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       Re: Profiles in Courage
       By: AGelbert Date: December 14, 2013, 2:24 pm
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       Alan Grayson
       From a recent 188-page report by the World Health Organization
       come these ghastly and appalling factoids: :(
       •Suicide rates rose 40% in the first six months of 2011 alone.
       •Murder has doubled.
       •9,100 doctors in Greece, roughly one out of every seven, have
       been laid off.
       Joining those doctors in joblessness are 27.6% of the entire
       Greek labor force. By comparison, in the depths of the Great
       Depression, unemployment in the United States peaked at a lower
       percentage than that. Among Greek young adults under 25 years
       old, unemployment reached an abominable 64.9% in May. (Yet the
       unemployment rate in Greece was as low as 7% as recently as
       2008.)
       I'm sure that my Tea Party friends will blame universal
       healthcare, paid sick leave and "generous" unemployment benefits
       for this catastrophe. "If we simply stopped helping people, then
       they wouldn't need our help," they would say. You can see where
       that "logic" leads. The dead need no help whatsoever, except
       possibly burial. Sort of like this: "The Republican healthcare
       plan: Don't Get Sick. And if you do get sick, Die Quickly."
       Maybe you think that I'm kidding about what my Tea Party
       friends would do. I'm not. A few years ago here in Florida, we
       had a children's health insurance program called KidCare, with a
       waiting list of over 100,000. The Tea Party Republicans didn't
       like that. So they eliminated the waiting list.
       But back to Greece. A lot of people blame Greek government debt
       for the current suffering.
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       According to the Central Intelligence Agency, that most
       authoritative of all conceivable sources,  ;D  Greek government
       debt stands at 160% of GDP, which seems like a lot. But Japanese
       government debt stands at 215% of GDP, and the unemployment rate
       in Japan is only 4%.
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       Moreover, Spain's unemployment rate is virtually as high as
       Greece's, but Spain's government debt stands at only 85% of GDP.
       That's less debt than Singapore's, and Singapore's unemployment
       rate is 1.8%.
       So we cannot properly attribute the catastrophe in Greece to
       labor protection, nor can we attribute it to government
       borrowing. What is the cause, then?
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       The
       World Health Organization has the answer: austerity. "Austerity"
       is a bloodless term for gross economic mismanagement, animated
       by heartlessness. That robotic cut-cut-cut mentality that
       deprives us of jobs, of public services, of safety, of health,
       of infrastructure, of help for the needy, and - ultimately -- of
       our economic equilibrium and the ability to survive. The
       mentality that ushers in, and welcomes, a vicious war of all
       against all. Austerity is destroying an entire country, right
       before our eyes.
       Or, as the World Health Organization put it: "These adverse
       trends in Greece pose a warning to other countries undergoing
       significant fiscal austerity, including Spain, Ireland and
       Italy. It also suggests that ways need to be found for
       cash-strapped governments to consolidate finances without
       undermining much-needed investments in health."
       In America, we have a rich and powerful lobby
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       />that has the same prescription for every economic malady:
       austerity. Cut-cut-cut. Cut Social Security and Medicare. Cut
       teacher and police and firefighter jobs. Cut health care. Cut
       pay and cut pensions. It all boils down to that one ugly word:
       austerity. And austerity always brings disarray, disaster, decay
       and death.
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       People often ask me my position on various issues. Well, I'm
       for certain things, and I'm against others. But on one issue,
       I'm very consistent. I'm against pain and suffering. Especially
       avoidable pain and suffering. And therefore, I'm against
       austerity. It begins with seemingly innocuous budget cuts. It
       then leads inexorably to the destruction of countless lives.
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       Why am I telling you about Greece? In 1935, Sinclair Lewis
       wrote a book called "It Can't Happen Here." But it can. And it's
       up to us to prevent it.
       Courage,
       Rep. Alan Grayson
       "The horror! The horror!"
       -- The last words of Col. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of
       Darkness (1899).
