Lol and then weep for the future

One world government anyone?
Note the PoMo/neo-marxist over-the-top language. If it were not so serious it would be hillarious, like a Benny Hill skit. 

The regime’s PressTV ran an op-ed analysis on Saturday with a headline “Iran deals deathblow to U.S. global hegemony.” The analysis, by Finian Cunningham, an Irishman whom the outlet calls “a prominent expert in international affairs,” blames America for much of the world’s problems and warns of its decline.

“Iran, however, presents a greater and more problematic challenge to U.S. global hegemony,” Cunningham wrote. “The U.S. in 2013 is a very different animal from what it was in 1945. Now it resembles more a lumbering giant. Gone is its former economic prowess and its arteries are sclerotic with its internal social decay and malaise. … Iran exerts a controlling influence over the vital drug that keeps the American economic system alive – the world’s supply of oil and gas. Any war with Iran, if the U.S. were so foolish to embark on it, would result in a deathblow to the waning American and global economy.”

Cunningham said the story will not end there: “The attainment of world peace, justice and sustainability does not only necessitate the collapse of American hegemony. We need to overthrow the underlying capitalist economic system that gives rise to such destructive hegemonic powers. Iran represents a deathblow to the American empire, but the people of the world will need to build on the ruins.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/iran-warns-of-world-war-iii/#wbaj964zvw3o8hb6.99

Doubting Thomas

Thomas Sowell says it so well:

The last thing the political left needs, or can even afford, are self-reliant individuals. If such people became the norm, that would destroy not only the agenda and the careers of those on the left, but even their flattering image of themselves as saviors of the less fortunate.

Victimhood is where it's at. If there are not enough real victims, then fictitious victims must be created — as with the claim that there is "a war on women." Why anyone would have an incentive or a motivation to create a war on women in the first place is just one of the questions that should be asked of those who promote this political slogan, obviously designed for the gullible.

Cultural Seppuku

It is truly frightening when we read what a Russian President has to say and recognise it as not only the truth but sensible as well, certainly more practical than most, if not all, Western democracies who appear determined to commit cultural suicide.

"In Russia live like Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Sharia Law, and live the life of Muslim's then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need Muslim minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We will not tolerate disrespect of our Russian culture . We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Muslims are taking over those countries and they will not take over Russia.

The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways Sharia Law and Muslims. When this honourable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the Russian national interest first, observing that the Muslims Minorities Are Not Russians.”

The politicians in the Duma gave Putin a five minute standing ovation.

Cut the funding Tony

The ABC in Australia has become a leftist cancer on the body politic, it must be excised before it does any more harm to the country. Consider this revelation by Miranda Devine:

WHY did The Guardian sit on its bombshell allegations about Australia spying on Indonesia for five months?

The timing of its joint story with the ABC on Monday could not be more damaging. It came at a crucial point in Australian-Indonesian relations, when the new Abbott government had achieved fresh co-operation on people smuggling, and was beginning to “stop the boats”.
 

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So it’s doubtful Scott is correct when he says his story was in Australia’s long term interest. But what is certain is that it has been an immediate diplomatic catastrophe which threatens to derail the Abbott government’s efforts to stop illegal boat arrivals.

The left-wing luvvies hate the new government because it stands in the way of their 'utopian dreams' (dystopian). They cannot and will not accept the decision of the majority of Australians as long as that decision is at odds with their power struggle and so they are using OUR MONEY to further their revolutionary ideas. This blight on society must be addressed. Free speech is well and good but when it steals other peoples money OUR MONEY to do so it is no longer free.
Cut the funding now Tony Abbott!

Art for Art's sake

About the issue of 'Art for Art's sake' I propose that CS Lewis held the finest judgement on the matter:

It is hard not to argue that all the greatest poems have

been made by men who valued something else much

more than poetry—even if that something else were

only cutting down enemies in a cattle-raid or tumbling

a girl in bed. The real frivolity, the solemn vacuity, is all

with those who make literature a self-existent thing to

be valued for its own sake.
 

....... Ultimate relativism, nihilism, and post-modernism are all forms of pride. If there is no objective reality outside of me, then I don’t have to submit to it. Lewis thought that such views would mean the “abolition of man.” In a book by that title he defended “the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false to the kind of thing the universe is and the kind of things we are.”  So Lewis devoted his life not to creating reality, but to seeing it and saying it well.

"An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody interms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom. That is the response of humility to the world one is given by a Creator. It inclines one to love truth and to endeavor for all one’s ideas to fit the truth."

It seems like corruption

The politics of climate change is effectively portrayed by the bureaucratic career of Kevin Rudd...it's all about seeming rather than doing.
It's all about appearing to be morally superior, appearing to care more, appearing to have compassion whereas the actual results are diametrically opposite to all the seeming. In actuality this approach is a diabolical form of corruption.
The following short piece from MercatorNet says it all:

It's difficult to read about the devastation that Typhoon Haiyan has brought to the Philippines: more than 10,000 dead, hundreds of thousands homeless. I have friends with relatives in Tacloban. With all communications severed, they have heard nothing and they fear the worst. It may have been the most powerful typhoon ever to make landfall.

The first response to this calamity is "climate change". The Filipino negotiator at a UN-sponsored climate change summit in Warsaw plans to go on a hunger strike to focus the minds of the other delegates.

But the question that he really should be asking is why the island of Leyte wasn't better prepared for this ferocious storm.

Ultimately the answer is poverty but an important element is corruption. As Maria Paz Mendez Hodes, a Filipino journalist, points out, the government is reactive in the face of natural disasters, rather than pro-active. "The country desperately needs spending on preventive infrastructure. Hence the anger when a pork barrel scam funnels key funds away from those projects, resulting in a deadly nexus of geography, poverty and government inaction," she writes.

In the days ahead, there will be plenty of people calling for action on climate change after Typhoon Haiyan. But that's not what people living in the world's most disaster-prone country need most. Regularly buffeted by typhoons, volcanic eruptions, floods and earthquakes, what Filipinos need most is an efficient, forward-planning government where disaster funds don't dribble into the pockets of corrupt politicians. That will save far more lives than carbon trading schemes.

Despots of America

The state of America today, funny, tasteless and disturbing in equal measure.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/363531/drift-toward-despotism-mark-steyn/page/0/1