Sneaky bid to shame people and it seems that corporate wealth is what matters most

It seems corporate wealth matters most

Europe is on fire.

Europeans are sweltering under a blistering heatwave sweeping across the continent. Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece are bearing the brunt of it.

El Granado in Spain reached a blistering high of 46ºC, one degree higher than Seville’s record high of 45ºC last year. That is hot!

Even the English, Dutch and the Germans are having a torrid time. The Middle East is also sweltering, but it’s normal for them.

Meteorologists say the temperatures are caused by a heat dome trapping dry, hot air and humidity. It is like bring baked in a pizza oven!Europeans are not used to high temperatures. They should have a temperate climate with mild summers and temperatures in the mid-20s. In recent years European summers have become unbearable.

Scientists say this is because Europe is heavily urbanised and industrialised. A night-time image from space shows the whole of Europe lit up. in fact, it is the most illuminated of all the continents. But climate change sceptics pooh pooh the notion that the earth is heating up because of unbridled human activity.

They are still stuck in their medieval way of thinking and suck up to the conspiracy theories of the big corporate world which is solely profit driven, regardless of any harm to the environment.

And one of the big proponents of the anti-climate change group is the mad man at the head of the US, Donald Trump. “Drill, baby, drill,” he exhorts the American oil companies. Never mind the dirty, black smoke that goes up into the sky and chokes the earth.

Corporate wealth is all that matters. | T Markandan Kloof

Sneaky bid to shame regular people

Dear Sir,

The horrendous news filtering out of Israel itself (a notable newspaper in Tel Aviv has actually reported this) is that some of the food (reportedly, flour) being distributed at the US-backed food organisation is laced with a habit-forming drug which makes addicts of anyone who consumes the flour.

This is just one of the hundreds of atrocities being actively committed by the Zionist regime. In addition, there have been sporadic reports of some petty, some serious crimes and even sexual abuse among the Palestinians. Pregnant women are “cajoled” into selling their urine, which supposedly contains extra nutrition. Gangs are forming and violence is not uncommon, most of which is hushed up to avoid embarrassment. All of this will finally lead the rest of the outside world to point at the people of Palestine and call them “savages”, “animals”, and the term that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used to describe them on the October 8, 2023 “Amolaks”, meaning the Biblical enemies of Jews and thus worthy of annihilation.

Why does this pattern remind us of what our own “white settler” apartheid government did to the poor Coloured community in the Cape vineyards: ­Paying workers – even children – with alcohol, a willful practice which has made much of that community now hopeless addicts, through no fault of their own. Similar to colonists, who created the dire conditions of townships (“Bantustans”) that caused our very own Black people to be regarded as violent, barbaric, mentally deficient and therefore not worthy of rubbing shoulders with whites?

Why does it remind us of what the American settlers did to the indigenous natives of that country, finally driving them into a daze and virtually causing them to disappear?

A similar pattern that made Australian Aborigines and New Zealand Maoris into being seen as “backward”?

This ploy is being used ad nauseam in Gaza and the West Bank ,where endless grotesque bombardment, starving the population of basics necessities and endless murders and massacre, are combining to make the indigenous population become crazed, befuddled, mindless, violent and near ­cannibalistic.

So Tel Aviv and it’s Siamese twin, Washington DC, can loudly proclaim to the rest of the gullible “dumbo” world that Israel has a “ right to defend itself” against such atrocious, retarded, inhuman, and backward miscreants? | Ebrahim.Essa Durban

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