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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Lotus Feet, respectfully, war sure do wound.
You know You and I know. Sun melts butter.
Fire hardens a human heart, or tends gently.
It's my old opine. Nation recruit troop. O lie!
Pain, anger, a seethe kills. Sad. Prematurely.
Hearts grow hard. Crack, or as a garden will,
Earth opens slow. Seed 'words' enter fallows.
I believe I sense a heart aflame. We touched.
A nation hellfire flame purges all anguishes?
I believe enormous hurt, and the darkest taint.
I say that in comrade brotherhood/sisterhood.
What a family. It's a universal family. A truism.
You/me, Lotus Feet, Ay, groan, moan in griefs.
No professor of law, no trained bugle boys/girl,
No pallbearer can say the proper... Dissertation.
It's to struggle, fumble, choke, gag, and heaves.
Lotus Feet. No Never Ever ZIP another black bag.
You know what I mean. Please be gentle. Touch.
Touch wars crime scene very tenderly. You know.
You paid up. Be tending thee heart as if a Garden.
One point to reinforce Glenn Greenwald's cogent critique of major mainstream media coverage of Venezuela and Cuba: Seldom mentioned in the coverage are improvements in the quality of lives of the great majority of Venezuelans and Cubans. Hugo Chavez has brought government services to people ignored by previous regimes. Although material gains have been marginal for the masses in Cuba since Fidel Castro took power, the education and health care systems, accessible to all, are impressive by any standard. We should neither want, nor expect, pro-Chavez or pro-Castro coverage, but certainly, in keeping with our tradition of journalistic balance, we should be getting more objective reports, pro and con, of developments in those countries.
Everybody is equal, except, of course, for the lead Sozializts.
Everybody is equally impoverished, except of course....
It was a certain as the sun sets in the west
That hawkpsd
Would rejoin, with that same stupid little jest
Hey RK - I wasn't implying that US had ownership on 9-11, but, there are 9-11's that predate the Chile 9/11/73 experience.
According to James Carroll in "House of War", the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Pentagon occurred on 9/11/41. That book had several other 9-11 dates of coincidental significance that I forget (or did I read that in Robert Fisk's "The Great War for Civilization")?
Americans are propagandized from birth. Religion, education and media are the tools. Then someone like Jeremiah Wright speaks the truth and people are aghast! Denounce him! How hurtful! How hateful!
If you recognize this as the truth, you must tell your friends and family. It isn't easy but over time they start to get it.
We are in the Matrix.
You wrote a piece about our media not too long ago, and how we were misled on the causes of the Russian-Georgian conflict. That was mere distortion. Here is something that was just omitted completely:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=&id=1c4b3920-7d18-4be1-8b25-efa63409b79d&&Headline=Pak+probes+mystery+of+US+Marines%27+steel+boxes+&strParent=strParentID
This article(in a well respected mainstream publication) suggests strongly that the Marriott hotel bombing in Islamabad, Pakistan was an inside-job perpetrated by the US. It didn't make our press. Wonder why?
Its a darn shame that "The Newspaper of Record" proves yet again that it can never really be counted upon to make the tough decisions. Dishonesty and adhererance to the Gov't line is the order of the day.
Thanks for keeping us up to speed, Glen.
How many people will remember that it was the US which gave Iran its first breeder reactor?
I suspect it will be the same number who recall that it was the US which first gave Iraq chemical weapons and then gave both instructions and intelligence to Iraq on how to best use them against Iran.
We now live with the legacy.
O/T to Lotus Foot----------Fuck you.
Understood, and as I said, I wasn't quite sure how to read your original comment. (That said, I'm not sure ground-breaking at the Pentagon has the same emotional resonance or significance of 9/11/73 or 0/11/01...)
Carroll's book has been on my "to read" list for some time now; I'll have to follow-through and read it. Cheers.
I'm sorry.
You may be in a groovy multi-million dollar, CGI extravaganza, melo-dramatic, Hollywood movie....me, I exist on earth, and I'll stay there for all the good the place is worth.
With an atomic reactor back in the 60's
I didn't know Iran was gifted with one too
Now everybody's been givin' their X-mas presents
So why is everybody still so blue?
Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should...Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to plain forgery. Material facts are suppressed, dates altered, quotations removed from their context and doctored so as to change their meaning. Events which it is felt ought not to have happened are left unmentioned and ultimately denied...The primary aim of propaganda is, of course, to influence contemporary opinion, but those who rewrite history do probably believe with part of their minds that they are actually thrusting facts into the past...they feel that their own version was what happened in the sight of God, and that one is justified in rearranging the records accordingly.
-George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/nationalism.html
Great essay. Some things come to mind:
This line from the 02 editorial:
"New presidential elections should be held this year, perhaps at the same time the new Congress is chosen. Some time is needed for plausible national leaders to emerge and parties to reorganize."
I am always surprised at how easily the Times switches back to a very old school colonialist demeanor when discussing the US role in the third world. Advising the post-coup dictatorship about how best to simulate a democracy, while applauding the overthrow of a democratically elected 'dictator'. I'm afraid the word Orwellian no longer does this sort of dynamic justice.
On another note, I am not usually one to get scared about events in other countries, but the apparent inability of Pakistan to free itself of Islamic cell influence is really starting to scare the hell out of me. To paraphrase a really silly movie I saw this summer, "Pandora comes out of the box, she doesn't go back in." We've created a monster-state in Pakistan, and nobody seems to be able to reverse it.
I wrote something along these same lines last year, a comparison of how mainstream media deal with Venezuela, which is considered to be a very important foreign policy dilemma, even though its obviously not; and Pakistan, a very frightening and seemingly intractable foreign policy dilemma, that's treated like no big whup.
Link at sig:
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
