I just checked the rain gauge, nearly 50 mls fell overnight, mostly in bursts of five or ten minutes now and again through the night. This followed an earth tremor which spooked Pip into intense shivering. She had been behaving strangely for some time prior so she must have known something was going on. I had to nurse her for a couple of hours afterwards as she wouldn't leave my lap.
Another "terrorist" incident yesterday, a lone wolf nutter in Brighton, a minor incident compared to what has happened recently in Britain and Europe. Every time it happens the political leaders come out and say "we remain united and defiant and will not cowered by these terrorists who are trying to destroy our way of life and culture," something like that, Malcolm Turnbull the latest this morning.
I think maybe it's time to look closely at our foreign policy. We have military presence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and have had for long time at great financial and political cost not to mention the loss of innocent civilian lives. This terrorism is response to that in my opinion. The US spends $3 billion per month to hold up in Afghaistan (I saw this on Lateline last week, and are about to increase their numbers so have asked Australia for more, so that Af'n does not be a feeding/ breeding ground for terrorists). I don't think it is achieving, in fact is counter productive.
Perhaps we are seeing the collapse of capitalism. Communism ran its race. Rule by corporation and big business has perhaps now ran its race.
Interesting times.
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