard of such a terrible notion. I mean taking the wealth from a rich person must be the cruelest thing anyone has ever thought of.
Then, to add insult to injury, giving it to the great unwashed who would just waste it feeding their children and building a home for them is inconceivable. Shock, horror!
You could be forgiven for thinking the world’s greatest problem is who Americans will elect as their next President. The television is filled with commentary about who said what to who and which male has his nose in front (of course, women don’t count in America)!
Yes, Ron Paulus, Mitt Romulus and Rick Sanitarium, some notables in the race, are strutting their stuff and defending their philandering or extremist reputations as best they can. Each one is being more religious than the others, more nationalistic than the others, more decisive than the others, in fact more everything to every voter than the others!
In the meantime, Emperor Obama continues on with his plans to take over the world and to that end he has planned a leaner, meaner army and you can’t get a meaner army than the Pentagon already has so hang onto your hats. The Romans might have had the short sword but that’s old hat when compared with drones, metal-melting, genetic-deforming, depleted uranium, napalm and phosphorus explosives and, of course, water-boarding, etc.
Actually, the Presidential coverage has had one benefit: it has taken some of the heat out of the Eurozone Crisis and just where the U.S. is up to in its invasion of the Free World. People are too busy wondering whether Ron will forget his name or speculating whether Mitt might have two or three first ladies in the White House or whether Rick will get into bed with the Gay Movement.
The Roman Empire improved things wherever they went!
The Americans destroy wherever they go and create hatred!
Friends, I wonder whether you have been to Europe and seen the evidence of Ancient Rome’s empire on your travels. If you see the Roman Baths in Bath and perhaps some of the Roman ruins still left in Turkey or aqueducts in many place, you will get some idea of the extent and influence of the Ancient Roman Empire.
But it is not only the buildings that the Roman Empire left behind, but the roads, language, laws, etc. What follows is a brief description of the legacy of Rome just to refresh your memory:
“Despite the fact that the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the year 476, it has left a lasting impact on the world that continues to this day. The basis of its power was its Armed Forces which were largely invincible and were extremely well trained and led.
But the Romans did not attempt to exterminate or crush their conquests. Once they were brought under control then Rome set about setting up proper order and also began educating and building and improving the infrastructure and local government. They were smart!
Like the Greek civilization that came before it, the Roman Empire set the stage for what would become Western civilization. The influence of Rome was so powerful that a number of states claimed to be the successor of it in the many centuries that followed its collapse. An example of this would be the Holy Roman Empire. When the Ottomans captured Constantinople in 1453, the Sultan Mehmed II made the city his capital and said that it was the throne of the Roman Empire.
In addition to Western Civilization, the Roman Empire also had a lasting effect on Eastern Civilizations. A large number of nations would borrow their legal systems from Rome, and the technology for cement was based on discoveries that were made by the Romans. Christianity was also born during the Roman Empire, and it was Rome that introduced neo-classical architecture to the world. The Romans built an advanced road system that can still be seen today, thousands of years after their initial construction. They also built aqua ducts some of which are still in use. While Western civilization today may borrow much from the Greeks, their legal system is Roman at its foundation.”
Pretty impressive, eh! Now, by way of comparison, let us document the achievements of the emerging American Empire.
“Now, look, Fellow Founding Fathers, what will we call ourselves? I suggest Americans. It sounds grand, exceptional, noble, born to rule!”
“You may have invented yourselves earlier than us, but God has been watching over us for thousands of years. We are His chosen people. Too bad, eh?”
Friends, to answer this question requires an ability to think outside the box, to rid one’s mind of all indoctrination, all the nonsense that we have been fed since birth.
To begin, let me make this point: many nations have been going for centuries, some for millennia (thousands of years)! And some others have been going for a matter of a few hundred of years and one nation, one built upon racism and elitism, has been in existence since 1947! Wow!
Now, who are these ‘Johnny come Lately’ nations and how has their emergence affected the world? Let’s take the U.S. first.
As the flood of immigrants from Europe impacted upon the Native Indians on the North American Continent, the result was not good for the local inhabitants. To cut a long story short, they were ‘genocided’ out of existence.
