It’s bad news week, very Bad! - International Environment

The USA and Israel continue their very desperate efforts to ignite WWIII in the Persian Gulf, but have failed to do it surreptitiously, so it seems they may throw caution to the (irradiated) wind and just go for it!

The USA is acutely aware that it has been vanquished by the new economic Goliaths of the world, China and India. Even Japan, traditional enemy of China, has welcomed Hu Jintao for talks; the writing is on the wall, Japan is loosening ties with the USA in favour of economic powerhouse, China. Both nations are currently dumping their greenback reserves.

The obvious conclusion the west chooses NOT to face is that laissez-faire or FREE MARKET CAPITALISM IS A DEAD MAN FALLING! Therefore the last trump card – military madness -- is about to be played on a supremely deserving public. The USA has one last (diminishing) advantage over other nations and it will not hesitate to use it! Madness, mayhem and annihilation are the rewards for allowing the most incompetent administration in American history to remain in the White house for eight years – the wages of incompetence are ruination.

But the most alarming news of all is geophysical. Self-important fleas and Homo sapiens are placed in perspective when the earth literally moves under our feet. The Chilean volcano, Chaitén, which has lain dormant for nine thousand years, has just blown its stack and continues to spew poisonous smoke and ash (thirty thousand feet) into the atmosphere. Vulcanologists and geophysicists are aware that an ‘event’ on the Ring of Fire is never isolated. If Mt Pelée and Mt Etna follow suit then expect major cataclysms on the West Coast of America – millions may die overnight!

If nothing else these events should put man’s foolishness and pettiness in proper perspective – cooperation may be learnt the hard way, which is unfortunately the usual way mankind learns.

“It’s good news week”
Written and recorded by Hedgehoppers Anonymous

It's good news week,
Someone's dropped a bomb somewhere,
Contaminating atmosphere
And blackening the sky,
It's good news week,
Someone’s found a way to give,
The rotting dead a will to live,
Go on and never die….

“Eve of Destruction”
Recorded by: "Barry McGuire"
Written by: (P.F. Sloan)

The eastern world it is explodin',
violence flarin', bullets loadin',
you're old enough to kill but not for votin',
you don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin',
and even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
nah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
Can't you see the fears that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
nah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
and marches alone can't bring integration,
when human respect is disintegratin',
this whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
nah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
but when you return, it's the same old place,
the poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace,
and you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.
no no you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

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