Politics
To really control gun violence requires a clear analysis of ALL incidents, where they happen, common elements, and causes. A somewhat tongue-in-cheek expose of governments choosing specific incidents to advance government agenda, and totally disregarding what will identify the TRUE causes of the majority of gun violence. A great expose of the REAL issues.
Jon Stewart came back to the Daily Show for the first time since August to bring our attention to a political tragedy: U.S. politicians are taking away 911 responder benefits after claiming they’d “never be forgotten.” Many are now sick from the substances they inhaled at ground zero.
Only hours after calling for a “total and complete ban on Muslims entering the United States,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested that America should also consider “closing the Internet up in some way,” as a means of fighting the Islamic State.
It’s hard to believe that Presidential candidate Donald Trump actually thinks banning all Muslim immigration is a solution to the murderous actions of a tiny few, but there’s even more silly commentary about the San Bernadino shootings coming from the right wing. Read it and laugh? Weep? Or just just shake your head.
Want to see where BILLIONS of your tax dollars are being wasted? Read this.
According to an 800-page report commissioned by the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), US military personnel raped at least 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007. Adriaan Alsema, writing for Colombia Reports, was first to report the story in the English-language press on March 23, 2015.
The phony US military narratives summarizing wars in Syria and involving other world powers are resulting in even more reduced freedoms for US citizens. Ongoing government deceptions since 2007 are summarized. Jeff Berwick’s current predictions for 2016 are coincident with the Shemitah and Jubilee years of 2015 and 2016, with a focus on economic status.
While people are focused on the atrocities carried out by Da’esh and/or their own governments in Syria and Iraq, it’s been nearly impossible to keep track of the number of Palestinians killed by Israel’s unwritten shoot-to-kill policy since October.
Several terrorist leaders have been killed by Russian airstrike bombers over the past week between November 26- December 4 according to the Russian Defense Ministry
Hate crimes appear to be a very difficult thing to eliminate entirely, because a small number of angry, deranged people inevitably will vent their rage at groups they find threatening. The blogger however is grappling with the fact that politicians have been fueling such hatefulness.
The Hunger Games real meaning is an allegory. Main actor, Donald Sutherland is risking his career to expose it. It is vital that young people seeing the movies know what they are really about.
The downing of a Russian warplane in Syria by Turkey appears to be a pre-planned provocation, the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said.
There is a common thread that occurs with many of the mass shootings: official training exercises held just prior to, or at the same time as, the shootings.
Responding to announcements by Apple and Google that they would make customers’ smartphone and computer data more secure, in October 2014 the FBI’s director James Comey announced the Bureau was seeking to enlarge its data collection capabilities to include direct access to cell phones, tablets, and computers through an expansion of the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) in the interest of “public safety”
Violence begets terrorism. Terrorism begets war. War begets more terrorism. It really is that simple. But we just can’t seem to help ourselves. We’re a young and fallible species in an otherwise ancient and fine-tuned universe. All too often our animal reflexes kick in and we just want to kick some ass. Our inner-monkey wants to start throwing shit just because it’s upset. Without thinking, we holler “Bomb em’ all!” from the comfort of our La-Z-Boys. It’s too hard to think, so we go with the primitive and outdated default: fight or flight. But this is the immature, lizard part of our brain doing the talking, not the mature seat of consciousness that is trying to make the world a better place.