Yes, the ‘white trash’ that moved from Europe did not bring with them nobility or generosity. No, they brought guns and created soldiers and quickly dispatched those who quarreled with the insatiable demands of the white invaders.
Once the ‘invaders’ dispatched the Native Indians, they then went to Africa and, without a second thought, stole black Africans to work on the cotton plantations as slaves. Boy oh boy, did those black slaves get a bad time of it.
Eventually, the ‘whites’ in the North of the new nation decided that slavery was not a good look, so the white ‘riffraff’ from Europe fought a bitter civil war with each other.
The ‘Americans’ also fought against Britain and France and anyone else who dared show their face in the ‘New World’. Soon, the white ‘riffraff’ moved elsewhere in the world, anywhere there was a buck to be made.
A few hundred years later this brash, warmongering nation lays claim to being exceptional and, modestly, claims it is the greatest nation in the history of the world forgetting about India and China and Greece completely. I guess if you don’t blow your own trumpet, who will?
And all those who promote war, threaten war or consider war are the enemy.
Friends, Amerikagulag, one of our Forum members, wrote the words in the title and those above in one of his comments.
In his inimitable way he has clearly shown the reality of our current human situation and, if we go back in time, the human situation for centuries.
Indeed, all those who promote war, threaten war or consider war are the enemies of every peace-loving person on the planet whether they be individuals, groups or nations.
But it is the nations that talk about peace, that pretend they are advancing the cause of peace that are the most dangerous because there are misguided, low brain-power people who believe them.
And of course, there is one nation in particular who has turned this disgusting con-job into an art form: The United States of America!
Friends, this is a photograph of part of the Moon, one taken using special film which introduces colors that aren’t really there.
As everyone knows, the Moon is a drab place where no life exists: no flowers, no birds, no rivers, absolutely nothing.
One day, perhaps in the not too distant future, our Earth, Gaea, will look like the Moon.
Tragically, there will be two dead planets circling each other for eternity but who will know, or care?
On Earth, there will be signs of habitation by many creatures, the dominant one being mankind.
And, somewhere, amidst the ruins, a crude, hand-written sign will say:
HUMANS WUZ HERE!
STUPID GREEDY CRUEL BASTARDS!
Woman (laughing): “Get your paws off me tits, you big ape!
Son: “Are they real, Dad?”
Father: “Course not! I told you, nothing about humans is ever real!”
Son: “Can I have a feel, Dad?”
Dad: “No way! You might get silicosis.”
Son: “What’s that?”
Dad: “Shortness of breath! Heart pounding! I’ve got it already! He, he, he!”
Friends, it’s that time of the year again when I must put on my turban and peer desperately into my crystal ball hoping to catch a glimpse of what next year might hold for you and I. It is with fear that I do this.
But this year I am prepared to guarantee that my predictions will come to pass. Yes, you read it correctly! That clearly puts me ahead of Nostradamus. Let me see now, mmmm:
1. Humans, collectively, will become even more greedy and brain-dead.
2. Americans will elect a dickhead as their President.
3. Workers across the world will continue to lose more wages and conditions so that banks and billionaires can be bailed out.
4. The ultra-rich will increase their ill-gotten wealth helped by Conservative Governments.
5. Fossil fuels, thanks to the Corporate Lobby, will continue to be used despite the reality of global warming.
6. The U.S., led by Israel, will attack Iran using low-yield nukes.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the world. I’d like you to meet Mr Plum…(full name not given).
Mr Plum… is currently in jail in the U.S. on a variety of charges.
It seems that he confessed to police that he’d killed a little nine year old girl who’d been staying with him over the Xmas weekend by bashing her head in with a brick.
Then he cut her up with a hacksaw, and disposed of most of her body in a nearby dumpster.
Other body parts were later discovered in his refrigerator.
Now Mr Plum… is one of us. He is a human being like us. You say, “He’s no human being, he’s a monster, a sadistic animal…” The fact is that, biologically, he is a human, probably one that was once a lovely baby.