says, She says, They says...
If we only listen to the news reports, Left, Right or from Never Never
Land, we can become totally confused. It helps to have studied a bit
of World History and lived to an old age with our eyes wide open. But
even so, confusion reigns.
After Spain was battered by the young American Empire, and Mexico lost
a huge portion of their Country to the expansionists, South and
Central America lay open and pretty much unprotected. And what Empire
could stand by and pass up the opportunity to rape and plunder? With
Cuba successfully standing up to the Empire, and with Venezuela
prospering in spite of the Empire's efforts to take down the Chavez
government, and other nations leaning Leftish, the Empire was
beginning to lose control. With problems in the current Venezuelan
government the Empire must strike, or risk losing its dominant
position. This would not bode well for the Trump regime. If he can't
beef up support for the Corporate interests, what good is he to them?
What is most difficult for me are the babbling liars. I also listened
to NPR and Democracy Now this morning. Listening to bare face liars
and crooks wildly declaring others as anti democratic, is enough to
make me puke. Name the last democracy the American Empire
defended...Saudi Arabia perhaps?
And it's almost laughable hearing the cries and moans over Russia
"meddling" in "Our Backyard". Excuse me, but is their big Russian
nose getting in the way of our big American nose? And why are we
yelling over Russia interfering in our politics, when the American
Empire is built upon a Meddling Model?
Sadly, the lesson I think I'm learning is that democracy cannot exist
in competition with Capitalism. Greed will never live side by side
with People Power.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/24/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This thing has been covered all over the place with a multiplicity of
interpretations. I work up this morning to my clock radio playing NPR's
version of the news about Venezuela and guess what! The Russians are coming
to support a questionable government in Venezuela, according to that little
news item. I hope they did a better job with an in depth interpretation. I
then heard Democracy Now on the subject, a very different story. And then,
Part 2 of the Moderate Rebels report on Venezuela, much more in depth even,
than that of Democracy Now. If you listen to as much news as I do, even left
wing news, you'll discover how many versions of the facts there are,
floating around.
Miriam
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I heard the discussion on Democracy Now, too. I really hate cowards.
Those boys send a warning of what America may look like in 50 years.
When we are faced with the annihilation of the human species, how can we be
led into turning on one another?
Carl Jarvis
On 1/22/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The American Indian man who did the drumming and singing was
interviewed on Democracy Now this morning. He was attempting to
promote peace and harmony by intervening between the boys and the
group whom he identified as Black Israelites. He was attempting to
prevent unnecessary physical injury to either group, a commendable
act in my opinion. The boys from the Kentucky Catholic School were
wearing, "Make America Great" hats, and they were in Washington to
march in a demonstration opposing women's right to medical care and
control of their own bodies. A potential new crop of Judge Cavenaughs.
I am becoming very impatient with news media personalities and others
who present what's happening in our country as if it were a matter of
equally valid points of view and who believe that compromise will
solve our problems.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Hatred, intimidation and make America white
again
Now that the hour plus long video has surfaced of a group of Catholic
School students engaging in multiple confrontations in our nations
capital the picture is clearer and worse than ever. There was a group
of black Hebrews loudly protesting the president's policies, namely
the wall. The group of teens and their chaperones, wearing MAGA hats
loudly counter protested with build the wall and go back to Africa
chants. At this point the confrontation was mostly peaceful with the
teens staying about 15 feet away from their intended targets. At that
point 3 native Americans started playing their drums and chanting.
This is where things took a turn for the ugly. The teens surrounded
them and started to close in their circle around them, blocking their
exit or retreat. Taking it a step further one of the teens, in a
threatening move, took off his shirt and got directly within inches of
the native Americans who were powerless to retreat. While the
apologists will be quick to point out that no assault occurred, lets
look at another crime that doesn't get as much air time. It is called
menacing. Yes, in many locales that is a felony. It is to act in a
manner which would make the victim believe they are in jeopardy of
injury or death. Evidentially those lads were willfully ignorant of
the legal consequences of their actions. If a group of black,
Hispanic, or Muslum males surrounded a member of the privileged class or a
police officer in the manner these lads did they would have been shot.
Let's look at another example that occurred on this list.
There was a theory set forth by some here who believe their status as
members of the privileged class allows them to forego tipping a wait
staff.
Those folks are willfully ignorant of something known as "theft of
service", which is a very real crime in many places. What these two
aforementioned examples teach us is that when you are a member of the
privileged class you can be as willfully ignorant of the law as you
choose to be; because in the end the laws don't apply to you. So like
it or not, those fine lads from their wealthy, plaid tie, blue blazer,
embroidered breast pocket private school have become the face of the
new privileged class and an icon of everything that is wrong with the
ever-increasing socio-economic divide.
Frank