I am busy reading Arundhati Roy's " The ordinary Person's guide to Empire "
Heres a couple of excerpts which I want to share...
We sure are pleased with those backroom boys at Dow. The original product wasn't so hot - if the gooks were quick they could scrape it off.So the boys started adding polystyrene - now it sticks like shit to a blanket. But then if the gooks jumped under water it stopped burning, so they started adding Willie Peter [white phosphorous] so's to make it burn better.It will even burn under water now. American Pilot
Destruction of locks and dams - however if handled right - might...offer promise. Such destruction does not kill or drown people. By shallow flooding the rice, it leads after time to widespread starvation.( more than a million?) unless food is provided. Declassified Pentagon Papers
I'm only quarter through this book, and yet i'm already feeling sick. Sick of where this world is heading to. What lengths a few fat cats in the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, et al are going through to satisfy their unquenchable thirst for wealth.
The silver lining is the sobering reminder that history has seen off even bigger buffoons than the current crop. The Quran talks of Nimrood the King who's treasures were so vast that it took an army of people just to carry the keys to this treasure. Did he leave an honourable legacy behind? What about the people of A'ad. Are these suit clad pot bellies more powerful than them ? Allah had given them such strength that they would carve their dwellings out of the mountains with their bare hands. All it took was a divine wind to put an end to their misconceptions.
In our country there was the Apartheid regime. Where are they now ? Where is the airport that used to be proudly known as Jan Smuts. A few years on, people will be saying Jan WHO?
In the hands of the Almighty, a 100 years could just as well be a single second. Sooner or later every tyrant is going to meet his Moses. And the cracks are already beginning to show. The all mighty capitalist system is struggling to keep itself from imploding.
Quick, we better grab our popcorn and front row seats...
