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Written by: Kamran Mofid

Published: 27 September 2021

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Why is the world like a house of cards falling apart?

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Yes, the world, like a house of cards, is falling to pieces, shattered and humiliated.

But, why?  

To my mind, the first culprit is called: HYPOCRISY and the Faking Politicians! 

Hypocritical Leaders Make Poor Leaders

They are leading the world to catastrophe

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Authenticity In Politics and International Relations Matters More Than Ever—Here’s Why

Let me highlight this with one, simple, but significant, example:

Australia in many people’s eyes, is the number one climate crisis, global warming denier, setting itself and the world on fire.

Catastrophic Australian Bushfires

Bushfires in east Gippsland on 2 January 2020. Photo: Darrian Traynor/Getty/Via Nature

Many different regions in Australia were devastated by the enormous bushfires of 2019-2021. Billions of animals including koalas and kangaroos were killed or displaced and thousands of homes were destroyed.

Smoke from the massive bushfires that hit Australia in the 2019-20 summer was linked to more than 445 deaths. Whilst, more than 4,000 people were admitted to hospital due to the smoke.

With costs approaching $100 billion, the fires are Australia’s costliest natural disaster

Impact of Australia's catastrophic 2019/20 bushfire season on communities and environment.

Catastrophic Australian bushfires derail research

Australia’s Shame and Degradation of Humanity

Refugees and asylum seekers protest Australian policy on 'offshore' immigration processing (for third countries) at the main

detention center on Manus Island in November 2017.-Photo: MSF 

Australia is also amongst the world’s worst human rights’ abusers and deniers. Beginning with its treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and more recently with its criminal policies regarding incarceration and detention of refugees and asylum seekers in  Manus  and Nauru Islands and more.

Manus Island - A movie secretly shot inside former asylum camp

The predicament of detainees on Manus Island and Nauru has largely been ignored. But two Iranians have documented their misery for the celluloid.

"Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time" is a documentary film secretly shot by an Iranian asylum seeker in a former asylum detention camp on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island. 

The film is about refugees as well as local people, who are 'both victims of Australia's migration policies'

Then on the eve of COP26, Britain (the host of Cop26) and the US, reward Australia with weapons of mass destruction, whilst telling Mother Nature to go to hell and instead begin to prepare for the upcoming  war with China!

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…’The pact also speaks volumes about western hypocrisy over nuclear proliferation. Courtesy of the US, Australia will acquire sophisticated technology, off-the-shelf reactors fuelled by enriched uranium, and the latest know-how.

‘This transfer breaks international rules and shatters anti-nuclear taboos. It plainly opens the door to an Australian nuclear weapons capability. Beijing will surely find painful ways to hit back over what President Xi Jinping calls interference in the “internal affairs of this region”.

‘Shattered, too, is western solidarity in the Indo-Pacific in countering Chinese aggression. The EU published a new regional strategy last week. It favours “multifaceted engagement”, not an American-led arms race. What would the US do – what would Israel – if Iran, bypassing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, suddenly decided to nuclearise its military capabilities? They’d go nuts. Shouting would likely be followed by shooting…’- Simon Tisdall:Making waves in the Pacific

See also:Why the AUKUS Submarine Deal Is Bad for Nonproliferation 

Iran hits out at U.S., Britain over AUKUS deal

Its Better Late than Never: Now Even the Head of the IAEA is Admitting to the Hypocrisy of Aukus

Then, today, the self-declared “emperor” of Manus and Nauru, has the audacity of saying that, he has bigger fish to fry in Australia, and thus, he is not sure if he wants to travel to Scotland attending the COP26. Thus, for now, this “emperor” has no clothes! 

If this is not hypocricity par excellence, then, what is it!! There you have it! Now we all know why the world is, as it is today!! In total mess!!

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Written by: Kamran Mofid

Published: 22 September 2021

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‘Life is a wonderful journey

You learn so much from it

One moment of sadness on your face

Another moment your face is lit

The journey of happiness and joy

Feeling helpless is also a part

You get many opportunity here

Even if you do not make a start

There is so much to learn in life

There is so much to give

Do not live your life in regret

Give whatever you wish to give

Do things that make you happy

That is what life is all about.’-Poems About Life

In May 2020, in the midst of the first COVID-19 lockdown, my feelings and emotions were playing up with me. Sadness and despair had consumed me. I was here, I was there, but I was nowhere. It was especially painful not seeing our family and friends, our beautiful sweet little princesses, our granddaughters. 

Then, I remembered my childhood. I remembered my late father. When he was sad or happy, I recalled, he turned to the wisdom and the inspiring words of the great Persian philosophers of love, the sages and poets, Sa’di, Hafez, Rumi, Ferdowsi, Khayyam, Ganjavi and more. 

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