Another American missile finds its mark!
In the water, rubble and blood stand humans!
Friends, I’m very disturbed by what I see happening in the Gaza Strip. It seems to me to transcend the level of a local conflict. It seems to suggest something evil about the world we live in, about our world society, about our world political and economic system, about us. Why, you ask?
Here we have a conflict where the media are largely kept away by the bloodthirsty Israelis. Without scrutiny and with impunity they continue to drop explosives on unarmed civilians, thousands of them thus far. Nearly a 1,000 Palestinians have been killed with 40% of them women and children (though when the rubble is cleared away, these numbers will escalate dramatically). 4,300 have been injured.
The plentiful, ultra-modern armaments Israel has and the bombs and missiles they drop are supplied by America, a country that claims to support noble concepts like freedom, human rights and democracy. Yet Israel has occupied the Palestinian Territories for sixty years and has taken away the human rights and freedom of the Palestinians. And now it is killing Palestinian civilians who, under siege and being starved, dared to retaliate.
Then, further afield, we have imperial America which, geared up and profiting from endless war, has carried out invasions and occupations in the past and more since Bush took over. Iraq and Afghanistan have felt the impact of the American version of ‘freedom, human rights and democracy.’ Millions of their citizens are dead and much of their infrastructure is little more than rubble. Laughable puppet governments who do the bidding of the Americans are already in place.
Then, like widening ripples on a pond, we have the other nations of the world who either assist America in its invasions and occupations or sit on the sidelines and twiddle their thumbs or tut-tut occasionally.
The U.N. once again exposes its total impotence and it is reduced to begging the combatants to stop firing. Clearly, warring nations who profit from war call the tune as they’ve always done and the world dances.
So, you see, in 2009, the photos (Reuters) of Israelis dropping American explosives on defenseless Gazan civilians have very wide implications. To me it suggests that we humans, as a species, are little more than brutal, cruel killers and the age-old law of the jungle still rules. It demonstrates that we have made no progress towards peace in ten thousand years.
And there is absolutely no sign that anything is ever going to change!
None!
“And there is absolutely no sign that anything is ever going to change!”.
DavidG, seems like lots of signs, all toward the negative.
3000 missiles times maybe $100,000 a copy but peanuts compared to the R&D billions that the tax payer spring for to get ‘em. No small accomplishment. Gee, could have gone to solar energy source development and countless other things in the name of decency.
But that makes way too much sense,clean, peaceful world.
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Ken, I look everywhere, desperately hoping to find some sign, even a small one, that things might be changing. I can see absolutely nothing.
Because of our nature, we seem to be caught in a revolving door and there’s no exit only extinction!
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I’m not sure about the entire human species, but it certainly does seem that “western civilisation” ain’t exactly fulfilling what its proponents have long claimed as it virtues.
There are plenty of theories that ascribe the root problem to various sources: the illuminati, the Bilderbergers, religious institutions, the banking system, capitalism in general, and so on. Personally, I tend to agree with you that there is something akin to “original sin” that is inherent in human nature itself. Maybe it reflects our distant(?) reptillian ancestry. I dunno. Whatever it is, it seems to find its way predominantly to the topmost rungs of “modern” human society.
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Insipid Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
“Whatever it is, it seems to find its way predominantly to the topmost rungs of “modern” human society.” Arvy
I think that’s called “inbreeding”…
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I guess our intelligence (such as it is) allows us to see possibilities but our nature forces us to act out the same, mindless script generation by generation.
As I’ve said before, genetic engineering that alters our violent, rapacious nature seems to me to be the only solution. Of course, until humans accept what they really are, such a practical remedy will never be considered.
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Insipid Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 7:02 am
How is humans managing nature ever been a “practical remedy”? Please explain?
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Arvy Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Heh heh. That line kinda puzzled me a bit too. Sounds a little too much like sociological castration for my comfort.
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“Indeed, we are little better than primitive savages.”.
Much, much worse, likely. No reliable history books on them from a Google search. But anthropologists coined the “savage”, not eyewitnesses. Humans are much worse than animals, for sure. Same for reptilian ancestry, as a guess. Probably all down hill.
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The irony for me, Ken, is that there is some evidence that we are capable of better: things like music, art, novels, opera, things one wouldn’t associate with primitive savages.
But then we have conflicting religions and endless war and greed and genocide and nukes, etc, which tilt the balance away from and dominate the occasional finer more noble things.
We are in endless conflict with ourselves!
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The jews of israel, with the approval and full support of their jewish rabbis and my jewish controlled government, are doing this. I think of the little girl in the CHILDREN OF GAZA showing her little pile of clothes to the cameraman asking us to note that the jews had caused all of her clothes to smell like gas. Her words.
I think of the terribly wounded boy in Gaza last week telling the camera to look what the jews had done. His words. They want the world to defend them from the jews. Well, at least reportedly because of complaints from Athens, Greece, the US has cancelled a planned shipment of munitions from a Greek port to a US warehouse in Israel.
Thank you so much for your internet work, David G. Political correctness is killing us.
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Swan, I feel my words and images are so impotent. While I write from the safety of my home, people in Gaza are dying, women, kids.
I’d like to be there, to help them fight against the ideologically-deranged savages who are carrying out deliberate genocide using American weapons and missiles.
