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CLINGING TO THE DEVIL’S COAT TAILS
Journal of a Futurist, 20 December 2006
A bushfire focuses the mind. Trees crackle, embers rain. People with a hose in their hands and a home to protect speak plainly. As the flames engulfed our neck of the woods, the fire fighters often said “this bush isn’t behaving normally”. It flares up even after being hosed down. Its path is erratic, unpredictable. It seems to defy the laws of nature. One night I heard a fire fighter scream,“get out, get out!” as she herded her crew back to the trucks while flames leapt across a wide dirt road and embers soared to the sky, masking the stars and igniting the undergrowth. Experts agreed this was a new type of fire front, “one that is unstoppable and wreaks permanent damage”, a bushfire out of control and redolent with menace, just like the Bush in the White House.
The world at large is now well aware that America’s “commander in chief” is deranged and malicious; a Caligula with nuclear weapons. That he has not been dragged from his throne kicking and screaming is a mystery to anyone not drugged by the mystic aura of his office. To the shame of millions of Australians, our own political leaders feast at his table and pledge teary allegiance. If George Bush were to appoint his horse ambassador of Australia, our Prime Minister would welcome the news. Then he would sell the idea to the electorate. Worse, most would buy it. As long as our massive coal exports keep the economy humming and the planet heating, most of us couldn’t care less who runs the show. Tra la la, time to go shopping again.
Jody Harmon
So often in the last few years I have watched a web-simmering horror story percolate into the mainstream – CIA torture flights, the rape of Fallujah, lies about “rebuilding the infrastructure”, use of illegal weapons, trashing habeas corpus, etc - and thought, oh, now the public will come to its senses, our politicians will apologise and resign. Nope. The killers are still at large, still smiling and pretending aggression is noble. Still kissing babies. What can we do? Shame has become part of our mental landscape.
PARIS & BRITNEY, TOOLKITS & SWEAT
There is no point expressing anger anymore, apparently, as I am supposed to be too mature for that and such an emotion is considered a “turn off”. Instead, we are expected to care about Paris & Britney & gorge ourselves on the fruits of planetfucking - $3 toolkits, a $6 boxed set of mixing bowls, a fantastic vacuum cleaner for $107, all teased out of the earth and built from the sweat of Asian slaves. Tra la la, Christmas is coming, the icecaps are melting and Uncle Sam flogs obscene military hardware like there’s no tomorrow.
As the globe warms up, the blood of our rulers turns colder. Cruelty is endorsed. It doesn’t matter a bit to the foreign minister, Alexander Downer, that the US uses torture “routinely and systematically” in its global gulags, and that at least 460 inmates have so far been abused or murdered. Downer and Condi chortle on CNN about Australia’s unbending support for US actions, no matter what, while the citizens of Baghdad are exploded, brain-drilled and shot each day, as dogs feast on the dead. “Every Iraqi wants to bomb himself because of this shit life”, notes a recent observer, “everyone is sad and crying”. It’s hard to find “someone who smiles”. Meanwhile, the Australian Foreign Minister is smiling, smiling at Condi, who is smiling at the cameras, the smiling Mr Downer who facilitated bribes to Saddam Hussein to buy our wheat, prior to bombing his people, no probs. Just like his father, Alexander Downer, the Australian high commissioner to London in 1964, who cheered on the bombs and the poisons we dropped on Vietnam and beyond. Just like his grandfather, Sir John Downer, QC, who in 1891 triumphantly defended a notorious exterminator of aboriginals, Constable Willshire, on multpile charges of murder (the case funded by 60 racists). After his acquittal, this serial killer re-located to a remote area and “shot a great many more Aboriginal people".
THE POLITICS OF SURREALISM
Maybe cruelty is in the Downer DNA. It’s certainly endemic to the Liberal Party Cabinet. Both Prime Minister Howard and his sadistic side-kick, Attorney General Phillip Ruddock, regard 5 years solitary confinement in Guantanamo Bay as a “fair go”. Whereas it is becoming obvious to even to our docile mainstream that what David Hicks got was an “unfair go”. These Hicks tormentors are the ones who have decreed that aspiring immigrants to Oz should be tested on “Australian values” before being granted citizenship. Easy you might think, so long as you have mastered English and are aware that these values have flip flopped. “What’s a fair go?” People treated equal under the law with a sprinkle of compassion for special cases, you might think. Wrong. “Fair go” now means no Minister gives a shit about your plight unless you’re a tax evading scoundrel who supports the Government. We’re a franchised culture now. Our values are a replica of the values of the Bush administration.