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       Profiles in Courage: Helder Camara 
       By: AGelbert Date: December 17, 2013, 7:03 pm
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       Helder Camara
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       BBC Radio Scotland - Thought for the Day
       Alastair McIntosh, 1 August 2006 – Spiral of Violence
       My youth was during the Vietnam era, and I have to confess that
       as a hawkish young man I found war rather exciting. I remember
       going to Aberdeen University and seeing a poster that said, “War
       is not good for children and other living things,” and it
       irritated me for its naivety.
       
       But there were rather a lot of posters like this, and, worked on
       by my valiant if few-and-far-between girlfriends, I gradually
       started to think in new ways that chipped away at the armour
       round my heart.
       One of the most influential poster voices was a Brazilian
       archbishop called Helder Camara. He’d come out with things like
       - why is it that “When I give food to the poor they call me a
       saint. [But] when I ask why the poor have no food they call me a
       communist”?
       I wonder how many of today’s politicians realize that when
       talking about the “spiral of violence” in the Middle East,
       they’re drawing on Camara, who published a little book by that
       name in 1971?
       He observed that violence builds up at three levels in a
       society. Primary violence is the everyday effect of structurally
       ingrained social injustice. This generates secondary violence -
       the revolt of the oppressed. And that in turn provokes tertiary
       violence - repression by the powerful to secure their privileged
       position. And so the spiral of violence tightens.
       After years of being out of print, Archbishop Camara’s little
       book is now going on the web. It culminates with an “appeal to
       youth”, saying that wars happen because of the egotism of
       adults, and he urges the youth to, “provoke discussions [and]
       force people to think and take up a position: let it be
       uncomfortable, like truth, demanding, like justice.”
       Whether Lebanese or Israeli, war is not good for children and
       other living things, and the children are always innocent.
       Camara’s last word is for them: “With you I must remain young in
       my soul,” he said, “and keep the hope and love I need to help
       all humanity.”
       
       [b]Spiral of Violence by Dom Helder Camara [/b]
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       Re: Profiles in Courage
       By: Surly1 Date: December 18, 2013, 6:34 am
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       Brilliant, AG.
       [quote]He observed that violence builds up at three levels in a
       society. Primary violence is the everyday effect of structurally
       ingrained social injustice. This generates secondary violence -
       the revolt of the oppressed. And that in turn provokes tertiary
       violence - repression by the powerful to secure their privileged
       position. And so the spiral of violence tightens.
       [/quote]
       Camara was a true saint (in spite of the HRCC's efforts to quash
       liberation theology.) And a personal inspiration. He is one of
       the reasons I am unalterably opposed to violence in resistance.
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       Profiles in Courage: Martin Luther King
       By: AGelbert Date: January 20, 2014, 7:27 pm
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       Most of you have no idea what Martin Luther King actually did
       by
       HamdenRiceFollow .
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       Martin Luther King Jr removing a burned cross from his front
       yard with his son at his side.
       This will be a very short diary. It will not contain any links
       or any scholarly references. It is about a very narrow topic,
       from a very personal, subjective perspective.
       The topic at hand is what Martin Luther King actually did, what
       it was that he actually accomplished.
       What most people who reference Dr. King seem not to know is how
       Dr. King actually changed the subjective experience of life in
       the United States for African Americans. And yeah, I said for
       African Americans, not for Americans, because his main impact
       was his effect on the lives of African Americans, not on
       Americans in general. His main impact was not to make white
       people nicer or fairer. That's why some of us who are African
       Americans get a bit possessive about his legacy. Dr. Martin
       Luther King's legacy, despite what our civil religion tells us,
       is not color blind.
       I remember that many years ago, when I was a smartass home from
       first year of college, I was standing in the kitchen arguing
       with my father. My head was full of newly discovered political
       ideologies and black nationalism, and I had just read the
       Autobiography of Malcolm X, probably for the second time.
       A bit of context. My father was from a background, which if we
       were talking about Europe or Latin America, we would call,
       "peasant" origin, although he had risen solidly into the
       working-middle class. He was from rural Virginia and his parents
       had been tobacco farmers. I spent two weeks or so every summer
       on the farm of my grandmother and step-grandfather.
