People who buy from businesses paying slave wages
support slave wages.
The ”savings” of low-priced products
come from the stolen labor of the workers.
The small change ”saved”
helps form the links
in the chains
binding the workers,
and the buyers as well,
into a system of exploitation.
The ”savings” help pay for injustice.
When the buyers realize
that they get what they pay for,
they complain
(whine mostly)
and point their finger in every direction
except the correct one,
the one directed
at themselves.
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”Walmart, McDonald,s and Cokes,
some of civilization’s nasty jokes.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Common Dreams is dealt with here as an example of the hidden forces—third parties, fifth columnists or simply wolves in sheeps’ clothing—supporting the suppression of the people in the name of progressiveness.
Common Dreams is a daily web-based news channel that ”has been providing breaking news & views for the progressive community since 1997.” It’s stated mission: ”To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.”
It ain’t necessarily so!
Common Dreams is, by its own definition, a failure. Change has not favored the common good. On the contrary, the past twenty years has seen the 1% and their billionaire commanders become steadily wealthier and more powerful while everyone else has experienced degradation on all levels, particularly increasing poverty, declining freedoms, spreading wars and a deteriorating environment. Common good should have fired Common Dreams years ago.
Common Dreams doesn’t deal with its failure, but implies with silence that negative change has occurred in spite of its efforts. The progressive community readily embraces this implication due to the views provided by Common Dreams which, as we shall see, functions as a branch of the prevailing order while pretending to be in opposition.
This is clearly evident in the recently published article titled, ”Need for Diplomacy More Clear Than Ever After North Korea Claims H-Bomb Test” (Sept. 3). It reads like a message from the Pentagon telling us that unpredictable North Korea threatens us with nuclear weapons. The ”progressive view” criticizes the president’s unhinged policy of fighting fire with fire and begs instead to promote diplomacy.
While the article quotes the president’s view, ”North Korea’s words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous to the United States”, it fails to mention how the US has continually provoked, threatened and intimidated N. Korea with military exercises and maneuvers in the air (B-52s and such), the waters around the little nation and military build up in S. Korea. Not to mention economic warfare euphemistically called sanctions.
N. Korea has never threatened anyone, has no bases or forces outside of its territory and has never been engaged in weapon conflict since its country was pounded to rubble by the US 70 years ago. The US on the other hand has military bases throughout the world and has and is bombing and killing people in multiple countries. N. Korea makes one, and only one threat, if attacked, it will retaliate with every means at its disposal. It meets threats and provocations by demonstrating some of its means.
Common Dream, for all its progressive talk, falls in line with msm to paint a picture of two equal forces where the the much much smaller and relatively weaker one (of the two equals) threatens the gigantic military monster. The little country half way around the world from the big one has the audacity of placing its country right next to the warships and under the air forces of the big country.
The ridiculous notion that the 98 kg mountain of muscle from the wrestling team feels threatened by the 67 kg nerd on the chess team finds eager believers when presented through the disinformative lens of the msm with the ”progressive” news alternatives adjusting the focus. This little-victim bad guy in confrontation with big aggressive savior plays like a broken sound loop on American psyop tunes. Haven’t the occupied, suppressed and persecuted Palestinians been portrayed as equal and threatening opponents to the poor (sob, sob) Zionists who have a right to defend themselves. Wasn’t the mighty US military machine forced to kill millions of Vietnamese to liberate them?
How, by the way, has Common Dreams dealt with Israel? Basically, it hasn’t except to copy official views. Not even when the South Africans declared that apartheid in Israel is worse than it ever was in their own country did Common Dreams seem to notice or think it worthy to include in their ”breaking news.” Last year when close to 3000 scientists and engineers proclaimed that the World Trade towers could not have fallen as they did because of fire, but must have been brought down by demolition, Common Dream didn’t seem to hear that explosive information. Perhaps the fact that the scientist employed the laws of physics and the rules of mathematics to prove their case discouraged Common Dream from mentioning it to their progressive readers. These same scientists plus others who have joined them will make a similar presentation on the 11th of this month. Would anyone care to wager if news from this (AE911Truth) event will reach subscribers through Common Dreams?
