The War on Fundamentalism - Latest Bin Laden Video

Bin Laden - "It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interest of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations".

Now, I hate to say it but if you stop for a second, forget "the war on terrorism" and have a look at what this guy's saying it's a bit scary actually. He actually has a valid point. Now I don't want my freedom of speech taken away and I quite like the fact that my girlfriend and I are on an equal footing and she doesn't have to walk ten paces behind me all the time. Head scarfs and face masks are also just a bit of a fashion faux pas that although novel, would be rather scary if it were the norm. Despite all of this though, he has got a bit of a point. We are a bit sheep-like in the way that we let corporations run all over everyone else in the name of democracy. It's a tough one, i'll grant you that.

As Jim Morrison said, "they've got the guns but, we've got the numbers!" only thing is that we've got the guns and they happen to have the numbers. Regardless of Osama's plans, this world is going to become a muslim world eventually. The christians aren't multiplying like they used to, aetheists have no voice in society and by their very nature will never unite against any other culture, so it kind of leaves us with Islamic law whether we like it or not. If not tomorrow then certainly in a few hundred years or so.

Looking at both sides from a bit of a neutral point of view, we don't really need a war on terrorism, we need a war on fundamentalism both Islamic and Christian. The main problem though (and this is why fundamentalism will win) is that no one will ever stand against both of these and democrats and liberals tend to avoid confrontation all together. It's a tricky one and something worth having a think about...

Aplogise and Move on...

I was reading an article on the beeb there about how Robert Redford has called for the US leaders to apologise for the war in Iraq.

I must admit though that after reading this article and thought about the whole thing, i'm quite puzzled as to who should be apologising to who?

I think Redford's point is that the American people trusted the government to act on their behalf after 9/11 but the government betrayed this trust. But I have a few problems with that.

Was it not revenge and retribution that America wanted? Now 50,000 Iraqi civilians are dead and when people are watching the pictures of Saddam with his throat wide open and his head at 90 degrees they're not feeling so blood thirsty anymore...

We all know Bush is a twat, much like the UK now doesn’t trust a thing that Blair says but I don't think everything can now be blamed on Bush. He didn't fool everyone into thinking he was a nice guy, he's always been thick and he's never even tried to hide it. The US happily voted in someone who if properly subjected to psychological testing, would probably be defined as special needs.

I don't think that leaders should be apologising to the electorate, after all it was the electorate that put them there. I do however think that the people of the US and UK should be apologising to the world. Instead of acting like the responsible elder brothers of the world, we've been acting like kids.

There's an incredibly complicated game of political chess going on at the moment. With the middle-east far from peaceful and China playing some sort of global version of "tin can alley" with satellites, it's not really a time to be letting the monkey try it's hand at chess, is it?

I do think that there is a good chance of some stability in the near future. It certainly looks like the Democrats will stump up a serious candidate for the next elections and hopefully the US can resume some form global diplomacy. Although, exciting though the prospect is, I fear that there will be some backwater mentalists out there who simply won't accept a female or black president.

As for the war on terror, how is anyone really expecting to win this fight? The "Kill ever Muslim in the world and hope you got the terrorists" policy seems to have a few flaws that are quite obvious to most of us. It's time to start to diffuse the situation by backing off and strong diplomatic channels to stop the tensions in Israel and the genocide in Darfur. Again, this isn't possible whilst the monkey's in charge. Other world leaders just seem to laugh at him as he tries to find the door off the stage.

You really have to think that the US twenty-second amendment could well have saved the world! It's probably something that the UK could do with come to think of it...

Good Old Technology!

Well, seen as everyone's talking about the iPhone (well worth looking at this blog to see all of the previous artist's impressions of the iphone) and the 2007 CES, I thought i'd this chance to talk about some Russian technology! Yes, I never thought i'd say it but I miss the cold war. This war on terrorism just isn't the same. Civilians dying left right and centre, AK-47s and machete beheadings, gone are the days of the space race and some of the dodgiest copying since my Latin homework days! So can I introduce a couple of the greatest inventions of the cold war. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Tuploev TU-144! What? Yes, everyone can recognise that distinctive Tuploev shape from a mile away...


It's just amazing how two similar technologies can develop independent of each other, isn't it? And as if that wasn't enough, the good old USSR then weighed in with this beauty in the 80's called "The Buran Space Shuttle"!

Ahh, i'd like to see the US get into a similar technology race with Islamic funamentalists. What would they come up with.....?