Replacing the Stars and Stripes

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Cycling through New Zealand is quite an experience and the people are lovely. In late 1999 I flew to this antipodean paradise, reassembled my bike, and pedalled the north (and half of the south) islands of this exotic wonderland. I remember from the start being impressed by the flora – plants we do not have over here, like the flowering Christmas tree, cabbage trees and any number of subtropical specimens I could not identify. Auckland was the first city on my itinerary and bore some kind of resemblance to how I imagined a large north American town of the fifties might have looked. In truth I was looking for somewhere to settle where the drums of war were not being bashed in my ears.

New Zealand, unlike other developed and so-called civilized economies, has not rushed arbitrarily into war on any concocted pretext. In fact most of its involvement since the Second World War has been in helping with restructuring in war-torn countries. It has a nuclear-free policy and gives a lot of aid to developing countries. It has bought very little, if any, of the US national debt and drifted away from ANZAS loyalty to the US over the Vietnam War. That was one of the things I liked about it.That, and the fact that they love their sport.

Despite becoming more US orientated over the last few years New Zealand's peaceful legacy lives on. This week it manifested itself in some of the more reasonable and responsible residents, mostly from Occupy, showing disgust again at US support for Israel in its bombardment of, and embargoes against, Palestine. As Craig Murray noted yesterday, a reporter in Ashkelon, was standing on what had been Arab soil for 4,000 years before the 12,000 inhabitants were massacred and driven out by Israel in 1948. So these bold New Zealanders lowered the Stars and Stripes at the US embassy in Auckland and raised the Palestinian flag. Well done you Kiwis. Well done!

Another war pending

Follow @JohnPlatinumG Julie Pace in The Huff Post writes: "In a letter to Congress Monday, Obama said the tougher sanctions are warranted "particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks." One of four countries in the world without a Rothschild-owned central bank is Iran. What Obama really means is that 'we' cannot control Iran's money supply.

This is what a Nathan Rothschild said about my country in the nineteenth century:

'I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England's empire. The man who controls Britain's money supply, controls the British. And I control the money supply.'

I have resigned myself to the fact that the United States is going to war with Iran. I wish my country would not get involved but fear it will. Sanctions are already being imposed by William Hague and as everyone knows, that is the first stage in waging war on oil-rich countries. Our (US and UK) governments over the last twenty years have had little regard for international law and the fact that Russia and China used their UN veto will have no consequence on the actions of these nation states any more than the League of Nations could control the actions of Japan's occupation of Manchuria (following the Muckden Incident, 1931), Mussolini's Italian excursion into Ethiopia in 1935 or Hitler's German ambitions in the Sudetenland in 1939. Eventually the world passed judgment on these aggressors.

A further confirmation that Israel, the US and the UK are planning war is the removal of staff from the US embassy in Syria. A fleet of warships is already in the area awaiting commands. Aggression never pays in the long term. Today it is the US, UK and Israel who are the aggressors. And they think they are invincible. Judgement day is coming for all. Let this cup pass.