David Cameron

‘Children are our future – teach them well and let them lead the way’ wrote Michael Masser.

I think this sentiment is universal. Any parent would want the best possible education for their children.

Not everyone can afford private education. That's economic reality. I cannot imagine any scenario where a parent unable to afford a top flight private education for their child would refuse their child the opportunity were it presented to them.  Can you?

NO responsible parent would deliberately, knowingly and willfully under-educate their child. Or would they?

Imagine being in a position where funding a private education would not make the slightest dent to your multi-million pound trust fund, but denying your children the opportunity for a better education because it is at odds with your political ambitions.

David Cameron’s ambition demanded that very sacrifice from his state-school children. A man who put his own career ahead of his children’s education.

Whats up with that? If he turns over his own children to advance his career, what do you think he will do with the Prime Ministers office?

Anika Smit.

Today Anika Smit, 17, was buried in Pretoria. Last week, 11 March, 2010, she was killed and raped in her own room. Her arms were cut off from the elbow and taken by the perpetrators. No one has been charged with her murder.

I was so horrified by this story that I sent it to all and sundry. No mention could be found in British press. I wrote to the Guardian and the Daily Mail. With the Soccer world cup looming, there is simply no interest in frightening visitors to South Africa.

Correspondence with South African friends revealed a consistent trend 'This is not news. It happens every day.'

One correspondent told me that racially motivated murder in South Africa since the end of Apartheid exceeds 300,000. More than 45-1 higher than racially motivated deaths during apartheid.

Crime in South Africa is a real and present issue. But the crime in Anika Smits case goes beyond anything that we, outside of South African experience, can relate to. This behaviour is a uniquely South African variant of tribalism enabling sexual incontinence that effectively normalises rape. Maintaining manifestly unhealthy arrangements in the name of tradition is a recipe for disaster which should be a matter for Governmental review, but in light of a Polygamous President with a history of defending rape charges, is not.

Considering these uniquely perverse crimes - raping and hacking body parts off people who are still alive, the better to make muti with - the issue of Apartheid is often presented as a contributory cause. I grew up in Apartheid South Africa and remember well the British approach of 'No normal sport in an abnormal society.' One I wholeheartedly agreed with then as I do now.

This is not a time for the world to be normalising South Africa's collapse into tribal barbarism and lawlessness by enjoying games of football in Stadiums whose cost cannot possibly be reconciled with the decayed lifestyles of South Africa's dispossessed majority even as their falsely elected new class of cuntocrats swan around in the accoutrements of obscene wealth.

No normal sport in an abnormal society. Why did that make sense in 1976 and not now? How many South Africans consider theirs to be a normal society?

Playing games of soccer in the shadow of 17 year old girls being raped and mutilated, whose killer might be the person sitting next to you at the games, smiling and cheering Bafana Bafana, is not the way the issue of barbarous decline in South Africa is best addressed. It maintains the delusional precept of a 'rainbow nation' thriving on 'the miracle of Mandela.'

I imagine all media coverage of South Africa today will be about football games and ticket sales and travel opportunities for visitors, leaving little interest ina story about Anika Smits father, as he buries those body parts of his butchered daughter that the rapists left behind. 

I certainly will find it difficult watching Dave Beckham swish around the England camp promoting football and talking up our chances against Germany knowing how far apart the world his values represent is from the reality of South Africa. This is not a normal society. Leaders like Zuma and Malema are not credible and one can but wonder how the legacy of Mandela arrived here in 16 short years.

Continuing unchecked at this rate, in another 16 years time there will be no opportunity for this subject to be raised again. 

For me these football games will be remembered as The Anika Smit Games. 
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Fallen.

'And ye shall know them by their words'.

And here is one great word. 'Fallen.'

Instead of describing the process of taking (mostly) underprivileged young men from low-income under-educated backgrounds and using the bait of three meals a day, free clothing and the opportunity for playing with guns as a device for maintaining an optimal defense budget before putting them in 'harms way' which might involve having a piece of searing hot shrapnel penetrating the left side of the head before turning the brain into a mushy by-product of traumatic impact, or even experiencing the blast of a landmine underfoot as the explosive rips away the bottom half of the body, or indeed any in the number of ways that young men sent to fight wars they don't understand based entirely on words they are fed by unscrupulous agenda driven recruiters serving the purposes of budget driven government ministers on an upward career curve, might find themselves being brutally separated from body parts, if not from life itself, for what it is. Gruesome bloody death, what these young men get in exchange for this 'sacrifice' is the word 'fallen.'

They are not victims of a system that empowers a rich minority by using the lower class as cannon fodder for their various empowerment agendas, but instead they are 'fallen heroes'.

For 'fallen' read 'another victim of the business of war.' They are not fallen. They are brutally killed almost entirely because they come from low income backgrounds.

The implication with this word is that the worst that can happen to a soldier is to become 'fallen.' That doesn't sound so bad now. Does it. And the immediate word association is 'hero. So if perchance you do become 'fallen', you will also become a hero. Another good reason not to worry at all. 

Current lists of our 'Fallen Heroes' show they are almost all of low rank and young.

Beware those who rely on the word 'fallen' to describe KIA.

A nasty piece of work.

'If god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him' said Voltaire many years ago.

Epicurus paraphrased reads;

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. 
 Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. 
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? 
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

If god does exist and he is the all-powerful all-seeing deity responsible for everything, then it is abundantly clear that he is a pretty nasty piece of work.

The majority of the Earths population live in spirit-killing-poverty. Young men, heirs to millions, choose to blow up their underpants in praise of god. Believers throughout history have done more to defile and debase the human condition than any other single cause. All believing they are created in gods image and serving his will.