How is it that one man has the right to murder citizens anywhere in the world? Caligula the First was restrained by the terrain and logistics, then murdered by his bodyguards. The lunatic in the White House plans to send more troops into the Iraqi hell-hole. If this happens, thousands more people will die. How can other nations stand by and allow this to happen? Will the UN impose sanctions on Washington? What the whole world is watching is a global gothic horror show in slow motion. A small number of white warmongers with a colonial mindset are endangering the future in order to shore up the status quo, the supply of oil and their own fortunes. They reject inconvenient truths, they usurp human rights, they bypass the law, they torture at will. The message on their Christmas cards will call for Peace in Earth and Goodwill to All, except for those being waterboarded.
You can talk to a thousand people each day without finding a single person who admits to supporting the Bush agenda, so why doesn’t it all fall down in a heap? That’s the mystery of modern times. Everyone knows what going on, but we are much too comfortable to storm the Bastille. Easier to watch the decline and fall of the West on TV, where it provides conversational fodder for dinner parties. The morning after the bushfires had circled my home, I walked down the hill to inspect its impact.
Endless acres of ancient shrubs are reduced to black sticks jutting from the ground, still smouldering. The crash of a mighty tree echoes through the valley, its limbs flying. Spread as far as the eye can see is nothing but bare rock, silvery ash and scorched earth. Is this what the end of civilisation will look like?
Post script
The November bush fires that savaged the Blue Mountains National Park, a World Heritage Area, were started by a couple of lightning strikes. For some reason, these were not quickly contained. When the flames spread, it was decided to “backburn”, in order to deprive the original fire of fuel and save the wilderness, an understandable strategy. But the original fire “got away”. Now there is scorched earth everywhere and heated debates about how the next fire should be handled. In a sense, this scenario parallels the 9/11 strikes on America, except that the White House reaction was hot headed, bloodthirsty, lawless and too long shielded from debate. The Blue Mountains lost half a million trees, many of which will grow back, weather permitting, but Iraq lost over half a million people. And who planned the invasion are still at large.
THE PARADIGM SHIFT HAS ARRIVED!
War, weather, weak signals, wild cards.
Journal of a Futurist, 12 November 2006
This moment in history is a bit like a Biblical epic, the forces of light rallying against the forces of darkness, with both sides thinking they are the forces of light. The stakes are high. The issues are clear. This month they reached critical mass. The dark forces are looking stupid and shifty and selfish, but they will fight back. This is where the danger lies.
What has triggered the foggy hint of dawn?
- The sudden widespread acceptance that human behaviour has screwed up the weather.
- The growing acceptance that the Coalition has screwed up Iraq, and that those who ordered the invasion are complicit in the deaths of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of civilians and should be put in the dock.
In most cases, the warmongers not only exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq, they dismissed the threat posed to the environment by global warming. Like flat-earthers, they stuck to their falsehoods in the face of the evidence. Probably because the denial served to advance their careers and/or political agendas. It allowed world leaders to ignore the scientific warnings of death and destruction that lay in the wake of wild weather. The mishandling of war and warming at the highest level is the most catastrophic failure of leadership since 1938, when Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, fluttering a scrap of paper and said “peace in our time”. Six months later, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia.
RAGE OR TRANSFORMATION?
Despite the extraordinary sea change of public opinion in the past weeks, the policies of George Bush and John Howard remain fossilised. Such leaders will continue to put their own interests above the wellbeing of people and planet. And continue to put “the national interest” above the interest of the world at large.
Why is this?
Because such types – still the majority - have not crossed the threshold into a new way of thinking. They are trapped in a dying paradigm, sinking in a Darwinian swamp, armed with a Newtonian worldview, spouting imperial claptrap. Us against them, etc. An attitude which infects my own prose (and may require therapy); an obstacle to growth, a curse on the world.
Instead of spin, we need dialogue. Instead of hate speak, we need vision and a shared purpose. In a world where admired leaders
come up with disgusting weapons, legalised torture and the race to dominate space, how can we create common ground? (Last year Washington spent $416 million on renewable technologies and $75 billion on military research). So many citizens are gearing up to save our eco-systems, yet so many politicians seem only to want to save their skin. (Polls show over 90% of Australians are concerned about global warming and over 60% are prepared to pay more in taxes help).
