Friday, March 18, 2011

Of wars and natural disasters

It would seem that the rebels in Libya are going to be beaten. That is a pity (in my opinion) as Gaddafi has such bad dress-sense he should go. Seriously though, all the middle-east kingdoms/dictatorships favour one colour of their citizens. Muslims have a bad case of Catholic/Protestant type conflict. Democracy is not their bag! If the rebels are indeed beaten there will be lots of blood-letting.

I do find it amazing that the Libyan rebels seem to have the middle-east fixation of shooting thousands of rounds of ammunition into the air when they will need it when Gaddafi’s forces close in.

I lose my objectivity and think that the USA should just charge in and knock out Gaddafi’s miltiary. It seems that the French government would like to flex it’s military muscle and once again be a world power and try out their military muscle. Right at the moment I would think that most westeners would agree, but later condemn the United States as an aggressor.

Earthquakes, Tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns plague Japan. All they need now is a huge volcanic eruption on Mt Fuji.

During WW2 in Papua New Guinea, the Japanese military occupied the New Britain port of Rabaul. Air strikes by U.S. and Australian bombers saved a couple of bombs for the active volcanoes of the Rabaul caldera hoping for a volcanic stir-up. Unfortunately for the allies the volcanoes remained dormant until the 1990s.
Rabaul town. Photo taken by me in 1961. Rabaul has since been wiped out by volcanic eruptions and the main centre shifted away to Kokopo.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Libya has been a big importer of live West Oz sheep. I saw some lamb chops at Coles yesterday for $39 a kilo.

Anonymous said...

Kev i wached the abc 24 news channel for an hour or more and the whole world seems in a turmoil, It's so depressing, because we don.t seem to be able to help. whatever we do about Libia there will be ablood bath, then there is the radiation in japan and they are running out of fuel for the aid relief trucks to take food and water and medical supplies to the people.i can't begin to imagine how they must be suffering in freezing temperatures,,,,,We have to be so thankful that we live in australia. let's see what the "super moon" tomorrow night brings. It will affect the tides . Hope that is all it does. don't google super moon on U tube , There are all sorts of predictions about the moon causing the earth quakes etc, Kev, i think i will end this as I'm starting to rave on. marg

Kev said...


exactement!