Apparently the Americans are looking for another ship to take the missiles to Israel. In a way, I think the Americans are more morally bankrupt than the Israelis.
Cheers.
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Arvy Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I don’t think moral bankruptcy is a major concern or impediment to the U.S. oligarchy. Actual bankruptcy, on the other hand, might just possibly slow them down a little bit.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has announced that the United States had a record budget deficit of $485.2 billion in the first quarter. And the Congressional Budget Office forecasts that the annual deficit will top 1.2 trillion dollars by the turn of the current fiscal year. Now, if we could just persuade China and a few other major creditors to start calling in some of their debts, …
Oh, well. Just a passing thought. The U.S. would undoubtedly find some way to finance wars, both their own and Israel’s, if it meant indentured servitude for every man, woman and child for all eternity.
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Not meaning to offend you, but only
to give you something to think about:
“Cheers” seems to me to be a singularly
incongruous and inappropriate way to
sign off after speaking of death and
destruction and human horrors of all
sorts.
Sort of like laughter at a funeral.
Perhaps I alone am affected this way
by it.
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I’m sorry that your comment neglected to address the real substance of the thread, Privateman. I would’ve preferred that you were affected by that!
Cheers.
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The populace of the USA is not more morally bankrupt than the Israelis, although certainly less informed. Yet, even not knowing the extent of the treachery of the jewsish state, the only poll I have seen showed that upon the onset of the Gaza blitz being done by Israel, 41% of my fellow Americans wanted them to negotiate, whereas 41% wanted Israel to hunt down Hamas.
No cheers ending for me, or from me, at this point in time. Boycott Starbucks. I am proud of Australia for recently arresting Israeli conment operating there, and for its strong protesting of Israel’s aggression. Last week, no white female in Congress voted no to the Israel Lobby resolution condoning this savagery. They are not properly representing either their constituents or their sex.
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Insipid Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
“They are not properly representing either their constituents or their sex.” Swan
Unless you consider that the average Senate seat costs a candidate around $10 million for a job that “we the people” pay them a salary of around $125,000 a year for a 6 year term. That math doesn’t add up.
Who’s their constituency? Must be someone paying them a lot more than the paltry sum of their two to six year salary. I believe they are representing their constituency… it’s just no longer us.
I say we vote them out! Change every face up there with very few exceptions… you know the ones.
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Arvy Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 12:43 am
“Who’s their constituency?” Precisely!!!
I forget who said that the two greatest obstacles to democracy in the U.S. are the belief of ordinary citizens that they have it and the fear of the elite that they might get it.
The whole notion that a republican form of democracy (i.e., a state whose sovereignty resides in the people) is possible on the basis of “elections” where no party truly represents the common interests of the citizenry is patently absurd. But that is precisely the condition in which the U.S. and a considerable number of other allegedly democratic societies find themselves in today. So-called “representative democracy” has become a total farce, but not a very funny one, at least not funny for those of us caught in its imperial web.
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Arvy Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 1:22 am
P.S.: There is quite a good discussion of this issue in an MIT working paper (PDF format) entitled French Democracy Without Borders?. Despite its title, it is quite relevant to the U.S. experience as well. Here’s a brief quote:
In other words, the elite looks upon ordinary citizens as a potentially dangeous “faction”.
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swan Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I have read that the average senate seat is appraised at the value of $1,000,000. The salary is just a fraction of those benefits the senator receives.
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RalphE Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 12:36 am
Doing the right thing does not belong solely to one sex or the other. I think part of the problem with humanity is that all groups, religious, military, educators, medical personnel, lawyers, politicians etc. etc. think that they are special in some way and need to be segregated from all others. It’s the same dogma that has plagued the races since the beginning of time. Until humanity can overcome this aspect of their being, the world will not see much change.
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“con men” not “comment”. sorry
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“In other words, the elite looks upon ordinary citizens as a potentially dangeous “faction”.” – Arvy. That is what I am getting at. The Gaza “war” on a crowded urban civilian area. Gaza, Bahgdad, Falluja, New York City, New Orleans, who is next? The drugs that they want our very lives to depend on and “wars to keep us safe.” Big Brother, hello?!!
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Arvy Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
That infamous Panamanian drug kingpin and military dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega, was a devoted student of psychological warfare and its relevance to control of the masses. He had this to say:
“The masses have a great weakness: their scarce or nonexistent abiliy to think. … They have abdicated this power to the elites. … We can make them think as we want and move them in the direction we like.” — Noriega, Psychological Operations, 1975
On the other hand, he also said: “[A]ll wars produce a revolution for both the triumphant and the defeated.”
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Insipid Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
He was also being paid $100,000 as a cia asset, and was trained in the US by same.
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Insipid Reply:
January 15th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Newsweek, 1/15/90
Arvy Reply:
January 16th, 2009 at 3:31 am
At least. Frederick Kempe, in his book Divorcing the Dictator, has him on the CIA payroll for “up to $200,000 a year by 1985 — equal to the American president’s salary.”
And re MkULTRA, learn what Cathy O’Brien knows about Noriega, etc., while she was a mind control slave. You can hear her on line, and I just finished her book, TRANS FORMATION OF AMERICA.
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