.. the (effective!) action Oh, so urgently required ...
.. is another nail into our once jewel-like planet's coffin
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Preamble: Our planet is being assaulted, pillaged and plundered[1,2,3]; we are confronted and ripped-off, not by 'simply' greedy but by excessively-so, greedy beyond avarice liars, cheats and murdering thieves. The lying overwhelms the people; the psychologically-refined propaganda turns otherwise innocent people into TV-comatosed sheople®, who in turn act-out the "Monkey see, monkey do" paradigm, with attention to "Best country in the world" - "See no evil" exceptionalism, turning themselves into witless (and hopeless!) passengers. We (the honest ripped-off people) are being swamped by evil, drowned in lies, as the planet is being abandoned to burning-up, due to the threatening excess-CO2 caused climate-change catastrophe, a shocking, avoidable greedastrophe®.
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We do know the 'who,' the 'how' and the 'why;' what we don't know is two, namely Q1: How can the perpetrators be so utterly bad (suggested A: psychopaths), and Q2: Who is going to put a stop to the rot - and save our once jewel-like planet?
The 'who:' Is the mainly US M/I/C-plex, with Israel, the UK and Aus (i.e. a self-selected subset of Anglo/Judaic regimes; the wannabe hegemon, its illegitimate sprog plus the poodle with dag). Note that a change of government does not appreciably change the policies. So much for so-called 'democracy,' so much for the people's choice.
The 'how:' Is the 'Washington Consensus' with its WB & IMF instruments; keyword 'neoliberal' with its so-called 'free' markets, privatisations, down-sizing, out-sourcing and off-shoring, ending with globalisation. Note well: when all quasi-legal methods fail, the perpetrators turn to violence; see Iraq, illegal invasion morphed into brutal occupation ('murder for oil'); see the "Economic Hit Man." In extremis, they go to 'murder for spoil;' see the sadly now mostly ex-Palestine, I/J/Z-plex murder for land and water, 60+ years now and still no end in sight. (So much for that particular 'peace process.')
The 'why:' Well, we've covered that; basically, greed. Out'a all control greed, greed beyond avarice. 'They' just can't get enough.
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Intermezzo: Not only can 'they' not get enough, they cheat as well; see the current world-wide financial imbroglio, 101% created by the self-termed 'Masters of the (financial) Universe.' It wasn't enough that 'they' gave themselves almost an eternal 'free lunch' with their (otherwise worthless!) US fiat-dollar rip-off, 'backed' by oil for their double rip-off pleasure, they had to poison that well with their toxic clever-dick derivatives. Wham! The entire show may well collapse. 1929 and possibly, IMHO quite probably worse, here we come.
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Update: As if all that wasn't enough, the most recent outrage - the 'terrorist' attacks on Mumbai, which are now being referred to by some as "India's 9/11." The possibility here is, that the US will use this outrage as an excuse to attack Pakistan, as another 'brick in the wall' the US M/I/C-plex is constructing around (massively oil-possessing!) Iran. (Looping - as usual - 'they,' the US fat-cat criminals just can't get enough!)
And all the time that all this carnage/theft/murder is going on, the greedastrophe gets ever closer and more unavoidable. Idiots!
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The Enlightenment, the hope and aspiration of fair-thinking people everywhere (one might suppose), is being over-run by lying brigands, who chortle 'Economic Darwinism' as their fig-leaf for 'Law of the Jungle,' 'Might makes Right' murdering theft.
We return to Q2: Who is going to stop the rot - where are the adults?
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Ref(s):
[1] assault —n. 1 violent physical or verbal attack. [POD]
[2] pillage —v. (-ging) (also absol.) plunder, sack. —n. pillaging, esp. in war. [French piller plunder] [ibid.]
[3] plunder —v. 1 rob or steal, esp. in wartime; loot. 2 exploit (another person's or common property) for one's own profit. —n. 1 activity of plundering. 2 property so acquired. [German plündern] [ibid.]
2008/12/04
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I really shouldn't have to argue this stuff ...
.. but/and it drives me towards distraction ...
.. where's truth, where's justice, where are the adults?
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The US (regime!) is *NOT* the world's policeman.
1. Nobody asked 'em; if there is to be a world's policeman then it should be the UN - and not a crippled UN (as now), but a properly-functioning UN (as designed).
2. The US does *NOT* function as the world's policeman, rather the US rips us all (we the people everywhere, including many inside the US) off. Worse (worst!) - when the US can't rip us all off 'quasi-legally,' it goes to war (Vietnam, Iraq, all the others[1]); wherever but always in their own 'strategic interest' (decoded to mean murder for spoil).
The US calling themselves the world's police is an outright lie, what they do all the time (lie, that is - when they're not cheating us, or murdering to steal); they are 101% hypocrites - with v.slick 'PR' (decoded to mean lying propaganda).
Note #1: No one (in their right mind) starts a war - unless they think they can win. That *automatically* invokes the 'bully meme;' a perfect description of the US.
Then a Q: Where does the US fight all its wars? A: *NOT* inside the US!!
Note #2: "Invasive war" is Nuremberg-class criminality, string 'em all up!
3. Finally, if the US is sooo eff'n smart, why can't they just *BUY* their (totally obscene gas-guzzler Hummer) oil?
All one needs, to stop all war, for all time, is to have one single rule: all 'defence' forces (and their arms) *STAY HOME* (i.e. stop exporting war and/or arms). Of course, one needs an 'enforcer' for any rule (to stop the cheats); see (1) above.
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There is nothing 'smart' about criminality - unless we *ALL* decide (i.e. properly, democratically, certainly not 'sham' as currently implemented), we all decide that we really want is to return to the trees - or to the primeval-slime even, in which case I demand the right to own a gun. Many guns; BIG GUNS!
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[1] Of course, it's not only the US and Israeli regimes which are war criminals, but they are the 'prime' examples. See this:
December 4, 2008
Changing the Rules
The Syria Attack
By CONN HALLINAN
«There are a number of countries that have ignored these restrictions. The U.S., the Soviet Union, China, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Israel, South Africa, Morocco and Britain all invaded other nations without bothering to get the blessing of the Security Council, mostly because it would not have been forthcoming. Still, the philosophy of "imminent danger" did play a certain restraining role through much of the last half century. For instance, the U.S. went through the process of obtaining UN authorization for Gulf War I.»
[counterpunch/hallinan]
(My emphasis above; no UNSC 'blessing' = illegal. Hallinan usually writes for fpif.org)
Very few people, and far fewer wise ones, could claim that the world was all things considered better off for the US (+ equally ugly toadies) having illegally invaded Iraq; as good as all acknowledge that the entire war was deliberately based on complete and utter premeditated fabrications - i.e. outright filthy lies, except of course for the 'real,' 'secret' reasons, namely murdering for oil-theft and throwing a few bones to the Israel Lobby. For sure, an ugly tyrant is gone, but the number of US soldier-fatalities alone exceeds the total 9/11 dead (and Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 anyway - but that didn't stop GWBush&Co playing on the (non!) association); 1mio+ Iraqis are dead, around 2mio are internally displaced and 2mio more have fled. Not to mention the obscene $-cost, which the US has largely gone ever-deeper into debt for.
My problem (looping, as usual) is that I just don't understand why the rest of the world 'allows' the US (and 'side-kick' Israel, the tail that often manages to wag the dog) - to be sooo bad, sooo utterly criminal.
More looping: where are the adults?
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