Romanos Barbados wrote on Sep 6
th, 2014 at 7:31am:
Do you know what is REALLY causing this shitstorm?
1 Formation of BRICS (IMF and Fed reserve are very unhappy about this despite showing good face).
2 Many countries are considering dumping the US dollar as their trading currency such as Russia, China, Brazil (hint: Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi were the last guys who proposed to dump the petrodollar to sell their oil. Didn't work out too well for them huh). Clearly the Fed Reserve and IMF do not like the idea of the petrodollar losing it's power because this way the Fed loses control and IMF loses it's ability to enslave small nations.
3. With regards to "treaties being broken", I can assure you that the singular most devastating agreement that has caused drastic problems in Europe was the one NATO broke. By continuing it's expansion East towards Russia despite promising not to do so. NATO grabbed 12 extra countries after giving their word "not to move one inch to the east". NATO's attempt at grabbing Ukraine literally placed Putin into a corner of the geopolitical game. Despite contrary belief, Russia is on the defensive in this mess US and NATO have created.
4. It is true that the environment is in a poor condition, but to say "no one gives a stuff" is unfair to the countless environmental scientists who worked extremely hard to achieve their university education and promote awareness. This work has certainly paid off because today there are many more legislation in place to protect the environment than just 20 years ago. Just look, we had a Carbon Tax implemented that is ACTUALLY damaging to the economy. This would have been unheard of in previous times.
5. Don't blame religion. I am not a man of faith, but I understand that if it wasn't religion, people would use something else as a scapegoat to achieve their nefarious aims.
6. Are you afraid of China? Do you think it is good Australia is becoming a subservient lackey of the US military complex in order to achieve perceived "protection" from China? Look at it this way. The United States of America has been involved in more wars, conflicts and violation of other nations' sovereignty since the end of World War 2 than China has in it's 5000 year history. And it seems that US is not slowing down, on the contrary it is escalating it's military operations around the world. Know this, as long as USA is at war - Australia is at war.
7 "Someone is about to sink the Ship that you are on and there is nothing you can or will do about it." - There is something you can do about. What you said is exactly the attitude that keeps people from ever attempting, other than the fact that majority of the population is lazy as f*ck. If everybody in the world was taught logical and critical thinking in schools, if everybody was aware of the horrid propaganda machine each state's media spews at them, if everybody understood that they have the potential to be as great as their masters - then we could all do something about it.
Yes, it isn't religion, it's what people do with anything. External objects/subjects are the perfect scape-goat in anything.
So let me get this straight... Australia is a doormat for the US (in military terms) against a threat from China, who we rely heavily on, economically?