Anyone possessed with omnipotence who chooses to destroy and debase the human condition in the way that mankind's record presents as self-evident can only be described as 'a nasty piece of work.' Or a Very nasty piece of work.

 

How fortune works.

This farmer had only one horse, and one day the horse ran away. The neighbors came to condole over his terrible loss.
The farmer said, "What makes you think it is so terrible?"

A month later, the horse came home - bringing with her two beautiful wild horses. The neighbors became excited at the farmer's good fortune. Such lovely strong horses!
The farmer said, "What makes you think this is good fortune?"

The farmer's son was thrown from one of the wild horses and broke his leg. All the neighbors were very distressed. Such bad luck!
The farmer said, "What makes you think it is bad?"

A war came, and every able-bodied man was conscripted and sent into battle. Only the farmer's son, because he had a broken leg, remained. The neighbors congratulated the farmer.
"What makes you think this is good?" said the farmer.

Gauntanamo Bay living memorial.

Andrews Guantanamo Bay business plan.

Objective:

Create a business model to generate $2 hundred million annual turnover using the resource of Guantanamo Bay by identifying existing demand, harnessing that demand and turning it into a functioning business.

The participants:

1. World Heritage organisation.
2. International War Crimes Court.
3. The Guantanamo business fund.

Step one:

Create the 'Gauntanamo Bay living memorial'. Designated as a World heritage site, Guantanamo Bay Living Memorial will be a magnificent glass structure incorporating the current facility - metaphorically demonstrating the importance of transparency in politics. This structure will readily accommodate 2 million visitors annually. An architectural design encompassing 24 glass cells through which a tourist walkway weaves.

Visitors will enter a visitors centre, much like the gateway for Robben Island visitors in Cape Town. The facility will be open 24 hours per day, 365 days per year - metaphorically demonstrating that evil never rests.

In the visitors centre, guests can view informative displays preparing them for the sights that lie ahead. Including statistics demonstrating the extent of the atrocities committed by the inmates as well as the findings of the International War Crimes court.

Upon entering the facility itself, visitors will follow a glass pathway that weaves through 24 cells. They can stop and view the cells in-mates for no more than 5 minutes per cell and will be allowed to take photographs.

The 24 cells will start with the lowest, least well known of the war criminals, working up to the show piece cells at the very end of the tour. These last 2, numbers 1 and 2 in the countdown, will be occupied by what will almost certainly become the biggest crowd pullers. The two B's. Blair and Bush.

Step 2:

While the construction is underway, an International War Crimes Court, empowered for this purpose, convenes to try the most obvious War Criminals of the past decade, those responsible for the Million deaths in Iraq and the atrocities committed against the Afghani people, not to mention the atrocities they have committed against their their own countrymen in America and Britain.

This Court will identify the worst 24 offenders, handing down 24 life sentences accordingly and also rating them from 1 to 24 in terms of the extent of their culpability. Obviously Blair and Bush will compete for cells 1 and 2, although there will be many shoe-ins for others similarly well qualified. Rumsfeld, Cheney and so on.

These top 24 war crims will serve their life terms in the glass cells of Gauntanemo Bay living memorial correctional facility, on display 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Step 3:

With diligent marketing and a little help from the Cuban tourist board, a target of 2 million visitors in year one is entirely realistic. Given the quality of the spectacle, an entrance fee of $100 is appropriate. Door receipts would therefore be some $200 Million in year one, with tremendous growth potential in subsequent years as the Cuban tourist board exploit the associated possibilities of having so many visitors to their Island. An annual Rock concert featuring Queen and friends could further bolster the funds coffers.

Amortised over a ten year period this revenue should be more than enough to underwrite the cost of the trial and the building of the 'Gauntanamo Bay living memorial' or the GBLM as it will be branded.

Once the 'Big 24' are made accountable and put on display in this way, it will be a lot harder for future politicians to get away with the dreadful abuses of power that characterise this sorry lot.

The music franchise:

Each cell will feature powerful surround sound speakers connected to a Juke-box front end, where visitors will be able to pay a fee to choose a song. For an additional fee they will be able play the song louder. In this way viewers can provide a suitable soundtrack for their experience in the knowledge that they will be helping the inmates karmically redress the weight of the sinful past. For instance, visitors to Mr. Blairs cell could elect the Sex Pistols 'Your so pretty' and have it played at super loud volume during his prayer time. A family whose infant son might have been incinerated by one of Mr. Bush's Iraqi missile's could play Don Macleans 'Wonderful Babies' each time they visit, ensuring the point is  made to Mr. Bush regarding the connection between his decisions and dead children.

The musical directors position would go to a renowned musical authority, versed in popular song as well as karmic balance, whose appointment would establish a library of music per Juke-box, per cell, to cater for any specific visitor requirements and make the experience the best it can be for all parties. This office would rotate on an annual basis to ensure the inmate to not become overly familiar with any particular musical trend.

A family day out:

For children, visiting GBLM will provide a living History lesson as well as an insight into how the world decided to start making mass killers who hide behind God and profit driven political-office accountable for their actions. An important lesson for any youngster looking at the world today.

Visitors will be able to see the look of remorse - or not as the case may be - on the faces of the inmates. Seeing this might provide a nice degree of closure for the family members of the Million plus dead because of Bush and Blairs ego.

Would you visit Cuba and pay $100 to see that?

My Telegraph subscription.

For the past 20 years I have renewed an annual subscription with the Telegraph. Its delivered to my door at around 7.20 am every day by arrangement with the local newsagent. For many a year now I would start my day with a bath at 7.30 am where I would read the sport pages of the Telegraph, migrating from there for the morning cappuccino where I would read the main section of the paper. 30 minutes each day of worthy time investment.

