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| U.S. Dropping cluster bombs |
By Carolyn Bennett
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mericans (we) will not face the fact and the implications of
the fact that the problem is not in the stars or with the gods, but with us. We
are the problem.
Whether it is the environment or violence or inhumanity of
man to man, the problem is us. No question about it. We seem unable or, more
likely, unwilling to progress beyond this point. And a people or any of the many
peoples of the world who fasten themselves in fear and paranoia, blind
themselves with consumption, and who will not rise to the challenge of our
inherent failings will forever be doomed to repeat and repeat and repeat the
horrors that beset the world. No, let me restate that: the horrors we unleash on
the world.
Let’s take a look for a moment at us.
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| "War on Terror" |
Mr. Obama, the current U.S. head of state, is the
personification of a “good” actor, a camouflage, a fake, a fooler, a
flimflammer; whether “promising” or “mourning,” he performs the part like no
other. And you believe him because mass media makes you believe, as it plays and replays
the scene of a weeping president; like towers falling over and over until your
brain is washed of the common sense that tells you something is amiss.
Together they can perform as many “mourning” moments as they
like. Lower as many flags in feigned grieving as they like. But it is these
same “grievers,” these mourning cabals who send young men and women to make war,
to instigate conflict, to fall in a foreign land, to return home broken inside
and out.
Torture
The same “mourners” send “immigrants” to fight their wars
and when they return imprison them without due process, torture the without recourse
in human rights convention, and or “render” them to countries for the sole
purpose of having them undergo further cruel and inhuman treatment.
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| U.S. deploys Fails to sign UN Treaty |
War, massacre, mayhem
It is these same mourners who kill women and children and
who, as suits their fancy, label young men “terrorists.” It is these same
mourners who send remote bombs and who attack with chemical weapons leaving
landmines and bomblets to massacre hundreds of thousands immediately and well
into the future. These same mourners destroy lives and livelihoods and upset
geographic regions, multi-sectarian relations, international and domestic
relations among people who have and would, if left alone, resolve their own conflicts
and live in peace with one another.
Corrupt politics and bribe-taking pandering
terrorists-making hypocritical politicians, these are the performing
“mourners.” Torture, assassination and brute force at home and abroad are their
examples, their legacy to world and nation. Violence is the true face of these
“mourners.”
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| Pakistanis protest U.S. assassination drone strikes |
Violence
These are heads of U.S. governments up and down the spectrum
(local to national) whose “law enforcement,” whose immigration and homeland
security and “safe communities” agents make sport tasering unarmed people,
shooting pointblank, shoving instruments
up the rectums of victims in their custody; doing this routinely, with
impunity, never having to face prosecution or adjudication. This is “our” face
domestically, transported by U.S. agents (soldiers, officials, personnel,
proxies) anywhere in the world. We are the world, the world is us; and what we
do is who we are.
Face of “mourners”: here and there, failure to care
The faces and facts of those who today perform a “mourning”
of the deaths of schoolchildren are also heartlessly, carelessly without
caring. These “mourners” play to and
promote ignorance. In fact, their destruction of quality education ensures
ignorance.
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| Homeless USA |
Fakers and foolers:
For the masses of people in the United States, there are no schools encouraging
independent thought and love of learning. Schools instill profit-making models,
makers of consumers, and mindless consuming, furthering a violent character in
consumption. A culture that creates holidays for gouging and gorging; a culture
that creates disasters for making fake “community,” convenient “humanitarians,”
manipulative mass-media-made “heroes”: “Look how they helped one another, even
the black, brown, yellow and white people … ‘hero’ Johnny pulls little Sally
from the sink hole.”
Education, medical and
health resources, shelter ─
Why
do the sick of all kinds suffer needlessly?
Why
does homelessness persist in a “prosperous” nation? Is this not violence
against one’s own people?
(Why
are the U.S. citizens demanding regime change in other nations not demanding it
in the United States?
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| Disestablishing education |
Why
not sweep out the entire sitting government, executive and legislative?)
Why not? Because
this nation is a nation of people who have learned not to care as a matter of
character; because we are a nation of people who have created and maintained
structures, institutions and systems that operate in the interests of profit for
a few and that tease suckers into wanting the same ─ like playing lotteries
that help no one and deliberately work against the needs and interests of
human beings, against societies all over the world.
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| Here and there: Killing |
In the void of care, of caring; in the absence of character
that regards, respects, is concerned one for the other grows paranoia, fear and
uncertainty, untreated sickness, suspicion and division. Community declines (no
fake mourning or heroes can contain), descending to annihilation.
Lie on its face: the Show
You can continue to believe the false “mourners,” the assassins, the CNN-ized portrayal of reality.
However, to really
shake up things, we have to look critically at what these “mourners” do, what they
have done, what they will continue to do as long as you (as we), the masses,
majorities of people, let them get away with moments of weeping while
chronically engaging in manipulation and murder.
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| U.S. war in Afghanistan Civilian Dead |
Violence has been the first instrument of an entrenched
character, of a cabal, of the corrupt, corrupting and corrupted. Anyone conscious
of or engaged in contemporary world and domestic affairs expects violence to
rise from among the masses ─ whether university teachers in tenured posts,
board members of top companies or organizations, whether laborers in garbage
collection or students in America’s classrooms ─ when what they are fed
continuously is violence. This status quo in violence will continue until we the
masses say no more.
Shock? Mourning? I don’t think so. It is all performance:
for some, self-delusional; for others, deliberate flimflamming made for
television. For all, it is pageantry, the SHOW: Gere sings “Chicago.”
Here we are again, a fleeting moment of feigned (for some
possibly real) anguish. Then back to character as usual ─ until next time.
I am saddened but not shocked. I am definitely outraged, angry with us.
Peg: Sources and notes
HEADLINES yesterday and yesterday
Today's news
CIA: European
court rules [U.S.] CIA tortured, sodomized German man.
SYRIA: West
sanctions causing Syrians to suffer: Syrian Foreign Minister says.
SYRIA: Blacklisting
terrorists in Syria pretext for U.S. intervention says Opposition
PAKISTAN: Thousands
of Pakistanis have been killed in bombings and other militant attacks since
2001, when Pakistan joined an alliance with the United States in the so-called ‘war
on terror.’ Today a rocket attack on an airport
killed four people in NW Pakistan.
AFGHANISTAN: U.S.
soldier dies in volatile southern Afghanistan
UNITED STATES: Alabama
Gunman killed after shooting three people
A gunman opened fire at a hospital
in the U.S. state of Alabama, injuring a police officer and two other people.
The police then shot and killed the gunman.
UNITED STATES: Suicide
[in U.S. Army] numbers likely to top 2011, Army says
UNITED STATES: Poll:
32 percent of Americans find medical care too expensive
Yesterday’s news
December 14, 2012
UNITED STATES
20 children, 6 adults killed by gunman at U.S. school
Newtown, Connecticut, northern Fairfield County about 45
miles southwest of Hartford, 80 miles northeast of the New York City.
CBS News reported 27 people died: 20
Sandy Hook Elementary School students, 6 adult victims; shooter suicide. One
person injured in the Friday incident. Media outlets reported the school’s
principal and psychologist among the dead.
Headlines from Press TV print news online, http://www.presstv.ir/
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