Sunday, March 20, 2011

Irony of Fate

It took me this long to be psychologically ready - 9 days - to look at footage from the latest mega disaster known as the Sendai earthquake of 2011. Well, in Japanese Sendai means "a thousand generations". A phrase in the bible reads: "But I show mercy to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my commandments". While we're at it, the meaning of the name Fukushima, site of the nuclear meltdown is "Blessed Island". I know sarcasm is the cutting edge of emotive invocation but this cosmic sacrifice takes hardcore genuflection into overdrive.

By the way, note the timing between the Arab dictators' rage at forced democratization and the earthquake/tsunami's tremendous release of energy.

Funny that Obama didn't say one word about Israel during his State of the Union speech. Did he know what was about to happen in Egypt and all over the Middle East? The Brookings Institute alluded to this by letting out a statement that one can start a revolution but may not be able to affect how it ends. It's even funnier that US intelligence agencies were called into hearings to be chastised for not warning US government leaders of the impending revolutions. More fly-in-your face irony? Here's a complete rundown of the US backed 'Arab Spring'