Age, Illness, the sickness of society and Iran Air flight 655.

Chief Sitting Bull (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 In a few days I will be seventy. I have seen so many things and places, met kind people and nasty people and if the human race is to survive it is those that care who must do the fighting.Things change constantly except for war and famine, the timeless enemies of humankind. Experience is the finest teacher of all. Illnesses creeps up on you as does pain and weariness but you learn to cope. Note however that I refuse to die until my beloved Blue's win the F.A. Cup.
 Blessed are the peacemakers except if you are an Israeli  terrorist murdering Palestinians or come from the good old USA who have killed more people, some of them their own, than any other nation ever. And this in the sham name of democracy and freedom. Go tell that to the people of Chile, Native Americans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, Afghanistanis, Libyans - oh the list is endless and chilling dear reader.
 This must not be a generalisation - there are good and peaceful citizens of the USA - read Conterpunch (shown)  in the sidebar as "The uncensored truth from inside the USA", but these are intelligent people who understand the deep malaise and the corruption of American politics.

 And the big black hope, Obama, has followed in this unpleasant tradition. My advice is to protest, by peaceful means and by song, and to withdraw your labour and support to make them sit up and listen. Vote with your feet. We stopped the poll tax by people power. As for save the world pop concerts then forget them - what good have they done except for giving the oxygen of publicity to a few pop stars who could start by giving their fortunes away.                            

 And as for the recent terrible shooting down of the Malaysian airliner over The Ukraine then, as ever, I caution you about believing the media and the politicians: they all have their own agenda, which is usually to follow the orders of the establishment. And hear thee this Obama and Cameron, who are rushing to judgement, you are hypocrites and where was the condemnation in the West when the United States Navy guided missile cruiserUSS Vincennes on 3 July 1988 shot down civilians travelling on Iran Air flight 655.