The new paradigm has arrived, but the old guard are still out to lunch, slugging the last of the wine. And the oil.
A LANDSCAPE OF 5 STAR FORTRESSES
The true motive for invading Iraq was to put a garrison on top of an oilfield – one of the biggest and purest fields in the world. Washington has long been aware that the reserves of oil are diminishing and that world demand is accelerating. According to energy investment banker Mathew Simmons, the current supply of 85 million barrels a day will shrink to almost a quarter of that in 13 yeas. As he told the US Department of Defense in June, “THIS IS A BIG DEAL!” Simmons urges the military to “plan, organize and fight to win the energy war”.
But what kind of energy will be used to fight and energy war? As the era of cheap and abundant fossil fuel declines, hardly a government in the world has a blueprint for total sustainability. At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, a clue to US thinking was revealed by President Bush senior: “The American way of life is not negotiable”. Meaning? Uncle Sam grabs the world’s oil and everyone else lives off potato skins, wearing windmills on their hats.
Whatever the Pentagon is planning, I do not believe the majority of citizens will accept an US/THEM world; a landscape of five star fortresses overlooking a global archipelago of gulags.
Though fossil fuels are failing, the global brain continues to evolve. Connect, co-operate, create – this is the way to outwit neo balkanisation, immigration camps and state terror. (A scenario powerfully depicted in the latest futurist movie, Children of Men). This is a moment of awakening – of learning how to live lightly off the planet 24/7. When you think about it, how can the world have a massive change of climate, without a change of consciousness? The creation of alternative energy will also require an alternative way of thinking. Even our relationship with the wind, sun, crops and waves will become more intimate, interdependent, and productive. Maybe the hovering state of emergency can be transformed into a state of emergence.
COMMUNITIES OF THE FUTURE
This triumph of the individual as heroic consumer is promoted relentlessly by the media, and seems to have resulted in the decline of a sense community. The income gap gets ever wider, both within nations and worldwide (587 billionaires now own more wealth than 50% of the rest of humanity, and it doesn’t rate a headline). In a sustainable future, tomorrow’s leaders will need to extend their horizons beyond winning the next election. In fact, to break the mindset that is largely responsible for creating today’s deadly perils, they will need to embark on a journey “personal transformation”. Yes, this sounds hopelessly hippie. But it is starting to happen in today’s organisations that pursue innovation and social responsibility. “New leadership is about working in teams and building transformative capacities in colleagues” according to Communities of the Future (COTF), which describes itself as an “evolving network of people and organizations working in collaboration to develop new concepts of governance, economic development, leadership, and education/learning for a fast-paced, interconnected, and increasingly complex society”. It’s a fine sentiment and a vital goal, but time is melting away, like glaciers.
New research shows the Earth's climate could change quickly, and violently. “Average sea-level rise has increased from two millimetres a year in the early 1990s to more than three millimetres a year now”. Jim Hansen of NASA, predicts sea-level rise will be 10 times faster within a few years, as Greenland destabilises. In short, “scientists are panicky about the sheer speed” of disruptions. "Building an ice sheet takes a long time," says Hansen. "But destroying it can be explosively rapid."
So what might be the qualities of community in a post carbon world?
- A balance of materialism and spirituality.
- Integrity…emphasis on wholeness…and the importance of family & friends. The focus is interdependency.
- A new concept of the common good….helping each other succeed.
- Collaborative individualism … and connective listening.
- Living systems as models for society.
- Seeking to be self reliant, self empowered and “off the grid”.
- Accepting the future can no longer be taken for granted – it needs to be rescued.
The choice is clear: evolve or regress, adapt or stagnate.
The Magnificent Seven
WEAK SIGNALS OF STATE AGENDAS
When this pic surprisingly appeared in the Oct 21 Melbourne Age, it was presented as a Government initiative to humanize the seven spy agencies. Budgets inflated, tentacles extended, these heroes are poised to protect Australians from the repercussions of illegally invading a people that had done us no harm. Oh, sorry, we went to Baghdad to stop a tyrant from killing his citizens and to slip him a secret commission on our wheat sales, and to build hospitals and schools that never got built, never troubling to stop and count how many died as a result of our intervention. As the Prime Minister says, “we’re a generous people”. And we’re especially generous to spy agencies.
