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Nov 28 2009
Rosewood Reality
It really doesn’t take much to start a riot. The entire town of Rosewood was razed, burnt, its citizens tortured, hung and shot in cold blood over the obvious lie of a white woman with a white lover she was trying to hide from her husband.
It can take as little as police brutality raiding a bar, to set a city like Detroit afire.
Elect a Black Man? Burn a Black Church. Mosques and Synagogues bomb and torch each other so often, its not even necessary to create the links. Just google I/P.
Nov 27 2009
Wild Wild Left Radio #45 Unlocking the US’s Civil War Plan
Join WWL Radio cohosts Diane Gee and Michael Gottlieb tonight on BTR at 6PM Eastern Time.
On this Black Friday evening, we will be continuing the discussion we started last week, and expanding from that premise. After establishing the ramped up rhetoric is overtly calling for the assassination of President Obama, the natural expansion is into how the use of “extreme prejudice” is being encouraged between our citizenry itself.
With the application of economic shock, and portends of many more extreme financial crisis’s to come, the Class War unfolds.
We have become inured to the horrors of the fascist state of unnecessary force and big brother watching. Will we accept it as inevitable, the use of US troops to quell food riots and “keep peace” by using force on people who protest the class war?
Or we be too busy fighting the “other” wars, wars against one another in layers upon layers of civil unrest? Will Christians use their newly claimed Orwellian status as “victims” to justify a Holy War to make America a theocracy?
It maybe a singular theatre of warfare, but it is a battle being fought on many fronts. As always, to divide is to conquer; and what is being done to our society is a direct application of those theories laid out in the Shock Doctrine.
It is difficult to address the bigger picture, when so many of us are enraged by each individual skirmishes against our rights. Yet, we feel it is of utmost importance to connect the dots early enough to see if we can turn back the coming storm.
See you there! As always, respectful questions and commentary are welcomed. Call in, or use our attached live chat function!
Join Gottlieb and Diane tonight at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for an interesting hour of Political Reporting and Commentary.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
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Nov 26 2009
The Giving of Thanks
I hate the Holiday the United States has made our natural harvest celebration into. But I have always though the giving of thanks is one of the things we humans have neglected far too much.
Give thanks to whom, you ask? Sky Daddy, Karma, the Cosmos?
Maybe. Being alive is pretty amazing.
But I’m more into appreciating each other, thanking the people in my world. It just makes the World a better place. You all know how good it feels to be truly appreciated, why do we not want to give that pleasure to others in our lives every day? Complaints are easy, compliments seem harder to us. I guess having death as my closest lifelong companion, losing so many loved ones, makes me feel strident about telling people how much they mean to me before its too late. We speak of a loving society, and I for one, can’t preach that and still be stingy with it personally.
Then, no matter how hard my life is, sometimes I have to stop and think about the fact I have not just one morsel, but more than enough food every day. Most often, another being gave way so that I might sustain. I have clean water. I can see colors, I can hear music, laughter.
I have food also, for my mind and my soul, right here for the taking. I have all of you to thank for that.
Genocidal celebrations suck. But the giving of thanks assuredly does not. Even as we ponder the injustices of it all, every tiny thing done for you should be a reminder of what it is we are fighting for.
We are fighting for more of that for which we can be grateful, for everyone.
Thank you all, I am grateful for you.
Proof our unease with thanks?
See how uncomfortable we get when given thanks or praise. We blush, we squirm, we try and deflect it.
Were it given more often, accepted more often, we would all be happy to smile and say, “You’re welcome!”
And mean the welcomed part. Welcome to any part of my soul that helps yours.
Nov 25 2009
The Perfect Storm
Start with a land-bound low moving east, run it into a strong nor’easter ridge pushing back and add the remnants of a hurricane; it has been called The Perfect Storm.
You don’t need to be a weatherman to see which way the wind blows, said Bob; you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to draw the political parallels, say I.
Lowered expectations, economic collapse and divisive civil unrest; the perfect storm of our own, in which we shall equally be tossed, helpless, and presumably perish as those upon the Andrea Gail did.
Unless we can kick one of the legs out from this unholy triumvirate in time.
Nov 22 2009
Heavenly Bodies and Dust Motes
Simulposted from The Wild Wild Left.
