A Global Currency

With the US election campaign in full swing now would be a good time to think about just how well the incumbent has done in his residency.

Many people the world over have an intense dislike for George W. Bush. His foreign policy has been aggressive, uncompromising and damaging to the relative harmony the planet may have enjoyed eight years ago.

My opinion of the man has changed somewhat over recent weeks. I am still of the opinion that he is divisive and intellectually unfit for the post, but it seems that the latter, is irrelevant to the position of President of the USA.

Hear me out on this one: This is not a cheap shot at xenophobia or “yank-bashing”. In this media-savvy age where statement and sound bites are dissected easily. The internet is awash with conspiracy and counter-conspiracy theories on Mr Bush’s actions. This perhaps misses the point.

That big business now controls the world – it is the New World Order. Al Gore received a Nobel Prize for his “Inconvenient Truth”, but perhaps it is an even more inconvenient truth for Mr Gore that it was he, as part of the Clinton administration that first put the brakes on the idea of the Kyoto agreement.

American politics is run by massive lobbying group who give generous sums of money to both Democrat and Republic campaigns (and here in the UK, although the structure of politics is different, the result remains the same) the only point of party politics is to put a face to the myriad sponsors.

Lies it seems is the political lubricant, and in the 21st century, a global currency.