2018 should not be the year of NUCLEAR WARS in Korea and the Middle East...

Happy Holidays... and peaceful New Year...

The mentality of consumer society dominates our culture,reigns supreme... and generates waste and unwanted fancy... and fantasies... Momentary escapism is part of our global culture... and ushering in the New Year... will stress that fact again...

Returning an unwanted holiday present? There's a good chance it could end up in a landfill. 5 billion pounds of returned items end up in the trash heap, according to Optoro, a tech company that helps major retailers manage their returns. Not only are these returns environmentally unfriendly, but they are costing retailers a fortune. Each year, consumers return about $380 billion worth of goods -- $90 billion of which are processed during the holiday, according to Optoro. Only half of returns make it back onto shelves, the company estimates. The rest, due to circumstances such as damages or opened boxes, take a different path.

Generating unwanted garbage has become an integral part of our current civilization... 

The tech industry is wonderful... provides us with modern technology and means of communication... but generates tones of obsolete and worn out unwanted  electronic garbage... which litters the globe and the seas... 

Plastics and plastic bags are wonderful and easy to use... but most are not biodegradable and end up in landfills and in the oceans... 

Human beings are wonderful... a marvel of our evolutionary journey, but then we generate wars and the military-industrial complex creates riches for the advanced industrial economies... that is the 1% of North America and Europe... and Israel and China... But on the other hand it generates havoc and misery and killing field in the Middle East and Africa...

The wars are the murderous evil of our civilization... and it has evolved with out technologies and inventions...

The killing field are the degenerate stupidity of our culture and our much celebrated civilization...

It is New years Eve... and we will celebrate our "civilized" killing fields like crazy... all over the globe... from Sydney to London and to Moscow and New York and LA... 

And then when we wake up with the hangover of the fireworks... we may take a minute or two to think about the killing fields...

North Korea... and Iran... and Iraq... and Afghanistan... and Syria... and Israel/Palestine... and Egypt... and Yemen... and Somalia... and Libya where they are auctioning slaves - humans hunted from sub-Sahara Africa... and Congo... and Venezuela... and Puerto Rico... and Ukraine...

Maybe the hangover will allow us time for reflection and for PEACE ON EARTH... 

..................................................................................................................................The military industrial complex is creating stupidity... and carnage and globalized murder... That's what wars are... globalized, licensed mass murders... by the 1% without borders...

The Middle East is again the bulls eye... and 2018 maybe the year of the Middle East...
Iran is in turmoil... and the Western 1% is calling for "regime change..." The leaders of the global 1% are neglecting the facts of regime change in Iraq and in Libya... The dictators were murdered, but these murders ushered in turmoil and new wars and new carnage... the Islamic Jihadists were the product of the "regime changes..." in Iraq and Libya and in the rest of the Middle East...
Now the new leaders of the 1% want regime changes in Iran and maybe in Pakistan too... Both regimes are disgustingly vile, but what is the "new"?
What is the alternative... ?
Another Saudi Arabia...? Is that the desire of the new leaders of the global 1% ... ? 
Maybe...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saudi Arabia...

1) Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was the mystery buyer of a luxury French house, according to reporting by the New York Times.

The newspaper says a paper trail from a 2015 purchase leads back to him through several shell companies.

The house, near Versailles, has a wine cellar, a cinema and a moat with koi, sturgeon and an underwater chamber.

It cost €275m ($320m, £240m) and Fortune magazine called it the world's most expensive house.

The luxurious mansion was sold in 2015 to a mystery buyer for $320 million...

and,

2) In 2015, Prince Mohammed of saudi Arabia reportedly bought himself a yacht from a Russian businessman for $590m.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the deputy crown prince, was said to be on holiday in the south of France when the 134-metre luxury boat - Serene - took his fancy...

and, 

3) The New York Times has also reported that he was the true buyer of the Leonardo da Vinci painting Salvator Mundi, which was sold earlier this year for a record $450m (£341m). It will be displayed at the new Louvre Abu Dhabi but the paper says it was actually bought by Prince Mohammed.

 

“Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled,” intones the man in the $450 million picture. “But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.”

All these from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia... and also the carnage and murderous policies of the crown prince...

Saudi air strikes and bombing and blocking humanitarian aid has resulted in devastation and murder and carnage and hunger... 

Saudi is an ally of the European and North American leaders of the 1%... but Saudi Arabia and its leaders are not the allies of the Global Human Village...

Saudi greed matches the greed of the global 1%... 

    Yemeni people carry coffins of people killed in Saudi airstrikes in the capital, Sana’a and starving children are crying for help...

The Saudi prince and the Saudi regime ... and their Western protectors and allies... are committing CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY...

The World Court should arrest and imprison them for their crimes against humanity...

But they have powerful protectors and allies in the global 1%...

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Maybe the New Year will bring new solutions... and stop the military industrial complex... After all, if you produce the arms, then someone will use them... If Europe and North America will produce arms, then they will sell them... and someone, like the Saudi regime, will use them against children and people...

"All we are saying... give peace a chance..."