There would always be some piece of journalism that would make me remark on how excellent the Telegraph was. Some story that made me the richer for knowing and enabled me to enjoy the pleasure of sharing with others in the knowledge that I was disseminating information for the betterment of all. An emissary for the highest good if you will. In many a conversation whilst traveling abroad I would refer to the standard of writing in the Telegraph as one of the great things about living in Britain.

But in the past few years I have become aware of change. Change for the worse. The stories frequently appear to me no longer the product of independent thought. Rather I began to notice a trend. An absence of what I felt were the big news items in the world and a preponderance of trivia. Yes MP's expenses are interesting - but not nearly interesting enough to fill page after endless page with whilst making no reference to far more serious abrogations of Ministerial responsibility - like those MP's responsible involving Britain in sick cruel and costly wars with Countries who represent no threat to Britain - or indeed anyone other than themselves. I am far more interested in Blair's accountability as a hypocritical lying Bush-licking war-monger than some nobody-MP-from-nowhere fiddling a mobile phone call.

In a nutshell - the Telegraph no longer presents news that holds my interest. In cow-towing to prevailing commercial and political pressures, the editor and his team have distanced themselves from my interest whilst simultaneously offending my sense of fairness in regard to misrepresenting what is important. Upgrading trivia in the name of PC and commercial interest over real and relevant issues of the day.

Why then should I sign up for another year of paying the £300 plus that it costs for me to see the Telegraph appear in my hallway each morning? If I cant change the way they operate with my words at least I can change it with my consumer dollar - the most powerful force for change known to man.

All that remains now is the familiarity argument. For so long now I have loved the morning paper that the thoughts of waking up to find the hallway without that image - the folded broadsheet, is a little unnerving. But my decision is made. And the deadline for renewal is today.

The Telegraph do not miss a trick though, and someone there noticed my failure to send in the annual payment. Yesterday a well spoken young lady called to remind me that the renewal deadline was fast approaching. I explained that I was not renewing because I was 'disenchanted with the news.'
Information which blunted her sales pitch considerably.

So an era for me has ended. No more Telegraph delivered to my door. I don't imagine this separation will be easy. We have been so close for so long, but I stand determined. My place in the relationship has been taken for granted and I have become no more than a patsy. Something has to change and this is it.

I will let you know how things work out.

Scientific proof that Evolution is a lie

I received an e-mail directing me to a page that offered 'Scientific proof that Evolution is a lie' the conclusion of which proves the existence of a great and merciful God. The sheer weight of ignorance that accompanies the argument prompted me to post a message - which I enjoyed writing so much I thought I would share it here.

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Is this the same gracious and merciful God who created dinosaur fossils to test our faith or the kind and benevolent deity who created Sarah Palin in his image so that the terminally retarded can experience the certainty of superiority, or just the one you rely on to prolong your inability to become self accountable. Stop being lazy. Learn how to read and then start reading and learning. Stop deluding yourself that the divisive and harmful belief system you promote is anything other than a failed and exposed device by which the greedy enslave the ignorant to serve their purposes.
Belief in your 'one and only God' has killed more people on this planet than any other single cause. It is not a charitable system that offers upliftment for the dispossessed or peace and brotherhood to all. It is a philosophy that guarantees death. Death by the Billion since the onset of the age of religion.
Enough already. Its one thing to be so desperate that you have no where else to turn and in your vulnerability become susceptible to the cynical overtures of Religions salesmen with their promises of 'Eternal life' and 'Hellfire for non believers for all eternity' but it is quite another to maintain this foolishness past early adolescence. The only excuse is plum laziness. Too darn shiftless to get your brain working. Here's a simple road map.

God = division = condemnation = persecution = war = death. Therefore God = death.

Promoting belief in a omnipotent-omniscient yet invisible God is akin to waging war.
Isn't it time you allowed the evolutionary process to help your brain enable escape from the shackles and bonds of your moronic denial based belief system?
Its not that hard. Just look around you, at all the beauty the surrounds you. Life is beautiful if you choose life. Beauty is everywhere. The world is a beautiful place and it would be better still if you would cease and desist your misguided efforts in fomenting war and conflict by disseminating the same exposed nonsense that has been plaguing the planet since the onset of blind faith and in this way you will eventually become a human-being worthy of being called human as opposed to carrying on your praise of ignorance in the Church of the dumb fuck.

Gods work is done. Mans time has come. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

270 Vs 290. Megrahi VS Rogers III.

Whoever would have thought the release of a sick old man from a Scottish prison could provoke such outrage in America, the basis of which appears to be directed toward the moral character of a man involved in bringing down a plane with 270 innocent civilians on board. 270 innocents whose lives were snuffed out so cruelly in so cowardly and unjustified a manner.

I am reminded of events preceding the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988. I refer of course to the other civilian plane crash that occurred just 5 months before, on 3 July, 1988, when 290 innocent civilians, 66 of whom were children, died.

This is the day a guided missile cruiser, the USS Vincennes, fired upon an Iranian Airbus, Flight 655, operating an established route between Teheran and Dubai, while flying inside Iranian airspace.

This event occurred just weeks after President Ronald Reagan assured the Iranian people in a televised address that they would never be allowed to win their war with American backed Iraq. The shooting down of Flight 655 was effective, showing Iran that Reagan spoke much truth, and the 8 year Iran/Iraq war ended shortly after this incident. Clearly those 290 deaths were not in vain.

