A week ago, the king of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah, an absolute ruler who is known to oppress women, ethnic minorities, and torture dissidents was fetted by none other than the queen of United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. Since nothing the queen says publicly is of her own making but approved by the government, her lavish of praise of this man should alert conscious people. I daresay it will not.
The Queen toasted this potentate noting "our shared values." Why shouldn't we be immediately frightened and incensed enough by this transparent assault on the public dignity to rid the world of both their royal offices? For whom do they speak?
The world is now noting - in some dark corners celebrating - the significance of the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Predictably, the Western press has nothing good to say about this, depicting it as one long, bloody Stalinist nightmare. NPR is depicting present-day Russians as under some kind of voodoo spell for longing for the Stalin days. Could it be that in the 1930's while the West was plunged into a manufactured economic depression, the USSR was industrializing, ending peonage, building universities and outpacing the West in GNP?
May I suggest we examine our shared values?
The other day our Retard in Chief, Bush, said some words about Cuba being a GULAG, desiring democracy in Cuba, dissidents of conscience, and never budging an inch from the blockade against the island until multi-party elections were allowed.
Former First Minister to HER MAJESTY'S government,. Tony Blair, has been quoted as saying some rude things about Fidel and Cuba's government as well.
The Saudis don't get such bile from the Free World. No Presidential Medals of Freedom for any of the Disappeared in Saudi dungeons. So what then are the shared values if the Saudis can disappear, torture, subjugate huge swathes of its population and be fetted by the Queen and fawned over by the prince of Wales?
Could the shared value be the primacy of personal profit, even if human slavery is required, the laboring and starving of children to meet the bottom line, the brutalization of women, sexual & ethnic minorities to keep our minds in the Dark Ages, the destruction of the environment is concerned?
The proof is in their pudding. Katrina: the poor and Black literally abandoned in full view of the world to die, and our Dry Drunk kept to the line: GOOD JOB BROWNIE!
Believe them.
Believe the queen when she speaks of the shared values, and look ahead and behind you. As Maya Angelou said: when someone tells you they're crazy, believe them the FIRST time.
The Queen toasted this potentate noting "our shared values." Why shouldn't we be immediately frightened and incensed enough by this transparent assault on the public dignity to rid the world of both their royal offices? For whom do they speak?
The world is now noting - in some dark corners celebrating - the significance of the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Predictably, the Western press has nothing good to say about this, depicting it as one long, bloody Stalinist nightmare. NPR is depicting present-day Russians as under some kind of voodoo spell for longing for the Stalin days. Could it be that in the 1930's while the West was plunged into a manufactured economic depression, the USSR was industrializing, ending peonage, building universities and outpacing the West in GNP?
May I suggest we examine our shared values?
The other day our Retard in Chief, Bush, said some words about Cuba being a GULAG, desiring democracy in Cuba, dissidents of conscience, and never budging an inch from the blockade against the island until multi-party elections were allowed.
Former First Minister to HER MAJESTY'S government,. Tony Blair, has been quoted as saying some rude things about Fidel and Cuba's government as well.
The Saudis don't get such bile from the Free World. No Presidential Medals of Freedom for any of the Disappeared in Saudi dungeons. So what then are the shared values if the Saudis can disappear, torture, subjugate huge swathes of its population and be fetted by the Queen and fawned over by the prince of Wales?
Could the shared value be the primacy of personal profit, even if human slavery is required, the laboring and starving of children to meet the bottom line, the brutalization of women, sexual & ethnic minorities to keep our minds in the Dark Ages, the destruction of the environment is concerned?
The proof is in their pudding. Katrina: the poor and Black literally abandoned in full view of the world to die, and our Dry Drunk kept to the line: GOOD JOB BROWNIE!
Believe them.
Believe the queen when she speaks of the shared values, and look ahead and behind you. As Maya Angelou said: when someone tells you they're crazy, believe them the FIRST time.
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