North Korea nukes breakthrough: Don't clap too loud

Oh, OK, I'm a fair-minded, red-blooded, true-blue Aussie and I'll give credit where credit is due. Bush's mob was involved in the North Korea nukes breakthrough. Congratulations for a change.

But before we get carried away in an orgy of applause and Bush backslapping, let's not forget China, Japan, South Korea and Russia, because they were with the US at the negotiating table. Oh, and I forgot to mention North Korea.

What does it really mean?
So what does it mean anyway? Do you think the North Korean guys at the table now cycle back to their rice paddies and put their pointy straw hats on again?

The North Korean negotiators, like the mandarins and loony dictator/s who employ them, are just like the American negotiators. So are the Chinese, Russians and everyone at the table.

They all stay in Hilton hotels and drive big Mercs when they are not being driven in big Cadillacs and Daimlers. They wear Armani suits and drink Johnny Walker, and tonight they're celebrating with Moët & Chandon. They all have a son at Harvard or Yale, or doing an MBA at the London Business School. Each one of them is part-owner of a Brazilian logging company and a block of time-share condos in the Seychelles. Without exception they all are large stock-holders in South-East Asian tsunami aid delivery utilities. Their daughters and nieces are all getting consultants to help colour co-ordinate their iPod Nano collections with their shoes.

Funny, but every damn one of them, Commie, Jap, Ruskie or Yank, has a son currently staying at Conrad Jupiter's Casino on Australia's Gold Coast, and talking by mobile each day from the beach at Surfer's Paradise, to real estate agents, newspaper editors, PR suits and the Paris Stock Exchange.

It's called "the circulation of elites". It's a post-Marxist, post-Class Struggle thing.

The negotiators and their mandarins -- Korean, Russian, American, whatever, all have shares and family and friends with shares in the TNCs (transnational corporations) that will now start building the roads, electricity generators, pipelines, hotels, telecoms and fast food empires that will traverse the old DMZ between the two Koreas. What's ideology between pals?

Rupert Murdoch will set up KoreaFox to go with CommieChinaFox. Microsoft/MSNBC and Yahoo! will be there too so you know the news coming out will be fair and balanced and you'll see about as many starving, enslaved Korean families on your TV as you do today.

Did you think that the pointy hat guys and the other negotiators were discussing how to dismantle the North Korean nukeburghs and how to set up sustainable, permaculture-based forms of land and energy use that will allow that country to survive into the 22nd century, with people having free access to fresh food, energy, water, fuel, fibre and construction materials from their immediate neighbourhood? And people not having to spend their lives in factories, offices and monoculture farm acres?

No, I didn't think that either. Hell, we don't even have that where I live ... do you?

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