Reagans Vice President Bush (Daddy of Dubya) said in reaction to the outcry at the time:

"I'll never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are"

The author of the Iran Air misfortune was Captain Will Rogers III of the USS Vincennes. The baying for pay-back-blood that accompanied and continues to accompany the Pan Am bombing has been entirely absent from Western media almost from the moment the Iran Air Flight 655 met the sharp end of the US Missile. In fact, the author of that misfortune did not face trial for murder, or homicide, or even military malpractice. Instead he was presented with the Legion of Merit decoration "for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as commanding officer ... from April 1987 to May 1989", by none other than Americas leading apologist, George Bush senior in one of his first duties as President.

Perhaps Gaddafi's celebrating Megrahi's release is a reminder of the celebrated return offered to Capt Will Rogers III?

It is inconceivable that no link exists between Pan Am Flight 103 and Iran Air Flight 655 and yet in all the miles of newsprint arising from Megrahi's release I have not seen one reference to Iran Air Flight 655.

To recap by way of conclusion on 2 events from 1988:

1. Iranian plane bombed by Americans. 290 dead. American shooter given medal by the President. Compensation paid to victims.

2. American plane bombed by Arabs. 270 dead. Arab fall guy who convinces no one of his guilt must rot in jail until dead or Americans will stop drinking Scotch whiskey at a time when they clearly need it the most.

To paraphrase Borat. 'Thatsa Nyse.'

Megrahi and plane murder.

The newslines are awash with outraged Americans bemoaning Scotland's humanitarian release of the terminally ill Megrahi. A man whose links to the Lockerbie crash are uncertain.

What is certain is that Pan Am flight 103 went down on 21 December 1988.

What is equally certain, but a lot less well remembered is the other event involving a civilian airliner just 5 months before, on 3 July, 1988.

This is the day a US guided missile cruiser, the Vincennes, deliberately fired upon an Iranian Airbus, Flight 655, operating an established route between Teheran and Dubai, flying inside Iranian airspace when it was shot down laden with 290 civilians, including 66 children in an event just weeks after Ronald Reagan assured the Iranian people that they would never be allowed to win the war with American backed Iraq. The shooting down of Flight 655 was effective, showing Iran that Reagan spoke much truth, and the 8 year war ended shortly after this incident.

Reagans Vice President Bush (Daddy of Dubya) said in reaction to the outcry at the time:

"I'll never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are"

I don't think its a huge leap of logic to imagine that some of the 290 passengers on that Iranian Airbus A300 flight had relatives and that those relatives were not satisfied with the US payment of 131 Million dollars in compensation, or that USS Vincennes Captain Will Rogers III should not be prosecuted for murder but instead given a hero-medal. Perhaps Gaddafi's celebrating Megrahis release is a pointer to the celebrated return offered to Capt Will Rogers in 1988?

I think it is far more likely that Pan Am Flight 103 was the reply to Iran Air Flight 655. And to imagine that 1 lone Libyan could mastermind and be made accountable for this beggars belief.

Chainism. Holistic discrimination.

Consider a chain. When tested for purpose, it will be as strong as its weakest link.

Consider a belief system that is based on blind faith. Lets use the handsome young Pakistani Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab as an example. A young man so blinded by belief that he chose to go off and machine gun innocents in neighboring India. It may be that our Mohammad has many fine qualities, and I bet somewhere a friend will proclaim how nice and gentle and loving he was - but the measure by which he will be seen where life's achievements are counted - is by this weakness. His blind faith in an imaginary God.

Because by accepting without substance belief in an imaginary being, a precedent is set. You must then accept any number of possibilities that lead on from this irrationality. Mohammad can justify his murderous actions on the same basis as every believer.

Belief in imaginary things places a kink in the chain of possibilities for developing awareness of the life experience.

Chainism is the holistic idea that you consider the value of people by the sum of their weakest and strongest qualities, not solely their most trumpeted strengths.
In military confrontation and even in competitive sport, the effective tactic is to identify the opponents weakness and play off that. Your opponent is as strong as his strongest weakness.

In the discrimination process by which we decide whose opinions and wisdom to believe and be influenced by, it becomes clear that those with the most to offer qualify because they have strengthened the weakest-link in the chain of their self awareness.

An example: Michael Jackson.
Strengths: talented young singer dancer in the 70's.
Weakness: Consumed by drug addiction delusion.

Measure of overall holistic chain strength: Tragic deluded failure. Had some early fun, got to play with Eddie Van Halen, but otherwise missed the point.

Try James Brown:
Strengths: Used compulsive obsessive control skills to bully a funky groove out of underpaid musicians until he established a legendary reputation as the Godfather of soul.
Weakness: Consumed by drugs and became by all accounts a thoroughly nasty piece of work.

Measure of overall holistic chain strength: The funky groove comes from a pretty unfunky and uncool place, so how funky cool can that groove really be. Conclusion. Overall - not the King of Soul at all. Sad deluded control freak mired in narcissistic flatulence.

last example: Keith Richards.
Strengths: Guitar playing songwriter and reliable friend.
Weakness: Well - you try find people to say bad things about Keith. A well liked man.
Measure of overall holistic chain strength: A successful life balanced in self fulfillment, having fun and helping others.

You try some now:

Michael Jacksons children

I am bemused by press suggesting a custody battle for the 3 Jackson children is imminent. What custody battle?

Children are not chattels whose ownership is defined by possession.

So clearly in the case of the Jackson children (The first 2) the fact is Michael is obviously not the (biological) Father and Debbie Rowe is definitely the Mother.

Unless she is so unfit as a Mother that it is clearly in the childrens best interests never to see her, which is on the face of it extremely unlikely, is there any possible argument for the children not to go to her?

And what kind of Wacko decides its in his (and in this case not even biologically his) kids best interests never to see their Mother.

