My very best sound bites from the Beirut conference on Palestine

      At a recent conference in Beirut on "What to Do about Palestine," I got interviewed by a local TV station regarding my views on the subject -- whereupon I immediately went off into some really long, rambling rant about injustice, fascism and neo-colonialism in the Middle East.  "Keep it simple, just use sound bites," someone there advised me.  Okay.  I could do that.

     So here's a list of some of the key sound bites that I came up with (hours too late however -- I'm not really good at thinking on my feet):

     1.  Israeli neo-colonialists have spent the last 67 years (as well as almost a trillion dollars) on waging their sleazy War on Human Rights, both inside and outside of Palestine -- and yet they are still losing that war.  "Losers!"  They can't even manage to defeat a bunch of rag-tag Palestinian kids seeking freedom while armed only with rocks and knives.  (Then I made the universal "L-for-loser" sign on my forehead at this point).

     1.a.  Palestine has become the Israeli neo-colonialists' Vietnam.

     1.b.  In these morally medieval times, thank God that a few of us human beings still have ideals and still strive for justice.

     2.  Just think how beneficial it would be for the citizenry of both Israel and Palestine if they just got rid of their Zionist neo-colonialist gestapo leadership and concentrated on, wait for it, TOURISM instead.  Some of the most holy sites in the world are in this area.  I'd go there in a minute if I didn't have to wade through all those scary-looking SS guys, miles of checkpoints and fascist-like concentration camps first. 

     2.a.  Israeli neo-colonialists have blatantly and illegally seized numerous Christian, Jewish and Muslim holy places and have totally screwed up the spirituality of all three religions.  This shameless and deliberate dissing of Yahweh, Allah and Jesus totally sucks eggs.

     3.  Palestinians now have their very own Joan of Arc -- or is their very own version of the Disney princess Merida?  Or both.  Ahed Tamimi, a brave 14-year-old Palestinian girl from the Occupied West Bank, spoke to us at the conference.  She was electric and determined to end the brutal Occupation of her country.  "I can no longer stand by and watch Israelis continue to steal our land -- sitting, swimming and playing on our land and yet treating us like we have no right to be there."  Here's a video of her:  https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/613344042140440/?theater

     4.  If the Israeli neo-colonialists plan to keep up their current rate of oppression in the Occupied Territories (let alone realize their fondest hope of expanding Greater Israel from the Euphrates to the Nile), then they are going to have to bulk up their army bigtime really soon.  And so they have two choices:  Either hire Blackwater mercenaries like the Americans and Saudis do, or else draft up more homeboys. 

     4.a.  I'm thinking that they'll choose the latter option -- in a effort to keep their storm troopers Aryan.  And if that happens, then it's the ultra-orthodox youth who will be forced to start serving as the gene pool.  This is gonna cause a big mess that will split Israeli citizens right down the middle.  http://news.yahoo.com/israel-law-renews-hot-debate-army-ultra-orthodox-041045115.html

     4.b.  "Divide, conquer and colonize" has long been an Israeli Zionist technique in Sunni-Shia-land.  http://original.antiwar.com/Dan_Sanchez/2015/12/21/war-is-realizing-the-israelizing-of-the-world/  But will this technique work as well for them when it is Israel itself that is also being split into pieces by its endless War on Human Rights?

     5.  Israeli Zionist neo-cons got their asses whupped bigtime back in 2006 after they attacked Lebanon.  It was a total rout.  But now the Israeli neo-colonialists are at it again -- attacking Syria via their proxies Saudi Arabia, Turkey, America and ISIS.  And they're still getting their asses whupped.  Yes, the current Israeli high commanders appear to be "Losers" abroad as well as at home.  Remember how badly they lost their proxy wars on Iran and Iraq?  I rest my case.  http://blackagendareport.com/palestinians_resist_zionist_terror

     5.a.  War is the Number-One cause of climate change pollution in the world today -- and because of all these endless wars in the Middle East, we'll all probably be dead from planetary pollution by 2028 anyway and then who is occupying what won't even matter any more.

     5.b.  One of the main reasons that Israeli thugs arm and support ISIS thugs is that all those creepy psychopaths in ISIS, by claiming to be Muslims, give real Muslims a bad name, including the poor abused Palestinians who are only trying to protect their children and homes.  But this Zionist plot is backfiring because rabid Israeli neo-colonialists have ended up giving real Jews a bad name too.  http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34286-conference-of-the-herds

     6.  I loved the hotel where the conference was held.  I loved Beirut.

     7.  We delegates also toured two television stations (Al Manar and Al Mayadeen) that have recently been banned in France because of their accurate reporting on various actions of the Israeli Occupation forces.  So much for free speech in neo-Vichy France.  But, hey, I got to be on TV!

