I originally posted the following video and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
A Nation-State is a Monopoly on Violence:
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My Commentary: Even Obama agrees: what sets the State apart is its legal monopoly on violence!
As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following captioned photo, being shared from here by my friend, Siobhán L., and promptly shared it to my own wall…
Essay by Captain Paul Watson: “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet
The human species may not be the paragon of animals as Hamlet so eloquently described to us. There is another group of species on this Earth perhaps more deserving of such lofty praise.
It is ironic that science, in its pursuit of knowledge, may soon lead us to understand that we are not what we believe or desire ourselves to be, that we are not the most knowledgeable life-form on the planet. Biological science is provoking us to shatter our image of human superiority. Confronted with new realities, we may be forced to change our perceptions. For the first time in our history, a small group of scientists stands on the threshold of communicating with a non-human intelligence. Probing the oceans instead of deep space, they are searching for an alternative terrestrial intelligence. (ATI)” (Read Entire Caption Here…)
My Commentary: Something to ponder…
The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall…
Tru Leo: Reverie & Murs – Cypher (produced by Chex):
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Rayn: Skillz!
Tru Leo: TruDat
The following correspondence originally took place on my Facebook wall, upon my post, “Are You a Man Looking to Legally Beat Women? Become a Cop!”…
Rayn: Yup…
“If Ray Rice didn’t want to lose his job for beating women, he should have become a cop.”
Daniel Sv.: Cops have the highest rates of domestic abuse and divorces.
I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
General Jack Keane
Who Pays the Pro-War Pundits? Conflicts of Interest Exposed for TV Guests Backing Military Action:
http://m.democracynow.org/stories/14645
New report finds many talking heads who have been fanning the flames of war in the news media have ties to Pentagon contractors. Reporting for The Nation, Lee Fang details how television analysts including retired generals Jack Keane and Anthony Zinni and former Department of Homeland Security official Frances Townsend have appeared on television recently, but their ties to military contractors were not disclosed. Fang writes many of these commentators “have skin in the game as paid directors and advisers to some of the largest military contractors in the world.” Keane, for example, is a special adviser to Academi, the contractor formerly known as Blackwater, and a board member to military manufacturer General Dynamics. He is also a “venture partner” to SCP Partners, an investment firm that works with defense contractors.
My Commentary: Another heaping helping of tax-sponsored war propaganda, anyone?
Obama’s Bush is showing, yet again!!!
FLASHBACK 2008:
Bush Era Message Machine – Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand (April 2008 article):
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&referrer=
When will Americans finally understand the threat of the military-industrial-complex? Even former-president Eisenhower warned all about this in his farewell address to the nation!
Eisenhower Farewell Address Clip:
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