SURREAL EVENTS

Yesterday was a surreal experience day with impossibly crazy events. First our expensive and scientific-less space program has "bombed" the moon supposedly in the search for water, by sending a rocket to crash into the moon's surface. Ridiculous, no sublime! Certainly they will claim that the presence of water will lead them to the answer of how the universe was created. Absolute balderdash! NASA, how many $ billions have you wasted and what worthwhile goal have you accomplished?

And then there was the Nobel Peace Prize award to that great and peerless peacemaker Barack Obama, who in the interest of peace started drone bombing of civilians in Pakistan 12 days after taking office. who has started a 3rd, on-going war in Pakistan, and is debating whether to send and additional 40,000 troops and/or mercenaries to make war against shadow armies and innocent civilians in Afghanistan. He, who continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US government demands and relinquishes its rights as a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, while shielding Israel from nuclear weapon inspection.

Some peacemaker, huh

The Nobel committee chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland said, "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future." { Oh, brother!}

Obama, the committee gushed, has created "a new climate in international politics."

How conveniently they ignored the 2 million displaced Pakistanis and the unknown numbers of dead that Obama has racked up in his few months in office and the Afghans civilian deaths continue to mount as Obama's "war of necessity" drones on indeterminably.

The following posted on LRC Blog by David Kramer on October 9, 2009

Who Did Obama Beat to Win His Nobel Prize?

Sima Samar, women’s rights activist in Afghanistan: “With dogged persistence and at great personal risk, she kept her schools and clinics open in Afghanistan even during the most repressive days of the Taliban regime, whose laws prohibited the education of girls past the age of eight. When the Taliban fell, Samar returned to Kabul and accepted the post of Minister for Women’s Affairs.”

Ingrid Betancourt: French-Colombian ex-hostage held for six years.

Dr. Denis Mukwege: Doctor, founder and head of Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo. He has dedicated his life to helping Congolese women and girls who are victims of gang rape and brutal sexual violence.

Handicap International and Cluster Munition Coalition: “These organizations are recognized for their consistently serious efforts to clean up cluster bombs, also known as land mines. Innocent civilians are regularly killed worldwide because the unseen bombs explode when stepped upon.”

Hu Jia, a human rights activist and an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, who was sentenced last year to a three-and-a-half-year prison term for ‘inciting subversion of state power.’

Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China’s communist system. He now lives in the United States.

[Thanks to Bretigne Shafferurban]

Are these weird and unreal happenings part of the collapse of civilization, or just meaningless events trumped up to make us think we are nuts?

With Love and kindness,

THE HATMAN