     Link to more info on Al Manar:  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/after-bombing-al-manar-tv-keeps-on-broadcasting-sign-of-hezbollah-resolve/

     Link to more info on Al Mayadeen:  http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/8056

     8.  On the street in Beirut, you can usually spot members of Hezbollah by their fashion choice:  Levi's 501s.  However, Palestine's Joan of Arc chose to wear skinny jeans.

     9.  The food on Alitalia airlines is not so good.  But they do have great in-flight movies.  When we flew over Turkey, however, I just kept hoping that President Erdoğan wouldn't shoot my plane down too.

     10.  Israeli neo-colonialist Occupation forces are no more Jewish than ISIS members are Muslim or those blood-thirsty Bush-Obama military-industrial-complex creeps in Washington are Christian.  Blasphemers, the whole lot.  Just ask Jesus, Mohammad (PBUH) and Abraham!

     11.  Israelis can visit California without a visa any time that they want.  But can I visit Gaza without a visa too?  Never gonna happen.  But then California is not a concentration camp.  http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2015/12/uk-activists-clarion-call-civil-societies-around-world-expel-israel-united-nations/

     12.  Israeli neo-cons disguised as the American Israel Education Foundation, a tax-exempt AIPAC clone, just treated 57 American congressmen to a free tour of Israel.  However, when these same 57 congressmen were also offered a free tour of Palestine by the Free Palestine Movement, not one of them accepted it. http://freepalestinemovement.org/2015/12/12/57-congress-reps-taken-to-israel-who-do-they-really-represent/

     12.a.  AIPAC:  Giving Jews a bad name since 1951.

Are these hot soundbites or what!  Bam!

PS:  All the sound bites expressed here are my own.  However, unlike most American mainstream media sound bites, my sound bites are actually based on real, on-the-ground, provable eye-witness facts.  Eat your heart out, MSM!

PPS:  Why am I being so freaking hard on Israeli neo-colonialists?  That's easy.  It's because I love justice -- and always have, even when I was a kid.  And there is nothing more unjust than what is happening to Palestinians right now.  Just imagine how you would feel if, like them, you had your land, your safety, your peace of mind, your freedom and your children stolen from you and then were accused of being a "terrorist" for simply wanting it back.

PPPS:  Not even one of the Israeli and American empire-seeking neo-colonialists and neo-fascists who might read this report from Beirut are going to agree with me on any one of these soundbites.  But then what does their measly opinion matter when Jesus, Mohammad (PBUH) and Abraham all agree with me.  Humph.

The most deadly terrorist in America today? Surprise, it's sugar!

      Recently, GOP candidates used up over three hours of prime-time TV arguing about how to protect Americans from terrorism.  "Blow everybody up east of Atlantic City!" seemed to be the general consensus that the Repubs came up with.  However, during that entire program, not one of the candidates even mentioned the fact that millions of innocent Americans have already been savagely murdered in their beds by a vicious terrorist set lose in the very heart of our homeland -- and that would be sugar!  http://dailymuslims.com/2015/12/09/terrorism-the-indefinable-word/

     Even as we speak, thousands of helpless and unprotected Americans are being mercilessly picked off one by one by plain old common everyday sugar and its substitutes -- and yet no one is holding any TV debates about that.

     In the last year alone, 75,578 Americans have been bumped off by sugar-induced diabetes -- while in the past few decades only approximately 182 Americans have been killed by actual human terrorists with weapons (including Oklahoma City and San Bernardino).

      "But Jane," you might ask, "what about 9-11?"  Nah.  19 Saudis with box-cutters and seven dancing Israeli "art students" in Jersey don't count as terrorists -- because, as everyone in America has learned the hard way, if Saudi Arabia and Israel are involved, nobody is allowed to call it terrorism.  But I digress.

     My main point here is that terrorists are few and far between in America these days -- but sugar is lurking everywhere, behind every corner, ready and extremely willing to kill us dead at the drop of a hat.  And not only are sugar "sleeper-cells" hiding out in our junk food and desserts and sodas and Halloween candy, but also in our cereal, low-fat yogurt, soup, fruit juice and even our baby food.  Yikes!