Besides the nonsense about ”talking truth to power” (See: Liberals on a Power Trip) Common Dreams constantly, usually in passing, refers to the USA as a democracy. True to its critical progressive image, the democracy wears a qualifying label such as weak, fragile, threatened, damaged, etc. but democracy it is. It is not! The USA is a Plutocracy, a rule by the richest. Everyone, well almost everyone, knows this. The phrase ”money talks, bullshit walks” is a truism among the citizens. The election circus is merely a reality show to prop up the rotting illusion of democracy. Common Dreams enthusiastically takes part in the circus as cheerleaders for progressive clowns. This ”democratic” circus results in 500 or so millionaires (1%ers) occupying the government (Congress) headed by a board of billionaires with a chief puppet at the chair. Democracy!
Like a true parasite Common Dreams not only saps the intellectual strength of its readers, it gets them to pay for it as well. Every month or so it spends about five days groveling loudly for donations. The cries get all the more desperate for each day of the campaign until the last one as on the past Friday,
”You care about independent, progressive media. You care about the truth.
That’s why we urgently need your help. There are only a few hours left to raise the remaining $8,000 we need.”
And then… that’s it. They publish again on Monday as though nothing happened, never mentioning the results of the campaign, never thanking the contributors. They do this every time. Isn’t this strange? Or is it just me? I guess I don’t understand the behavior of progressives igniting change for the common good.
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”All this fake news!
Donate to The Visionary Board
and get the real fake news and views
we choose
to form your views.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
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”Some people have something to say, but don’t.
Others have nothing to say, but say it anyway.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The contamination of the earth’s atmosphere by carbon (and other) emissions is heating the planet, generating extreme weather and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
OBVIOUSLY, we should reduce carbon emissions. The rulers of the world gather at conferences and discuss the problem. Year after year. The emissions, the heat, the extreme weather and the deaths keep increasing.
OBVIOUSLY, we could start by stopping unnecessary emissions. During WWII private car production was stopped. So were international sport events. Millions of lives were at stake. Millions of lives are at stake today. Humanity itself is endangered. Does the eliminating of unnecessary carbon emissions seem unreasonable? Obviously not.
When this post was originally published in January of 2013 the Obama administration had just signed $43 million in tax breaks to promote motor sports entertainment, $43 000 000 to promote unnecessary carbon emissions. Four and a half years later people are going to blame his predecssesor for a climate rage disaster.
Bottled liquids (water and sodas), are one of the major sources of carbon emissions. We would do a great service to the environment by drinking tap water instead. Can you envision any government encouraging the people to stop buying unnecessary liquids and drinking water instead?
OBVIOUSLY not.
OBVIOUSLY, the rulers are not going to allow any of their administrators to make any significant changes to improve the environment.
Business as usual. Pollution as usual. Profits as usual. Contamination as usual.
The prevailing order shall prevail.
The prevailing rape of the environment and deaths of millions shall prevail.
OBVIOUSLY! (If we leave it up to the rulers.)
“And on the eighth day he said,
‘Let that which I created belong to those with the most money.'”
Dartwill Aquila
The Speak-Truth-to-Power Club is not really a club, more like a psyop tribe; liberal progressives who tell the truth about the empire’s crimes in order to defuse any threat to the empire’s rule. They echo the call to make the empire (America) great again encouraging citizens to repair the system producing the crimes.
Speak Truth to Power chimes with demagogic esteem, inspiring members of the club with illusions of being the good people, the informed, the intellectually worthy, the morally accredited, the protesters and the resisters; a tribe that is theoretically politically savey, but in reality politically impotent.