Must the wacko-ness continue even now, when the deleterious consequences of the wacko lifestyle have become so painfully obvious?

It is very unusual that the children's best interests are not served by being with a biological parent.

Guantanemo Bay

As readers of the BBC web site are being invited to propose suggestions for Guantanemo Bay, here is mine:

Turn it into a tourist monument to illuminate the consequences of corrupt leadership.

A glass cage in which the top ten of the Bush administration would be displayed for 24 hours a day, in orange suits, for the remainder of their lives would be a fitting return for the harm the Bush men have visited upon the planet and a small step towards rehabilitating Americas image within the expedient of transparent accountability.

I think this would attract huge crowds - this living monument to the extremes to which corrupt power was enabled by the greed of a few and the compliant idiocy of another.

Americans could vote on who the top ten who should occupy this cell would be. I am guessing Dick Cheney would be a shoe in.

Chikurubi Prison.

'You judge a nation and its people by the way they treat their prisoners.'

Chikurubi prison lies 12 miles east of Harari. Chikurubi prison is a monument to the relationship between Zuma and the guest of honor at his recent inauguration, Robert Mugabe.
Without Zuma's support for Mugabe it is a certainty that Chikurubi prison would not provide so chilling a testimony to Mugabe's malign influence.

Of the 1,300 inmates at Chikurubi in the past year, more than 700 have died of what is described in the Daily Telegraph as 'revolting conditions.'
The revolting condition most affecting the residents of Chikurubi is the inescapable fact that Zuma and Mugabe's ongoing friendship is directly and unavoidably at the heart of every Zuma/Mugabe sponsored death in Zimbabwe.

In a nutshell - while Mugabe quaffs champagne (Imported from France and not the excellent South African variety) with Zuma - inmates of Chikurubi prison are left to ruminate on how Black African leaders continue to demonstrate their inability to rise above the constraints of the Muntuism that is their legacy.

More than half of those admitted to Chikurubi in the past year are dead.

And the irony is that the same ignorant halfwits whose attitude of 'I didn't vote for the ANC - I voted for Zuma, because he understands us' represent the same demographic as those populating Chikurubi prison. The ignorant deluded poor empowering the morally bankrupt rich leadership to kill off the ignorant disempowered poor.

Go Jacob Zuma. Sponsor of Chikurubi, proving every action has a reaction.

Leonard Cohen.

This is the greatest rhyming couplet I have heard today. I think it will become Barack Obama's theme.

From Leonard's song 'Everybody Knows.'

Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old black joes still pickin cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

Religion, delusion and prison

Here's a great statistic that I came across earlier.
10% of Americans are Atheist (or Agnostic). However .25% of the prison population is Atheist. I checked a registry of UK Prison population and found .2% of the prison population are Atheist, and in the UK the percentage of Atheists/Agnostics is approaching 50%

My conclusion is that the neediness and weakness that leads believers into choosing a value system that is so clearly disempowering, divisive and at odds with basic common sense, as is the case with the major religions, results in the non-accountable delusional belief that accompanies crime of a prison worthy nature.

Atheists on the other hand have accepted personal accountability and do not seek to apportion blame for their personal inadequacies on spurious notions like 'Original sin' and penitence leading to forgiveness. They are therefore more likely to not commit criminal acts because they are not trained to believe someone/something else is responsible for everything they do and will forgive them for the price of a few spoken words.

It is interesting to see the top and bottom list of the Countries by percentage of Atheists:

Most Atheist are:
Sweden. Vietnam. Denmark, Norway, Japan, Czech Republic, Finland, France.

Least Atheist are:
Somalia, Tanzania, Yemen, Western Sahara, Philippines, Romania, Pakistan, Cambodia, Iran

Success in Afghanistan

While American and British forces put in place by the Bush/Blair axis of evil continue consuming Billions of dollars that may or may not be helping fuel the global recession in Afghanistan, I have to admit at this point that I have for some time felt that:
1. Making War without provocation threatening survival is indefensible and should be treated as a crime.
2. People who justify and support war (unless when facing a threat to survival) are not acting for the highest good and
3. Dropping expensive bombs by remote control on poor people and their children, is an open invitation for karmic return that will mean returning as a mosquito - or worse.

So I have been clear from the outset in my disgust at the barbaric abuses of power by the Bush and Blair regimes of terror, especially in their inhumane use of expensive technology to bomb a Country already more bombed than any other. Afghanistan is an almighty mess. As if they weren't buggered enough by centuries of exploitation by the evil cult of submission that mires them in a dark age mentality, requiring the men to grow beards, wipe the poo off their bottoms with their left hands, avoid pork whilst simultaneously praising the deified memory of a 53 year old fellow who had sex with a 9 year old, but is not considered a pedophile. This same fellows book designates all women inferior status to men, requiring them to dress in Burqas and legally sanctions assaults by their husbands at a whim.

Easy then to see why Western conscience would be outraged by stories of Taleban men raping 10 year old boys and committing all kinds of Muslim themed atrocities on defenseless civilians. That outrage was used to raise the Christian Armies of Bush and Blair to go 'teach the Talies a lesson.'
Years have passed and now we can review the outcome of the Blair/Bush zealotry.

Since December 2004 Afghanistan's leader is Hamid Harzai.
We should remember his name as our tax dollars were the cause of his election.

Hamid is a Muslim and so sees nothing untoward about his most recent contribution to Afghani law. A bill which legalizes rape in marriage. The law, which has not been publicly released, is believed to state women can only seek work, education or doctor's appointments with their husband's permission.
Only fathers and grandfathers are granted custody of children under the law, according to the United Nations Development Fund for Women.