       They had no running water, no gas, a wood burning stove, no
       bathtubs or toilets but an outhouse, potbelly stoves for heat in
       the winter, a giant wood pile, a smoke house where hams and
       bacon hung, chickens, pigs, semi wild housecats that lived
       outdoors, no tractor or car, but an old plow horse and plows and
       other horse drawn implements, and electricity only after I was
       about 8 years old.
       The area did not have high schools for blacks and my father went
       as far as the seventh grade in a one room schoolhouse. All four
       of his grandparents, whom he had known as a child, had been born
       slaves. It was mainly because of World War II and urbanization
       that my father left that life.
       They lived in a valley or hollow or "holler" in which all the
       landowners and tenants were black. In the morning if you wanted
       to talk to cousin Taft, you would walk down to behind the
       outhouse and yell across the valley, "Heeeyyyy Taaaaft," and you
       could see him far, far in the distance, come out of his cabin
       and yell back.
       On the one hand, this was a pleasant situation because they
       lived in isolation from white people. On the other hand, they
       did have to leave the valley to go to town where all the rigid
       rules of Jim Crow applied. By the time I was little, my people
       had been in this country for six generations (going back,
       according to oral rendering of our genealogy, to Africa Jones
       and Mama Suki), much more under slavery than under freedom, and
       all of it under some form of racial terrorism, which had
       inculcated many humiliating behavior patterns.
       Anyway, that's background. I think we were kind of typical as
       African Americans in the pre-civil rights era went.
       So anyway, I was having this argument with my father about
       Martin Luther King and how his message was too conservative
       compared to Malcolm X's message. My father got really angry at
       me. It wasn't that he disliked Malcolm X, but his point was that
       Malcolm X hadn't accomplished anything as Dr. King had.
       I was kind of sarcastic and asked something like, so what did
       Martin Luther King accomplish other than giving his "I have a
       dream speech."
       Before I tell you what my father told me, I want to digress.
       Because at this point in our amnesiac national existence, my
       question pretty much reflects the national civic religion view
       of what Dr. King accomplished. He gave this great speech. Or
       some people say, "he marched." I was so angry at Mrs. Clinton
       during the primaries when she said that Dr. King marched, but it
       was LBJ who delivered the Civil Rights Act. >:(
       At this point, I would like to remind everyone exactly what
       Martin Luther King did, and it wasn't that he "marched" or gave
       a great speech.
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       Please let this sink in and and take my word and the word of my
       late father on this. If you are a white person who has always
       lived in the U.S. and never under a brutal dictatorship, you
       probably don't know what my father was talking about.
       But this is what the great Dr. Martin Luther King accomplished.
       Not that he marched, nor that he gave speeches.
       He ended the terror of living as a black person, especially in
       the south.
       I'm guessing that most of you, especially those having come
       fresh from seeing The Help, may not understand what this was all
       about. But living in the south (and in parts of the midwest and
       in many ghettos of the north) was living under terrorism.
       It wasn't that black people had to use a separate drinking
       fountain or couldn't sit at lunch counters, or had to sit in the
       back of the bus.
       You really must disabuse yourself of this idea. Lunch counters
       and buses were crucial symbolic planes of struggle that the
       civil rights movement used to dramatize the issue, but the main
       suffering in the south did not come from our inability to drink
       from the same fountain, ride in the front of the bus or eat
       lunch at Woolworth's.
       It was that white people, mostly white men, occasionally went
       berserk, and grabbed random black people, usually men, and
       lynched them. You all know about lynching. But you may forget or
       not know that white people also randomly beat black people, and
       the black people could not fight back, for fear of even worse
       punishment.
       This constant low level dread of atavistic violence is what kept
       the system running. It made life miserable, stressful and
       terrifying for black people.
       White people also occasionally tried black people, especially
       black men, for crimes for which they could not conceivably be
       guilty. With the willing participation of white women, they
       often accused black men of "assault," which could be anything
       from rape to not taking off one's hat, to "reckless eyeballing."
