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Twas the Sunday before New Years Eve and all seemed well for the Possie the retches had settled down from the conniving misdeeds throughout the year and now looking on hindsight they have reflected upon their ill gotten gains. Well, what have we achieved in the year that was 2007?

"Sweet f--- all" but, we did see a tumultuous change in everything from the number of political changes, the changes of governments, from the demise of great living legends, Great Tenors, thespian personalities, political asssignations and democracy being forever challenged with the continual usurpation by the Machiavallian Prince throughout the anarchic world stage.

Peace has been a shrinking violet for a while now.

There was an endless amount of disappointments for yet another 365 of Earth's orbit around the sun. According to the American Cancar Society some 12 million people were diagnosed with cancer and some 7 million people died from Cancer in 2007, and, get this, some 20,000 people died per day from some form of caner causing death in 2007. In the 3rd world some 6 million children died from malnutrition this year.

As a Samoan, I would have to say that this year has been marked by a unique regime change with the passing of the Head of State of Samoa, Le Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II, le ao o le Malo.

It is a tragic year for many people and it is not a year in which we can readily celebrate the achievements of many Samoans apart from staging the Samoa games, which was a very notable highlight for Samoa's young and developing sporting history.

On the local scene, Australia has finally spoken in the ballot box and have demanded the disendorsement of the federal liberal/national coalition government now the moderate left labour governemnts, dominate state and federal governments in Australia. Paradoxically, however, the labour movement is ideologically riding on the new right wave which has introduced the monetarism philosophy to most western democratic political philosophies of today. In layman terms, the new right still dictate public policy of government and Milton Friedman is still surreptitiously the blueprint architect of the present poltical mindsets of most of the rightwingers' cabal, even within the labour governments/caucases within Australia, and, dare I say, NZ.

The 'war on terror', still is high on the political agenda and America will be facing its on judgement day come the Federal elections in 08. It is highly suggested that Australia has set a precendent in what ought to be a real regime change even within the USA elections. In the meatime, Australia, and the rest of coalition of the willing hardliners, will be bracing themselves for the moribund realpolitical outcomes of political choice. The Hawks have dominated American and Australian political thinking for half a decade now America and her allies are facing a change in preference for the less than coercive and more assertive approach to international relations. The key may lie with the Democratic incumbents who will establish the new order for the denouemont of the Jihadi conflict that is now entering its endgame strategies. The Middle East conflicts will be drawn out once again with more political skirmishes to dismantle the peace process, afterall, it is a way of life for most of these people who not known anything else but violence, sport and education, and the concept of lasting intergenerational peace, are cultural shock experiences, which will be alien to the present generation and future generation of Palestinians, Israelis, as well as, Iraqi, Iranian and Afghani people etc. These people will escape to Australia and elsewhere, and bring with them their conflicts onto our beaches and streets.

On this note, the influences of the foreign conflicts has impacted Australia so directly that even the likes of David Hicks still makes headline news with his release from imprisonment. He has been considered as a soldier of fortunem a mercenary soldier who wanted to enter a skirmish against a purported religious enemy fighting in Afghanistan for a noble cause which has been considered, on hindsight, a very costly freedom of choice. David Hicks is now free which has become a political well timed exercise in the light f the political ramifications in Afghanistan and America's response being somewhat muted and reserved in light of the increasingly unpopular American foreign policy in Australia. David Hicks was a political pawn used by America and her enemies to pit Australians against themselves within the domestic sphere. The deaths of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan has highlighted the 'wait and see' approach by America and in particular how trhe Australian media will respond to David Hicks and the response of the Australian servicemen KIA families to his release.

The anti-American rally, post-David Hicks release, may be muted with the three ADF KIA from Afghanistan.

It is a time to be circumspect and to seek comfort in knowing that you and I have survived yet another orbit around this celestrial star in the sky, and yes, I have survived.

We are merely star dust and we look at our creator every day and we spin around GOD every year, we have about 2 billion rotations around God before she shrinks and implodes into a death star and 'whammo', she (it) will implode into the black abyss of the "black hole", ahh, then it will be the end of life as we know it.

In the meantime, happy new year everybody.



Tofa Soifua,

Tim Brian Tufuga




Currently listening :
Greatest Hits
By Neil Young
Release date: 16 November, 2004