     And sugar is far, far more likely to kill you than Saudis with box-cutters or Israelis dancing the Hora to celebrate the Twin Towers getting blown up.  http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/israeli_spies_911.htm

     Apparently sugar does all the things that are bad for us that fats have always been accused of -- such as clogging our arteries and making us "fluffy".  Fats have been unjustly taking the rap for sugar's current heartless and indiscriminate reign of terror.  Humph.

     But next you might ask, "How do you know all this information about sugar and why are you bringing it up now?"  Because of in-flight movies of course!  I just watched "That Sugar Film" while flying to Paris on Delta.  http://thatsugarfilm.com/film/watch-now/  And what I learned about terrorism from that movie was far more scary than what I learned from watching the Republican debate on the subject (if you don't count the fact that every presidential candidate there wanted to basically blow up the world).  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/18/republicans-are-so-bullish-on-war-that-30-percent-would-bomb-a-fictional-country 

PS:  Have a happy holiday, everyone -- and please watch out for all those sugar plum terrorists wielding cake-cutters!  And make it your New Year's resolution to give up sugar and sugar substitutes before it's too late.

Straight Outta Beirut: My visit to an ISIS bombsite

     "Why on earth are you going to Beirut?" asked my neighbor.

     "I've been invited to attend The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine's annual conference being held there," I replied.  This is going to be a really big deal -- but only if I find a replacement babysitter for my ten-month-old granddaughter Sofia while I'm gone.  Done!

     On the plane flight over, I watched "Straight Outta Compton" -- and all that police brutality onscreen got me right into the mood to talk about all that police brutality in real life that Israeli neo-colonialists inflict on poor Palestinians daily as they too are thrown to the ground, humiliated and jailed for no reason, just like Dr. Dre and Easy E.  But I digress.

     "How do I get to that bombsite where a market was blown up by ISIS a few weeks ago?" I asked various conference delegates from Nigeria, America, Tunis, Sweden, India and Argentina.  They all shrugged their shoulders and shook their heads.  Er, "Taxi!"  Every taxi driver in Beirut should know where the bombsite is, right?  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/world/middleeast/lebanon-explosions-southern-beirut-hezbollah.html?_r=0

     So the taxi guy drives me around south Beirut for at least 15 minutes.  Searching for the bombsite?  Nah.  Searching for a gas station.  The gauge was on empty.  "There is the market," he finally says.  Where?  I can see nothing, but still get out and start walking around -- through a busy working-class neighborhood all alive with ordinary people coming and going.  Why would ISIS ever want to throw a bomb here?  It would be like killing people in Paris or San Bernardino.  The people here are salt of the earth.

     Suddenly some guy on a Vespa pulls up beside me and shouts, "What you want!  What you want!"  I try to ignore him.  "Police!" he cries next.  Yeah sure.  But then it turns out that he actually is the police.  I stammer and stutter and try to make sense about what I am doing there but I am shaking as well as being my usual dazed and confused self.

      "I'm looking for the bombsite," I finally manage to spit out.  "And souvenir T-shirts."

      The cop scrutinizes me closely like a bug on a pin for a few minutes then says, "Follow me."  And he takes me straight to the bombsite.  But there was nothing left to see in terms of damage to buildings.  But rows of photos of victims had been set out.  And flowers.  Lots of flowers.  Tears came to my eyes.

     Then the policeman kindly parked his Vespa and walked me back to my hotel -- which turned out to be only four blocks away.  And he also took me to a T-shirt shop, but the T-shirts there were all used, ragged and piled up in huge ugly bins.  "Sorry," I said, "but they have to be new.  Gifts for my family.  That sort of thing."  And then I went back to my hotel.  Never did find any souvenir T-shirts in Beirut. 

PS:  If Americans are really serious about stopping terrorism and ISIS, all we have to do is stop Wall Street and War Street from supplying all these bad guys with weapons, food and Toyotas.  It's as simple as that.  https://consortiumnews.com/2015/12/16/a-blind-eye-toward-turkeys-crimes/

PPS:  After the conference was over, the delegate from Nigeria returned home and was immediately shot and killed by Nigerian army thugs, obviously for daring to support Palestine.  "Straight Outta Nigeria!"  Hey, that's what you get for supporting peace and justice these days.

