”You are either with us or against us.”
President of the Corporate Empire
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“We don’t know how many people were killed by the money-oriented system of society in the last century, but we know how many will be killed in this one.
– How many?
– All of them.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Like the TV evangelists who promise God’s favors
if you send them money,
the internet progressives promise political salvation
if you donate money
to help them promote the illusion
that voting in the election circus
will change the way the corporate commanders run the show.
“A progressive is someone who encourages us to repair the empire.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Those of you who liked the Acupressure Spike Mat will love the Om Meditation Glove.
Made by Nepalese monks from carded Himalayan alpaca with ancient bronze smooth studs.
Should any undesirable thoughts sneak into your mind while meditating,
strike yourself in the forehead with the glove. The undesirable thoughts will disappear immediately and you will slide to a deeper level of insight.
Only $80 for a limited time only.
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“Intelligence has its limits,
but not stupidity.”
Dartwill Aquila
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The “epidemic” of veteran and military suicides continues to harvest at least 22 lives a day. This official figure from the Veterans Administration is regarded as conservative. Yet even this “low” number points out that over 8000 suicides per year are killing far more US soldiers than all the world’s terrorists combined.
Commentators agree that PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) pushes the victims into the sleep of no return, but they haven’t a clue about how to deal with it. The chorus of confusion can be summed by David Wood’s article in Huffington Post (Aug. 29, 2013):
Military And Veteran Suicides Rise Despite Aggressive Prevention Efforts
The suicide numbers are rising despite a determined push by the Pentagon and the VA to connect troops to a proliferation of resources. These range from immediate crisis intervention, to specific therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder and other forms of trauma, to broader mental health services, peer mentoring, resiliency training, and financial and relationship counseling.
This isn’t standard bullshit, but shit from an elephant with diarrhea. More than many scandals have shown us that veterans are treated as junk once their usefulness in the field has been exhausted. The real problem, the elephant in the public room, seems to remain hidden from the media in spite of its stink. Replace the word “despite” in title above with “because of” and the elephant appears trumpeting its sickening truth.
The miles of print about PSTD and the suicides contain not a word about Pharma (Big Pharmaceutical Corporations). Yet the drugs prescribed to the soldiers and veterans are the most likely cause of the suicides as well as their deaths by accident (2-5 times as many traffic deaths as the general population), and the extreme numbers of homicides committed against family, lovers and friends.
Two quotes from Martha Rosenberg’s book (2012) can sum up the case. Born With a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks, and Hacks Pimp the Public Health
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Chad Oligschlaeger was prescribed a cocktail of drugs, Zolpidem (sleeping pill); Trazodone (antidepressant); Prozac and Zoloft (antidepressants); propranolol (blood-pressure); larazepam and clonazepam (anti-anxiety)); Chantix (antismoking) and Seroquel.
He died of “accidental” death due to multiple-drug toxicity according to the official report. When his mother showed the medical records to a doctor from Texas A&M University, she said; “You realize the military killed your son. Don’t you? The drugs Chad was taking should only have been prescribed in a clinical setting, and even then, not prescribed together.”
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“Tales of over medication are the rule, not the exception.”
Martha documents how Pharma aggressively (and illegally) pushes pills to maintain the flow of profits into the multi-billion dollar drug business. The industry works on the “Monsanto Principle”: Disregard laws, rules, regulations and concern for people! Should you get caught, the fine will be easily affordable.
Pharma employs troops of doctors-for-hire who verify and promote medications. They plant articles in prestigious journals; conduct sloppy research to hide rather than illustrate the effects of drugs; sit on key committees and take part in conferences. With billion-dollar profits pouring in, Pharma can afford to shower medical experts, politicians and government institutions with millions.
The military didn’t kill Chad Oligschlaeger, Pharma did. Distinguished board members in designer clothes and spotless hands killed Chad, along with 10s of 1000s of his comrades, as surely as if they had slit their throats. They continue to do so as witnessed by the continued suicides, accidents and homicides.
The section about Pharma targeting the military market accounts for a small part of Martha Rosenburg’s book. She shows that like a beast of prey, Pharma prefers to attack the young, the weak and the sick. Because of Pharma’s efforts millions of children are now designated as sick, deficient and disturbed—because they act like children. With the right medication, these kids can be “helped” to act like calm and passive (drugged) small individuals. Some of them may commit suicide, but hey, a little collateral damage must be expected.
Pharma is not particularly evil as far as corporations go. Pharma does what corporations do. It hunts profits. All other considerations, be it to people, the environment or the future, play a minor role.
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“The truth is hard but I’m gonna tell it!
There’s a whole lot of ways to sell it!”
Tom Paxton (lyrics to The Hooker)
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“When he offered one of his rape victims
a headache pill
the intelligentseeduh and presstitutes praised him
as a champion of compassion.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Black lives don’t matter.
Greek lives don’t matter.
Palestinian lives don’t matter.
Iraqi lives don’t matter.
Syrian lives don’t matter.
Yemeni lives don’t matter.
Afghani lives don’t matter.
Mexican lives don’t matter.
Indonesian lives don’t matter.
Etc, etc. etc…
The environment doesn’t matter.
Nature doesn’t matter.
The future doesn’t matter.
No matter, no matter, no matter.
Blatter, bafatter, madhatter.
Fast food workers’ lives don’t matter.
Walmart workers’ lives don’t matter.
WORKERS don’t matter.
People living near fracking sites don’t matter.
PEOPLE don’t matter.
PEOPLE DO NOT MATTER.
(Repeat until it sinks in!)
Money matters.
If you have lots and lots and lots and lots
(repeat a billion times)
you matter.
