Image via WikipediaIn 1990, when I joined my First Year of B.Sc. (Math) at University of Adelaide in South Australia, my best friend Sione Koloi started a discussion about the bag as a gift from the family of Mr. and Mrs. Pickering with whom I was staying as paying guest at 5 Acacia Ave, Glenelg North Adelaide. It was Khaki in color and on it was written US. I also used to carry it while I started my Year 11 (10+2) at Muirden School at Adelaide in South South Australia in 1989.
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Image via Wikipedia As a national player of Rugby of Tonga and then Australia, Mr. Sione Koloi is a great scholar, spiritual - a devoted christian. He lives in Canberra and his wife is a lecturer in ANU, the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT. He has also studied at the National University, the ANU.Well, you see anyone could read when I used to carry it to the Uni (We say Uni to University in western slang language). Thus, began our everyday argument cum discussion as he would say US is for USA and I would reply no, it is for Us (Ours or from we as passive of we is us). It kept going on for more than a year and is still going on even though now I live in India. That is why US is Us!
Well, I still have that bag as it reminds me of his ever smiling and spirited face, yes of the friend as rare he is to me as my family.
Though what is taken from the source below does not reflect my personal opinions, I wrote some letters to some reputed people in USA, including President George H. W. Bush and a preacher in 1989-90, while I was studying in Australia. Also from my discussions with our ESL teacher Mr. Lloyd, who visited USA in 1989, we were afraid that the nation might be leading to pride rather than being feel proud of what the nation really is. In her words, many people seemed to develop the feelings of being great. I used to call US as Us (ours) and my best friend Sione Koloi would correct me US is not us (ours).
We had this argument going on for a year. So, my concern is with nature, people and not politics. Who am I to comment? If I were a historian who had visited USA, would have written nothing or said something that pleases when heavily paid to write what one is told. Wake up and see the world is with you not against, if doubt, suspicion and hatred spreads even an individual in crowd faces alone. Can we cure this loneliness? Yes, let us make a difference together for all that is surely for us as well.
"If one is against me, it can make a difference and it is difficult to make any difference by making all false friends. Lovers of nature are for all, so are our lands and seas helping us to share the sky in which our solar system is sitting without any support as does the universe. All of these Coexist and thus my research works on Law of Affinity, the Philselfology. Thanks!"
All of the following are from the source with thanks: http://newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/5838/Americas-False-Consciousness.aspx
"Before any of my readers point out the failure of Soviet Socialism, particularly under the murderous Stalin regime, let me state that this was not Socialism as Marx, Engels, and Trotsky envisioned it; it was state capitalism."
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"...The answer is that Americans are too indoctrinated to see clearly. The majority exists in a media-induced state of false consciousness. To them, up is down and down is up. Brown is white and white is brown. The people are confused and ...disoriented. They are misled and lied to. They are looking for quick and easy fixes to complex problems that were long in the making. For the reasons outlined above, voting cannot cure what ails America. The game is fixed. The appearance of choice is an illusion, an utter hoax.
Political and media demagogues portray liberals (progressives & Socialists), which continue to be miscast as democrats, as the enemy of the working class. Working people do not comprehend that the benefits they are fighting to preserve were the result of progressive policies, many of them stemming from Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Conservatives, neoconservatives, and neoliberals have always opposed these policies and have fought to end them since the day of their inception. Let us not forget that FDR was accused by one of his adversaries of being “a traitor to his class.”
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"The poor are no longer part of the social and political discourse": "The international financial aristocracy is laying the foundation for global governance. The public domain is being privatized. The poor are no longer part of the social ...and political discourse.
As a result of these policies, there is social turmoil in every capitalist nation on earth, except the U.S. Compared to the rest of the world, Americans are comatose, which is the result of so many people being informed by Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and other wealthy demagogues working the airwaves on behalf of the ruling class. Most Americans are informed by ideology, not by facts."
Thanks for your taking time to read it.
With thanks from source: http://newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/5838/Americas-False-Consciousness.aspx
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