Opponents of the legislation governing the personal lives of Afghanistan's Shia minority have said it is "worse than during the Taliban".
Mr Karzai has been accused of electioneering at the expense of women's rights by signing the law to appeal to crucial Shia swing voters in this year's presidential poll.

So in a nutshell. We raised an Army to go teach the Taleban that their Muslim ways were not acceptable. Bush explained how we gave them democracy - out of which came Karzai to give us this new consideration.

Islam. Whats not to love about it?

Burqas have many practical advantages

Those of us who have looked upon the wearers of Burqas with horror, seeing this barbaric assault on that most basic of womens rights, the right to choose a public persona, as yet another instance of how poorly Islam treats its female membership whilst wondering as to the mental state of any woman willingly submitting to this abuse of a life experience, will be heartened by the following insight, told to me by a Security guard employed by Harrods.

He said 'Women in Burkas frequently and happily poo on the floor of Harrods from the safety of their black robes because they do not want to pay £1 for the toilet despite spending a fortune on hand bags.'

Its worth a little ponder.

Apostasy and Islam

Another of the wonderful arguments that belief in Islam brings to the table is 'Apostasy - The Consequence.'

Meaning once you submit to Islam, there is no going back. No option to review your position in the light of new information. Should you wish to commit the crime of apostasy, and choose something like, Atheism, Scientology, Buddhism or even nihilism, the penalty is death. It is not difficult to see how, for children born into Islamic belief, this may present a potential for conundrum.

The death penalty for apostasy is not some age old edict that has fallen into disrepair, like the christian one that demands the killing of homosexuals, but a working example of how Islamic believers continue to apply their faith in the Quran.

All of which came as bad news for Abdirahman Ahmed, a Somalian Islam who evidently turned his back on the prophet and was found guilty in accordance with the Quran by an Islamic Sharia court. He died by firing squad on Thursday 8th January 2009, for the crime of Apostasy.

The Sharia court in Kismayo, Somalia, who pronounced his guilt decided that he should only be killed 'after the afternoon prayer session' which is a little mystifying. Why not execute him before prayers and then say prayers after. Or, seeing as there are prayers 5 times each day, which prayer session is the most important with regard to executing an apostate. It all seems so confusing sometimes.

My question is this. Is there not enough sickness in the world.

Meet Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow

Whilst many of Gods achievements remain in the bounds of conjecture, thereby providing anti-theists with ammunition to support the delusional nature of God-belief, it is reassuring to see that God does occasionally provide physical evidence of his reality as is the case with Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow. Aisha, a 13 year old Somalian girl, is of course named after the prophet Muhammad's 9 year old wife and sexual partner.

This Aisha, a Magadishu resident, a place where belief in God is all consuming, was raped by 3 Somali men sometime in October 2008. Following the rape, her father called in the local authority, in this case the al-Shabab militia, ostensibly to report the crime of rape. Although, in Sharia law, the interpretation of rape allows generous flexibility, reflecting the superior status of the man.

The ability to align ones existence to an imaginary deity and all that follows from that delusion will inevitably provide for for any convenient delusion to manifest as Gods will and in the case of Aisha, Gods will took the form of miraculously transforming a rape allegation into a charge of adultery, which in Somalia's Sharia process is a capitol offense for which Allah makes specific legal provision. Death by stoning whilst buried to the neck. Tough break kid. Should have kept your mouth shut.

Senior clerics within al-Shabab arranged for 50 selected believers, all men, to bury the screaming and struggling child Aisha up to her neck in the sand in a stadium in front of 1,000 excited spectators, themselves also all believers in the one God and his Holy Book.

A lorryload of hand picked rocks, sized according to the law governing these things ie: Not to big as to kill fast or too small as to cause merely annoyance, was delivered to the stadium. Islamic law is very precise and it is reassuring to know their standards in the science of rock selection were maintained throughout. No one wants to see an over-sized rock end the process prematurely - least of all Allah.

With the burial process complete and the child's body secure in the firm grasp of Mother Earth, the 50 chosen believers went to work throwing these onion sized rocks at Aisha's exposed head.  

"Don't kill me, don't kill me" witnesses report as her final words.

Eventually after enough of the rocks had pounded her skull with sufficient force, her screaming ceased and she was dug up to be examined by the attending male cleric whose job it was to confirm the death.

Much to everyone's surprise he announced that she was still alive. As the law requires in these matters,  and it is important to remember that this is Gods law, Aisha was then buried again and Gods work continued until Gods will was done by those he created in his image and who submit to his will until, finally, the last 'Allah Akbaar's' drifted over her lifeless bloodied corpse.

Only a fully qualified believer can properly appreciate the feeling of connection with Godliness the assembled crowd and the 50 chosen participants felt at the successful conclusion to their service.

Sheikh Hayakalah, the Sharia court judge, said in remarks broadcast on Radio Shabelle, a Mogadishu-based broadcaster, that Aisha had officially confirmed her guilt and was 'happy with the punishment under Islamic law.'

I am particularly relieved that the Shiekh has extended the logic of an invisible man in the sky determining everything - to the happiness of a child-rape victim finding justice in the form of grown men throwing rocks at her head. It is a consistent logical thread and one that enriches any argument in the value of God belief. 

Aisha's father told Amnesty International that when they tried to report her rape to the militia, the child was accused of adultery and detained.

None of the men Aisha accused was arrested, as obviously no rape occurred, the more likely scenario, and the one accepted by Gods appointed arm of action, Sheikh Hayakalah, being that a devious and amoral 13 year old just fancied a four way with some smelly old bearded married men, who weren't themselves guilty of adultery, even though she was not married and they were.

Gods work is done.