       
       This is going to sound awful and perhaps a stain on my late
       father's memory, but when I was little, before the civil rights
       movement, my father taught me many, many humiliating practices
       in order to prevent the random, terroristic, berserk behavior of
       white people. The one I remember most is that when walking down
       the street in New York City side by side, hand in hand with my
       hero-father, if a white woman approached on the same sidewalk, I
       was to take off my hat and walk behind my father, because he had
       been taught in the south that black males for some reason were
       supposed to walk single file in the presence of any white lady.
       This was just one of many humiliating practices we were taught
       to prevent white people from going berserk.
       I remember a huge family reunion one August with my aunts and
       uncles and cousins gathered around my grandparents' vast
       breakfast table laden with food from the farm, and the state
       troopers drove up to the house with a car full of rifles and
       shotguns, and everyone went kind of weirdly blank. They put on
       the masks that black people used back then to not provoke white
       berserkness. My strong, valiant, self-educated, articulate
       uncles, whom I adored, became shuffling, Step-N-Fetchits to
       avoid provoking the white men. Fortunately the troopers were
       only looking for an escaped convict. Afterward, the women, my
       aunts, were furious at the humiliating performance of the men,
       and said so, something that even a child could understand.
       This is the climate of fear that Dr. King ended.
       If you didn't get taught such things, let alone experience them,
       I caution you against invoking the memory of Dr. King as though
       he belongs exclusively to you and not primarily to African
       Americans.
       The question is, how did Dr. King do this—and of course, he
       didn't do it alone.
       (Of all the other civil rights leaders who helped Dr. King end
       this reign of terror, I think the most under appreciated is
       James Farmer, who founded the Congress of Racial Equality and
       was a leader of nonviolent resistance, and taught the practices
       of nonviolent resistance.)
       So what did they do?
       They told us: Whatever you are most afraid of doing vis-a-vis
       white people, go do it.
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       Go ahead down to city
       hall and try to register to vote, even if they say no, even if
       they take your name down.
       Go ahead sit at that lunch counter. Sue the local school board.
       All things that most black people would have said back then,
       without exaggeration, were stark raving insane and would get you
       killed.
       If we do it all together, we'll be okay.
       They made black people experience the worst of the worst,
       collectively, that white people could dish out, and discover
       that it wasn't that bad. They taught black people how to take a
       beating—from the southern cops, from police dogs, from fire
       department hoses. They actually coached young people how to
       crouch, cover their heads with their arms and take the beating.
       They taught people how to go to jail, which terrified most
       decent people.
       And you know what? The worst of the worst, wasn't that bad.
       Once people had been beaten, had dogs sicced on them, had fire
       hoses sprayed on them, and been thrown in jail, you know what
       happened?
       These magnificent young black people began singing freedom songs
       in jail.
       That, my friends, is what ended the terrorism of the south.
       Confronting your worst fears, living through it, and breaking
       out in a deep throated freedom song. The jailers knew they had
       lost when they beat the crap out of these young Negroes and the
       jailed, beaten young people began to sing joyously, first in one
       town then in another. This is what the writer, James Baldwin,
       captured like no other writer of the era.
       Please let this sink in. It wasn't marches or speeches. It was
       taking a severe beating, surviving and realizing that our fears
       were mostly illusory and that we were free.
       So yes, Dr. King had many other goals, many other more
       transcendent, non-racial, policy goals, goals that apply to
       white people too, like ending poverty, reducing the war-like
       aspects of our foreign policy, promoting the New Deal goal of
       universal employment, and so on. But his main accomplishment was
       ending 200 years of racial terrorism, by getting black people to
       confront their fears. So please don't tell me that Martin Luther
       King's dream has not been achieved, unless you knew what racial
       terrorism was like back then and can make a convincing case you
       still feel it today. If you did not go through that transition,
       you're not qualified to say that the dream was not accomplished.
       That is what Dr. King did—not march, not give good speeches. He
       crisscrossed the south organizing people, helping them not be
       afraid, and encouraging them, like Gandhi did in India, to take
       the beating that they had been trying to avoid all their lives.
