Thursday, November 22, 2007

HAPPY THANKSGIVING A happy Thanksgiving to all y'all. Though, what is there to thank for? Bestiality reigns supreme and the prospects are bleak. What with Christmas soon having us by the throat again, it may be time to read Dickens's Bleak House again, what? You prefer Shooting War? Sigh! Kids nowadays think life is a comic, well what they understand by 'comic'; they play their killing games behind their computer screens and later on act them out on the school campus. AlterNet: "If you think we are living in scary times, your worst fears may be confirmed by reading Naomi Wolf's newest book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. In it, Wolf proves the old axiom that history does repeat itself. Or more accurately, history occurs in patterns, and in order to understand where our country is today and where it is headed, we need to read the history books. Wolf began by diving into the early years leading up to fascist regimes, like the ones led by Hitler and Mussolini. And the patterns that she found in those, and others all over the world, made her hair stand on end. In 'The End of America', she lays out the 10 steps that dictators (or aspiring dictators) take in order to shut down an open society. 'Each of those ten steps is now under way in the United States today,' she writes." ICH: "The Pentagon has been concealing the true number of American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it. CBS's Investigative Unit wanted to do a report on the number of suicides in the military and 'submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense'. After 4 months they received a document which showed - that between 1995 and 2007 - there were 2,200 suicides among 'active duty' soldiers. Baloney. The Pentagon was covering up the real magnitude of the 'suicide epidemic'. Following an exhaustive investigation of veterans' suicide data collected from 45 states; CBS discovered that in 2005 alone 'THERE WERE AT LEAST 6,256 AMONG THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES. THAT'S 120 EACH AND EVERY WEEK IN JUST ONE YEAR'. That is not a typo. Active and retired military personnel, mostly young veterans between the ages of 20 to 24, are returning from combat and killing themselves in record numbers. We can assume that 'multiple-tours of duty' in a war-zone have precipitated a mental health crisis of which the public is entirely unaware and which the Pentagon is in total denial. If we add the 6,256 suicide victims from 2005 to the official 3,865 reported combat casualties; we get a sum of 10,121. Even a low-ball estimate of similar 2004 and 2006 suicide figures, would mean that the total number of US casualties from the Iraq war now exceed 15,000. That's right; 15,000 dead US servicemen and women in a war that - as yet - has no legal or moral justification." Leninology: "The pro-occupation think-tank, the Senlis Council, has another report out about Afghanistan. It reports that the Taliban has a presence covering at least 54% of the land mass in Afghanistan, and is closing in on Kabul. Missed by polls and media coverage, the report suggests that the Taliban are rapidly winning political credibility among those who hated them six years ago." 11:12:55 AM

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