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April again
Posted Apr 22, 2004
This seems to be six-monthly thing. I wonder if I ought to add to my history writing with a spoof of Iraq? Still too raw a nerve for humour I think. My Australian lady is back on Oz, after months of being enigmatic. She is coming back here though. Relations at home have improved. But I have taken rather a shine to one Mary, a semi-catholic semi-wiccan priestess with a tattoo somewhere; a deeply spiritual and sensual woman who is an engaging conversationalist, drives a Vauxhall Corsa, and has big tits.
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Not Since April
Posted Nov 7, 2003
I see I haven't posted anything since april. Well, since April quite a bit has happened. I am about to become a father again; also I have fallen hopelessly in love with an Australian lady who is stranded far from her home town of Adelaide, South Australia, and has somehow wound up in the Sussex Weald. Needless to say these unrelated facts are a cause of some stress, further complicated by the fact that my wife can't seem to decide whether she likes me or not from one moment to the next. Hormones are doubtless to blame. Ho hum.
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Casualties
Posted Apr 3, 2003
We are assured that civilian casualties in Iraq will be kept to a minimum. So far we have around 700-750 Iraqi civilian casualties. Casualties amongst coalition forces seem to be much fewer. It would seem that everything is being done to minimize casualties to our troops - Iraqi civilians are a secondary concern to that.
At bottom, this is the situation. The world is run for the benefit of rich, privileged, powerful people. Sometimes these people have disagreements concerning conflicting interests. For example, a particular country may be competing with another country for access to the valuable natural resources of a third country. The result? The rich and powerful of the first country send the largely poor and underprivileged of that country to kill the largely poor and underprivileged of the second country. Whoever wins this "conflict" then gains access to the resources of the third country.
The whole thing is paid for, not by the rich and powerful and privileged, but by the poor and underprivileged, via what are known as "taxes". These taxes are extracted from the poor and underprivileged by the rich and privileged, and paid to oil companies, construction companies, arms manufacturers, etc; which are of course owned by the rich and privileged.
So basically, the poor and underprivileged are not only asked to sacrifice their lives to sort out the problems caused by the rich and privileged, but they are also expected to pay for the "privilege" of doing so. Quite why the poor and underprivileged remain content with this arrangement remains a mystery.
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Latest reply: Apr 3, 2003
Casualities
Posted Apr 3, 2003
We are assured that civilian casualties in Iraq will be kept to a minimum. So far we have around 700-750 Iraqi civilian casualties. Casualties amongst coalition forces seem to be much fewer. It would seem that everything is being done to minimize casualties to our troops - Iraq civilians are a secondary concern to that.
At bottom, this is the situation. The world is run for the benefit of rich, privileged, powerful people. Sometimes these people have disagreements concerning conflicting interests. For example, a particular country may be competing with another country for access to the valuable natural resources of a third country. The result? The rich and powerful of the first country send the largely poor and underprivileged of that country to kill the largely poor and underprivileged of the second country. Whoever wins this "conflict" then gains access to the resources of the third country.
The whole thing is paid for, not by the rich and powerful and privileged, but by the poor and underprivileged, via what are known as "taxes". These taxes are extracted from the poor and underprivileged by the rich and privileged, and paid to oil companies, construction companies, arms manufacturers, etc; which are of course owned by the rich and privileged.
So basically, the poor and underprivileged are not only asked to sacrifice their lives to sort out the problems caused by the rich and privileged, but they are also expected to pay for the "privilege" of doing so. Quite why the poor and underprivileged remain content with this arrangement remains a mystery.
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The Hypocrisy Continues
Posted Apr 3, 2003
In order to fight for the freedom of Iraqis, we are killing them. In order that the Iraqis may have free speech, we are supressing it at home. In order to remove the threat of weapons of mass destruction, we are using weapons of mass destruction. The world has gone mad.
If only our politicians could show the same unity and determination when trying to eliminate poverty and disease; or when trying to sort out transport or the NHS.
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