     None of us must ever forget that whenever and wherever it comes to standing up for human rights against powerful neo-colonialist bullies, we all can be thrown to the ground like Ice Cube -- or like Palestinians.  But still we must do it, no matter what the risk, if we ever expect to be able to live with ourselves.  In these troubled times of out-of-control bullying by the military-industrial complex, each and every one of us is now being forced to become the next Dr. Dre -- or Patrick Henry.  "Give me liberty or give me death".  http://www.globalresearch.ca/illegal-slaughter-camerons-bombings-of-syria-equals-blairs-iraq-war-crimes/5495268

PPPS:  "Kill another human being, end up in Hell."  It's the law.  Even if you are a neo-colonialist or in the army or a cop.  Especially if you are a neo-colonialist or in the army or a cop.

  

Diversity in Paris: It's not like what you've been told

     I just read somewhere that human bodies cannot detect dangerous levels of radiation at this time because, in our evolutionary past, there was never a need for detecting dangerous levels of radiation around us.  Thus none of us are human Geiger counters today -- even though, after Los Alamos, Dimona, Chernobyl and Fukushima, I sort of wish that I was one.

     And the same principle can be applied to the detection of lies told to us constantly by mainstream media.  Our very lives never used to depend on whether or not we could detect lies on TV.  We are not human lie detectors either.

     For us human beings, the mainstream media these days seems to have become like some kind of pervert who promises to give us candy if only we step into his white van.

     Take our elections for instance.  We are constantly lied to and told that corporate trolls, if elected, will serve our interests in Washington and not those of Wall Street and War Street.  And then our economy goes bust and our sons and daughters die in endless wars for greed.  And we've been lured into that white van once again.  http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/15/putin-gives-kerry-a-chance-to-pull-back-from-the-brink/

    Another lie we are constantly being fed is that racial and cultural diversity is dangerous and we must always hate and fear "The Other".  Also not true.  Take Paris for instance.  All we hear about Paris recently is that there are gangs of terrorists loose in the City of Enlightenment -- but when I got hopelessly lost in the Metro on my way to Montmartre recently, the racial and cultural diversity in the subway was intense.  And yet we all just got along.

     At the gigantic labyrinthine Chaletet transfer point, there were over a thousand people making thousands of choices between at least 20 different train platforms and approximately 50 different trains going to over 200 destinations in Paris.  I was lost, desperate and aghast!

     "Just get on a damn train, any damn train," I told myself, but finally decided to ask someone instead.  But who?

     A thousand people were all rushing by me -- and they all appeared to know exactly where they were going.  I was the only eye in this hurricane of humans.  And there were people from all over the freaking world rushing by me.  Caucasians, Asians, Arabs, Black people, tourists.

     Yet nobody was carrying a Glock, Kalashnikov or Uzi -- or even fighting with their fists.

     Nobody was even angry.

     Nobody was not getting along.

     These people all had places to go and reasons for getting there -- and none of them had the time or the inclination to not get along.  Eventually I found my way to my correct Metro platform and train, and eventually I even arrived in Montmartre.  But the impression stayed with me -- that we're all being lied to.  People of all races, religions and cultures actually really can get along. 

     And if we don't finally start ignoring the mainstream media's barrage of lies (the main intent of which seems to be selling more and more weapons -- from Sandy Hook to Saudi Arabia -- no matter who gets killed), then we can all come to expect reports of constant violent deaths in the Paris Metro instead of just hurried commuters trying to get along. 

     The choice is not up to the mainstream media.  The choice is up to us.  To step into the white van or not. 

I'm currently down & out in Paris: Right place, write time 

      To paraphrase that current Geico ad on TV, "If you are a writer, you write.  It's what you do."  And I certainly live in an age where there is a hecka lot of stuff to write about.  In this day and age of lies, greed, bluster, neo-fascism, economic collapse, ecological disaster, radiation danger, war-mongers and brinksmanship, words can practically write themselves.  For a writer, "It is the worst of times, it is the best of times." 

     I just may be lucky enough to be in a position to chronicle the end of the world.

     But enough about me.  Let's talk about Paris.  

     I'm here on a 24-hour layover between Berkeley and Beirut.  But 24 hours in Paris is always far, far better than no hours in Paris at all.  Paris in the winter is lovely.  There's not a big flood of tourists and I only got lost on the Metro twice.  But I had such great plans for my 24 hours here.  Wanted to go to see Montmartre where so many Impressionist and Cubist painters lived and worked -- and to the Musee D'Orsey where their masterpieces are on display.