Okay, so here are the Magnificent Seven looking well groomed and Delphic, and I’m wondering why. Could this be a weak signal; a message that conveys a deeper meaning. Are these spooks being groomed as the unsung heroes of the war on terror, toiling through our text messages to bring Osama to his knees. Thank you, oh mighty information warriors, kiss my babies. A week later ASIO struck.
Ruhal Ahmed, a star of the movie, Road to Guantanamo Bay, has traveled the world to promote this horror story: Germany, France, Iceland, Turkey, Spain, Ireland, Holland, etc. Next South Africa, Slovenia, Denmark, Kosovo …. . It’s a junket Ruhal deserves, having been held in solitary for two years and released without charge. The British Government returned his passport and now he roams the world a free man, except he won’t be roaming down under. A nod from a spy, a pen stroke from a an Attorney General (torture enthusiast Phillip Ruddock), and the victim if Guantanamo is refused a visa to visit. Sleep easy Australia, as I know most of you already are.
THE DAY THE PISSING STOPPED
You have to feel sorry for the minions of MurdochWorld, who spent over a decade attacking the notion of climate change. Environmentalism is a fad, water shortages a myth, sustainability a greenie plot. The hired tongues were still at it in The Australian a few weeks ago, with a fusillade of headlines on WHY AL GORE IS WRONG ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE. (No matter that 90% of scientists think otherwise).
Like most things Murdochian, the sneer campaigns are global .
"Look carefully at Gore's charts and you'll see that the worst horrors take place in the future of his imagination”, thumped the New York Post, whose own imagination is mostly stimulated by memos from the proprietor. So what happens now Rupert has discovered that emissions matter? Watch out for the gradual U-turn.
Will Murdoch retreat from Baghdad? Not anytime soon, judging from his recent confirmation of support for the bloodbath. Hell, the US death toll was "minute" , he said, from a “historical perspective”. Naturally, no mention was made of the Iraqi death toll (655,000) because he wouldn’t have a clue what it was and wouldn’t give a hoot anyway. 175 of his editors worldwide still champion one of the cruellest attempts at regime change in modern history, and will spin their “noble war” until every last Iraqi has been maimed or blown up. It’s what they seem to want.
Martin Sharp, “Seven Minutes to Four”, 1965, before he ever took LSD.
(Showing at Ivan Dougherty Gallery, 16 Nov -23 Dec:
The Everlasting World of Martin Sharp).
DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT GEOGRAPHY
Journal of a Futurist, 17 October 2006
Those who devote their lives to amassing power and/or wealth are often surprised by the impact of seminal events long foreseen by chattering do-gooders. Having done much to promote global warming over the years, while denying its existence, Rupert Murdoch and John Howard are finally feeling the heat. They now “accept the science” of climate change. It’s a U-turn that is confusing their minions. In a stirring editorial in The Australian (Oct 4), bitterly attacking the descent of education into the “swamps of post modernism”, the Queensland curriculum is singled out for teaching “social justice, sustainability, peace and environmental justice".
Even the discipline of geography is “polluted” with such “nebulous concepts as social justice and ecological sustainability”. Worse, “students are encouraged to translate their lesson plans into political activism.” Really? Where are today’s activists? Don’t look to the left, silly, turn right. Today’s hard core activists are the Howard appointees on the boards of the ABC and other government bodies, the Murdoch columnists, the privately funded think tank wankers, etc, who are shrinking the horizons of public debate. In future, TV satire will need to be “even handed”, with a new ABC committee obliged to put the jokes through a blender. We can look forward to Ali G Borat’s next appearance being “balanced” by a statement from the dictator of Kazakhstan. As Adele Horin put it in the Sydney Morning Herald (Oct 7): “The Howard Government is in fact ideologically combative to a startling degree, forcing dissenters to toe the line through fear, funding partnerships and confidentiality clauses in contract.