       Once the beating was over, we were free.
       It wasn't the Civil Rights Act, or the Voting Rights Act or the
       Fair Housing Act that freed us. It was taking the beating and
       thereafter not being afraid. So, sorry Mrs. Clinton, as much as
       I admire you, you were wrong on this one.
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       Our
       people freed ourselves and those Acts, as important as they
       were, were only white people officially recognizing what we had
       done.
       Originally posted to HamdenRice on Mon Aug 29, 2011 at 08:24 AM
       PDT.
       Also republished by The Yes We Can Pragmatists, J Town, Black
       Kos community, Genealogy and Family History Community, White
       Privilege Working Group, Barriers and Bridges, Kitchen Table
       Kibitzing, and Daily Kos.
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       Re: Profiles in Courage
       By: AGelbert Date: January 20, 2014, 7:42 pm
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       Surly said, [quote]
       Camara was a true saint (in spite of the HRCC's efforts to quash
       liberation theology.) And a personal inspiration. He is one of
       the reasons I am unalterably opposed to violence in
       resistance.[/quote]
       I am way behind you in learning of this great man. I had heard
       of Liberation Theory vaguely with Vatican II but really didn't
       know much about it. It's only in the last decade or so that I
       have learned how the real saints are either demonized or
       studiously ignored. Camara is now an inspiration to me but you
       are as well, brother.
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       Profiles in Courage: Bill Hicks 
       By: AGelbert Date: February 26, 2014, 6:11 pm
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       Bill Hicks
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       Profiles in Courage Micheal Ruppert R.I.P.: COLLAPSE VIDEO
       By: AGelbert Date: April 19, 2014, 8:03 pm
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       Re: Profiles in Courage
       By: Surly1 Date: April 25, 2014, 5:53 am
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       Interesting in that I have a great appreciation for the bodies
       of work of both Bill Hicks and Mike Ruppert. A taste clearly not
       shared on DD.
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       Re: Profiles in Courage
       By: AGelbert Date: April 25, 2014, 2:25 pm
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       Surly,
       You are a patient man but I don't believe you ever really fit in
       to the irrational, dismissive, "we've got this planet all
       figured out" attitude prevalent at the DD. They like to argue
       but, by and large, have no interest in questioning the premises
       of their world view. Premises established when they were about
       FOURTEEN.  >:(
       Speaking of Ruppert, I heard an interesting commentary on
       Ruppert from Webster Tarpley. Tarpley is a historical scholar. I
       don't agree with his views on energy and his dismissive attitude
       toward the Occupy movement. But, he makes sense when he says
       that Ruppert was off base claiming that the guy that did an
       expose on drug trafficking in L.A. by the CIA and was later
       "suicided" by the CIA WAS NOT SUICIDED. I think Ruppert was
       Suicided just like Gary Webb.
       Anyway, the point Tarpley brought up, and I agree with him
       there, is that the world view that humans are inherently evil
       with absolutely no recourse to a better world is an
       interpretation of the created Universe that leads to a "There is
       no solution" type attitude (quite prevalent at the DD,
       regardless of the rampant atheism there) that can lead to
       paranoia and a closed mind towards potential solutions when
       things look very dark
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       (i..e. 85% forked = 100%
       forked is BAD LOGIC).
       A person in this "collapse is imminent" mind set becomes trapped
       in a self reinforcing depressive cycle and loses objectivity.
       This happened to Mike Ruppert in regard to renewable energy. He
       refused to study it or even contemplate it as a solution NOT
       BECAUSE of the physics and laws of thermodynamics, but because
       he was CONVINCED that there IS NO HOPE and was not interested in
       anything that would delay the "apocalypse". Maybe he was right.
       But the point is that closing the door to hope is a bad way to
       live and certainly not the way we should live in a JUST
       UNIVERSE. The fact that the Christian world view believes that
       man's nature is flawed and the universe is fallen does not
       justify the view that we are just naturally bad and there ain't
       a thing we can do but bend over and kiss our arses goodbye.
