The Total Cost of War

Monday, December 31, 2012

Ralph Nader Has It Right


Comparing election years 1912 to 2012. 

Before the electoral year of 2012 slinks into history, it is worth a comparative glance back to the electoral year of 1912 to give us some jolting perspective on how degraded our contemporary elections, voter performance and election expectations have become.

One hundred years ago, workers were marching, picketing and forming unions. Eugene Debs, the great labor leader and presidential candidate that year, spoke to outdoor labor rallies of 100,000 to 200,000 workers and their families gathered to protest low wages and working conditions.

Farmers were flexing their muscle with vibrant political activity in progressive parties and organizing farm cooperatives, through their granges, and pushing for proper regulation of the banks and railroads.


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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Tech vs Spirituality


Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” --Martin Luther King Jr

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Noam Chomsky on Israel


















After the Civil War in the American South there were plenty of lynchings of blacks. These *warnings* were meant to keep the black population *in their place*.

Replace lynchings with Israeli military... and you get Israel keeping Palestinians *in their place*.


Saturday, December 8, 2012

Friday, December 7, 2012

Rebels


"It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels." -Carl Oglesby

Thursday, December 6, 2012

One Has To Wonder...


Why is Julian Assange being hunted when the publishers of The New York Times and the other media outlets who actually put the *leaks* to print, are not.

Seems to me The New York Times should have refused to print the documents.

Time will tell. :)

Desolation Row


Something deep inside tells me... shit is going to hit the fan very very soon in this country... some parts of the world are already coming apart at the seams.

I am guessing things are going to get violent in the streets to some extent, but I think the real action will be in cyber security. We've already seen hackers can and will strike at will.

And as we saw in Occupy Wall St, Occupy LA, Occupy Oakland etc, that law enforcement does not see people in the streets as protesters. Protesters are now seen as terrorists. Quite a different story.

Starting 12/21 ... we will roll into 2013 and it will get very very interesting.

World War III will not be between nation states. It will be between the 99% and the 1%.


Sunday, December 2, 2012

Myanmar/Burma... Getting Democracy?


Or is Myanmar/Burma adopting capitalism? Looking at this: Several monks were in a "critical condition" , it appears capitalism is winning.

/snip/
Several monks were in a "critical condition", according to pro-democracy campaigner Myo Thant of the 88 Generation Students group.

It was unclear exactly what caused the burns but President Thein Sein's office denied local media allegations that some kind of chemical weapon was used.

In a statement Thursday it said that water cannon, tear gas and smoke bombs were deployed against the protesters, but later retracted the statement without giving a reason.
/end snip/

The tragic part of this article is where the Bangkok Post has replaced the picture of a Buddhist monk with burns on his face and eye with something not so gut wrenching. The original article also mentioned these burns were from acid.

As is often the case, when money and natural resources are involved, it appears the suppression of dissent was quite brutal.

Scathing Remark Of Our Times


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Saturday, December 1, 2012