Tag: peace
PEACE AND REALITY
One begins to notice an illumination of understanding among global local communities who, over millennia, been pitted against each other by what currently could be defined by the word fascist. This seems to be an authoritarian public/private partnership as promoted by the divisiveness of Donald Trump in his so-called campaign that seems to be less about We The People and more about his self-indulgence.
AMERICAN COLONY
The Hamas/Israeli War is revealing FACTS that until now have been easy to overlook. Have we returned to the times of Medieval warfare and governance, or did we never leave?
SIEGE
This morning C-Span hosted a discussion about the Israeli/Hamas fiasco. An ocean liner seems to have turned as so many callers spoke of the distinction between Hamas and Palestinian communities, and the context preceding the weekend attack which included the destruction of Palestinian homes and crops by Israel.
AMERICAN DREAM
The foundation of democracy is individual involvement and the dream of America is the ability for citizens to so act. A troubling parallel arises between the PRC and the USA, both of which are republics, as we watch the democracy that is the function of We The People, not of government, is restricted by the hierarchic Establishment. If the common impulse toward peace must be stifled to protect oligarchical control of the global elite, what are we to make of the American Dream of democracy?
COMMEMORATE
C-Span hosted conversations about Memorial Day.
8:40AM–caller–paraphrase–The military is good at transitioning citizens into soldiers but not the transition from a soldier into a citizen.
EMOTIONAL MATURITY
The point is made that the US leadership might have served the US better by understanding Afghanistan, now that the Taliban is back in control……as though they ever weren’t. The Frontline guest Martin Smith was a guest on C-Span, and also intimated that Afghanistan may not be the only misunderstood nation into which deluded US leaders are forcing “Western values”. And so goes American chauvinism.
WHO WANTS PEACE?
C-Span ran a bit of a speech by someone named Mike Gallagher-R, in which he said (paraphrase) the CCP (China) took advantage of US “good faith”. Probably he’s referring to the blind trust of US politicians (AKA jumping through corporate hoops) in imposing the national security risk upon the US public known as globalism, in which jobs, manufacturing, and control evolved to China.
FARM WORKERS AND DENIAL
NYS has passed legislation that would mandate overtime pay for farm workers after 40-hours-per week. Some local lawmakers have expressed concern that lack of understanding about the erratic time schedules in farm work will place undue burdens upon farm employers.
COURAGE TO CHANGE
Change requires courage and imagination. Propaganda helps to ensure the public have neither.
THE VALUE OF UFO’S
The value of the recent UFO concerns in the USA that has an infinitesimal chance of being aliens from outside of our universe, is the attention-grabbing ability that may accrue toward those who may otherwise be running around in red caps and annoying others. A significant value is to shine light into the dark corner of government secrecy that is out of sync with a democracy.
WHAT DO NORAD AND NATO HAVE IN COMMON?
One commonality is a diversity of US “enemies”. But a more succinct commonality comes to mind. And information about current events stamped “top secret”, will probably in about 10 years be found stuck to the bottom of some politicians shoe.
BOY SCOUTS WITH BINOCULARS
The painfully relevant topic of debt in the USA was addressed by a mature and informed discussion with Elyse Hicks. The predatory character of credit card use was prominent. We should question those who called in to say “they knew what they were getting into” as being offensive when one remembers that organized crime uses usury tactics in their power and wealth accumulation. Some people have recognized that capitalism on a continuum is organized crime, and should be treated as such.