     Wanted to go to the Paris conference on climate change and to the Batachan concert hall where one of the most recent mass shootings took place.

      Wanted to eat in a fancy French restaurant.  

     Wanted to follow the Lonely Planet's advice and take a literary stroll past the garrets of Orwell, Hemingway, Stein, Miller, Nin, Joyce, etc.  Wanted to visit Shakespeare & Company and 27 rue de Fleurus.  

     But the the sad remnants of a particularly virulent stomach flu kept me from wanting to eat anything, jet lag kept my brain on hold and the obvious time limitations held me down.  But still and all, Paris really is a movable feast and I did arrive at the COP21 climate change conference just in time to barely miss California governor Jerry Brown give a talk on "Big ideas to connect landscapes, climate and development".  Brown certainly knows all about development!  I didn't need to go all the way to Paris to learn that.  I could have just toured West Oakland.

      But mostly I just walked around the Arc de Triumph neighborhood, soaked in the ambiance, ate croissants and listened to people speak French (and also a whole lot of other languages too as a result of the insane brutality of the then-and-now French empires having shaken so many residents of the world loose from their homes).

      There is certainly a lot to write about in Paris.  I am so glad that I'm here.

Macho & alone in the wilderness?  Not!

     "It's not those freezing temperatures that make your feet feel painfully cold," said my doctor.  "It's your heart.  If you want your feet to feel warm again, first you've got to heat up your upper body's core temperature."  Good to know.

     Then I decided to go camping -- as if my feet weren't already cold enough.   I wanted to commune with nature, be all macho and man up.  Can someone like me, who is totally used to urban comforts and has perpetually cold feet, actually pass a huge human endurance test like this?  Survive in the wilderness for three whole days in freezing weather?  I was about to find out.  

      "Bet you won't last more than an hour," said my daughter.  But I would prove her wrong!  It's all in the preparation, you know.  http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2013/08/ms.html

        First stop?  REI and Sports Basement for a sub-zero sleeping bag, foot-warmers and warm socks.  https://redfworkshop.org/made-the-empowerment-plan/  Then off to borrow a tent and a tarp and a lantern and some foam.  Next stop?  Went down to the homeless encampment and asked a homeless man how homeless people survive camping out in the freezing cold weather night after night.

     "Basically?  We don't.  People actually die out here in the streets."  That shut my mouth.  https://www.facebook.com/First-they-came-for-the-homeless-253882908111999/

     Someone else also gave me more pointers on how to keep warm.  "Eat foods with high fat content.  Gain weight.  Eat ginger.  Sleep on cardboard."  So I packed up plenty of eggnog and See's candy.  Pumpkin pie.  Time to test my worth against raw nature.  Be a survivor.  "Naked and Alone".

     But then things started to go wrong.  The car I rented was just so freaking huge that it scared me to drive it.  I asked my son Joe along so he could drive but he could only get away for a day.  Our GPS got us hopelessly lost in the Santa Cruz Mountains.  The temperature started to drop perilously.  And we ended up coming home after only an hour in the woods. 

     How do homeless people in America do it?  Camping out there in the freezing cold night after night without the benefit of rental cars, tents, sleeping bags and REI?  Simple answer.  "They don't." 

PS:  I'm leaving for Paris and Beirut next week.  Going there will be a hecka lot easier than camping!  No tents or cardboard will be involved.  https://www.rt.com/uk/322474-facebook-deleted-Paris-attacks/

Yemen: How to get away with murder

     There's a very popular TV show on ABC right now and it's called "How to Get Away with Murder".  The plot revolves around a law professor who teaches her students how to be effective defense attorneys.  "If you want to get your client off the hook, even for felony charges such as murder," she instructs her class, "then you always need to establish reasonable doubt first." 

     "And how do you do that?" asks a student.

     "You find somebody else to blame," the professor replies.  Brilliant!  And this same principle also applies to creating effective "war" propaganda too.     

     Has America's vicious and bloody empire finally started to unravel at the seams because the rest of the world is finally begining to realize that said empire is a cruel evil inhuman mess based on savagery, state terror and greed?  http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/20/at-night-i-hear-victims-shouting/  No problem.  Just blame someone else for all this viciously spilled blood.  Blame Russia.  Blame Muslims.  Blame immigrants.  Blame unions.  Blame women.