Meanwhile, back in the educational bunker, Murdoch’s editorial slammed the South Australian curriculum for “describing water as a finite resource … despite there being a more-or-less stable amount of the stuff on the planet”. (I’m not making this up). Never mind that a drought is ruining the livelihood of farmers and scorching the political landscape. On the day this rant appeared, which parrots the views of John Howard, a study from the UK’s Hadley Centre for Climate Research was released at the Conservative party conference in Bournemouth, stating that “extreme drought, in which agriculture is effectively impossible, will affect nearly a third of the planet … threatening the lives of millions”. Christian Aid describes the report as “terrifying … a death sentence for many millions of people. It will mean huge migration off the land at levels we have not seen before, and at levels poor countries cannot cope with. It will mean huge conflict." Whatever the accuracy of this report, it seems reasonable for geography teachers to explore human rights and ecological sustainability without it being branded "political indoctrination". But the age of reason is over.
 Borat in Cannes
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Gary Cooper in Poland
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WILD JUSTICE:
An open letter to President Bush
Dear George,
While not a supporter of you or your catastrophic agenda, I have no wish for you to suffer the same of fate of President John F Kennedy. In the last few days, millions of world citizens have seen the latest tabulation of horror inflicted on Iraq. 655,000 are a lot of corpses, George, far exceeding the rate achieved by Saddam Hussein. Added to this are a massive number of the disfigured, the orphaned and the destitute; the wreckage of infrastructure, the collapse of tertiary education. You have often invoked the “yearning of Iraqis to be free”, but what they want most is to be free of your troops.
Think about it - over 500 Iraqis killed every day, a third of which are directly due to actions by coalition forces. The rest of the violent deaths are a consequence of the occupation. Instead of reacting with compassion to the report in The Lancet, you dismissed it as a “discredited guess”, despite the widely accepted methodology. 655,00 dead! Too much blood, too little oil. It’s beginning to look like genocide, George, which is why thousands of Iraqis are fleeing the country. A White House induced diaspora. How do the new minted exiles feel about you? How can the loss of a homeland be compensated? Saddam today is on trial for his crimes. Tomorrow, the man in the dock could be you. Yet this is unlikely, because your administration has bent the law into providing immunity. The question arises, how will the victims of your policies gain restitution?
FROM GENOCIDE TO ECOCIDE
There is also the matter of malicious deception relating to the impact of human behavior on the health of the planet. Just as you downplay mortality rates in Iraq, so your administration has long censored the findings of scientists on climate threats. Even while hurricane Katrina was raging, US government websites were claiming that its intensity was unrelated to global warming – a big silly lie. Your prolonged obfuscation has led to such a lack of preparedness in America, that much heartbreak is still to come. The weather is blind to political boundaries, George, but you wont even sign Kyoto, which, for all its flaws, is a vital step in achieving a collaborative plan to rescue the future of the human race. In several parts of the world, including the west coast of Alaska, citizens are abandoning their homes as the coast subsides. How will the victims of global warming seek restitution?
André Martins de Barros
America has always prided itself on being a nation of laws, but look at what you’ve done. The US is now a nation of outlaws. You’ve watched High Noon a hundred times, but you’ve mixed up the role models. The job of the sheriff is to uphold the law, George, not to trash it. You aspired to be Garry Cooper, the noble lone hero, and ended up as one of the villains, hell bent on pillage and carnage. You’ve managed to retroactively legitimize your gang’s criminality, including kidnaps, torture, false imprisonment, “pre-emptive” invasions. Your threats against North Korea and Iran have accelerated the nuclear arms race.
FAREWELL HABEAS CORPUS
Your Dr Strangelove plan to get UN endorsement for a military strike against Pyongyang had to be “headed off at the pass” by – of all countries - China and Russia, which shows how out of kilter with the rest of the world you have taken America. But then America isn’t really America anymore, is it, now that you’ve dumped Habeas Corpus. Ask yourself George, would Garry Cooper have allowed the clock be turned back to a pre Magna Carter tyranny?
So here’s the rub. All over the world a lot of people from all walks of life and of all political persuasions are mightily pissed off with George Bush. Many thousands of such people have lost their livelihood and/or their loved ones through the breathtaking cruelties unleashed by your meddling – how do they achieve restitution? Should their thoughts drift to the Middle East, the festering catalyst of today’s geopolitics, they will get riled up all over again, as images of Lebanon’s skyline flash in their minds. The world recalls how you rushed extra munitions to Israel while stalling the UN peace initiative. (As I write, another child in Lebanon is blown up by a US made cluster bomb; one of a million dropped shortly before the cease fire). Puzzling over their options, the numerous victims embittered by your hypocrisy will think of Palestine, and how you urged its citizens to adopt democracy. When they did, and the choice was not to your liking, funding was cut. The UN estimates that 75% of people in Gaza are living in poverty; the majority of children are malnourished, few have access to clean water, dysentery is rife. Several times a night Israeli jets break the sound barrier at low altitudes, creating sonic booms and “widespread distress”. (This treatment is reminiscent of the high decibel sleep elimination dished out to your POWs). Another product of the war on terror is State sadism.