Gary and Muhammad

Gary Glitter has been in all kinds of bother with his taste for young girls. Muhammad, the prophet (PBUH) on the other hand enjoyed a successful sexual relationship with a 9 year old, whilst already well into his fifties.

I am in no way sympathetic to any abuser of children, irrespective of their motivations, however I cant help but feel that Gary has been a little short changed in being made the dumping pot for our national opprobrium. After all, can he not use the old prophet defense. 'If its good enough for the prophet, its good enough for me?'

Or, and here's my point. Should we not consider a judgmental view on the moral position of a man of 52 having sex with a 9 year old and still being considered by billions as 'the only prophet of the lord.' Is there not a part of this picture that would benefit from review?

Gary goes to jail and gets reviled for doing no more than the prophet (PBUH) felt appropriate conduct for a man of god. (sorry 'the' man of god).

Can we really shout at Gary whilst remaining silent about Muhammad?

Love story

Here's a fabulous feel good story about love between man and beast.

In 1969 Harrods Pet department sold two young men, John Rendell and Ace Berg, a lion cub.
John and Ace raised 'Christian the lion' in a small flat in the Kings road, where, unsurprisingly, he became a Chelsea celebrity.
Eventually Christian grew too big to carry on as a London Lion, and the enterprising young men arranged for legendary 'Born Free' lion man George Adamson to introduce Christian into the wilds of Kenya.
To everyone's surprise, this well brought up, polite young Sloane Lion found an African bride and took command of his own pride in the wild.

What happens next can be seen here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U
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And once your done with that story, consider FAITH - the dog (Will Power) who could have so easily have seen her handicap as an insurmountable challenge, but instead lives a full and happy life changing the way people think of the opportunities their lives represent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZsV4R3XJKk

Enjoy.

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The Wedding Crashers

On July 6th Lal Zareen woke up a happy man. This was the day his daughter and son were staging a double wedding. People came from miles around to join the revelry. There was laughter and merriment aplenty as the happy group wound their way towards the ceremony when some unexpected guests arrived.

A young American pilot in a war plane swooped low over the wedding party and dropped a bomb on them. This blew up a considerable number of the guests although some escaped the first blast and so the pilot returned to drop another bomb on the survivors. This killed off most of the women and children, but with admirable attention to detail, he then came back for thirds to be absolutely sure.

Although this is one wedding party that went with a bang, its seems safe to assume that for Lal Zareen and his guests, it was not a success.

Alastair Leithead, visiting the site as a BBC correspondent, says around 53 people died. Most of them women and children.

For two days after the attack the US military denied being wedding crashers, saying they had bombed insurgents. However, now Lt Nathan Perry says 'I assure you we do not target civilians and that our forces go to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties."

My thoughts go out to the pilot who now has to live with his contribution to raising the human condition. Around fifty women and children blown to smithereens by your hand is a lot of conscience to take to sleep with you every night.

Einstein

A few thoughts by Albert Einstein:

The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.

Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies, it was a crushing impression.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

Them that know.

Them that know. Know that they know.
And them that don’t know. They don’t know they don’t know.

What I know is. The Catholic Robert Mugabe has a dark agenda. His choices have disempowered millions - caused immeasurable suffering and misery - all done in the name of greed, vanity and ego in a riotous celebration of base emotions. Narcissism and overblown deluded self belief.

Almost everyone in the entire world knows that Robert Mugabe is a dark entity and yet he remains in power. His ‘where did you put your cross’ campaign sends his thugs to assault voters who did not put their cross on his name. Mugabe's African style democracy in action.

Something else that I know is that Tony Blair and George Bush serve dark agendas. Their choices have disempowered Millions. Their behavior has caused untold suffering and misery,  a murderous leadership-for profit style, done in the name of greed, vanity and ego whilst credited conveniently to  divine, accountability dodging, origins 

Almost everyone in the entire world knows that Bush is a dark entity. Around the world, outside of his circle of incentivized friends, he is commonly reviled as a power crazed village idiot creating immeasurable karmic debt. Most people in Britain feel betrayed by Blair - yet Bush is still in power while Blair rakes in Millions dispensing his Godly wisdom. A million British people came out to say NO to his Iraq war intentions, but Blair insisted. God was his excuse and considerable personal profit is the outcome. A Million lives ruined was the price of their promotion.

If alcoholism has taught us anything it is that without admission of a problem, no resolution is possible. Is there a problem with the world today?

If so, who heads the task force to make things better for the race of man. Surely – our elected leaders – in hierarchical order from the most powerful nation downwards. If things are bleak – are they in any way responsible. Should our leaders be able to use that most ridiculous of justifications – God told me to, whilst remaining immune to the obvious fact that they are NOT serving the planets best interests whilst remaining unaccountable for their actions. Be they criminal or moral.

Without accountability for personal actions, no forward progress is possible. Without making those leaders whose choices were so far from the will of the electorate – in particular Bush and Blair  - accountable, we remain as a race attached to the same blind malaise as the alcoholic. Address the problem or die because of it. God and stupidity.

Blair and Bush betrayed the popular will of those supposedly empowered to elect them as representatives. Just as the majority in Zimbabwe could not possibly have voted for a leader selling what:
The lowest mortality rate in the world, 150,000 % inflation and a track record of 100% failure in every department. Its easy to see how 50% of Zimbabweans voted for him then.

Similarly the majority of the US and UK electorate could not possibly have voted for what Bush and Blair achieved.

The disaster that their intelligent guidance had every opportunity to prefer instead of what their selfish – God driven profit motivated stance brought into fruition – has led to a terrible lowering of the bar in the human condition.