With objective distance the Speak Truth to Power slogan dissolves; sound and politically correct fury saying and accomplishing nothing. Try to grasp this delusion! What power are they speaking to? Gravity? Of course not. The slogan implies political power. Still abstract. Political power is wielded by people. Who are they speaking to? Politicians? The herd of bribe-saturated millionaires who have time and again demonstrated moral character just below the level of slime? Who pray tell are they talking truth to?
What truths are they talking about? What are they telling the people of power? What truths are they speaking? Let’s get concrete! What are they saying and who are they saying it to? Nothing. They may as well be speaking to gravity. But the well-informed, intellectually worthy and morally accredited liberal progressives line up at the sound of the Speak Truth to Power chimes ready to taste the wafer and lick the wine of political salvation in the great temple of the money-oriented order.
Can anyone supply a single example where speaking truth to power accomplishing anything? What truths should the rape-victim have told her rapist? Are the people who are powerful enough to collaterally damage babies and grandmothers to death any more susceptible to words than a rapist?
Speak truth to the people instead and promote the struggle against the greed-diseased power brokers to create a world where truth, peace, freedom, justice and love decorate a community of all humans living in harmony with nature.
Or perish.
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”People used to be brainwashed.
Today, with digital power and mass distribution
brains are intellectually enhanced.
New methods, same results,
fear and obedience.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
A liberal is a sight to see,
not unlike a hollow tree.
He claims we’re getting pissing on
but it really isn’t pee.
John W. Whitehead, for example, states explicitly
”Americans don’t have a right to express themselves if what they are saying is unpopular, controversial or at odds with what the government determines to be acceptable.”
/—/
”Whether it’s through the use of so-called ’free speech zones,’ the requirement of speech permits, the policing of online forums, or a litany of laws and policies that criminalize expressive activities, what we’re seeing is the caging of free speech.”
/—/
”if we no longer have the right to protest unjust laws by voicing our opinions in public or on our clothing or before a legislative body—no matter how unpopular or anti-government those opinions might be—then we do not have free speech.”
Summary:
Americans don’t have a right to express themselves.
Freedom is caged.
We have no free speech.
Therefore, says the liberal, ”Help us keep freedom alive. Donate.”
You’re supposed to be a lawyer, John, how can freedom be alive without free speech?”
or
Donate ”in support of our critical efforts to keep the nation free.”
Once again, John, how can you keep something that doesn’t exist? What is free about a nation that has no free speech?
Wake up, Whitehead! America is not a free nation. We are not only getting pissed on, but shit on and fucked as well. You don’t like my language? I don’t like yours either. The pompous style stinks of obnoxious suppositions. But I’ll defend your right to speak eloquent nonsense freely.
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”The toadstool Fly agaric (Aamanita muscaria) charms everyone with its pleasant form and joyful coloring.
It’s poisonous.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
What do you think about Trump?
I think he is doing an excellent job entertaining the citizens whose knowledge of politics don’t extend beyond the official news and commentaries controlled by the corporate commanders.
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”People who are told what to think,
think that their thoughts contain knowledge.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
Failure expert ”friends” have an impressive list of failed relationships behind them and are presently, as usual, alone, and willing to offer advice on relationships to friends who happen to have a relatonship, but will soon lose it because of the advice.
Misery loves company!
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”A friend is someone who criticizes you to your face and praises you behind your back.”
Carlos Fonseca Amador, one of the originators of the Sandinistas who implemented mass literacy, extensive health care and promoted gender equality.
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
The entire cultural sphere performs the great reality game
to hide reality.
Call it Democrazy
Trumpism
Political Follies
Psyop Foolies
Whatfuckunever.
The empire goes on
behind the shreaded curtain.
Downward.
It changes the props
the script
and the puppets
and goes on
downward.
More and more people stop watching the show.
It goes on
louder
cruder
bloodier.
Downward.
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
A genie, joker, angel or stranger may help you.
Only a fool or a devil will do it for you.
Dartwill Aquila
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The West Bank is now the Judea-Samaria area.
System Humanity 