Waging Peace with Un-newsworthy Pipes

including pictures and a dog

Published : 2023-07-12

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The big NATO hoo-haa in Vilnius is under way. Out of tired curiosity I had a look at what John Helmer had to say. NATO is giving Ukraine a 6 month deadline to capture territory or “win a bit” and also repeating the mantra that Ukraine's place is within NATO.

These ideologues are both idiots and incredibly uncaring. All of their machinations have lead to war, the worst possible outcome for people. I am aghast at how brutally they deal with millions of people's lives.

What people want is peace, and peace with food and shelter, and schools for their children, and roads and sanitation, and parks and music.

I'm looking after a house for a lady, which comes with a neurotic, wonderful dog, Tilly. The house is located in a flood zone in Sydney, surrounded on all sides by hills and to the north Rushcutters Bay, the exit location for the occassional flood waters.

I've become very interested in infrastructure, and particularly infrastructure managed by local governments. I've also been re-visiting an old artistic side of myself and sometimes the two merge in photography. Here are two major installations to deal with flood water or some other water related infrastructure.

[Image: Beside the Reg Bartley Oval. A pumping station from the early 20th century, and Tilly.]

[Image: Near the end of the point in the public park/naval reserve on the other side of Rushcutters Bay. I dont know the purpose.]

[Image: A close up of the access hatches to the water installation below. My interest was the lock, which reads "Sydney Water 8-2013" which to me meant that in 2013 Sydney Water had their own locksmiths. There is a whole essay in that topic alone.]

These are examples of what people want. Flood protection and fresh water.

NATO is a defunct organisation based upon a political ideological divide (capitalist democracy vs socialist communism). Since it's raison d'etre evaporated at the dissolution of the USSR, it has been used to wage western imperialist wars first in the name of the War of Terror and now for whatever reason they come up with. For example, what was the Syrian Dirty War about?

I am thinking of Caitlin Johnstone accurately describing these pompous, self-important big-wigs as deranged, megalomaniacal psychopaths while I'm looking at things that actually matter, what people want.

Do you know why these important pieces of infrastructure are not in the news?

Because they work. They do the job for which they were designed (thank you, engineers, we love you).

They are not newsworthy. They provide stability.

The NATO meeting is newsworthy. NATO is providing instability.

It is waging a war.

The water installations are quietly waging peace.

Sources

The NATO Ultimatum to Ukraine – Invitation to Win by Winter or Die, John Helmer, Dances with Bears, 2023-07-12

Culture

Claude Debussy - La Mer, uploaded to IlaryRhineKlange channel 2012-07-01