I was sent pictures by Lady Libertine, the one that inspired her essay, and thought about it a long time. She is right, it is not an easy metaphor; but indeed, a compelling one.
I never could, or did write about it. But Friday, in a moment of total unthinking, I had a similar train of thought light up. Its one that has crept into my consciousness often, and I am positive, it has been the rehashed subject of thinkers for ages, and my own thoughts are echoes of things I’ve never read. As usual.
There really is nothing new in the Universe. Not even in my own brain. I’d been here before.
Still, popping up in a rare moment of total internal dialogue silence, I deeply enjoyed entertaining the thought.
It started with the tiniest of spiders, in the largest of basements.
Nov 20 2009
WWL Radio #44 Trolling for Assassins: The Christian Right’s Jihad on America
Join WWL Radio cohosts Diane Gee and Michael Gottlieb tonight on BTR at 6PM Eastern Time.
The title may shock you, but we do not think we are overstating our case.
Join us tonight as we explain how, by use of Biblical passage, coded messages, and flat out threatening statements, the Right Wing is ramping up rhetoric in order to ignite an attempt on President Obama’s life, if not incite an actual coup to take over the United States for “Ultra-conservative Christianity.”
The Secret Service reports their threat level is up 400% from any other President in history, for protecting the POTUS.
As we condemn Islam for not speaking out against their lunatic fringe, as we condemn Israel for not condemning their lunatic fringe calling for the *death of non-jews, (There’s a book out by that name) the Christian Right on our own soil remains largely silent against the lunatic fringe threatening our elected President, and anyone who supports them.
This is evident on every level, from Hatch’s Holy War on Health Care, to Stupak’s War on Women.
Our diligent duty as prophets of the dire is to forewarn you. Its up to you whether or not to be forearmed!
See you there! As always, respectful questions and commentary are welcomed. Call in, or use our attached live chat function!
Join Gottlieb and Diane tonight at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for an interesting hour of Political Reporting and Commentary.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
The call in number is 646-929-1264
The live chat link will go live around 5:15.
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Nov 17 2009
Anita
She lay in her bed, with a bible clutched in the hand not encased in a cast, speaking openly about her divorce. Despite her deeply religious views, the divorce seems to not bother her at all, other than strategically.
She answers her ancient roommate, “I’ll pray for us both to get better, so we can get out of here, but if that doesn’t work, we just have to live it, one day at a time.” The old lady starts to cry, and she speaks again, “Look at it this way, at least you got 50 more years than I did before you landed here. You’ve had a pretty good life, dear. We’ll get through this.”
That stops the old lady’s crying.
The two of them talk a lot at night. Neither sleeps well, but when you are bed ridden all day, as she often points out, how tired can you possibly get?
She’s 42, and this nursing home is her final stop, and she knows it.
Nov 15 2009
Confessions of a Recovering Catholic
We, on the left, often speak about “How it is possible for people like Palin to get over in this country?” We stand appalled and shocked when Democrats like Stupak make sure women’s reproductive health will not be covered. We don’t understand when they want to force us to reproduce, no matter what our situation; then have to PURCHASE insurance for that child when born, having eliminated CHIP. How do we mentally rectify those who scream about “welfare babies” with their same yells about “no sex education, birth control or abortions?”
There can’t possibly be that many fringe lunatics, I think to myself. They must be just LOUDER. I mean, the Polls say that “the number of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith today (16.1%) is more than double the number who say they were not affiliated with any particular religion as children. Among Americans ages 18-29, one-in-four say they are not currently affiliated with any particular religion.”
I kind of get it, though. Even when you realize you were totally indoctrinated as a child, there is imagery, memories of innocence that remains warm and fuzzy. The general precepts we were taught as children weren’t all bad, you know. Loving God, wanting to be good, sharing, wanting heaven, all the “little children” type teachings they gave us wasn’t all tribal and separatism. That didn’t come until later.
Who can hate an image like this? Yet, rationally, isn’t it creepy to dress children as little “brides” of Christ, with all that implies? Its no less creepy than all those Daddy/Daughter celibacy promise events.
If the feeling of belonging to a community has a gravitational pull, and good memories an orbit; then the doubt and guilt of rejecting these ideologies can be a black hole. It remains a constant like a physics equation.
