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Some images from Iran. This is the country, like all the countries before it, that the U.S. and its allies want to raze to the ground (click image to go to video page):
Four sites in Queens, NY have been fire bombed – “a bodega, the Imam Al-Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica and two homes”, one of which is used as a Hindu temple – yet the newspapers of the one percent are calling it “arson”, not terrorism (in The New York Times, Fox New York, The Daily News, not even a mention in The New York Post). Violence against Muslims, Hindus, MLK Jr. Day Parades, or other innocent people doesn’t count as terrorism in the newspapers of the one percent.
Like the attack on the MLK Jr. Day Parade in Spokane Washington last January (2011), there hasn’t yet been a word from the Obama White House. No press releases from either the F.B.I. or D.H.S. (the latter’s most recent press release is promoting a “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign with the NHL).
We need a new society. The current one has FBI/CIA programs linked with the NYPD to hunt down Muslims and freedom fighters, yet ruling class media firms that won’t even use the “T” word when this is clearly violence against innocents meant to instill fear and hatred. If a few fringe Muslims use violence (19 people out of over a billion Muslims around the world) – which most Muslims condemn – its called terrorism. If racists use violence against Muslims, its called “arson”.
No, the occupation of Iraq is not over. There are still thousands of private mercenaries, CIA agents, State Department thugs, corporations, etc., in Iraq. Once public utilities are now owned by corporations. There is an embassy in Baghdad that’s the size of Vatican City with nearly 20,000 people in it, including armed agents of the United States. Its good the U.S. couldn’t keep military soldiers in Iraq. But the occupation isn’t over, and won’t be until the mercenaries and armed thugs of imperialism leave Iraq too. That hasn’t happened yet, despite the (3rd? 4th? 5th?) attempt to convince the American public that the war is over.
Here’s another quote from a leaked hydraulic fracturing talking points memo. Hydraulic fracking, more commonly known as hydrofracking, or simply fracking, is the process of drilling down into bedrock like shale, and then forcing pressurised liquids (containing many poisonous and cancer-causing substances) to cause the bedrock to fracture, releasing any natural gas contained therein. The process is highly destructive.
This happens in and around where people live, not some uninhabited place. So they need to get homeowners to sign leases for the companies to be able to drill. This document is a “talking points” document for corporate agents who go to people’s homes to convince them to sign the leases. It explains all the various ways they will try to try to distort things in order to maximise their profits.
This document reveals how corporations will do literally anything to expand their power and profits, including reproducing, expanding, and utilising the oppression of women. Women’s oppression is central to capitalism. We should work to overturn these sexist laws while we fight to rid the world of dirty energy.
Here’s the quote:
“Men are more likely to sign than women. Men don’t like to believe that you know more than they do, so they are also less likely to ask questions. In the state of Ohio the husband can sign the lease without spousal permission. Go that route if required. Tell them it is their decision. Write the lease agreement with only the husband’s name on the paperwork. This will make it more likely that they will sign alone. Men are also more conservative, and more likely to want oil and energy independence. Women will have more concern for the environment and will challenge you more often. Knowing who to approach can seal the sale.”
Fox News had a one-hour special on how “honor killings” in the U.S. “are on the rise.” Of course no special on the attempted mass killing in Spokane, Washington earlier this year at the MLK parade. No special on the firebombing of Planned Parenthood last month. No special on the string of rightwing terrorist attacks from the assassination of Dr. Tiller to the assault on the U.S. Holocaust Museum with the man’s murder of a black security officer. Glad we got our priorities straight…
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