a subjective review of the state of the global world using a plant growth analogy. If you like it please post it on.
it seems to me life are like plants growing. 10% of them receive most of the light and water (money and oil) while The rest get very little drip down effect even in rain storms and sunny days.
To my mind its a garden doomed to fail because with so many sick, impoverished and dying plants its just a matter of time before the top 10% die of diseases transmitted by holiday globe trotters.
i figure the main plants competing for the same resources are The E.U, China, India , the USA and Russia.it seems that there is a bit of a blockage in the water!oil) supply to western countries with main pipeline problems in the Georgia/chetnia region as well as with the Arab controlled pipelines.
some people view the earth as an organism of itself with us as just inessential plants able to adapt to its conditions. perhaps the earth has environmental feedback mechanisms that can get rid of any plants (some say like us) that threatens to choke the whole system.
some years ago i did an environmental study course and one section dealt with energy consumption and resources with very scary implications.
the bottom line was the earth does not have energy resources able to meet the demand of billions more people consuming energy at western population rates. Apparently president Bush wants a mainstream alternative to oil within the next ten years !
meanwhile we have the bin laden pest as well and he seems to have got a lot bigger since 9/11
for example he now has Iraq as a training and combat area to add to Afghanistan (apparently back in full scale drug production now that the tallaban have sort of disappeared. Somehow he has managed to globalise the war very well although i think there have been a lot of home goals scored (its English football analogy where team member kicks the ball into his own team goal :( no smiley)
At my local level their was a political revolution in Coventry city in the June elections with the labour council getting kicked out after donkeys years in power. All three councillors in my part of the city have been replaced by the liberal party and at a national level the labour party is now the smallest local government partly.
none talks very much about it but you get the feeling that Mr Blair (UK prime minister) is a dead man walking till the next general election.
my main 3 biggest UK gripes are as follows
Mr Straw and Blunket (top Government Ministers) talking(and doing) about taking our rights away to the right to trail by jury, secured for us by the rebellion that led to king john being forced to sign the magna Carter centuries ago. (in the name of the fight against terrorism )
sending UK/EU citizens to the USA on request and without evidence against them.(in the name of the fight against terrorism )
the latest law Mr Blair and ministers say they want to pass is a law giving the government the right to lock you up if they think you are a danger to yourself or the public.(in the name of the fight against terrorism ). In practice its a neat way of shutting outspoken people up who want to say it as they see it. or because they are eccentric /bohemian or living unusual lifestyles within a peticular cultural community. (normal in one culture is abnormal in another.
it seems to me that bin laden himself could not have orchestrated such responses to the enemy that is serving him so well because from my perspective he has succeeding in turning the mindset of people like bush/ Blair into terrorising us in the process of eliminating him.
the standard of morality has dropped a lot. bush seems to have made it acceptable to kill people if they are unlucky enough to come into contact with terrorist.
we see it everyday when Americans bomb residential areas in terrorist controlled areas like falluja .
if Americans think they have dodgy characters elected to government spare a thought for us in England.
a Guy called Mandelson has been sent by Blair to a top job in The European parliament. He is popularly known as the prince of darkness who has had to resign from ministerial jobs several times for dodgy money dealings with another labour member of parliament arrested by police who subsequently found heroin in the police van that he was kept in .Mr Robinson The MP involved said the police planted it there !
The Terrorists cover a lot of confusing ground these days one day your a liberator and freedom fighter trained and supported by the USA like Bin laden and the next a terrorist that biting the hand of the USA who natured and nurtured it against the Russians in Afghanistan.
i noted Putins announcement to take the bush example as they have adopted a first pre-emptive strike policy since the school massacre and no doubt that will add to the home goal scores.
hopefully by know Mr bush is starting to realise that getting as barbaric as bin laden and company is to bin ladens advantage especially with the current practice of shooting up the natives along with those defined as terrorists.
