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Sat May 11, 2013 6:53 am
Paul Balles, Posted on » Saturday, May 11, 2013
I'M tired of politics, of the injustices, the corruption, the assassinations, the gross illegal behaviour of the strong, the plundering of the poor and the indignities wrought on the weak.
While decent working people lose their homes, thanks to Wall Street's Ponzi schemes, the market manipulators pay themselves outrageous million-dollar salaries and bonuses.
Millions of children go hungry as warmongering US Senate crusaders groan and gasp that not enough is spent (wasted) on military interventions around the world.
According to a Pentagon report, the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba - dubbed the most expensive jail on earth - costs Americans $903,614 annually per prisoner.
Meanwhile, millions of children in urban America, urban South America, urban Africa and urban Asia starve while $150 million annually is spent operating Guantanamo.
In a New York Times article, Scott Shane cited an independent review of interrogation and detention that says: "It is indisputable that the US engaged in the practice of torture and that the nation's highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it."
He outlined some of the abuse that took place.
"The CIA not only water-boarded prisoners, but slammed them into walls, chained them in uncomfortable positions for hours, stripped them of clothing and kept them awake for days on end," he wrote.
Celebrated human rights organisations blabber their disapproval and nobody listens, nobody cares, nobody acts.
Nothing changes except the rich get richer, while prisoners in Guantanamo would rather starve themselves to death than remain innocents locked up under threat of enhanced interrogation.
Politically disenfranchised children waste away without medical care or food, while the US government gladly pours billions of dollars into Israel's military coffers.
America's current agreement elevated Israel's annual aid from $2.4 billion to $3.1bn and Israeli officials expect the follow-on package to provide incremental boosts to nearly $4bn per year.
Eight thousand structurally deficient bridges in America need urgent repair and maintenance, but American politicians ignore dire infrastructure needs while making overtures to buy drones to spy on the public.
During the Occupy Wall Street protests in the US, hundreds of journalists and people with mobile phone cameras were arrested for photographing the actions of police.
Americans are not stupid, but they are ignorant. They've been dumbed down in the schools and at home by the media.
They go off to fight wars in places they've never heard of.
They don't know more than one language; and some don't know that.
When they discover they're going to fight Arabs, their minds respond to the brainwashing they get from Islamophobic films they watch at home.
Anyone who has read Jack Shaheen's Reel Bad Arabs knows that the media has twisted many ignorant American minds.
Not long ago I wrote an article on Americans' love of violence and how part of that comes from violent films they watch, even down to Tom and Jerry cartoons.
In a letter to the editor, one American wrote: "Violence is not actively taught in America nor is it the result of cartoons - the same cartoons are available worldwide."
He forgot to connect gun violence in American films with the availability and popularity of guns in America (and anywhere else America is supplying arms).
The National Rifle Association is fighting its cause by pushing its terrorist message on two fronts: to a Congress that fears a loss of votes and funding and to a public frightened that the government will bring the military down on them.
Wake up America! Stop the injustices! End the corruption! Make politics a patriot's joy for people like me.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDeta ... yid=353067
Sat May 11, 2013 6:38 pm
Wake-up call for America
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Sat May 11, 2013 6:53 am
Paul Balles, Posted on » Saturday, May 11, 2013
I'M tired of politics, of the injustices, the corruption, the assassinations, the gross illegal behaviour of the strong, the plundering of the poor and the indignities wrought on the weak.
While decent working people lose their homes, thanks to Wall Street's Ponzi schemes, the market manipulators pay themselves outrageous million-dollar salaries and bonuses.
Millions of children go hungry as warmongering US Senate crusaders groan and gasp that not enough is spent (wasted) on military interventions around the world.
According to a Pentagon report, the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba - dubbed the most expensive jail on earth - costs Americans $903,614 annually per prisoner.
Meanwhile, millions of children in urban America, urban South America, urban Africa and urban Asia starve while $150 million annually is spent operating Guantanamo.
In a New York Times article, Scott Shane cited an independent review of interrogation and detention that says: "It is indisputable that the US engaged in the practice of torture and that the nation's highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it."
He outlined some of the abuse that took place.
"The CIA not only water-boarded prisoners, but slammed them into walls, chained them in uncomfortable positions for hours, stripped them of clothing and kept them awake for days on end," he wrote.
Celebrated human rights organisations blabber their disapproval and nobody listens, nobody cares, nobody acts.
Nothing changes except the rich get richer, while prisoners in Guantanamo would rather starve themselves to death than remain innocents locked up under threat of enhanced interrogation.
Politically disenfranchised children waste away without medical care or food, while the US government gladly pours billions of dollars into Israel's military coffers.
America's current agreement elevated Israel's annual aid from $2.4 billion to $3.1bn and Israeli officials expect the follow-on package to provide incremental boosts to nearly $4bn per year.
Eight thousand structurally deficient bridges in America need urgent repair and maintenance, but American politicians ignore dire infrastructure needs while making overtures to buy drones to spy on the public.
During the Occupy Wall Street protests in the US, hundreds of journalists and people with mobile phone cameras were arrested for photographing the actions of police.
Americans are not stupid, but they are ignorant. They've been dumbed down in the schools and at home by the media.
They go off to fight wars in places they've never heard of.
They don't know more than one language; and some don't know that.
When they discover they're going to fight Arabs, their minds respond to the brainwashing they get from Islamophobic films they watch at home.
Anyone who has read Jack Shaheen's Reel Bad Arabs knows that the media has twisted many ignorant American minds.
Not long ago I wrote an article on Americans' love of violence and how part of that comes from violent films they watch, even down to Tom and Jerry cartoons.
In a letter to the editor, one American wrote: "Violence is not actively taught in America nor is it the result of cartoons - the same cartoons are available worldwide."
He forgot to connect gun violence in American films with the availability and popularity of guns in America (and anywhere else America is supplying arms).
The National Rifle Association is fighting its cause by pushing its terrorist message on two fronts: to a Congress that fears a loss of votes and funding and to a public frightened that the government will bring the military down on them.
Wake up America! Stop the injustices! End the corruption! Make politics a patriot's joy for people like me.
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDeta ... yid=353067
Sat May 11, 2013 6:38 pm
They don't sound very much better off than us, do they? And this used to be the leading superpower in the world. I'm sich and tired of them all, the west, us, the Muslim countries, snivelling India, etc. Only for China, do I find no hard words at this particular stage.
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