“MURDER IS A HABIT”
(Agatha Christie)
Where is all this leading?
The “peace, justice & freedom” platitudes of Western leaders are not worth the air on which they are born. It is only by the deeds of their rulers that citizens discover what has been hatched in the dead of night. One action in particular stands out. It happens occasionally to a remote village in Pakistan and more often in Iraq or Afghanistan (now too descended to anarchy). Our leaders have resurrected a medieval solution-achieving technique and invested it with an aura of legality. It is used almost every day on inhabitants of Gaza Strip. Its use does not require the presentation of evidence. It can be applied to wheelchair bound clerics, inconvenient witnesses and pesky journalists. On a remote screen, often in Florida, a suspect is lined up in the crosshairs, a button is pressed. A media release follows: “We regret collaterally damaging the target’s mother, his seven children and members of his extended family, but it was their choice to associate with a terrorist, who unfortunately wasn’t at home when our missile flattened the village”. End of story.
So this is the problem, George. Spread far and wide across the globe are thousands of people with a grudge to settle. Now embodied in the psychic legislature of the 21st Century is the tried and tested technique of assassination. Its serial utilization by governments is a curse on the world, and provides the inspiration of imitation to all the disempowered people on earth, the ones who are wounded in hatred and bad at forgiving. So keep away from Dallas, George, and from everywhere else on the globe touched by your madness. You enemies have plenty of time to kill.
Sincerely, RN
PS: To mitigate this threat, I suggest you:
- withdraw your troops from the war zones (in co-operation with a UN peace keeping strategy),
- work with the rest of the world in reducing toxic emissions and re-invigorating eco systems,
- restore civil liberties in your own land and,
- throw yourself at the mercy of the international criminal court, along with your associates.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE
Some of you complain that the time span between updates is too long, as is the word count. “Send it in smaller batches more often”, comes the cry, which would be fine if I didn’t have a day job. As change accelerates, there is so much to be say and less time to say it. You get the sense of a global quickening, but it could be blood pressure. However, I don’t wish to bore you to tears, so I’ll take the feedback into account.
POST SCRIPT - Why the word genocide
isn’t so far fetched.
There is no legitimate, scientific basis for rejecting the findings of this survey carried out under the auspices of John Hopkins, one of the leading US universities. Under the direction of epidemiologists at the college’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, Iraqi interviewers visited thousands of Iraqi families throughout the war-torn country. The sample size was huge: 12,801 individuals in 1,849 households, in a country of 26 million people. By comparison, the CBS-New York Times poll, whose findings receive regular front-page coverage in the Times, uses a sample of 800 to 2,000 people in a country of 300 million…
The US government and the American media generally have labeled the killings in Darfur as genocide. According to the Hopkins study, the Iraq war has taken three times as many lives as the bloodbath in Sudan, a country whose population is roughly equal to Iraq’s. The Bush administration is thus implicated in a crime which approaches those of the Nazis. Indeed, if Americans were dying at the rate that Iraqis have died over the past three years, the death toll would be 7.5 million….
[Why is the New York Times] choosing to cover up a serious and meticulously documented report on the worst human rights violation of the twenty-first century: the US war in Iraq?
“Pollution et renaissance”, André Martins de Barros
Torture Tours
George Bush and the CIA have confirmed the authenticity of this site's WORLD TORTURE TOURS, launched back in August 2005.
George Bush has finally admitted the USA runs secret prisons abroad where suspects are put through "tough... necessary ... alternative" interrogation methods, which he won't reveal. But we did, over a year ago, in our WORLD TORTURE TOUR travel guide, where we showcased a range of alternative techniques to hurry up the spread of freedom, including shackles, hoods, electrocution, whips, mock executions, sexual humiliation, “fear-up, pride down”, solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, dog terror, starvation, hypothermia, anal rape and genital mutilation... All in the name of freedom. Check out the original WORLD TORTURE TOUR, and play the pain game with the CIA.
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