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Monday May 05,
2008
Unnatural disasters
Is there a country left that can still pride itself on having a
no-torture policy? Is there a country left whose poor are not
either
ignored or become deliberate targets in the frantic lunge for the
almighty dollar? Is the so-called Food Crisis real or
manufactured?
Is there a soldier alive who can remain honest and sane after wading in
human blood?
Two videos from the Caravan against Torture
in Ontario:
RFHall
Joins Caravan Against Torture
Caravan Against
Torture & Interview with Muayyed Nureddin
Burma cyclone hurts poor the most:
NYT:
Myanmar Death Toll Reported at Nearly 4,000
From Mizzima
News: pages
of details and photos
It stands to reason there will be more deaths as the injured,
dehydrated, homeless and hungry succumb.
It sounds like Katrina; the government is slow to respond other than
guarding the streets against looting. People are formulating ways
on
their own to get water to where it is needed, even blowing up the main
water supply pipe to get at the contents.
Since there is a high level of unemployed and poverty stricken in this
little country, losing some is not likely to perturb the junta. And it
won't bother Britain, China or the US-Canada either since
destablization benefits their corporations.
Makes you wonder if this was a "natural" disaster. Did you know
that in 1997 a
manufactured cyclone hit Malaysia
just a little lower down on the map from Burma? If the Russians
could
do that, any country could. After a decade of perfecting the
technique, will it be used to reduce and move populations, while blaming
it on "climate change"? Looks like it already has.
Is this what all the hype about climate change is for? Getting
the
world to accept increases in "natural" disasters and making the average
person feel responsible for it while corporations continue to pollute?
Did you notice that the reason for the 1997 cyclone was because of smog
produced by preparations for factory farming?
The
cyclone is said to have hit Burma's "rice bowl" which raises more
rice supply fears (Reuters)
Since, more and more, it seems there is a concerted plan to make it
impossible for the poor to obtain food, again this callous method of
population reduction can be blamed on "natural" causes
Manufactured food crisis
Read The Bullet's take on the growing food
crisis and see how "free market" capitalism has failed (or is
it succeeding in wiping out unwanted populations?) : We
are in the midst of an unprecedented worldwide food price inflation
that has driven prices to their highest levels in decades. The
increases affect most kinds of food, but in particular the most
important staples – wheat, corn, and rice.
Food
crisis leaves many Afghans desperate (WireDispatch)
Afghans pay for leftovers as global crisis sends bread price
skyrocketing - "Karzai is the king and this is my life," wailed the
Pashtun woman, who declined to give her name because of her
conservative social code. "Since the Americans came here, nothing is
cheap."
Bush scours his weak brain for a scapegoat:
Bush blames India’s
middle class for food price hike (Dawn)
Like the old song says: "there
ain't no Ten Commandments"
when it comes to New World Order ways and means, in Burma or
elsewhere. There's murder, lying, stealing and coveting going on
bigtime. And the Golden
Rule
is altogether forgotten - even, and maybe especially, by many calling
themselves Christian, who rather than crying out against inhumanity,
welcome it as a sign of the "last days" and a harbinger of
the return of Jesus.
And of course, they have been encouraged by government driven media to
demonize Iran, believing that it will bring about the required
Armageddon, which fits nicely into US plans for remaking the Middle
East in America's image.
Missionary work does not consist of helping peasants overcome the
difficulties created for them. Not at all. It's about
handing out New
Testaments and telling them to prepare themselves for a better life in
heaven.
Would you believe that Tel
Meggido in Israel is a thriving vacation spot (Time) for
Christians who groove on seeing first hand where the final battle will
take place?
I have a guarantee for those people - Jesus will not come in clouds of
glory to take them to heaven. If the Jesus of the Bible really
exists,
he will be scooping up the poor in his arms and taking them to
someplace safe from the corporate vultures.
In the end it will count for little that Ehud Olmert, for instance,
claims innocence of any and all crimes for which he is
currently being investigated.
This may just be a roundabout way of scuttling proper negotiations for
peace with the Palestinians, but you know, I think it's impossible to
wade knee deep in human blood and not become corrupted in many other
ways - and that goes for the loss of innocence of our soldiers in
Afghanistan, and the methods they will use to help themselves forget.
Effects of Iraq on economy and
communities whose young are fighting disastrous wars
Here's an interesting
article (VueWeekly) that describes the "trickle down effect
of Iraq" on the City of Edmonton - both in Oil Sands activity and human
cost.
"One
can
only imagine what will happen as more soldiers get a chance to take a
breath and reflect on what has happened. Unlike the tar sands, the
trickle-down effects of Iraq on our soldiers have yet to make
themselves obvious: when they do finally rear their head, though, we’re
not going to like what we see."
Afghanistan, of
course,
was just a sop to the masses who believed that Bin Laden was hiding
there, and is now a quagmire of death and destruction. Iraq was
the
prize after 9/11 and the reason our soldiers were volunteered to take
up the slack in
Afghanistan.
The article says that our soldiers wanted to go; wanted to have some
purpose; wanted to see combat. But army training is a system of
deliberate brainwashing, an erosion of personality and identity called "resocialization",
and was very likely the source of that desire.
Many of our soldiers will come home as shadows of their former selves,
literally walking disasters.
I have no
doubt that similar
methods are being used to train police officers. This is how they
become robots for the state, no matter whether the state is democratic
or corrupt and criminal. This is how they develop contempt for
the very citizens they were originally intended to "protect and serve".
yayacanada
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