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Syria Rebels Threaten to Wipe Out Shiite, Alawite Towns
Please mark my words. If Assad is defeated Syria will have blood bath the likes of which Iraq never had. We have started in the Middle East the rise of the Islamist control. Shades of WWIII being a religious war. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 23, 2013
Ray Manzarek-The Story of Riders on the Storm – YouTube
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, May 20, 2013FOCUS | Inoculating Our Children Against Fear and Hatred
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 20, 2013BBC News – Saudi woman makes history by reaching Everest summit
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, May 18, 2013Why America May Be the Last Empire
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, May 18, 2013Imperialism, The Cold War, and the Contradictions of Decolonization | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 16, 2013Ayn Rand USA: In 20 Years Corporate Profits Are Up 4X and Their Taxes Have Fallen by 50% — Meanwhile the Workers’ Payroll Tax Has Doubled
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 14, 2013The Death of Truth: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 13, 2013FOCUS | “Now That the SOB is Dead…” – Greg Palast
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 13, 2013Former Nixon aide Roger Stone claims he has evidence LBJ arranged JFK assassination in new book
as reported in the Daily Mail ..Esteemed Republican strategist and lobbyist Roger Stone writes in his upcoming book that former president Lyndon B. Johnson set up John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Stone also writes that Richard Nixon and Johnson had a documented relationship with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer, years before he shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters in 1963. Stone, who worked for Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 and later served in the Nixon administration, writes that Johnson, a congressman at the time, instructed Richard Nixon, also a congressman at the time, to hire Ruby onto the House of Representatives payroll in 1947should be noted that Stone is sort a wack job - but this is in addition to allegations made in Barr McClellan's book (father of Bush II press dude Scott McClellan) .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, May 11, 2013
FOCUS | The Last Empire?
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 9, 2013The Events of 9/11: Does the Truth Have a Chance? | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 3, 2013Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already! – The Daily Beast
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 2, 2013FOCUS | How You Became a Guinea Pig for the Chemical Corporations
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 1, 2013When It Comes to Killing in the Name of Religion and Nationhood, Christians Hold the Modern Record
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 24, 2013George W. Bush: ‘No Need to Defend Myself’ | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 24, 2013Silencing the British People: The Legacy of Thatcherism and the Iraq War | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 23, 2013Democracy Now: Allan Nairn Exposes Role of U.S. and New Guatemalan President in Indigenous Massacres
.. read transcript at Democracy Now
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, April 23, 2013
John Zerzan: We Heard Screaming
Zerzan via Anonymous twitter feed ..1966 was a banner year for murder sprees, a break-out year ahead of its time. Although Charles Starkweather killed eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming in 1958, it was ’66 that introduced things to come. In that year Richard Speck stabbed eight student nurses to death in their Chicago apartment; and Charles Whitman left a suicide note, climbed a tower at the University of Texas, and shot fourteen people to death. After a few years’ relative lull, in 1983 multiple shootings by post office workers engendered the term “going postal.” Since that year there have been 35 homicides in eleven incidents involving postal employees. A slowly rising number of workplace killings included, for example, an Atlanta office shooting in 1999: thirteen dead. It was in the late 1990s that the term “school shootings” entered common usage. In Springfield, Oregon in 1998, Kip Kinkel gunned down his parents, then shot 24 fellow Thurston High School students, two of them fatally. More famously, in 1999 two boys at Columbine High near Denver achieved a death toll of fifteen. Several more school rampages followed, along with shootings at shopping malls, such as the nine fatalities at an Omaha mall in 2007. There were 33 killed at Virginia Tech in 2007, and twelve dead at the Fort Hood army base in Texas in 2009, on and on, including the "Batman movie" horror at a Denver suburb this summer and now the CT elementary school body count.. read more
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U.S. data, by the way, is increasingly duplicated in other developed and developing countries. Evidently, the more technological the society, the more likely carnage will occur. And this cuts across cultural differences by and large, underlining the importance of the technological factor. Technology can’t be said to be the only factor, but it is very much related to what I think is the bottom-line reality behind these near-daily rampages: the disappearance of community––face-to-face community.
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, April 20, 2013