There is no getting away from it. Bush and Blair have achieved in leadership terms, a new low. Only the spin for ‘Them that don’t know’ can hope to hide this glaring fact. Not since the persecution of those claiming the Flat Earth was a myth can leadership be considered to have failed to represent ‘those that know’ to such a degree.

Not only has so much ‘3 trillion dollar’ ruination visited Iraq because of these dreadful deceits, but on a more far reaching scale, a new generation of voters look at what happened there – courtesy of Bush an Blair – and see no reason not to demonstrate the same moral barbarism. Look no further for a social explanation as to why the wide reaching instances of morally bankrupt behavior goes on in our communities. Why should any kid behave with a sense of moral compass when world leaders like Bush, Blair and Mugabe so obviously provide a moral compass suggesting what is obvious to those who knows:

The rich empower a leader to represent their interests. Spin and money. The majority are duped with a God driven – fear based agenda - that ensures their submission in moral and economic enslavement.

'The rich get richer – the poor get children.'

Those who know know.
And those that don’t know. They don’t know they don’t know.

And them that don’t know – statistically - represent 90%.
90% of people alive on Earth limit their choices by accepting supplication to God. The poorer and least educated being the most affected.

This demonstrates that 90% of people have abrogated personal responsibility for the far easier expedient of God. God rules – because – with God nothing is ever your fault. There is no accountability with God because as any believer will confirm, the devil exists to provide a watertight excuse for any personal failure to exercise wise decision-making.

How anyone still falls for this exposed and ridiculous idea can best be explained by motive. The motive exists for a minority of those empowered by privilege to ensure the continuing subjugation of those disempowered by ignorance into a God driven position of submission to the fortunes of their dominant masters. To the majority of us in recent times, this refers specifically to Messrs Bush and Blair.

Men made immensely wealthy by their betrayal of the office to which they were – seemingly elected – by their choice to use God as the shameful deceit by which they employ spin masters to manipulate the compliant majority of - basically poor people – driven by poverty consciousness toward a belief in a mysterious God figure who will – despite all common sense and all evidence to the contrary – reveal himself to make things better.

And for this vanity driven sickness, a million people in Iraq, many of whom are no different in aspiration or personal choice to the English people who pay the taxes that pay for the bombs that blight their lives, find their lives ruined beyond repair. This happens while Blair and Bush enjoy ever growing prosperity in direct proportion to the misery that drives this unhappy balance.

How will this ever change. There are so many now who are empowered by choice. Who are able to formulate opinions on what is – and what should be. Based on a personal experience of common sense and not simply a Mugabe style version of ‘Where did you put your cross.’

Should the day ever come where the elected minority accurately express the will of the majority – one thing is for sure. Accountability must accompany the position. Without accountability – just as an alcoholic cannot recover without first admitting the root of the problem, we must recognize accountability in those who accepted the office – and the benefits of celebrity leadership – whilst pursuing a failed agenda.

Bush and Blair must be made accountable before a new era of considered leadership based on a considered representation of the majority can commence. Don’t do the crime if you cant do the time.

Mugabe, Bush and Blair have betrayed the interests of those who looked to them for leadership. The semantics of how they can be tried in law is secondary to what ‘Them that knows. Knows.’

The damage their abuse of privileged position has caused is far worse than almost any other criminal activity you could think of like say – a mass murderer. And yet - they are somehow disenfranchised from accountability. Praise the Lord. That really is evidence of miraculous goings on. 

Unless these leaders who have palpably failed to deliver the basic charter for which they were elected be held accountable, how can we ever hope for change toward a more enlightened condition. We as a human race need accept and address the faults in our condition – or succumb entirely to their consequences.

Bush Blair and Mugabe. Bought to trial for crimes against Humanity – will be when you know the worm has turned.

In the meanwhile agitating for a better world by proclaiming objection to – environment – crime – child abuse – asylum quotas – petrol prices - etc… should be seen in the appropriate context. Small, irrelevant distraction from the central issue.

The central issue is – 90 % or so of the Earths population is mired in the philosophy of ignorant bliss. They have no accountability to themselves. They believe their God will provide a heaven if they conform to a rigid set of rules that makes an enemy of anyone who does not conform to the same ridiculous nonsense.

All pain and no gain it seems to me. A life spent punishing yourself with guilt and attachment to base values, living in fear while looking forward to a happy period after you die. We elect leaders in this same image and the world burns. Wars create millionaires to keep things ticking along and as ‘Them that don’t know. Don’t know they don’t know’ but continue to grow in number, apocalyptic melt down becomes inevitable. Indeed, desirable to millions of American christians who yearn for the reassurance of their biblical interpretation requiring Apocalypse to fulfill their deluded prophecy belief.

Until we establish a new system of accountable leadership that represents the will of the people who have retained the option of free choice, we can rely on one thing only. More God – more war.

Can every vote really be considered equal in the system we call democracy when the vast majority don’t have the basic capacity to exercise the most basic precepts of free choice. Money and spin can turn them any which way. They would even vote in a village idiot with a little god driven spin. Really - I am not making this up.
Lenin's great wisdom is as true now as ever. 'A lie told often enough becomes the truth.' This truth cannot coexist with the principle of 'one man one vote' democracy.

My hope is that ‘Them that know’ will increase in number until a tipping point is reached.

Perhaps a future generation will look back on the ‘God’ era of man with the same incredulity that we now look back just a few hundred years to when God made the Earth Flat. Those blasphemers who challenged the Church view that the Earth was flat were liable to grisly death.

Paul Kruger, the elected leader of the Republic of the Transvaal died in 1904. Little over a hundred years ago, he died convinced of two things. God. And that the Earth was Flat.

Them that don’t know. Don’t know they don’t know.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.