Author: R J Adams

The world’s political elite continue to stuff their faces with the finest cuisine money can buy, attire themselves in frills and fancies, and prance to the discordant tunes of their own overworked, self-applauding, vocal chords.

            

Yesterday, ex-British prime minister and Bush poodle, Tony Blair, wooed a bevy of American money-bags at the annual Alfred Emanuel Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a “charity” event organized by the Roman Catholic Church in New York. No other British national has spoken at this function since Winston Churchill deigned to address them by telephone in 1947. The event is staged by New York’s Roman Catholic diocese, ostensibly to raise money for local health charities.

Blair took the opportunity to rattle his own personal saber to the full by condemning Iran, praising the Iraq war, and ratcheting up the threat of terrorism to the World War III levels recently vociferated by his belligerent comrade in the US White House.

All of which went down extremely well with his audience of fat-bellied, alcohol-hazed associates, representing the epitome of American wealth, and Christian – or Jewish – religion.

During his introduction, the master of ceremonies – presumably half-joking – suggested the US Constitution be amended to allow Blair a run at the 2008 presidential election. Why not? After all, the US Constitution is in such tatters another few pages of crossings-out and red inked addenda would surely go by unnoticed?

The suggestion went down well with the audience. After all, Blair may be British by nationality, but in every other way he’s one of them. His priorities are their priorities; their only aim the defense and protection of their lifestyles.

Blair’s speech noticeably lacked any reference to the starving millions in Africa, the genocide in Darfur, the massacre of innocents in Burma, the snowballing effects of global warming. No, for Mister Blair and his ‘friends’, the overriding priority is to combat “Islamofascism”, for in the process they can consolidate their power, increase their wealth, and frequently utilize that phrase to spread their own very real brand of fear.

What a glorious excuse to further repress ordinary people and exercise increasing public control.

Tony Blair is a quisling. Depite roots in the British Labour Party he has, even during his term in office as British prime minister, emanated a right-wing bias that has now fully-fledged, placing him firmly inside the cauldron of US Republican conservatism.

Not only has he betrayed his own ideals, but he has proved himself a traitor to the British people he purported to represent, and the party to which he pledged loyalty.

The three standing ovations received from his opulent, right-wing, audience must surely represent undeniable proof of that.

Filed under: Turncoat

It’s hard to understand how the Dalai Lama was willing to partake in the political machinations of US politicians, and the greatest warmonger on the planet, that have been ongoing over the last few days. His Holiness, a man of peace for whom respect runs deep among many who otherwise spurn religious leaders, may well have performed his duties more effectively by denouncing the policies of his host and refusing to accept the Congressional Gold Medal foisted on him today.

George W Bush presented the medal, describing the Dalai Lama as “a universal symbol of peace and tolerance”.

Later, the American president went on to discuss his latest venture – World War III – as a possibility if Iran failed to toe the US line over nuclear power.

The use of this phrase is something George W Bush appears to enjoy bandying. Immediately following 9/11 he declared his ‘war on terror’, World War III.

As Professor Brian Leiter wrote in his blog, “Leiter Reports”, back in early 2005:

“For his inauguration, George W. Bush essentially declared war on much of the world. He did so, of course, without using that word; today’s sociopathic heads of state are well-tutored in the art of rhetoric…….”

Read the rest of it and understand more precisely what he meant.

Indeed, so imbued has this presidency and administration been with warfare and saber-rattling, it is difficult not to consider George W Bush obsessed with the idea of controlling the world through military power.

But then, probably he is.

All the more reason for His Holiness, Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, to have given this warmonger and his hangers-on a very wide berth.

Filed under: Good and bad

There’s been a minor catastrophe at Sparrow Chat recently. All the posts from October 5th disappeared from the database following a problem with the newly upgraded WordPress 2.3.

Thankfully, they have now been retrieved and measures are being taken to ensure it cannot happen again. Unfortunately, while the posts were saved, all comments on the relevant posts have been obliterated. Apologies to those who have left comments in the last ten days.

Hopefully, normal service can now be resumed.