What The World Needs Most…

IS NOT:

more weapons, more cars, more televisions, more shares, more wars, more corporations, more clerics, more pharmaceuticals, more breast implants, more politicians, more sport, more sexual deviancy, more space exploration, more porno movies, more violent video games, more banks, more lawyers, more drugs, more conceit, more childcare centres, more nightclubs, more prostitutes, more mines, more oil,  more newspapers, more shockjocks, more policemen, more psychologists, more chemists, more supermarkets…

What the world really desperately needs is lots and lots more…

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Media Monopolies – Bad News!

Friends, we have a Federal Election going on in Australia and the media is on fire as they carry the latest poll results, the latest gossip and all the gaffes. Those who comment on politics are having a field day and many of them, filled with conceit, actually tell their viewers and readers what to think.

I don’t know about where you live but in my country the media, in the main, is owned by Media Barons amongst whom Rupert Murdoch is prominent (as  is the Packer Empire). Murdoch owns many newspapers and has interests in television as well so it’s difficult to avoid the bias that he brings. What bias, you ask?

Well obviously, Murdoch is primarily a businessman and, as such, his main preoccupation is profit and to achieve that he has media bases all around the world (much like America has military bases). So what, you say! It’s a free world.

Let me urge you to forget the old idea that the media should be presenting the facts and allowing the readers or viewers to make up their own  mind about issues. That time has long gone!

No, as a businessman, Murdoch and other Media Barons want to see elected a pro-business party because they know they will make more money if such a government is in power. As well, such a party will have a sympathetic ear to lobbyists from large corporations be they in media, mining, tobacco, making armaments, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, etc,. And such a party will typically favour lower taxes for businesses and the rich.

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U.S. Attends First Memorial.

They might as well have sent the office boy!

Friends, for the first time, the U.S. has sent a representative to the Hiroshima memorial service held for the 140,000+ civilians killed when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city in 1945.

They sent the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, John Roos, who, in the political hierarchy of America, is a minor player. The photograph shows him, in his ill-fitting suit, standing alone among the Japanese. He looks like an undertaker.

65 years have passed and, scandalously, those who developed and dropped the bomb have hitherto refused to acknowledge their terrible deed and its ramifications.

Ironically, in a few days time, another service will be held for those who died in Nagasaki when another atomic bomb, one using a different mechanism which the military was anxious to test, was dropped there. Over 60,000+ died in that attack (although accurate figures, as with Hiroshima, are difficult to find given that many people were vaporized).

Of course, those who were killed initially do not take into account those who died later from burns or radioactivity and it takes no account of the deformed births that resulted from the twin bombings decades later.

“For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realize a world without nuclear weapons,” U.S. Ambassador John Roos said in a bland statement.

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Guest Post.

And The Beat Goes On!

An injured Lebanese soldier being rushed to hospital!

In Karachi, the city is locked down!

Friends, four news items from Reuters and Al Jazeera caught my attention today. One was the flare up on the Israeli-Lebanon border which claimed a number of lives including one Israeli officer, one journalist and three Lebanese soldiers. Others were wounded.

It seems that the Israelis cut down a tree which the Lebanese claim was on their side of the border. Shelling began, and before long a firefight was in progress. Each side blamed the other.

The U.N. and the U.S. are urging restraint but the situation is potentially volatile. Worryingly, this incident, unusually, was between the Lebanese Army and Israel. Hezbollah wasn’t involved.

Another incident I noted was the killing of 45 people and the wounding of over a 100 others in Karachi in Pakistan by gunmen who raged through the capital. The army had to be brought in to lock-down the city and ensure that people remained at home. The gunmen, who came from various militias, were protesting the death of a politician who they supported.

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An Eye For An Eye? Forget it!

This was the extent of the damage when a Hamas rocket hit Ashkelon.

Israeli retaliation killed a Hamas Commander and wounded many.

Issa Batran, a rocket maker, was blown to pieces when the IDF paid him a visit and fired a missile at his caravan. His crime? A rocket was fired into Israel which broke some glass, damaged a couple of vehicles, but injured no one.

The Israelis, while they were assassinating Issa, also used their American warplanes to fire at a Hamas training camp and some smuggling tunnels injuring other Palestinians.

Friends, Issa Batran was an unlucky man. First of all, he was born a Palestinian. Next, he lived his whole life under brutal Israeli occupation and/or siege.

Then, when Israel carried out its genocide on Gaza the Xmas before last, the IDF killed his wife and all his children along with more than 1,400 other Palestinians (the IDF lost only 9 soldiers). Perhaps that’s what motivated Issa to fire a rocket at Israel. Perhaps he was also upset that Gaza is still under siege. We will never know the true reason.

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Is This The Last Post?

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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The U.S. – Still Funding Wars And Telling Lies!

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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Let’s Have Some Lovely Wars!

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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Time We Returned To The Caves!

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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