“PHONETICALLY SPEAKING” To reflect the fast pace of world news, my blog is probably best served as a stream-of-consciousness text. Fast and unadulterated. With this approach, and on first encounter, text might not seem to scan. This is because I am dyslexic. Instead of keeping the proof-readers busy, I would rather let my blog updates of my visual work stand as a record of my experience of dyslexia, which I am keen that you now get to enjoy too. Unlike some news outlets, I hereby excuse myself the need for a ‘corrections’ section! The excitement of a new language is something I’m quite familiar with, and it is with this ‘joie de vivre’ that I am delighted to guide you through my thought and work processes, more phonetically (than fanatically) speaking.
Humerberd
Without the fictional construct of fighting the ‘War on Terror’, western powers could not get away with exploiting the resources, hampering the development and depopulating the citizens of third world countries as they used to do with such relish in the good old colonial times. The WOT allows them to do all of this and more in blatant defiance of International laws. As I’ve noted elsewhere, International laws are not worth the paper they’re written on if you don’t live in the West. Hence, with barely a complaint from the ‘International community’, the murderous attacks on civilians in sovereign countries such as Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan with unmanned drones. The Hummingbird, one of the newest US drone helicopters can fly up to 18 hours and carry a number of different surveillance equipment and armoury. Civilians are getting bombed from up to 2 miles away from these machines while the controllers sit comfortably drinking coffee thousands of miles away. Nowadays, nobody bothers to declare war but they can commit remote-controlled murder with impunity. All they need are your GPS coordinates.
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