Barrack Hussein Obama, the 44th occupant of the worlds most powerful office, is currently the most recognizable man on earth. He is a new-media behemoth; a global superstar, with a telegenic face and a powerful rhetorical voice, reaching into (almost) every home in the connected world. In the words of the elite-media he is the world’s “first wired president.”
I watched a short documentary today showing a few examples of the brutality and freedom suppressing bullshit the Chinese communist regime routinely hands out to its own people.
The sight of weeping middle-aged women and frail old men desperately pressing their paper petitions into the hands of a helpless reporter was very moving. Many Chinese travel thousands of miles to Beiijing with these petitions, seeking redress for their grievances through the only officially sanctioned means available to them. Once they arrive, they are met with cold bureaucratic silence, imprisonment, or violence.
There are many reasons why I love JRR Tolkien. This particular quote provides another. On a day when I desperately require an early night, it is both a pleasure and a relief to to post it. Take it away Mr. T! “The true equation is ‘democracy’ = government by world financiers…The main mark of modern [...]