       Ruppert was wrong that fossil fuels could not be replaced and
       mankind could not live sustainably. He was right that sociopaths
       run the world and some of them were out to get him.
       God did not make an unjust, random universe, like many DD people
       wrongly believe. No matter how hard mankind  tries to fork it
       up, a remnant of mankind HAS the answers because those answers
       EXIST, not because they are a pipe dream. God is good. The
       universe is good. Man can be good despite his fallen nature.
       You're here. I'm here. THAT'S PROOF!  ;D
       Entropy is real and we are all going to die someday. So what?
       That doesn't mean we should throw up our hands and claim man is
       too evil (a rather virulent form of entropy born of spiritual
       bankruptcy when applied to human to human physical, destructive
       behavior) to be without recourse for a sustainable society.
       Tarpley claims that logic is a mental box canyon.
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       agree.
       Tarpley has more faith in hard ball politics and BS energy
       "solutions"
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       like
       nuclear and fusion  :P and still doesn't get how badly forked
       the environment is
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       />but that doesn't negate the validity of his view that assuming
       that no solution exists is wrong for a responsible human being.
       
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       Listen to the Tarpley Broadcast of April 19, 2014 if you would
       like to hear what he said. It includes an accurate and extremely
       informative history lesson on the Ukraine (it's an artificial
       country actually invented by the Germans in WWII!  :o)
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       Re: Profiles in Courage
       By: Surly1 Date: April 26, 2014, 9:51 am
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       Hi AG,
       [quote]You are a patient man but I don't believe you ever really
       fit in to the irrational, dismissive, "we've got this planet all
       figured out" attitude prevalent at the DD. They like to argue
       but, by and large, have no interest in questioning the premises
       of their world view. Premises established when they were about
       FOURTEEN.  >:(
       Speaking of Ruppert, I heard an interesting commentary on
       Ruppert from Webster Tarpley. Tarpley is a historical scholar. I
       don't agree with his views on energy and his dismissive attitude
       toward the Occupy movement. But, he makes sense when he says
       that Ruppert was off base claiming that the guy that did an
       expose on drug trafficking in L.A. by the CIA and was later
       "suicided" by the CIA WAS NOT SUICIDED. I think Ruppert was
       Suicided just like Gary Webb.
       [/quote]
       I am not sure I deserve the implicit praise, but thanks. Often I
       am ANYTHING but patient.
       You already know that I am not an atheist. But I guess I read
       the commentary differently from you, in terms of "we have the
       planet figured out." Geez, the older I get, the more I realize I
       know little, and that much of what I know has been shaped by
       those with an agenda. So I have learned to question everything.
       You would have to be either an optimist or a lunatic to be an
       old man involved with Occupy. I qualify on both counts, girded
       by the belief that it is only masses of people in the streets
       that can possibly counteract the pernicious influence of
       corporate money or get the attention of their otherwise-bought
       hirelings to influence policy. So how's that working out so far?
       Not so good. The same people who have the police locked down
       also own mass media and are in the process of turning the net
       into a greased tube for Amazon, Comcast and verizon.
       Hard times for an optimist.
       In re Ruppert, there is a body of evidence that suggests
       otherwise. Allow me to point you to these and you can consider
       the argument that he did in fact take his own life.
  HTML http://michaelcruppert.com/what-happened/
  HTML http://cherispeak.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/michael-c-ruppert-left-four-notes-and-a-poem/
  HTML http://cherispeak.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/michael-c-ruppert-said-you-dont-read/
       I am struck by that one of the last thoughts attributed to MR
       was, "There is no more time." It reminded me strongly of a quote
       often misattributed to Buddha, but actually From Carlos
       Castaneda, in the voice of Don Juan:
       There is one simple thing wrong with you – you think you have
       plenty of time … If you don’t think your life is going to last
       forever, what are you waiting for ? Why the hesitation to
       change? You don’t have time for this display, you fool. This,
       whatever you’re doing now, may be your last act on earth. It may
       very well be your last battle. There is no power which could
       guarantee that you are going to live one more minute.
       If we don't show up, who will?
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