Our Rupert Murdoch Dream

Posted 30th May 2019 to the Washington Post Newspaper Washington DC USA

There has been a lot of flack thrown at the media of late about bending the truth,
especially the Murdoch Brand that has serviced Americas desire for self deception since the Reagan Years.

 I think we are looking at this in the wrong way, reality is easy to see and we don’t need a paper to tell us that
Human nature has a very dark side especially from the spoiled and often nasty offspring of the great and powerful.

The Murdoch Brand is in fact a public service it makes life for the rest of us more comfortable to be shielded from all that for many years now.
However the last couple of years it has been very taxing on the Rupert family’s skills to make the magnificent awfulness of the nation’s trust fund kids in politics
sit comfortably as they appear to torment our democracy for sport as if they are poking sticks in to our government like it is an ant hill.

Well it is funny how human history and human failings play out on an endless loop. But also uncomfortable.

United States of the World ?

Posted 22nd May 2019 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin Otago NZ

The ghost of the late engineer Osama Bin Laden will be feeling happy seeing his handiwork play out
Using the USA’s military weight and size to break it’s back.  He set up a chain of events that have morphed
into his design.

As we speak the USA has two massive new wars on the books all ready to launch into plus all the ones still burning since
The events September 11th 2001  which will strain the US Military to it’s limits.
And at the same time facing potential turmoil at home and from the planet itself...

Strangely there is only one US Presidential candidate running on a anti war ticket Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.
And she is not getting a lot of oxygen even from the liberals.

President Trump says he is “anti war” but he might be replaced soon and any replacement will come from a game of thrones cabinet.

Who would have thought that being a genius world leader would be so complicated!

Money Buys Loyalty Not Ability In Politics

Posted 31st March 2019 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ

Some American journalists are saying the Anglo American world has reached peak stupid..
It seems that opening the tap to big money in politics has bought us all a terrible problem, the problem of you can buy loyalty or you can buy competence but you cant buy both!

The fact is politicians need REAL skills especially to cope with un expected change the skill to raise money from rich donors is of very little use in the world of rational thought.

The Anglo American political world on both sides of the Atlantic has become fat and lazy. It is so bad that a 20 something  waitress from the Bronx with no political training is running rings around them all.

It is common conversation in the UK, if you randomly pick a person off the street they would have far more ability, flexibility and common sense then any random Tory MP out of Westminster.

Seriously, if you where paying for these people to run you might want a refund ! 

Governing Without Faith - USA

Posted 10th Jan 2019 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ

How is it that the United States had all the luck and power in the world for the last one hundred years and is now in a perpetual state of crisis ?  I think it’s due to a stubborn faith that it’s democratic process is God Like.
Ask any rational person if an election so corrupted as the US 2016 presidential Election should be valid and the answer is a definite no, however in the USA only the very bravest commentators say they need to run the 2016 election over again from it’s primaries knowing what we all know now.

Seriously, no faith should be this strong that this kind on madness can be left to run wild because of precedent.
The grave crisis that faces the USA is not on it’s boarders but inside them. This administration strikes at the very roots of law and order to keep it’s tentative grip on legitimacy alive.

If that is not a uber crisis than we all need new dictionaries.

As for the Government shutdown show me one billionaire stepping up to pay to keep the county that sustains them...
Not so much as a single Buffet. 

 

US Empire -Trump's Fatal Blow

Posted 9th October 2018 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper NZ

 I would like to take this moment to mark the passing of the Ideal that was the United States of America  which has just flat lined on the political operating table. 

A bit over 37 years ago President Reagan poisoned the two party system by using his office to destroy unions which where the life blood of the Democratic Party and yesterday it was announced the barely legitimate Republican President of the USA just poisoned the justice system by breaking every rule in the book consequently abandoning over two thirds of the population in the process an consequently faith in the whole system.

Award winning political journalist Chris Hedges predicts that trust in the US Empire is about to collapse.
Maybe we should try and revive the old British Commonwealth Empire or crank an alternative
World government of more mature nations run off crypto currency cannabis and taxation that covers all necessities of life.
who knows,  we could even lure California Oregon & Vermont to join up!   

America Reaches Peak Stupid 2018

Posted 10th September 2018 to the New York Times Newspaper NY USA cc Otago Daily Times

Now that the United States of America has reached peak stupid...
Don’t you think it’s time to open the windows and let the stink out?
America was founded on a dumb idea that only pointless hard toil and unpleasantness is somehow worthy.
Today our smart people are coming up with some great ways to fix the nation’s mindset
but you guys are stuck in the mud spinning your wheels going down the same old road to nowhere.
Everybody in the USA can have a sense of pride and purpose as citizens of the greatest nation ever,
sure it will take time, money and work but what else can we invest our lives in ?
If you are doing your job properly you will see this. Seek out the progressives !
A job well done is more rewarding that anything you can imagine.