Even people like me, people who stand strong for the separation of church and state, people who are agnostic at best, people strongly pro-choice, still harbor feelings about abortion. Scientifically we know all the reasons, but still, it is hard to think of any pregnancy as just flushable meat.
This is what makes them hard to beat. Its not the viability of a fetus, its not the denial of the hardships on the mother or child they cannot see. Its vestiges of guilt and childhood training.
Reasonable demographics based on irrational emotional reactions, even in an evolving society shows that we are up against something ingrained.
Nov 13 2009
Wild Wild Left Radio #43 Cmdr Jeff Huber on Af/Pak
Join WWL Radio cohosts Diane Gee and Michael Gottlieb tonight on BTR at 6PM Eastern Time.
Tonight we again have the honor of interviewing Cmdr Jeff Huber contributor at Antiwar.com and Aviation Week’ proprietor of Pen and Sword and author of Bathtub Admirals to help us un~weave the tangled web of our Afghanistan Policy.
Seymour Hersh echoed Cmdr Jeff’s essay on WWL this week, “Hillary’s Dope Deal” in his interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, that there are certainly back-dealings, side dealings and intrigue afoot behind the overt McChrystal and his West Point Boy’s propaganda and the media dumps coming from the White House.
So, pour yourself your favorite recreational beverage, sit back and enjoy your happy hour in brilliant, entertaining company, (and yes, that implies you as well). It will be an amazing evening.
See you there! As always, respectful questions and commentary are welcomed. Call in, or use our attached live chat function!
Join Gottlieb and Diane tonight at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for an interesting hour of Political Reporting and Commentary.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
The call in number is 646-929-1264
The live chat link will go live around 5:15.
CHAT LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/F…
Nov 11 2009
Framing a Terrorist for Veteran’s Day
Fort Hood is not an end story. Nor is it a beginning. It is the dead middle of a planned story. It is a story about division and fear tactics, patsies and martial law. Its a story about raising the frog’s bathwater incrementally to boil.
That our Muslim citizens are becoming all suspect is no less devious than the beginnings that created our ability to inter the Japanese, or what created Nazism.
Lets move back to April of 2009, when the US Homeland Security Department reclassified Right Wing American Veterans as potential Terrorists. Wow, this incident conveniently creates an atmosphere for keeping surveillance on the only people who might protect us, should a military coup create havoc in our country.
But further back in the way-back machine is the story about Northcom being deployed as of October 2008 on US soil effectively killing Posse Comitatus, for the express reasons of:
“They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control,” said the Army Times when it first reported on it. These duties would be in addition to dealing with “potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.”
Nothing happens in a vacuum, and these taken together weave quite a pattern. The newest incident justifies ever less freedoms for security.
Nov 06 2009
Wild Wild Left Radio #42 Douchebags, Dictators & Despots
Join WWL Radio cohosts Diane Gee and Michael Gottlieb tonight on BTR at 6PM Eastern Time.
The human time bombs are exploding, the Malkineers are screeching and Healthcare is getting absolutely nowhere.
The US is still torturing and they are still denying it, while covering up their closest partner in perma-war machine’s war crimes as well.
Europe and the UN stand stunned at our insistence on fighting a war with no reason, propping up yet another puppet Triple-D* (Douchebags, Dictators & Despots *) in Afghanistan.
Israel is playing Pirate at sea, and sending their goons to join ours interfering in the People’s Movements in South America.
It is all Douchebags, Dictators and Despots here and abroad, and we plan on Dissecting, Dismantling, and Debunking their asses.
There is one way to fight them, and it certainly is not keeping quiet about it. Join us tonight and be HEARD!
It should be a Wild Ride!
See you there! As always, respectful questions and commentary are welcomed.
Join Gottlieb and Diane tonight at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for an interesting hour of Political Reporting and Commentary.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
The call in number is 646-929-1264
The live chat link will go live around 5:15.
CHAT LINK:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/F…
Nov 05 2009
Remember, Remember
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Fawkes at midnight, and by torchlight there was found
With long matches and devices, underground
O England praise the name of God
That kept thee from this heavy rod!
But though this demon e’er be gone,
his evil now be ours upon!