ARCHIVES: 15 February - 21 February 2003 PEACE MARCHES: THE THREE EMBRYOS ARE NOT LISTENING 17 February 2003 Historic peace demonstrations around the world fell on the deaf ears of The Three Embryos, George, Tony, and John. It is now clear that they represent the Bull Goose rogue states on this planet. Or rather, one Bull Goose rogue and its two gosling followers. Upwards of ten million people in 600 cities in just about every country hit the streets between Friday and Sunday to tell these faux leaders that their boys-own war is not an option. Yet the Right, manned by those sexually frustrated or just plain stupid males who secretly lust for the chaos that will allow them to rape and pillage, continue to bleat for the apocalyptic removal of third rate rogue Saddam Hussein. No one has a beef with the removal of this tyrant and his psychotic son Uday, but the majority of human beings on this planet do object to the unjustified slaughter of Iraqi citizens to accomplish it. That the Right wants to go to war is typical of a mindset that resides in an adolescent, rock-throwing past. As a placard at the Melbourne rally said, "Come on John, war is so 20th century." The pro-war fanatics have swallowed what they have been told by three of the least trustworthy thugs ever to sit as the heads of government; they have turned a blind eye to the real and very transparent reasons for this Christian/Capitalist crusade. The Christian aspect is indeed right out of the Crusades, and has as its bugle call the belief that God is on its side. Bush and his henchmen never start a day at the office without an extended prayer service. Be very afraid of this, and remember that Osama bin Laden and his henchmen, who also believe God is on their side, pray five times a day. The Capitalist adventure is more pragmatic. Put simply, by conquering Iraq, the Bush Administration will cut Saudi Arabia out of the equation (so they can be dealt with in relation to 9/11 without the threat of oil cuts), allowing them to pump the majority of Iraq's vast oil reserves to China via a pipeline to be built by the US and its "coalition of the willing" through recently conquered Afghanistan. Australia will probably be excluded (or relegated to an insignificant role) from this lucrative venture and John Howard will have sacrificed lives for nothing. The United States ultimately doesn't need Iraq's oil for its SUVs (there is enough oil coming from Russia, Africa and other countries, not to mention the untapped reserves in Alaska), but the money to be made on the China deal has interested parties rubbing their hands. For them it's worth incinerating Iraqis. That is why these demonstrations will not stop the obscene march to war and its promising profits. The scariest aspect is the religious backup in case the war proves a disaster, the American Christian Fundamentalist Right's cherished antidote to life, Armageddon. For it is almost certain that an invasion of Iraq will inspire Muslim Fundamentalists to wage unimaginable terror. If the war proceeds, with or without a cowed UN resolution, we will know once and for all that democracy in our time has no meaning and that we are under the thumb of gen-yoo-ine fork-tongued fascists. Indeed, it is now evident that no one but the chicken hawks in power and their testosterone-plagued supporters (along with their female doormats), can possibly deny that George W. Bush is the greatest threat to world peace since Adolph Hitler. But right behind him is North Korea's Kim Jong-il. He is the whacko Bush should be paying attention to. The weird thing is, if Bush hadn't stolen the election and turned the world into pre-emptive strike zone, Kim might still be content with his $700 bottles of cognac and not yelling "Hey, what about me!" Regime change, eh? Just about every country needs one. VODAFONEY JOHNNY, THE SANDWICH MAN PM 18 February 2003 Sandwich men, the blokes who used to carry sandwich boards over their shoulders to spruik the latest after shave from the chemist, went the way of the dodo in the same decade that has Our Johnny transfixed like a bunny in the headlights: the 1950s. But that hasn't stopped him from being the only leader in history to power walk around the world spruiking products on his comfies. "Hey, I'm a modern fella," he let it be known to all who were aghast, by dropping the sandwich board for a tracksuit with Vodafone's name plastered all over it. But wait a minute, isn't Vodafone the British company in direct competition with Telstra? And isn't the PM trying to sell Telstra? I get it. John W. Howard is trying to make us think that the $10,000 plasma TV Telstra donated to him six months ago was in no way an attempt to win him over. No John Laws, Our Johnny! For more low down, see Matthew Pinkney: A PM's plasma pals. : GET-IT PILLS FOR THE OUT-OF-IT 18 February 2003 George W. Bush's advisers are telling him to ignore worldwide protests against his crusade. Republican "Senator John McCain, for one, said it was 'foolish' to protest on behalf of the Iraqis, because the Iraqis live under Saddam Hussein 'and they will be far, far better off when they are liberated from his brutal, incredibly oppressive rule.'" Along with comments from pro-war knuckleheads accusing protestors of waving caricatures of Bush and Howard but none of Hussein (reason: we already know Hussein in a tyrant.), McCain is unable to get past the Dick and Jane version of war as a gee whiz adventure. Why didn't one of his colleagues remind him that shortly after the rocket's red glare there will be damn few left to be liberated? See Patrick Tyler: Anti-war protests a reminder of political consequences of