future of the world seems extremely bad? All I can say is that life must go on and that quitting didn’t solve any issue.
2/5/2012
New Zealand has pulled its military forces out of Iraq. New Zealand’s government said that it was to strengthen their defences at home. It was all a bit sudden and there was some outcry from the United Nations about this being a protectionist action without care to the nations of the Middle East.
I wondered what precipitated New Zealand’s government to take this action. I didn’t blame them for wanting to protect their home soil, as they must have some creditable intelligence that was pointing to a serious threat to home soil. Time will tell if they made the right choice.
23/7/2012
Over a period of a few months, it became apparent that one of Australia’s oldest Allies, New Zealand, was up to something massive. They were recalling their military home and their media were no longer focused on doing the good reporting on bad people routine. Then in July of 2012, New Zealand’s government announced the disbanding of all military staff. They intended to go totally neutral in any future issues to deal with the rebels and would only maintain an active emergency services unit for humanitarian aid.
This was a watershed moment, because other small countries had also committed themselves to neutrality, but this was the first time a larger nation had committed themselves to this path. The rebels announced that they recognised the neutrality claims and would not interfere with these countries’ way of life.
The united world governments, at least those protecting their citizens from terror, in a show of solidarity, released a joint statement about the futility of such a misguided step. They said that a neutral stance would only serve to allow these countries to become soft targets or worse still, become training grounds for terror cells. Further, that the neutrality stance of these governments would signal that the country’s government’s leaders were in fact in league with the terrorists.
After this wonderful speech, and the news media’s coverage of the issues with countries going soft, I just couldn’t contain myself. I told Bubbles that this was seriously wrong, and that we shouldn’t be tarring countries seeking neutrality with the same brush stroke as the war on terror campaign, it just wasn’t right. What was going to happen next? We invade and subdue New Zealand to make us feel safe and secure with the knowledge that another terrorist cell was removed?
Bubbles said, using her logical of ways, that Australia was a safe haven and nothing would happen here, and that we have been a core alliance member since the start of the war. This was only due to our strengths and commitments that nothing had gone wrong and her supervisor believed that we wouldn’t be harmed because we were so active in policing our borders and monitoring our population. It just wouldn’t happen, couldn’t happen.
I asked what about the attack in Japan? That saw over 600 people killed and they used to say they were a safe haven, so how could we say the same thing? The massive loss of life was due to a fully loaded bullet train travelling at full speed, 350 Km/Hr, towards a long span bridge. A moment before the train reached the bridge a large explosive device was triggered causing a span of the bridge to fall into the river below. The train ploughed off the bridge and into 20 metres of water. Hundreds were killed by the sudden drop and impact into the ground, the rest were badly injured and drowned in the swirling waters. It was a black day for Japan and the thousands of families affected by the loss of so many.
I thought that maybe we should move to New Zealand but I wouldn’t tell Bubbles this, as she would only see it as defeatism. Sometimes she can be so hard to live with, other times I love her to death and would be handicapped without her.
23/11/2012
We have done it! We scored a positive test for pregnancy. We are surprised! After years of trying, one visit to a specialist we decided to go IVF. Now after the first attempt Bubbles and I may have started on the road to building the family we so desperately wanted, she was pregnant.
I’m happy that it’s worked first go, as it was a lot of extra pressure on Bubbles, from the daily needles, blood tests and self-doubts.
I’m not sure we have done the right thing, but I hope the current madness doesn’t touch us. After all children are our legacy, and without them there can be no future. I believe that our after life is really us living in part of our children, their children and their children’s children. A living legacy, as a part of us is gifted to our children for their futures.
I’m excited, I’m hoping for a girl. I like the idea of a baby girl as I think it would be nice to be the centre of attention in a parent-child relationship, seeing as most girls are attracted to their fathers. Well that’s what I hoped will happen. Either way I’m excited that we have achieved a pregnancy, now the next trick is seeing the pregnancy to the end and have a healthy child.
26/12/2012
From a well-timed and coordinated event, many suspected people were killed in a surgical strike by the Australian forces. This was orchestrated by the UN Security Council that pushed us past a psychological tipping point. Because on Christmas Day 2012, we learnt just how well we were protected from the rebels, we were bombed.
It was timed to perfection, locations with minimal people, due to it being Christmas Day, but locations which were very highly visible. It couldn’t be hidden from sight or covered up. Four popular Westfield shopping complexes were partially destroyed, at the exact same moment in time.
This was followed by a public announcement telling Australians that this was a demonstration of what was to come, and the next target wouldn’t be so carefully chosen to minimise causalities. They said we had a limited time to change our warlike ways, or face more attacks.
The timing and execution of these attacks has sent shockwaves through the community –
- Are we safe?
- Who did this?
- How did this happen?
- Hatred
- Apathy
- What about our protection?
The media was running detailed reports based on government handouts. Bubbles said that we weren’t getting the whole story. It was a plain cover up story tactics with a dose of truth. Yes we were attacked, but it was by friendly terrorists that didn’t want to hurt anyone. They only wanted to make a statement. The terrorists were expected to be arrested at any moment.
7/1/2013
They hit Bubbles’ work on the 31/12/2012.
The Ministry of Intelligence had no intelligence over the shopping centre attack, and had recalled all staff from seasonal holidays to go over the information leading to the shopping centre attacks. They were not paying any attention to potential further targets. Through simple bloody mindedness they overlooked the clues to their own building being a target.
A telephone operator received a warning about the bomb, but in the confusion and heightened panic from the four shopping centre blasts, the e-mail and the verbal warning was ignored by the senior management team. It was a sick hoax they said.
A few hours later the vibration of the shockwave unleashed sheets of glass shrapnel, followed by the blast and flames removing the leadership team, and most of the staff, whilst in another pointless mass meeting. They didn’t really have a chance.
The bomb was delivered in the back of a truck that was delivering office supplies. The blast was that powerful that the truck was no longer recognisable, just bits of charred metal fragments scattered in a blast zone radius of 100 metres away from the blast point. The building collapsed in on itself, the glass foyer created millions of tiny glass fragments that shredded anything that was in the way. The blast was heard kilometres away, and buildings within one kilometre of the blast suffered broken windows and in some cases structural damage.
The people, not shielded by concrete walls, were no longer people, just minced meat. The survivors