As the most active 'globalists', the 'West' (Anglo-sphere US/UK/Aus)
has gone 'lean & mean', with the accent on *mean* - also not 'just',
but murderous...

The worst of the mainly US capitalists (i.e. Halliburton) are on a
thieving, murdering rampage.

The great Satan has emerged as forewarned against: the US
military/industrial complex is ascendant, whether or not one or more or
all of: led by, owned by, controlled by Banksters(Jews?!) - with the
UK/Aus volunteering as disgustingly corrupt accessory hangers-on.

The 'left' has presented, as far as I can see, *no* relief plan.

But worse, there has been a total failure of morality.

The 'Whore of Babylon', the Catholic Church in particular &
Christianity in general, is morally bankrupt; the 'God squad' is a
*toadal* swindle.

Irrespective of whether there is or is not any sort'a 'god', the Church
as the source of morality is uselessly moribund; our 'leaders' have
lied then mass-murdered in order to steal oil, that is absolutely
immoral but the Church has been and remains effectively silent.

I wondered why the Pope was so ineffective before Iraq (illegal
invasion thereof), now we might have a glimpse as to why. By Benedict
XVI's condemnation of Islam we could be seeing the whore of Babylon in
league with B, B & H, the Devils incarnate. Whereas the previous Pope
was ineffective in stopping the carnage, some proddies actively
assisted in the run-up to war, i.e. Tom Frame (& one/some other? Or was
that just about 'it' for overt Church support?)

Terrorism is *not* exclusive to (let alone the core of) Islam. The
Pope's recent remarks are too political, too supportive of the 'War on
Terror' lies, to be anything other than back-handed support for B, B &
H - and his remarks are sinful lies, to boot. Whereas Jihadism may
exist, and Muslims may be relatively 'easy' to recruit as suicide
bombers, the real cause of most terrorism is aggressively foreign
occupied sacred- or home-lands(**5).

If there's any validity in Christ at all it is "Love thy neighbour",
an' that means no lying, no cheating, no stealing & certainly no
killing. But that's just what we get from the Mil/Ind-Plex regimes of
B, B & H with their outriders, the whores of Babylon providing 'moral'
support.

B, B & H claim to be in and of Christian societies, but no proper
Christian could conceive of doing what they've done.

The only thing approximating Christian 'round here is the (struggling)
presence of this faux-Church, and that only as an enabler of corruption
- i.e. as the provider of the 'just war' construct. I see the so-called
'revivalists' - the Penties, for example - as a gruesomely sad (panic!)
response to the increasing hopelessness inherent in the modern
life-style/society as incessantly pushed by 'Hollywood'.

The 'good' bits - the secular, humanistic bits of morality, all
deriving from the 'golden rule' "do unto others as you would have done
to yourself", should be retained and the rest of the archaic,
superstitious 'god-BS' simply dumped(**1).

-=*=-

Each of B, B & H have been re-elected. The voters always get it right,
crow the rightie commentators, ignoring the deliberate dumbing down of
the voters, the miserable deceits of the politicians (Howard;
never-ever GST, kiddies (not!) in the wardah, (no!) WMDs, keeping
interest rates low whilst doubling house prices (Cue Costello: "Haw,
haw, haw! - Let us prey")), and the complicity of the corrupt
press/media incl. some(lots?) in the AusBC as they sell - us, we the
people - out, to the criminal Mil/Ind-Plex and their politician
proxy-pets.

Labor is blamed for inadequacy and this is largely true; Labor is not
part of the solution since it too closely parallels the Libs, so Labor
is actually part of the problem. The (not too) inexperienced Latham was
a chance to jump out of the system, but was defeated largely from
within plus the depredations of the pro-US bloc as assisted (&
augmented!) by the diabolically corrupt press/media.

"You never had it so good!" is the cry, although the 'prosperity' is
financed by the resource-rent rip-offs(**2), comes largely
'trickle-down' when not on cruel credit, with most of the toys (flat
screen TVs, DVDs etc) coming from off-shore (slave?) labour.

Asset inflation, homes & stock-market alike is true inflation further
impoverishing the already disadvantaged; the 'official' measure on the
ridiculously limited 'basket of goods' or wage rates is another vicious
cruelty, adding insult to injury.

Simply put, the rich have taken a giant stride away from the chasm
which separates them from the rest; this chasm now as good as
unbridgeable. Some, a few (& getting fewer?), are doing (very!) well,
thank you, while the great middle are lucky if they are treading water,
and the worse-off tending to swell the ranks of the despair-ridden
worst.

This would not be quite so bad, if they didn't intend to destroy
Medibank (& Edu, IR, job-sec, the 'buy your own home' dream) on the
way.

Again, but: not just that, there's the greenhouse. The rich have led
the way in profligate consumption to a disgustingly obese extreme both
vis-à-vis their persons & fuel (mis!)use; our environment may very
well burn up - and our existence with it: our life-support systems
dribbling 'down the tubes' belching a filthy trail of fossil-fuel
derived smoke replete with planet-choking CO2.

In short, the outlook for the 'common man', if not human survival
itself, is bleak.

Globalisation is alleged to flatten the world(**4) & perhaps it is -
but it is *not* level; anything but. The flat world is tilted with the
fat-cats clinging precariously to the top edge, the poorest sloshing in
the meagre sludge at the bottom - and most of us precariously
struggling somewhere on the ghastly (and slippery!) slope.

What use, one may say, of any education when the jobs are going
off-shore in droves; there'll *always* be someone who'll do the job
cheaper somewhere else and if not, coolies can be - already are being -
imported.

As if all that wasn't enough; we got Iraq (illegal invasion thereof).
Frankly yes, '9/11' was bad - but not really *that* bad, daaarlings.

To go to war - to steal oil - is such a primitive step.

It illustrates just how far we are off the track.

I can see only two ways out of all this(**3):

1. "WAKE UP!" - & fix things properly, or

2. Complete retreat & F**K Y's ALL!

-=*=-

A phormula:

1. Fairness for all.

No ideology for its own sake.

Refine/repair: UN, Medibank, PBS etc.

2. Stop & put into reverse lethal CO2 pollution.

It's just so blindingly obvious: we *must* have sustainability!

-=#end#=-

Refs:

**1. Hobbes , Thomas (1588-1679), English philosopher. Hobbes was a
materialist, claiming that there was no more to the mind than the
physical motions discovered by science, and he believed that human
action was motivated entirely by selfish concerns, notably fear of
death. In Leviathan (1651) he argued that absolute monarchy was the
most rational, hence desirable, form of government.
DERIVATIVES
Hobbesian adjective.

**2. "Confessions of an economic hitman," John Perkins.

**3. "The era of globalisation is over," John Gray.

**4. "The World Is Flat", Thomas L Friedman.