If we can’t live on the planet, the economy don’t mean shit, FUCKWIT!
"The fact is, if we signed the Kyoto Protocol, we would destroy a lot of Australian industry and we would send Australian jobs to countries like China, Indonesia and India," John Howard said.
What a fucking cunt.
The only thing Howard's got going for him is the strong economy that he's found himself left with from the previous government. Take that away and you open the eyes of the electorate to how repugnant this government actually is and they're swinging in the breeze at the next election.
While John Howard legislates to bring down wages of regular workers and gives outrageous powers to employers, he closes his eyes and pretends that there's nothing happening with climate change. Why? Because he's a spiteful, self-interested and selfish little fuck.
If nothing is done to stem the damage being done to the environment on this planet then the economy isn't going to mean shit in a few years' time. But by then Howard's not going to be around to have to deal with it - he'll be safe in his delusion, rotting away in his retirement, believing he left some sort of grand legacy from his time as PM. He should hope that he'll have shuffled off by the time history truly judges him because it ain't gonna be pretty.
You disgust me, John Howard.
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But that doesn't really get me anywhere, and besides, there's other things going on. Like apparently, the Brits caught some douchebags who were going to blow up some planes.
Now, the way I see it, you can't have terrorism without terror. The strategy of terrorism is to use isolated acts of violence to instill fear and confusion into the population at large. A small number of people can incapacitate a society by leveraging our inability to understand risk.
Airline industry stocks plummetted today, while the industry braced for a rash of cancellations. This, despite the fact that even with the risk of airplane bombings it's still more dangerous to drive your car. Or smoke cigarettes.
As long as a small group of people can inflict mass panic across a large population, the tactic itself will remain viable. One way to deal a blow to the effectiveness of terrorism is to deal with the terror itself.
London's police deputy commissioner Paul Stevenson said that the plot was "intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale." No, it is imaginable: between three and ten flights out of thousands would have resulted in the terrible loss of human life.
Bush today said this country is safer today than it was prior to 9/11. Personally, I don't think he knows. Whether we like it or not, terrorist attacks on Americans are now part of the global reality. They will continue to happen. Many places around the globe have had to deal with a similar reality for years. India, Ireland, England, Spain, Russia, to name a few. In many cases, these societies have pulled together and not allowed isolated acts of violence to tear at their fiber. Like disease and the forces of nature, it's a risk that we have to rationally come to terms with. The government's responsibility is to make sure that fear and terror are not disproportionate to the reality of the situation.
Today the President said, "This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom to hurt our nation." Generalized statements like this which instill nebulous fear without specific information are exactly in line with the goals of terrorism.
In Australia, it's convenient, for the government, to have the populace fearing 'terror'. It keeps them quiet and makes them easier to control.
If you live in Australia, think about what the real risk is and then think about what the government has done to this country in the name of that risk.
Little Johnny
A young man named Johnny bought a donkey from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day.
When the farmer drove up the next day, he said, "Sorry son, I have some bad news. The donkey is on my truck, but I'm afraid he's dead."
Johnny replied, "Well then, just give me my money back."
The farmer said, "I can't do that. I went and spent it already."
Johnny said, "Just unload the donkey anyway."
The farmer asked, "What are you going to do with him?"
Johnny said, "I'm going to raffle him off."
The farmer exclaimed, "You can't raffle off a dead donkey!"
But Johnny, with a big smile on his face, said "O yes I can. Watch me. I just won't tell anybody that he's dead."
A month later the farmer met up with Johnny and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"
Johnny said, "I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a piece and made a profit of $798.00."
Totally amazed, the farmer asked, "Didn't anyone complain that you had stolen their money because you lied about the donkey being dead?"
Johnny replied, "The only guy who found out about the donkey being dead was the raffle winner, when he came to claim his prize. So I gave him his $2 back plus $200 extra, which is double the going value of a donkey, so he thought I was a really great guy."
Johnny grew up and eventually became the Prime Minister of Australia, and no matter how many times he lied or how much money he stole from Aussie voters, as long as he gave them back some of the stolen money, most of them thought he was a great guy.