Bulldozer in Jerusalem

Oh, did you hear the wailing and gnashing of Israeli teeth when an angry, frustrated Israeli Arab got into a bulldozer and barreled down streets in Jerusalem? In the end, two dead, many injured, and the man shot 5 times and killed. Shock and indignation. Yet, what about the long list of Palestinian dead or destroyed homes and uprooted olive groves which Israel has systematically carried out with a BULLDOZER. Where was the out cry then? The bulldozer is a weapon against Arabs in Israel and the occupied territory and Gaza. It's as plain as the nose on your face that we're dealing with a double standard here. Sympathy is overwhelmingly on Israel's side, although it is the agresser; not on the victims who are Palestinian or Israeli Arab. The shoe pinches when Israel gets a dose of its own medicine, doesn't it? And what's more telling with all its power and wealth and sympathy globally Israel is more insecure than anytime in its history.

Another lecture by the anal hair stylist Hank Paulson

From London the anal hair stylist supremo and US secretary of the Treasury has once again held forth on how bad markets are. We have heard his blather time and time again. We are not interested in another rehash of Little Nell dying, we simply want to know what this fool who passes himself off as a hot money man is going to do to ameliorate the current mess which he as Herr Bush man at the US Treasury has helped to make worse. We want answers, not bromides, not pap, but real answers how to begin digging our way out of a deep recession which is beginning to skate on the edges of depression. That what we want, oh anal hair stylist supremo. Action not empty words!

Anal hair stylist Paulson finds out that Europe is suffering from the subprime meltdown, high oil prices and the like

Anal hair stylist supremo and US secretary of the Treasury is a busy man today. He's always on the road. He's become a moving target, not easy to hit. You see him clinking glasses of good cheer in Asia or looking sappy at meetings in Europe. Now the anal hair stylist has, o miracles, Europe is in economic doldrums albeit not as bad as the US. Paulson is traveling so much it takes his mind--what little there is of it--from problems at home of which he's klewless, and has little idea of how to remedy them. Put a cup of whisky in his hand and he's in his element, a back slapper and glass eyed with cheer. As the US economy tanks, the dollar so anemic and anorexic you wonder if ever will live to see another day, the anal hair stylist continues with insouciance on his appointed rounds of far' niente...do nothingism which excels at. Send the man to boot camp, and let him peel a mountain of potatoes for he might go well at that?

On again--Herr Bush's trip to South Korea

If you thought cooler heads found a place in Herr Bush's White House, think again! After the G8 meeting in Tokyo, Herr Bush's trip is on again to drop into Seoul. South Korea's capital is bubbling with protests against the importation again of US beef [and this has been going on for the last two months on a daily basis], which Bulldozer Lee Myung bak gave the green light to sell US beef on the Korean market place when he was in Washington to curry Herr Bush's favour. A lot of good that's done him! The protests, deepening in popular support, are also calling for Lee's recognition. At first to cool off the heat of Lee, the White House not only renegotiated the agreement on US beef, but also announced Herr Bush's trip to see his new friend in the Blue House was off. And then Lee with the happy smile on Herr Bush's face, let the beef in anyway. It was as though klewless Bulldozer Lee had waved a big red flag to an already enraged bull! Lee's decision with US backing was just that, for it gave one walloping dose of vitamin B into flagging protests, and suddenly the streets again were awash with Koreans calling for Lee's stepping down from office. And it up until now protests had a country fair air to them, Lee's police got testy and began breaking heads. Now the protests aren't going away by any stretch of the imagination by August unless Lee resigns. So if Lee is the most hated man in South Korea, Herr is a close second. And if anything will make Koreans' blood boil, it's Herr Bush's presence in Seoul.
Protesters might not get closer enough to spit at him as did Venezuelans during Herr Nixon's visit as Eisenhower's vice president, but one thing is sure, Lee will call out the troops with live ammo, and then the US beef hockeys will hit the fan!