Unless
you take matters into your own hands,
unite with all people,
ALL people,
regardless of race, nationality and religion,
and change what matters.
It’s a matter of life.
It’s a matter of survival.
It’s a matter of truth, justice and beauty.
It’s a matter of love.
That’s the heart of the matter.
by Dartwill Aquila
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Rule B16:
When mentioning ISIS use a frightening qualifier such as perverse, violent, bloodthirsty, barbaric, brutal, ruthless, savage, vicious, inhuman, shocking, …
There is no rule B16, but judging by accounts of ISIS we could easily believe that one exists. Are these resistance fighters extreme terrorists? Perhaps. Perhaps not. What we know for certain is that they are survivors of one of history’s most intensive terror campaigns that killed over one million* of their friends, family, neighbors and colleagues and injured and maimed many more. Tens of thousands were jailed, tortured and raped. Homes, water supplies, hospitals, schools, holy sites, museums, parks, power plants, sewerage systems, factories, small businesses, orchards, farmlands, compassion and hope were destroyed while creating at least four million refugees, multitudes of homeless and masses of invalids.
The perpetrators of the mass terror and destruction do not wear frightening labels. On the contrary, they appear under a backlit, good-guys halo. The nasty terms are reserved for the victims, the natives of the invaded, destroyed and occupied nation. This is so typical that it shouldn’t need mentioning were it not for the many heavyweight ”progressive” intellectuals obediently promoting rule B16 that doesn’t exist.
To make matters worse, the great terrorists proudly admit to their policy of monumental destruction and terror. It’s spelled out explicitly in the book Shock and Awe by Ullman and Wade: ” … aimed at destroying means of communication, transportation, food production, water supply, and other aspects of infrastructure /—/ Shock and Awe must cause … the threat and fear of action that may shut down all or part of the adversary’s society or render his ability to fight useless short of complete physical destruction.”
Note ”must cause … threat and fear”!
Terrorism:
the use of violence to achieve political aims – WordNet
the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political … through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear – Macmillan Dictionary
Shock and Awe has been publicly endorsed and encouraged by leading military and political figures of the USA. Must they have ”terrorist” branded on their foreheads before we see the bloody fangs behind their manicured smiles?
Laying down a carpet of bombs and hellfire missiles in civilian neighborhoods such as Fallujah and following with a storm of bullets and sniper fire passes as a military tactic. Killing one foreign journalist (quickly and painlessly), who was probably working for the Shock-and-Awers, evokes rule B16. Notice any imbalance in this picture?
”You shall not kill” (rule A1) can be dusted off and applied to those who use hand-held weapons and knives. The grunts and mercenaries of the modern mass murder machine need not worry about such unprofitable considerations. The corporate media and their corps of minions masquerading as journalists will cover their miserable asses.
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* (Opinion Research Business (UK) and John Hopkins University School of Public Health (US) have both confirmed over one million violent deaths since the US invasion of Iraq. This does not include deaths caused by the effects of the war.)
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“Any British officer could confirm
the demented, uncivilized, filthy, deceitful and vicious nature
of the colonial minutemen. ”
Dartwill Aquila
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The US has a Department of Defense
but there’s no threat of an attack.
It has no Department of Aggression
but has military bases throughout the world
and its bombs and bullets are ripping people apart
in a dozen countries 1000s of miles away.
It has no Department of Peace
because empires don’t do peace.
Peace isn’t as profitable as war
for the people running the empire.
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“Some secrets are so secret
they remain a secret when they’re no longer a secret.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Nils Stanton’s article in The Contrary Perspective (July 14) exposes USA’s aggressive military expansion and provocations while debunking the myth of the threat from Russia or China. The title however exposes Nils’ dangerously gullible view of American politics: “President Obama: Please Stop the Race to War.”
This habit of appealing to the administrators of imperial power characterizes a major portion of “progressive” commentators. Call it the Speaking-Truth-to-Power Syndrome. The prevalence of this syndrome flies high and wide despite lacking wings. Can anyone point to a single incidence where the powerful listen to or care about truths that interfere with their attempts to maintain and increase their power and wealth?
This gullibility paints a false picture of the enemy. The people struggling for peace, truth and justice have enough difficulties opposing the massive machinery of oppression and aggression, not to mention indoctrination, without wasting energy on impotent projects.
Promoting the impression that the owners of the empire can be influenced by pretty pleas (sic) drains the strength of resistance. It’s equivalent of begging the rapist to wear a condom.
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“Appealing to the heartless to show compassion
is like appealing to the fox to become a vegetarian.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Slaves are not free, not for the slaves, and not for the slave owner either. The slaves need to be housed and fed even in the simplest manner. They must be equipped, managed and controlled. Not to mention the cost of purchasing the slave. Slaves are not free and it costs to keep them that way.
Even in ancient Greece and Rome expeditions of conquest were necessary to keep the supply of slaves flowing to replace those who were worked to death and thrown into a hole of history.
Classic slavery is still practiced today, particularly in private prisons in the USA and in trafficking. Mainstream slavery isn’t called slavery. It’s called work. The slaves supply their own food, shelter, transportation and everything else. They are “free” as long as they show up and slave away at a job for insulting wages that doesn’t cover the cost of food, shelter and other necessities.
Thousands of years of social development have provided the slave the right to decide where to sleep and how to arrange life so that it can keep slaving away at the job. The slave owners have made tremendous advancement. The slaves come voluntarily at no cost and the slave owners don’t have to worry about what happens to them before they get to work and after they leave.
What the slave masters pay the slaves is less than if they had to buy them and take care of them.
This is called progress.
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“The world is big.
Very big.
So stand up tall.
There, you see,
it fits perfectly.”
Dartwill Aquila
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System Humanity 