My U Turn Proposal to at least maintain our old standard of respect for life wherever it is. (perhaps respect for life and law was just establishment propaganda and spin to camouflage the way things really are for the majority of the worlds population )
that means Iraq type action in places like Rwanda where in 1994 800,000 yes nearly one million people were butchered using machetes and the like in 100 days. i was born in buckavu a small town across lake kivu which borders rowanda in the surrounding forrest mountains are or used to be the gorillas (animals) but from what i hear the area was desimated by refugees and survivors getting firewood. the Kivu lake itself was polluted by the sheer numbers of human bodies in it.
The people who worked in the world trade centre probably do not realise they are part of an African killing process. donkeys years ago i invited a commodity speculator to a west African country to see the effects of how they make their money on peoples everyday life. photographs don't convey the feeling of an African fisherman having to go further and further out to sea because western factory fishing boats suck up the fish like a vacuum cleaner
or the father seeing his family go hungry because commodity speculators (having stockpiled) then reduce the crop price to a level that the farmer cant feed his family on.
when you meet these money people they smile and seem very nice decent people who you would think would;d be horrified at what they are doing if only they could experience how it feels. sadly human nature does not think like that. yes a 9/11 calamity produces the same emotions of grief but that does not enlighten people to think they would not wish it on my worst enemy.
russian people are not thinking wow now we know what its like to have your children killed and it feels the same no matter what your skin pigmentation is or what part of the world your body is adapted to.
sad to say seeing the twin towers come crashing down lifted my African spirit, as i very much saw it as poetic justice in a long overdue payback time. Its the feeling people who have been brutalised get. take for example Chechnya's black widows. they are called black widows because there sons ,fathers have already been killed along with 30,000 children. to me it shows how bad things must be in a population reduced to women as the only combatants left to fight. That surly says something about how desperate their situation is (Muslim or not).
Concluding lament
it does not seem like long ago when Mr Blair used to respect and act in accordance with international law and the united nations. these days we cannot take the rights fought for by our forefathers and mothers for granted.
personally i have already started to batten down my anti calamity self sufficiency hatches (nautical analogy)
i leave you with what great men have had to say
Great men talking moral standards
In John f Kennedy inaugural address speech jan20 1961 he said let the word go forth to enemy and foe alike that the torch had been passed to a new generation born this century (1900s) , tempered by war and disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. …
Unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Does not sound like the america of today does it.
In 1983 the new york govenor mario m cuomo made a passionate speech about new yorkers sleeping in the streets and old people living in fear along with a long list of things the presedent does not see from the glitter of the white house. the same speech could have been made yesterday.
Really mr Blair and bush should to lisen to these speeches againand perhaps change there mindset to that of jessi jackson when he said in 1984
If in my high moments I have done some good
Offered some service
Shared some light
Healed some wounds
Stirred some Roth of apathy and indifference or helped anybody along the way then his presidential campaign was not in vain.
Mr. Bush and Blair have had their high moments but arguably have done none of the above except make a bad situation worse.
human rights USA torture and the geneva convention
You mention the "geneva convention" kybird
BUT
You know damned well that this sub-human filth are not enemy combatants, but criminals and thugs who took up arms against their own people and US troops.
BIg Marx Media likes to pretend Aboo Grab was worse than Auschwitz but no one got their head sawed off like Nick Berg now, did they?
When will you socialists learn, your long criminal day in the red sun is over. the red sun is setting. forever. the internet has destroyed you and the opposition is mobilized.
expect war, full out war in the streets before you try to fuck over America with your commie boolshit.
As we can see from this example , is an ugly baby.
Ignorant, racist and foolish in its sycophantic running with its own herd of apologists for theft and horror. They need to be spanked and given time out. These self proclaimed 'adults' are pathetic in their childish tantrums of gimme, gimme, gimme from the public commons, which is what this is all about in any and all of its guises. §§ Worship of their real God.
Mammon.