Social protest in China -- the ringing of the knell on the Communist party

Natural disasters, protests in Tibet, world condemnation, and threats of boycotting the summer 2008 Olympics in Beijing have rained on Beijing's parade. The tired old Communist party is now facing social protests be they the killing of an innocent school girl or the collapse of shoddy schools killing thousands of school children and by killing of children, it affects the one child per family policy which the great helmsman Mao instituted. The death of an only child strikes at the very heart of China's millenia old ethos which values children as the link to the future. Many grieving parents may be too old to have another child, so they will slouch into old age without anyone to care for them, and thus with their passing, the family will die out. Natural disasters such as floods and earthquake have the centuries old stigma that the heavens are not happy with China's leaders and that they are with drawing the mandate of authority from them. China's brutal rule in Tibet is but a magnification of the terror that its uses against its own citizens. And the Chinese have to thank protesting Tibetans because in one fell swoop, they have exposed the ugly dictatorship in Beijing. Slowly but surely the cancer of destruction is eating away at Communist rule in China, and thanks to rapid economic development, an industrial and prosperous China is merely exacerbating the contradictions within society, impoverishing the masses for enrichment of the very few, and by a stroke, recreating uneven capitalist development which in the west ushered in revolution and democracy of sorts, not democracy of the party dictatorship a la Lenin! So we are witnessing the fools who rule and run China, digging their own grave!

Lee Myung bak cracks heads of protesters

It is now going on to two months since the streets of Seoul are the stage of massive protests against president Lee's decision to allow re importation of US beea. Protesters are calling for his resignation. It looked for a brief moment that Lee had managed to calm the streets by renegotiating his thoughtless agreement with Washington on US beef. But he's known as 'Bulldozer' and bull doze did he the protest by allowing the beef in. And with one push of the plow, he turned over the field of discontent once more to the protesters. Not only that the protest has gained in depth and appeal. Catholic clergy have taken to the street, holding processions and outdoor masses, something not seen since and reminiscent of the days when Korean Catholic with the blessing of cardinal Kim challenged the Yushin constitution of dictator Park Chung Hee. Lee is tone deaf and has learnt nothing from his country's history or the feelings of his fellow citizens. And so he's called on the police to crack heads. Which will only make his opponents on the street dig in more firmly. Bulldozer Lee has dug his own grave. Street protests have so isolated him from his people, and brought dissension within his own Grand National Party which holds a majority in parliament, that sooner than later, he's going to have to step down.

War drums on the Potomac?

Sy Hersh has a hot piece in the current issue of The New York. Famous for his breaking the My Lai massacre, he has sources in the Pentagon. Today, he's talking of Herr Bush's everything in place to launch the long talked about attack on Iran. Michael Klare share 50 per cent of Hersh's fears, though. It reminds one of the short story which hardly anyone reads anymore. Which door will the protagonist open? The one behind which is the fair damsel? or the other which harbours a man eating lion.? True Herr Bush is the most radical [right] of America's 43 presidents, and he doesn't give a rat's fart to those who question his right to do what he jolly well pleases. His war in Iraq ain't going well; he dropped the ball against the Taliban in Afghanistan; his ally in Pakistan is in collusion with radical Islamists; and he's stretched his military to the point of breaking. Attacking Iran would cause serious civil unrest in the US; bring down the pillars of the economic temple on Herr Bush's thick head; and send south the world's economy and play havoc with the way of life we know. Is Sy Hersh playing the boy who cried wolf? One wonders, and yet one thing is sure, Herr Bush's own generals are fearful of the man's actions, and so they leak rumours to Hersh to put sticks in the spokes of Herr Bush bicycle to war with Ira

John McCain down Bogata way, ole!

Republican presidential hopeful McCain is down in Colombia today [1 July 2008]. His is a show and tell day in Bogota. He went to throw his support behind Herr Bus;h's push for a free market zone with the US, which doesn't seem to be going anywhere. McCain adds nothing to the matter, but he's in motion which just about says it all. He's being jerked around by an adviser of his Charlie Black the man who wishes Al Qaeda attacks the US again so that his traveling mate will be a shoe in to the White House. Well, Black wearing another hat is a lobby for Occidental oil which has a presence in Colombia. So we may read a little more into McCain's trip than meets the eye, but not very much. McCain is a witless wonder. He's slipping and sliding to appease the Republic hard right who will hold their collective nose vote for him in November, something his 95 year old mum had the good sense to say out loud. Age has nothing to do with McCain's candidacy; it's his groveling before the old gods of a disastrous 8 years of Herr Bush radical rule. If McCain had any thoughts of his own, he long ago traded them in for a chance to sit in the Oval office. He's the Hubert Humphery of the Republican party!

John Mc

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