Alias – Genesis +

Posted on by Hubert Schaub


Alias re-vitalises his passion for time travel. He kick-starts his dusty time machine and lands in the ‘Book of Genesis’. God says: “Let there be light”; and there was light. A month later, the Devil sends him a ‘trillion dollar’ power bill. Well, it ain’t cheap to light up the earth and all the planets and stars for a whole month. Considering the price of coal was at an all-time high, add carbon tax and GST, the hellfire power station wasn’t making much profit.

Alias moves the forward lever on the dashboard, rattles through the ages when suddenly, his time machine stops abruptly. He calls the inter-era helpline and is placed number 3050700000000 in the queue, which is quite reasonable considering the enormous time-span between Genesis and the Apocalypse.

Fortunately, the breakdown happened in a time-warp, so the wait for service allows just for a comfortable ‘power nap’. Repairs done, Alias hits the accelerator and soon lands in 2084. The whole earth is now governed by the Sino-Russian ‘Rouge States Union’, under the brutal rule of ‘Ivan Ping Pong’, ‘the terrible’. Alias learns that the free world had been trying in vain to prevent this from happening, using strong words of condemnation to fend off missiles and chemical weapons. He wanders the spy-camera lined streets and falls into one of the many potholes. Bleeding and in pain, he lies there for many hours before help arrives. The sun descents below the horizon, as the conscripted paramedics in their shabby uniforms, carry Alias several kilometers to a run-down, rat ridden medical tent. Surgery is postponed indefinitely, because ‘Ivan Ping Pong’ has offended his ally the Devil, whose fiddle he had previously danced to. In response the devil turned off the power supply. Alias regrets having left his time machine, while he visualizes his escape to a better world. His day-dream is interrupted, when a government official orders Alias to prey to the two highest Gods of the empire, Vladimir and Xi. When he refuses, he is brutally beaten to death by three secret service agents.

At heaven’s gate, he fails a ‘Covid Test’, and is placed into isolation on a dark cloud at the end of a queue of millions. He can but dream of his time machine.

White Elephant Law

Posted on by Hubert Schaub

“Law only has value when enforced” this is largely overlooked by the authorities.
I recall, when I refereed at the national Taekwondo championships, an unruly coach became verbally violent against us officials, threatening a repeat of the 9/11 terrorist attacks while his club members were throwing bottles at us.
This serious breach of the ‘Coaches Code of Conduct’ was met with impunity by the Association’s authorities. In fact, soon after, he was quoted one of Australia’s most elite coaches!
Another coach, who repeatedly violated the child protection rules was proclaimed one of Australia’s most respected instructors.
Littering, and bicycle helmet laws are poorly enforced.
Let’s escalate this topic and raise it to a more potent level.
While Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot rose to power, nothing was done until it was too late. International law and treaties weren’t worth the paper they were written on.
‘White Elephant’ laws and words are baseless rhetoric wrapped in illusionary action, while civilians, including children were brutally murdered. They died in agony, cut to pieces by Josef Mengele. They were tortured in the Gulags under Stalin and Brezhnev. They were bludgeoned to death by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. They are now being blown to pieces by the insane egomaniac, coward and tyrant, Vladimir Putin.
Putin and Xi Zinping have made their imperialist intentions very clear, same as Hitler made his clear when he wrote ‘Mein Kampf’.

Negotiations with dictators are in vain, so-called ‘white elephants’, for dictators are compulsive liars on anything that doesn’t fit their world view.
Sanctions are effective in the long run, often after the damage is done. What the world needs now is early intervention, actively targeting authoritarian leaders, before they accumulate excessive power. Should this deadline be missed, and the first shots are fired, the only option is to retaliate immediately with overwhelming military force, cutting the head of the dragon by targeting the aggressor’s leaders.
“Cheers to the brave people of Ukraine”!