The election...

Just checking out the inaugauration ... what goes down must come up and surely things can't get more moronic than over the last 10 years. Obama seems like the kind of guy we need, but the system and the people in the system haven't changed, and human nature remains ignorant. America is responsible for electing the republicans they have themselves to blame for what has happened so this is not a time for celebrating but a time for relief and to reflect upon their sins. Of course UK has its own problems but the previous US administration is more than a part involved. This is not good, it is just a return to normality something I hope the Americans don't get bored of and keep up!

It is interesting that at the outset of the worlds worst recession we are celebrating the rise of a black president. Actually this means nothing it is just a skin colour. But it is amazing because labour used to be scaled based upon colour. If you were black you didn't need a salary, you were a slave. This is how all great economies have been created before the rise of the new black slave namely oil. Cheap labour is what "civilisation" needs so that the "civilians" can escape the burden of work and live as cultural elites. America was the last country on Earth to abolish slavery - some good time after Europe and even Russia. This is how "free" America is. Yet it needed this exploitation to rise to the economic power that it now enjoys. Likewise it had to eliminate the native people to give it the "free" land upon which it could play out its property games. The celebrations are uncalled for, it is just a late turn to normality for America.

I see that Joint Vision 2010 and 2020 are still being funded. This is where is all began for me in 1999. Happily the US military and Rumsfeld's plans for the military have floundered and the US who are too inexperienced and naive to have an empire have failed in their goals of world domination - the New American Century remains another American Dream. With a bloodied nose hopefully a more sensible attitude will sooth the heads of the bombastic nationalistic militaristic red necks that infect all levels in America.

"Do you think you are right to ignore the UN and go it alone in Iraq?", went the UK interviewer in 2003
"Let me tell you, we're the most powerful nation on Earth, we can do what the hell we like!", goes the whitehouse spokesman.

That's the kind of diplomacy and cool headed thinking I like.

I do however feel a bit sorry for old W. Now that his cronies have abandoned him and left him high a dry he seems quite human and reflective over the things he has said yes to. His are very bad friends and he was pushed out by them to take the fire for their madness. I speak especially of Cheney. Hopefully funding to these think tanks and arrogant fools will dry up as their failures become more and more apparent. We can but hope.

OK here it is. A bit of a fluff but he's in. It is never-the-less a great moment and hopefully something that seeds the start of a more positive American people. Certainly the energy has been much better today...