A Savage Monster That Preys On Children

None are as savage as those that harm children, and in this arena America has shown persistent willingness to outrival all others.

What is dealt by America to children is not limited to the savagery of infanticide or the terror dealt by a paedophile, but an American monstrosity which ensures that the child’s torment continues for longer than the seconds or minutes in which a child is killed or the minutes or hours in which a child is raped; this last for every second minute, hour, day, month year of a child’s life.

Almost 67 years after America dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese infant in those areas have a birth deformity rate of 1-2%.
But the Iraqi city of Fallujah has a birth deformity rate of 14.7%, that’s 1 out of every 6-7 births, so it’s not a wonder that young women are opting not to get pregnant.. There are other cities too, but it takes the lead.

America has found a way to make its nuclear industry more productive, by gathering it’s nuclear waste and turning it into extremely effective ammunition known by its oxymoron of “DU” Depleted Uranium Projectiles which I explained in my first blog.  

USA, as far as I know is one of 17 nations including Australia which posses DU projectiles, and Israel may have been the 1^st in about 1975. UK has them also, and they have been used in Afghanistan and by NATO in Bosnia as well.
I don’t know that we Australians are guilty of having used them, but we do export uranium and are complicit as part of the Axis of the Willing in what has been done to these people and their children so we aren’t off the hook either.

I wish I were a bit of a wordsmith to stir some concern in others, but as the facts alone aren’t evidently enough to cause a significant and effective  socio-political uprising among the citizenry of the Axis of the Willing then I guess our hearts are just too damn cold.
If you aren’t ashamed of your nation yet, I hope you one day have the opportunity to explain why to your maker.

Even though I’m an agnostic; I’d like to leave you with this bible quote,
from the King James Version.
Matthew 18:6
“But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”

Ignorance Is Bliss: The Hatred of Wisdom

I see morons all around me, walking on the streets, driving cars, the radio and tv; morons whose heads evidently hurt when subjected to information.
Which is why I've been trying to keep my bloggs shorter.

The American Psychological Association has recently published some new research and evidently they’ve only just picked up on some cues which the dismissively named ‘conspiracy theorists” have known all along to be more than theory when they brand most of the population as “sheeple” who’s unspoken life motto is “ignorance is bliss”.

“The less people know about important complex issues……  the more they want to avoid becoming well-informed”

Naturally; being an American body the complex issues they cite don’t include geopolitical power struggles.  We’d [some of us] hope that people perhaps take some interest where the issue of war and killing children or even adults is concerned.
Don’t get your hopes up; don’t be the foolish optimist.

“And the more urgent the issue, the more people want to remain unaware,”

“Philosophy”  Greek “φιλοσοφία”: φιλο : friend/love of, σοφία : wisdom

When people have been raised to think that “philosophy”  is exclusively the domain of just a few that choose it as a university topic, it’s not a wonder that “wisdom” is so removed from the sheeple.
It’s not a wonder that people can be and are lead to the slaughter or lead to slaughter others.

“participants who felt most affected by the economic recession avoided information challenging the government’s ability to manage the economy. However, they did not avoid positive information”

The average sheeple/morons that haven’t looked outside the shadows on the cave wall; actually seek out reasons to reinforce their reliance on the master.
The ignorant, seek reinforcement of their ignorance.

Perhaps these learned psychologists will over the next ten years do another study to show that sheeple  actually become defensively indignant when offered information which conflicts with their ignorant views; something which I and any “conspiracy theorist” know, and Plato described over two thousand years ago in his allegory of the cave.

Like a Thief In The Night: USA Military At Home With Night Raid Equipment

Congratulations Americans; Barack Obama has signed in the [NDAA] "National Defense Authorization Act ” H.R. 1540  in Hawaii on the 31st of December.

Even though he said that he has
"serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.”

he did seek to assure

“Moreover, I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation. My Administration will interpret section 1021 in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the Constitution, the laws of war, and all other applicable law.” 

But then again: he did sign it in; so perhaps it's you that should have  "serious reservations".

If that doesn't stir your curiosity, perhaps what I just read at theintelhub.com will. 

