“Golden Sky” — Vol.3
So I was talking with the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald…
Rhetorical Questions Round a Rectangular Dining Table — Vol.10
“Come you masters of war” and other discussions with the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald
26th February 2022
So I was talking with the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald the other day and we were most perplexed with the obvious question we concluded with after several cups of the finest tea ever created:
Why do we continually listen to those masters of war?
What’s more, why do we always thrust our own consciousness onto those strange wraith creatures who lecture us via our telescreens, rather than the more shadowy creatures who “build all the guns” and “build the planes” and who build the “big bombs”?
Why indeed.
And make no mistake, we must hold those hideous caricatures of humanity in the ill fitting expensive suits and the smiles the can’t mask their cold, dead eyes, to account, and we will. Here in the UK we have the most quintessentially English named men (it’s seemingly always men, isn’t it?) pronouncing without equivocation that war is a must, country boundaries must be defended, democracy seen to be installed, sorry, leading to those “free and fair elections” they constantly screech for and well, it’s a nation’s honour to defend one’s friends in their hour of need. To defend themselves from the bombs the UK Government are so very keen to sell to varying states of democracies throughout the known commonwealth, sorry, world. War is always good for business! Just ask the US President when he isn’t sleepwalking his current White House dog, or his son, or if that’s too conspiratorial for you, how about asking those war hawks of the destruction of Libya, or Afghanistan or Iraq, or Yemen or perhaps Palestine? Our cousins in the North suggested this week that the current outrageous disgusting destruction and war in Ukraine is the first war in Europe for 80 years.
When war is concerned, these wretched wraiths sure do have a short memory, eh?
During this evening’s Premier League match between Everton and Manchester City the host broadcaster, Sky, interjected into their own broadcast with a rolling “Breaking News” banner. With immediate thoughts turning to the Queen’s mortality, the war vernacular perhaps and the “sacking” of the Ukrainian Capital Kiev or an incredibly serious world event has transpired and not even the football can wait, Sky television wanted to “break in” to their own coverage of a football match to confirm that Roman Abramovich had relinquished control and ownership of Chelsea Football Club. So we could all breathe a huge sigh of relief: the Queen was still alive, so was Kiev and that incredible “can’t wait” moment that Sky Television couldn’t wait for, is the announcement that an owner of a football club not currently playing, is stepping away from the ownership of the club.
I found this utterly bizarre but then again, I find most things to be surreally twisted beyond recognition these days. We obviously have to ask ourselves why this so called “Breaking News” was delivered in such a gravitas laden way, but first let me briefly explain something:
I have no dog in this fight except for the breed of humanity itself. I’m a lefty liberal, not a Justin Trudeau lefty liberal, a real one. My political allegiances are left, right? But the current left scream “war crimes” when they still embrace the man (it’s always a man, isn’t it?) who will drop into the deepest depths of hell with the images of millions of Iraqi’s murdered, maimed or displaced at his behest, so save the sanctimony please. You can save the sanctions too if you like, if, indeed, you’re a lefty liberal and defender of the working man and woman. Which they aren’t. In today’s topsy turvy, upside down world I’ll no doubt we labelled some form of right wing conspiracy theorist but you can keep the left/right labels as they’ve never mattered and they certainly don’t anymore. Conspiracy theorist? Guilty. But these conspiracies are all played out in plain sight, so perhaps we need a new phrase to encapsulate this better?
So I’m left of the left and way ahead of the right on the universal curve and have no dog in the fight.
Right?
Don’t you just love the rhetoric and vernacular of a war? In my youth we were warned of “Juntas” and “Nationalists”, now we have “Regimes” and “Dictators” and we very definitely have the arch enemy bad guy upon which to foist our collective ire. Democracy? That seems to live in the fictionalised world painted for us and emblazoned across our telescreens in the countries we like. The countries we like also seem to have rather a large appetite for the bombs and weapons of mass destruction we build and sell, but that’s because we have to “fight for freedom” or “fight for democracy” and the casualties of these wars never come from the doom mongers in the multi million pound estates and huge stock portfolios.
I hope the irony isn’t lost on anyone that the UK Government is currently hounding Russian Oligarchs such as Roman Abramovich whilst accepting vast sums in “donations” from so many of his countrymen in decade’s long past through to the present day. Will they be seizing the assets of Abramovich and the other pesky Ruskies before driving them into the English Channel at Dover, passing the flotilla of pour souls crossing a vast channel of water from France in rubber dinghies? That’s irony right there. As is the ginormous links to Ukraine via a US President and a son in rehabilitation. On the surface: The grand old US President has huge financial ties to Ukraine and the Churchillian Grand Master here in the UK leads a party awash in Russian money. Yet the UK is sanctioning the country from which it’s benefitted enormously monetarily and the USA is steadfast in it’s backing of a country that has backed it’s Presidential family to the tune of umpteen millions of pieces of expensive rolled up notes from a bank. Too simplistic? Of course it is. So is a little viewing of factual evidence of a coup in Ukraine in 2014 and the furious and needless wars that have peppered the borderlines throughout history and especially so in the past 8 years. And the proxy wars waged and the USA bases throughout the world and the “training” given and the weapons sold and the blood of the innocent wiped from the hands of the guilty.
