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 The Slave Syndrome posted by cleaves, 2005-01-25 19:29:41
Throughout human history people have sought (or accepted) leadership in one form or another. Whether the subservient mentality manifests as identification to a pre-existing belief system or the need to follow another human being – the result is subjection. Forfeiting one’s sovereignty in either or both cases relegates the subscriber to subservience. Anthropologists and sociologists accept this behaviour as a fundamental aspect of human society and an essential element in the formation of ‘civilised’ societies. This particular worldview is now taken as a given social reality. (full story)
social/political / international
  Patterns posted by cleaves, 2005-01-19 11:28:45
Recent events involving the actions of certain nations have highlighted a pattern that most freedom loving people would find extremely disturbing. Is it possible, in the absence of a strategic balance of power in the world, that some nations with the means and opportunity would attempt to impose their will and value systems on other nations? (full story)
imperialism / international
Malaise posted by cleaves, 2005-01-19 07:33:32
The model of rule (government in the hands of the few) hasn’t changed since the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt! Eliminating the voice of the people at the community level is a mistake. If community leaders – elected by the people and representing the people at all times – were able to keep our leaders in check and in accord with the wishes of the majority we would prevent government taking a course that nearly half the population oppose. In this way government’s actions would truly reflect the wishes of the majority or be adjusted in a balanced compromise when necessary. To allow a government to rule unchecked for a number of years is the height of folly. (full story)
social/political / international
Tangled Webs posted by cleaves, 2005-01-19 07:31:38
This situation is amusing to some analysts who know that the ‘winner’ of the Iraq intervention is Israel. Unlike the public, analysts do not have short memories or suffer from bias induced blindness. It was clear that following the missile attacks on Israel by Saddam Hussein, Zionist interests were compelled to remove this dictator from power and eliminate any further threat from Iraq. It was relatively easy to lure the ‘avaricious pig’ to the trough of Oil – a brilliant incentive to invade an eliminate Saddam. (full story)
social/political / international
The First and Last Front posted by cleaves, 2005-01-19 07:04:00
The American fiction industry has taught its citizens that an enemy will surrender when ‘superior’ force is confronted. It hasn’t taught its citizens how to cope with an enemy that will never capitulate, an enemy that continues to fight in the face of overwhelming odds. What to do? It is impossible in today’s world to "kill them all." The hard reality of US intervention is combat, men against men, and today we learn that the US military has lost what little nerve it had. (full story)
peace/war / international
Condoleezza Rice posted by cleaves, 2005-01-19 07:00:35
We would all like to ask Condy (her oil tankers notwithstanding) just what price Iraqi Oil against the life of one Iraqi child or one US citizen? Never in the history of the USA has it spawned a more dangerous group of clowns than George W and his neo-cons. They have only one motive – and that is money. The scant regard for human life is matched only by their total disregard for our environment. To watch them now attempting to contradict their way out of their previous fabrications is truly a pathetic comedy. (full story)
social/political / international
Theotech posted by cleaves, 2005-01-19 06:56:16
Awesome demonstrations of new computer assisted warfare technologies and the resurrection of a new Starwars defence strategy have recently ‘dazzled’ American society. The principal proponents of these ‘strategies’ are the same men – Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz – who assured the world that the Iraqi population would welcome invaders with open arms and that the discovery of WMDs was inevitable! These ‘experts,’ have only confirmed that they are in dire need of medication; however, they have (momentarily) succeeded in convincing governments that these new advanced ‘solutions’ are the answer for an increasingly fearful domestic population and fearful allied governments – most notably John Howard’s Australian conservatives (full story)
social/political / international
 Prelude USA posted by cleaves, 2005-01-16 10:28:04
The recent South Asian tsunami disaster has drawn attention to geological articles and reports written by the world’s leading geophysicists. [Your favourite search engine would furnish you with ample information in this regard.] From even a layperson’s perspective it becomes clear that this type of event is a relatively minor ‘rumbling’ of the earth’s crust. (full story)
social/political / international
Aussies May Target Bank posted by cleaves, 2005-01-16 10:24:04
The recent [tsunami] tragedy in South Asia revealed the ugly face of Capitalism, specifically the behaviour of Australian banks in not waiving their parasitic fee imposition on financial donations to victims of the tsunami disaster. Let it be known where their priorities lie. Banks needed to be reminded before displaying some humanitarian empathy. (full story)
social/political / international
Polarisation posted by cleaves, 2005-01-16 10:21:34
The people of the free world have not forgotten the citizens of America who oppose the ultra-right-wing regime of Bush. A similar situation occurred in Nazi Germany with the rise of another madman to power. The population became polarised; however, those with a conscience were swept along with the fanatics to the ruin of all. Failure to act against the regime in the early stages resulted in a greater calamity for the entire nation. Let it not happen again. It is never too late to alter the course of a nation with concerted effort from those in opposition. (full story)
social/political / international
New Year’s Memorandum posted by cleaves, 2005-01-16 10:16:50
Memo to the present US Administration:
In view of the following quote, just how long do you think your lies and deceit will prevail?
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts." (Abraham Lincoln) (full story)
social/political / international
Circus Yukos posted by cleaves, 2005-01-16 10:07:51
The antics of opposing groups of Oil interests played out by the performances of their respective governments have reached new levels of absurdity. As the Russian ‘due process of law’ dismantles Yukos for take-over by one of its lackey interests, the West screams outrage and accuses Russian courts of corruption, ‘confirming’ that the Russian legal system is the “tool of a corrupt government.” Really! Since when has the legal system of any nation been anything other than a tool of the prevailing regime? (full story)
injustice/law / international
Update (Ukraine) posted by cleaves, 2005-01-16 09:59:36
The observations and re-actions of various ‘experts’ to events in the Ukraine amuse some analysts. Did anyone expect the US not to intervene, do leopards change their spots? Have we all forgotten the US government is merely a pawn of Corporate Capitalism? If it wasn’t an orange scarf it may just as well have been pink – let’s not miss the ‘forest for the trees’ (and in some cases the veins of the leaves.) (full story)
social/political / international
Trends posted by cleaves, 2005-01-16 09:55:22
As American society contracts in fear and adopts the social and psychological shackles of totalitarian rule – the other side of the world expands in fearless, peaceful, Unity. The people of the Ukraine have united in opposition to a corrupt and oppressive regime. The recent (peaceful but supremely effective) demonstrations are the inevitable result of eighty years of social oppression in the form of an autocratic totalitarian system of ‘government.’ Whereas alienated American culture continues to rapidly devolve as its citizens become ever more fragmented and separated from each other. (full story)
social/political / international
Update (Iraq) posted by cleaves, 2005-01-16 09:49:18
At present, the whole world stands in "shock and awe" of the ineptitude of the US military and the whole debacle that is the Iraq intervention. Every military cadet is taught the strategies of all the great military battles of history. Napoleon, who brought the greatest ‘military machine’ (of the period) to bear on Russia was defeated by an enemy that would not capitulate – an enemy that deployed guerilla tactics and drew the world’s most powerful army into a quagmire (from which it could not recover.) The imperialism of Bonaparte was crushed soon after. (full story)
imperialism / international
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