"According to reports from the Daily Kos and Russia Today, a company specializing in night raid equipment was awarded a 23 million dollar contract from the Department of Defense and subsequently went on to lobby for the NDAA which has given the government the power to indefinitely detain American citizens.

Surefire LLC openly lobbed for the House version of the NDAA, a bill many have claimed has effectively ended the Bill of Rights, months after receiving the 23 million dollar contact from the DOD.

Why would this company be receiving a contract which could outfit at least 30,000 troops with new and updated night raid equipment when the U.S. is supposedly pulling troops out of Iraq and, to a smaller extent, Afghanistan?"

 So your troops are coming home, and with up to 30,000 sets of brand new night raid facilitating equipments.
Obviously someone thinks they’re going to need them.

Now keep in mind that it was reported by The Washington Post Dec 2008 [that as a minimum]

“The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.”

Happy New Year!

Australian Immigration News: Australia To Recruit Foreign Troops

Well here's the long and short of it.

From http://www.migrationexpert.com/australia/visa/australian_immigration_news/2011/dec

 "The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is looking to recruit foreign personnel from New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Britain.

The ADF hopes to attract overseas soldiers, sailors and air crew as well as specialists, such as special force officers, fighter pilots and submarine warfare officers with the sweetener of a fast-tracked path to Australian citizenship."

Having [arguably] proven them selves as willing to put their lives on the line for one nation and having further proven themselves as reliable in that nations service by earning themselves a promotion..... Australia will now accept them as reliably worthy of representing Australia's interests above all others and even place them in positions of higher rank with all the trust in secrets and strategy which it entails.

Obviously a political move by those among whose ranks we know there are many who's loyalties are tainted already.
What military would accept en masse troops and officers from other armies to place in positions of trust?
And not just in positions of trust, but in positions to guide us in areas which we perceive inadequacies; men who are apparently ready and willing to switch loyalties.

We have already filled our police ranks en masse with Brits and now we do the same with our military ensuring a strengthening of our bonds and Anglo-American mindset to the denial of our independence and Australian line of thinking. 

Consistent with our colonial heritage, we don't look toward home grown individuals to fill our ranks of those in leadership and power, but we accept and embrace authority from abroad.
 "Rule Britannia".

Richard Flanagan On The Decline Of Love And Freedom In Australia

I ask of you [particularly Australians], to please, listen to this oration by Australian writer Richard Flanagan at the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival

IMO a deeply concerned compassionate blunt and moving speech centred around Australian media and political thought and actions and their betrayal and moulding of the decline in Love for others in Australia.

My appreciation of this speech is echoed in the +ve 35/37 comments on the following ABC link.
The 2 -ve comments both included criticism of a human for sentimentality.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bookshow/richard-flanagan-on-the-decline-of-love-and-freedom/3583396 

Original broadcast Thursday 15 September 2011 10:05AM, and 1st heard by me yesterday when replayed on ABC National Radio
Download 36minute mp3 with following link
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No Good Man Does Nothing and Permits Evil to Flourish

Are you one of the many people who are willing to "sell their soul", so to speak;  or, for the crumbs on their plate they are willing to go along with a nefarious plot without even concerning themselves as to their master’s intention or to the outcome.

"Evil" men don't need co-conspirators, they just need no questions to be asked.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” This often cited quote attributed to Edmund Burke is perhaps too kind. 

“Too kind” because no “good man” stands aside and permits evil to be perpetrated unhindered.

Like the many ‘hypocritical scientists the worldover’ with their “pursuits in discovering sciences and inventing technologies which end up having detrimental long term impact on society.”
Take Dr. Eric Fossum, Professor of Engineering in Dartmouth’s Thayer School, at Yale University. He’s the inventor of the CMOS imaging chip, the “camera-on-a-chip” technology which is used in cameras, web cams,, and many others of use to big brother with his ever pervasive CCTVs.

Here’s what he had to say on his feelings toward this technology he’s developed, to a group of up and coming scientists.

“You know, is that a good thing? I don’t think so. I feel like it’s an invasion of my privacy.”