I don’t know Vladimir Putin from a hole in the ground. I’m just a middle aged left leaning romantic fool who knows in absolute unequivocal certainty that I’ll never be bombed or fear the attacks that are currently raining down in Ukraine. If we do, well, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I’d like to be all REM about it and “feel fine”, but I won’t. I’m as anti war now as I was when our Government lied with “sexed up dossiers” and tales of 45 minutes away from being wiped from the face of the earth. The roll call earlier of Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and the countries that the so called Western Democracies sure do enjoy seeing instability and political upheaval throughout the fog of a war of their creation, will be howling toward a full Moon this evening, whether there is one or not. The war hawks to which we listen, time and time again, have a bloodthirsty desire for war and today’s nemesis, the ex KGB Agent and rider of horses bareback, will be pushed to the fore as his predecessors have before him.
But my concluding question is a simple one:
Why is he attacking his mates in their exclusive “Big Club”?
You see, Mr Putin is in the same World Economic Forum (WEF) as is Mr Johnson of the UK, Miss Ardern of New Zealand, various wraiths of varying description in Australia, Mr Macron in France, Mr Biden in the USA and Mr Trudeau in Canada amongst many, many others. Putin is in George Carlin’s “Big Club” so why is he starting World War III? Then another question might be why is the smiling assassin in New Zealand an exact replica of her club member friend in Canada? Both smiling Liberal/Labour lefty’s who are anything but the foundations of the political faith they bogusly subscribe to. Joe Biden too, the USA President so far right of the political spectrum it breaks the irony barrier that he’s a “Democratic President”. And here in the UK we have a badly dressed bumbling buffoon who blathers about democracy whilst his party is heavily funded by the Oligarchs now deemed unworthy. But thanks for the dirty cash boys! All these esteemed world leaders are part of that huge club in Davos, a name if ever there was one for a Dr Who villain, and whilst passing recognition is occasionally made, the dots are never seriously joined up. Otherwise we’d query why a Captain of Industry or a Billionaire or an ex President or a zeitgeist defining “Celebrity” is also part of that same club? To what ends?
Is the Christmas Party really that good?
So why is Putin attacking his friends? Is he the ultimate insider? The ultimate double or triple Agent? Or just yet another puppet playing his role when his strings are pulled by his real Masters, and the same Masters that control the thinking, actions and implementations of Johnson, Ardern, the multitude of Australian lunatics, Biden, Macron and Trudeau?
The ultimate rhetorical question for this article is why isn’t there a mass media driven full discussion as to why the figureheads that deliver the grave news that war is inevitable, unavoidable and that we need to constantly “fight for freedom” in some kind of recurring 1984 style nightmare are all in the same club? Why indeed. The answer leads us to the Dr Who villain, a Big Club and a reset. A great reset apparently, and to quote their own words I’ll “own nothing, have no privacy and life has never been better”.
Quite.
War and destruction leads to such resets and rebuilding, and the other odious phrase today of “Build Back Better”. Have you ever stopped to notice who says this particular phrase? Give it a go.
The answer might surprise you.
Russians may be rushing in fear of their cash. USA Presidents have squirrelled their loot away for another day. War hawks circle. Nuclear codes are withheld until further notice. A world holds its breath. Death, destruction, misery and carnage is delivered to a tiny part of our world yet again. These odious people with their script written words and faux compassion. Their eyes that never lie, those blacked out windows to the vacuity of their souls. They care not for left/right or Ukrainian democracy or Russian liberation.
They believe in Ordo Ab Chao. Resets.
Building
Back
Better
So why do we listen to these war hawks?
And how come those bastions of democracy, the legacy Media we’ve all grown up with, couldn’t quite it make to the demonstrations that have been on going in London for the past 2 years? Or those in Paris, Rome and umpteen other countries in Europe alone? Or fair and balanced coverage of the protesting truckers now in New Zealand and Australia or their predecessors in Canada? You know the ones! The Canadian truckers who were denounced as Swastika waving Nazi’s and racists and misogynists who had their bank accounts (as well as their balls) frozen as they danced around to “We Are The World” and set up bouncy castles for the children. The man who made those outrageous remarks and installed a state of emergency in ultra liberal Canada is in the same club as the mad man currently employing soldiers to invade neighbouring Ukraine, so what gives?
So I’ll ask again, why do we still listen to our masters of war?
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Thanks for reading. I hope this message in a bottle in The Matrix finds you well, prospering, and the right way up in an upside down world.
“Rhetorical Questions Round a Rectangular Dining Table Vol.10” can be found across pages 241–249 of my recently self-published book “Golden Sky”, the second book of three and collection of rambling musings from late 2021 through to March 2024.