     Are hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children being slaughtered in the Middle East with American weapons right now, in the cruelest way possible, set on fire with napalm, blown up by drones?  http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/11/20/roots-of-terror/  Blame terrorists.  Blame dictators.  Blame yo' mama!

     Forget about how American, Turkish, Saudi and Israeli neo-colonialists recruit, fund and train ISIS.  http://www.unian.info/world/1189023-arrested-isil-extremist-in-kuwait-admits-to-closing-weapons-deals-in-ukraine.html  Forget that Israeli neo-colonialists are running a brutal gulag in Palestine.  Don't blame the real killers.  Follow that TV professor's advice.  Blame the victims.  Blame sunspots.  Blame termites.  Blame camels.  Does it even matter who gets blamed -- as long as it sways the jury?  I think not.

     So what if the rulers of Saudi Arabia are happily trying to butcher every man, woman and child in Yemen in order to steal their oil -- and that America is supplying the weapons to fry Yemenis alive in their own juices?  "It's not us," the Saudi princes all cry.  "It's the rebels.  It's the terrorists.  It's the Shias.  It's the goats!  Don't believe those dying Yemenis.  Believe us!"  http://mondoweiss.net/2015/08/killed-saudi-bombing

     And so now the jury comes back in with its verdict.  "The House of Saud, the American weapons industry, the Israeli neo-colonialists, the Turkish dictator-wannabes and their buddies ISIS and al Qaeda are all not guilty!"   And once again these inhuman butchers get away with murder by blaming someone else.  That law professor was right!

PS: I hereby proclaim next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, to heretofore be the official "SET ASIDE A PLATE FOR THE HOMELESS" Day.  Fill a plate with food (including pumpkin pie!) and take it down to the local homeless encampment.  We have so much.  They have so little. 

     And if you live in Europe or the Middle East or Africa or Latin America or North America or Asia, then set aside a plate for "war" refugees too.  And then thank Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Wall Street and War Street for creating them.

 

A civil defense: Poor people need attorneys too

     "The poor will always be with us," said Jesus.  No they won't.  They'll be off in some ghetto or slum, out of sight, out of mind.  Or else they'll just be in jail.  But we can always take a tour and go visit them -- like animals in a zoo.

     In America today, money buys power.  And freedom.  And visibility.  No one wants to see poor people.  Everyone just wishes they would just go away.  No one even wants to watch sit-coms about poor people on TV any more.  Gone are the days of Sanford & Son and the Beverly Hillbillies. 

     And when I pass the bodies of poor people asleep in the doorways of my affluent home town, it is so embarrassing and sad for me to have to explain to my granddaughters that, yes, people who are that poor actually do exist in America these days -- lots of them.  http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2015-11-06/article/43881

     So what to do about it?  Here's a suggestion.  "Stop making more poor people."  Nah, that will never happen.  Just witness the popularity in Washington of the new TTP, also known as  NAFTA on steroids, which will instantly create millions of more poor people here in the USA.  http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/the_most_brazen_corporate_power_grab_in_american_history_20151106

     Want another suggestion?  "Lawyer up."  Now there's an idea whose time has come.

     If every poor person in America had their own personal Harvard Law School graduate on retainer, things would instantly change up a whole lot.  "Wanna evict me and make me homeless?  Here's my attorney's card.  Talk to him."  Or her.

     Wanna throw non-violent protesters in jail?  Wanna unjustly accuse some poor innocent schmuck of murder?  Want to beat up on people just because they are poor?  Take away their jobs?  Deport them illegally?  Steal their money through some sleazy bankster con game on their pensions?  Then give them the same attorney privileges that Wall Street banksters and Beltway war criminals enjoy.  Let's level the playing field here.  

     When poor people use marijuana or cocaine, they are locked up as felons and given no legal redress.  When rich people use marijuana or cocaine, however, some fancy suit-wearing fast-talking mouthpiece always gets them off.

     So let's spend taxpayers' money on attorneys for the poor -- instead of spending it on building and maintaining even more expensive and ineffective jails.  Think of all the money we'll save -- and we'll even be creating jobs for young lawyers, all those new Harvard Law School graduates desperate to pay off their student debts before they too become one of the poor. 

     This way, the poor may always be with us -- but at least they'll be represented in court.

Yemen, Syria, Palestine & Paris: Gun sales are US!