“I don’t really like this application of my technology. There is nothing I can do about it, I have now unloaded that on you, so thank you.

We’ll get back to the science and technology now, but I hope you also worry about these things and I especially hope you figure out what we are gonna do about this in the future.” (time 0:20:30) — Dr. Eric Fossum, October 2011.

He wasn’t a “good man doing nothing”, he was facilitating what he recognises as a detriment to society for crumbs on his plate or possibly for mere recognition and applause.

If you are a voluntarily enlisted member of the armed forces facilitating the horrors committed against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, taken to fight and kill on trumped up charges against that nation, then as a big boy you should clearly understand by now that the master you serve is of ill intent toward these people for empire’s interests primarily, and perhaps, just perhaps, you are at best merely an ignorant “good man” permitting “evil to flourish” .

If you are a student of nuclear physics; just who exactly do you hope to serve when you graduate? A specialist in radar technology perhaps.

A good man would ask if he is permitting evil to flourish.
And that applies to all members of our so called “democratic” society who sit back and permit evil to flourish. That’s not what a good man does.

The AngloCentric War Like Culture.

You could say that ‘I don’t care’ about France’s or Belgium’s Colonialist actions; but more to the point, I feel no responsibility or culpability.

I do however feel culpable in the AngloCentric empires’ colonialist actions, and do feel a responsibility to ask why.

What is it about this culture which advances these “war like” actions with ease?

If you are of Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Greek, Italian, German, French, Russian, Jamaican, African or any other stock, and you’ve been raised in one of the Anglo-Centric lands like Australia, USA, or UK; then you have undoubtedly picked up some of the cultural norms which may not be so readily identifiable among those indigenous to the lands of your forefathers.  

I look to the far off land of my forefathers, Greece, and see the riots which have been going on almost continuously for 3 years since police shot a 15 year old boy; riots which continue against the government’s economic failings and their “austerity” measures.
One person was killed in that time, the victim of a fire set upon a banking building; arguably an unintentional death.
Our media in Australia mocked the Greeks, viewing them as ‘lawless’.

Compare those riots to the recent riots in England, triggered again by police violence.
Apart from widespread looting, we saw actual murders. Wilful savage attacks upon innocent civilians.

Similarly, triggered by police violence, the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 saw approx 50 deaths and approx 2500 injuries.

In Australia, although thankfully there were no deaths, we saw a hoard of 3,000-5,000 thousand people rampage through the streets of Cronulla seeking to bash any olive or brown skinned face.
Prompted by the insignificance of a fight between a few people.

What is it about the Anglocentric culture which deprives it of compassion for the other?
Why do these cultures so lust for a fight?

Don’t bother comparing these actions to those of someone in somewhere like Somalia, Ethiopia, or Kenya and the like, where people are literally fighting for food. There is no comparison between your conditions.
You have food, education, and health care.
Go to a football match, a day at the races, any sporting event, and watch young grown men play fighting or tackling one another to the ground ‘for fun’ and after two beers, keep your eyes open and you’re bound to see a reel fight brew.

Generally ignorant of the political reality behind their country’s sins; considering “social grace” to be shown by not discussing politics at the dinner table, and at any time publicly burping, farting and fighting as though it’s some sort of sign of masculine chivalry.

How about it guys, before the next generation ends up even dumber, how about we examine more than just other nations’ sins and look in the mirror.
You do remember school don’t you?, when the teacher said Socrates was a part of the foundations of out ‘intellectualism’… well he said “an unexamined life is not worth living”… I won’t be so harsh… But for God’s sake, start examining, our society is falling apart. Stop the wars.

Once we’ve stopped brawling like drunken idiots and gangsters, perhaps then we can do something to enrich our lives and those of our grandchildren to come.

The following extract is a part of the funeral oratory ofThucydides, upon the death of Pericles.
Apparently those that founded democracy, had these notions.

“An Athenian citizen does not neglect the state because he is committed to his own affairs; and even those of us who are preoccupied with commerce have a very fair idea of politics.

We alone, of the peoples of the world, regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless person, but as a useless character. And, even if few of us are original thinkers and initiators, we are all sound judges of policy."