The Illusion.

           When it comes to this Covid19 pandemic, each country points to other countries as doing much worse than they themselves are, it all helps to keep the people on the side of the government's ineptitude in the handling of the pandemic. At the moment Brazil is coming in for some heavy criticism as the pandemic runs wild, mainly over the poorest regions of that country. Yes, the pandemic is decimating large swaths of the population, yes, its health service is being crippled, and yes, it is run by a macho idiot who tells the people to stop whining, says about his family that his daughter was a mistake, and also says that if your son show signs of wanting to be gay, slap him and you'll see his attitude change. So Brazil has not got a lot going for it at the moment.
        However if we look at the most recent figures regarding covid19, they make interesting reading. They should be making us ask some very serious questions of our lords and masters, the political ballerinas that hold sway over our lives.

Brazil:
population 211 million, approximately,
covid19 cases, 11,483,370
covid19 deaths 278,229
deaths per million of the population, 1,318 approximately.

United Kingdom:
population 66.8 million, approximately,
covid19 cases, 4, 245,166
Covid deaths, 125,279
deaths per million of population, 1,874, approximately. 

       So we are doing much worse than Brazil in deaths per million of our population, and our political ballerinas are strutting about spouting our success. Are they unaware of these figures, or as usual they just ignore the facts they don't like. We have to ask questions and we have to demand answers.

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AFGHANISTAN -- WHY???

        The cost of the war without a reason raging in Afghanistan has and is costing the UK dear. Not only is it draining the public purse at a time when our cabal of millionaires in the cabinet are slashing viciously at all our social services, but even more seriously, it is costing the lives and future of thousands of our young people. Leaving aside the massive slaughter of Afghans on their own soil by foreign troops they never asked to enter their country, the figures for the UK suffering is unacceptable. Along side the 382 UK deaths since the start of this tragedy there is the wounded. 

Centrally available records show that: For the period 1 January 2006 to 15September 2011:

       1,792 UK military and civilian personnel were admitted to UK Field Hospitals and categorised        as wounded in Action.

3,440 UK military and civilian personnel were admitted to UK Field Hospitals for disease or non-battle injuries.

       256 UK personnel were categorised as Very Seriously Injured from all causes excluding disease.

       268 UK personnel were categorised as Seriously Injured from all causes excluding disease.

      Then of course there are those who have suffered trauma and will struggle with mental heath problems, probably for the rest of their lives, causing more suffering and anguish for their friends and families and so the misery spreads. WHY. 

Don't you know, wars create jobs.

       Ask any of our pampered politicians why we are there and each one will give a different reason. They'll have to give some reason, for them to admit that they don't know would not go down too well with their bosses. I'm sure any man or woman on the street would most certainly find it hard to come up with a reason and no doubt each reason would differ from the other. The truth is this war defies reason. I'm sure somewhere deep in the dark corridors of corrupt power there will be a handful of millionaires who know the reason for this ten years and counting slaughter and destruction. Somewhere there will be a benefit to some corporate body, perhaps the arms industry, they must be making a mint from the death and destruction. Perhaps it will be the Western corporate mining sector, rubbing their sweaty hands thinking of all that mineral buried under the mountains of Afghanistan and all that cheap labour in a country with no infrastructure. The corporate world feeds on the blood of the people, slaughter in Iraq, all that shiny black oil, Libya, more of the black stuff. The potential wealth for the corporate world from all those precious minerals waiting to be exploited by the wealthy and powerful Western mining sector will gladden the heart of many of those on any Stock exchange.

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BOMBS AND DEATH OR NURSES?

        Ten years of bloodshed, death, pain and anguish for the Afghan people, over 1500 US deaths and almost 400 UK deaths, for what? The cost of the Afghan 10 year war is shattering both in its cost in human life, also the financial cost. What could that financial package have done other than kill and maim? Billions for death and destruction while at the same time cutting back on social services. It is hardly the hallmark of a civilised society. 

 

The only beneficiaries of war are the arms traders and their associates.

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