backing US. HEIL RUDDOCK PROUD OF HIS CHILD INCARCERATION STATS 18 February 2003 Lest we forget that war is not the only avenue of shame pursued by the Howard Government, Immigration Minister, Heil Ruddock tabled information in Parliament showing 120 children were in "detention centres" at December 13 last year. Although the anal retentive fascist failed to provide a time check, rumours have it that the statistic was valid as of morning tea break, give or take a few seconds. "The longest a child has been detained," he intoned, "was five years, five months and 20 days." A record to make every Aussie proud. Read Meaghan Shaw's article: 120 children detained behind the razor wire. While you're at it, try Russell Skelton: Living life neither here nor there. BY HIS WORDS SHALL YE KNOW THIS TRAITOR 20 February 2003 First John Howard inadvertently referred to all of us, protestors and his followers alike, as "the mob". He's used it before; it's a phrase that comes naturally to this contemptuous misanthrope. (I suppose we should be grateful he hasn't yet referred to us as "my people".) One of his advisers must have tapped him on the shoulder to suggest that "mob" may have been insulting to the Silent Majority, not that they would have necessarily picked up on it. To make amends, he has now tried to make it clear who the real mob is by claiming that the actions of the peace marchers have given comfort to Saddam Hussein. His inference here, no longer an example of the dog-whistling he used to be infamous for, but blatant rabble-rousing, is that they are disloyal Australians. (Whew! What will his sentence be when he is found guilty of treason?) As John W. Howard holds the highest office in the land, it is hard to come to the conclusion that he is stupid. The only other explanation for this remark is that he is so morally corrupt that it does not bother him to willingly distort the message being given by half a million people. Which, of course, was to remind the world that the bewildering intransigence of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and John Howard is about to make Iraqi citizens pay the ultimate price for the actions of Saddam. Just as the citizens of America, Great Britain, and Australia will suffer the consequences for the actions of their dictators. In terms of the ability to change the course of events, the citizens of these four countries are equally helpless. UNITED NATIONS I: HOWARD WANTS THE UN NEUTERED 21 February 2003 Why does the Right Wing so detest the United Nations? Because, as its name implies, it represents cooperation among nations. This is a distinctly Left Wing view. The Right wants competition, it wants no international body to curb its expansionist desires. The United Nations is seen as a threat to its dog-eat-dog survival of the fittest. Like all Right Wing ultra nationalists, John W. Howard, the Republicans in Umeruhca, and outright tyrants, have always despised the UN. Before Howard saw that the majority of Australians wanted the UN to give the go ahead for an invasion of Iraq, he had resolutely turned his back on it. He acted with utter disregard for its attempts to thwart his disgraceful treatment of asylum seekers, and before that he refused to sign declarations promoting the rights of women and children. Now he mouths platitudes about wishing for the UN to intervene and bow to George W. Bush's wishes, while at the same time doing everything in his power to make it collapse. For some psychopathic reason, he wants the nations of the world to be held accountable to no one. Did I say some psychopathic reason? For this pathetic prime minister, the reason is clear, and it is very psychopathic. Howard wants to render the United Nations ineffective so it can no longer remind him of his humanitarian obligations. This view, that of an elderly WASP, is the international reflection of his delusional domestic right to abuse with impunity those who oppose him, and especially those he finds inferior to the plutocracy in whose name he governs and to which he aspires to belong. "Leaders" like John W. Howard and George W. Bush have always been a disaster for humanity. UNITED NATIONS II: IT'S UP TO THE UN TO STOP BUSH 21 February 2003 One of Virginia Trioli's "spin doctors" said it very succinctly yesterday: George Bush has single-handedly destabilised the entire world. Not one corner of this global village has been spared the wild west rhetoric coming from this panorama-challenged imbecile. All are coming apart at the seams. Every human relationship is fragile, at all times under threat from an outside destabilising influence. From couples to countries to regions, we live by the thread of our best intentions. Enter Mr Evil Intentions from the Umeruhcan Empire and zap, boom, potz! goes just about every tenuous alliance on the board. Who's to stop him? The United Nations. The body set up to protect us not only against foreign invaders, but ourselves. Instead of taking the body blows from a concerted Umeruhcan effort to make it a vassal of Empire, the UN should unite to unconditionally oppose the United States in its war against Iraq. It should make it crystal clear that if the US does not cease and desist immediately, the UN will constitute a counter force, not through military aggression, but through an all-member boycott of US goods. At some point, George W. Bush and his henchmen will be removed from power. Until then, the world, through its sole representative, the United Nations, has a duty to stop the United States in its tracks. Just as it would have stopped Hitler had it then existed. Top

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