     "We're Number One!" Americans are always boastfully bragging and, yes, this is true.  Of course we're not Number One with regard to any kind of stuff that actually matters such as education, healthcare, infrastructure or jobs -- but America clearly is the Number One manufacturer of weapons in the world today.  "Booyah for us!"

     And, bless its heart, America certainly knows how to create demand for its grim, awful and inhumane products. 

     Remember Albert Einstein's famous definition of insanity?  "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...."  And yet the American military-industrial complex keeps using extreme violence over and over again, even when it constantly fails and fails and fails to keep us safe.  But if the American military machine's goal was to achieve world peace, then Einstein would have been right in this case.  The constant use of violence in order to prevent violence is completely insane. 

     However, if the American military-industrial complex's real goal is to sell weapons, then the use of more and more violence is totally on point.

    When Yemen, Palestine and Syria started burning and Ukraine, Libya and a whole lot of African countries also followed suit (not to mention Afghanistan and Iraq), even more guns were sold.  "Booyah!" http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/11/terror-attacks-in-france-some-related-links.html

    And now, with Paris burning, the weapons industry is going to take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gear up to advertise its products on an even grander scale.  Am I right or what?  Just you wait.  Don't say you haven't been warned. 

     "But how can anyone possibly advertise war?" you might ask.  Hey, it's easy.  Almost every segment of every nightly news program we have watched for the past five decades has been just one infomercial after another for America's Number One product.  "Syria is a problem, we've got to bomb it, problem solved, no more unsightly stains to remove," they constantly tell us on TV every night.  

     "Eastern Ukraine, Palestine and Yemen all need to be obliterated -- and possibly Russia!" our nightly TV commercials for war currently inform us.  "Blowing up countries is really trending right now.  It's the Call of Duty!  Those bad guys deserve it.  And please bring a date."  And lucky for us that the American military-industrial complex produces just the very products needed to do the job.  http://www.globalresearch.ca/possible-tactical-nuclear-strike-neutron-bomb-in-yemen/5452876

     These constant "war" infomercials are deliberately designed to prey on their target audience's desire for status and the need to feel macho -- as well as on our greed, prejudices and fears.  Courageous people think for themselves and never get fooled by false advertising.  Fearful people just get suckered in by War Street's public relations guys and head straight for the weapons boutiques.  "I'll take one of those."    

     And now we have Paris -- offering the best commercial opportunity for escalating the use of violence ev-ah!  "We're going to mobilize and arm every single inch of French soil!  And then we're going to blow up Syria -- and Palestine and Iran too.  Russia will be attacked.  And China.  Weapons R Us!"  Booyah.  http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/14/paris-attacks-a-perfect-pretext-for-nato-to-mobilize-in-syria-and-iraq/ 

    According to one of my current inside sources, "The time-tested Mossad and CIA method has been to infiltrate likely groups such as disaffected French Muslims, and then have their agents encourage these groups to commit attacks ‘for their cause’ – whatever that might be – only of course it’s not their cause that benefits." Nope.  All benefits go to war profiteers.

    Selling weaponry is hard work. You can't eat weapons or even drive them around or brush your teeth with them -- so you always gotta create a demand for them. And even though you are now the Number One manufacturer of weapons in the world, you still gotta keep creating demand. 

PS:  But exactly what is going to happen after the entire Middle East has been carpet-bombed, Africa has become totally dysfunctional, Latin America is a smoldering ruin and all of Europe is in the same mess as Paris?  Who the freak will the American military-industrial complex suggest that we bomb after that?  Who the freak will even be left?  http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/11/who-will-blink-in-syria-russia-or-the-us/

     You and me of course.

     And when all these "wars" for profit finally do get to American shores, then we too had better start thinking about where we can flee to, now that we also have become "war" refugees.  Mexico?  Canada?  Mars?  https://www.rt.com/op-edge/316022-refugees-somalia-congo-eu/

PPS:  Malcolm X was right.  Chickens do have a tendency to come home to roost.  And so, after having blown up the rest of the whole freaking world, it's only fair that the military-industrial complex should be allowed to sell their weapons to use against us here at home too.  We are the ones who originally got the "war" ball rolling.  So what if it rolls over us too?  If America is to stay Number One in weapons production, then sacrifices have to be made.  Get over it.

PPPS:  What ever happened to "Moral Mondays," I keep asking myself.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnpeOTLgyKs  I really miss morality now that it's gone.

     "Morality doesn't sell weapons, silly."