*Brother Edward,*
*Many Ugandans have been lambasting m7 about the Arts/Science saga.* *Now the author of this article writes:* *Events of the past week – both despite and because of their gruesomely hypocritical nature – can result in a quantum leap in the revolutionary consciousness of humankind if only we are able to grasp their significance.* *In Social Sciences and the Humanities these self-styled "thinkers" just toss around meaningless verbiage like"* *a quantum leap in** revolutionary consciousness*". *You can imagine !! It is just firkin garbage that confuses the minds of youths. In Social Sciences and the Humanities they should zero in on Homer of Classical Greece, Virgil of the Roman Empire or Dante of Renaissance Venice.* *Instead, at Makerere or in Kampala or in Diaspora Ugandans wax offended by m7's un-charitable reference to the Arts and Social Sciences.* *But spewing around trash like this* *quantum leap* *nonsense makes nobody hip. Mitayo Potosi======================= * On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <mulin...@look.ca> wrote: > Libyan Epiphany: Tomahawks Trump Teachers > > Posted on 10/04/2014 > <http://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2014/10/04/libyan-epiphany-tomahawks-trump-teachers/> > | > > [image: 000049] > <https://hendersonlefthook.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/000049.jpg>With > Fukushima nuclear waste destroying still more of the North Pacific fishery > and Libya in chaos, the third week of March 2011 is worth remembering. > > Events of that week crystallized the profound hypocrisy and immorality of > the American body politic. If you’d retained any semblance of your > humanity, after decades of desensitization at the hands of the > military-industrial *mafia* and their titillating lapdog media, you could > not have escaped the glaring epiphany of a nation with disturbing > priorities. > > Japan suffered a natural disaster of historic magnitude and began a futile > battle against an epic nuclear meltdown, just as the world was being > reassured that nuclear power was safe. > > While Japan struggled to feed its population – especially the elderly in > nursing homes, the seven large US military bases in Japan were suddenly > invisible. The country’s largest ports remained open and undamaged. > > Yet, instead of focusing every resource at our disposal on the Japanese > cataclysm now washing up on the West Coast, the Obama Administration – at > the urging of colonial masters Britain and France – decided to bomb Libya. > > Our erudite and eager-to-please cowboy President pulled a Butch Cassidy > and tried to hide out in South America, apparently unaware that most of > that continent enjoys better relations with Libya than with the US. > > American *exceptionalism* was in short supply. But the empirical band > played on. > > Republicans – who had busied their fat little fingers (between large > slices of American pie) laying waste to unions – quickly abandoned their > months-long collective tirade on the merits of fiscal conservatism. While > Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker gleefully handed out pink slips to > teachers, General Dynamics demonically ramped up production of its Tomahawk > missiles. Defense and oil stocks soared. > > Each Tomahawk that blasts a depleted-uranium hole in Libya costs the US > taxpayer $1.5 million. As of today, the bill for decimating and > decapitating the Libyan people came to $112 million – a small price to pay > for a good old fashioned genocide. Rest assured there won’t be a peep out > of Republicans as the Pentagon bounces checks to a familiar array of war > profiteers. > > If education was a national priority, by my calculations we could have > instead paid 2,240 teachers $50,000/year and come out even on the Tomahawk > expenditure. > > But education is not a national priority. Neither is helping faithful ally > Japan – whose citizens are tired, scared and starving. Instead, > deficit-be-damned, our national priority is to bend over and lick the > filthy blood-stained boots of the Rothschild-led City of London-based > banking/oil/insurance/reinsurance/mining/agribusiness/pharmaceutical/*et.al > <http://et.al>**.* syndicate, which will now steal Libya’s petroleum on > our dime. > > This cabal seeks to depopulate the planet of useless eaters, monopolize > its resources and amplify its own hegemony by throwing the entire global > economy into the speculative realm on its various stock exchanges. They are > financial parasites who destroy the wealth of all others while enhancing > their own. > > Under the auspices of yet another “madman-elimination” Crusade, America > was again led by the nose down a well-worn path to serve as Hessianized > mercenary force for these self-declared *Illuminati *bankers. > > As if to foreshadow the Libyan madness, the day before Operation Odyssey > Dawn commenced, NASA fired a Taurus XL rocket from Vandenberg Air Force > Base in California. The rocket misfired and plummeted into the Pacific > Ocean, taking a cool $424 million beneath the waves with it. The boys > making space toys, “fiscally-conservative” by a country mile, simply > returned to their sandboxes to build more rockets – on your dime. > > Were it not for the gravity of the situation, this March madness would all > be quite comical. But the stakes are high, especially for America. > > Republican words do not match their deeds. They could care less about > budget deficits. They enjoy kicking around the weak while licking the boots > of the wealthy. These grateful un-rich climbers with callous-free hands > love to bash workers while bending over for corporate bosses. Better still > to place a yellow ribbon on a minivan and feel patriotic about writing yet > another gazillion dollar check to General Dynamics or some other > *Illuminati* defense subsidiary. They are Pavlov’s dogs and they are > cowards. Their much-vaunted “American values” do not exist. They are > yes-men in the service of City of London bankers. And they are destroying > our nation. > > President Butch Cassidy, most Democrats, and what pathetically passes for > the “American left” didn’t fare much better during this time of epiphany. > Naïve is the word that comes to mind. From the very beginning of the > Gaddafi demonization redux, liberals took the bait. It was cool to make fun > of Gaddafi. It felt good to be on the winning side. The star-gazers felt a > colonial duty – even a moral imperative – to intervene in Libya on behalf > of…well the Libyans. > > It didn’t matter that the “peaceful opposition” had fighter planes, RPGs > and SAMs. No big deal that many belonged to *al Qaeda* of the Mahgreb. > The media – both corporate and “alternative”– told Americans that these > CIA/MI6/Mossad surrogates were the good guys and by God that was good > enough for the sheeple. > > But altruistic intentions fail when intellectual rigor, historical > astuteness and political theory are lacking. Let’s face it. Americans are > increasingly dumb about the world. It’s what happens when education takes a > back seat to the military-industrial complex. > > Yet larger cracks have emerged in the neo-colonial house of cards. Our > alchemical dominion over nature has proven tenuous and downright lethal as > the Fukushima reactors continue to spew radiation. Our dependence on Middle > East oil has taken center stage. > > We spurn progressive world leaders and support Gulf State kings, just as > pan-Arab revolution gathers momentum and threatens to sweep these medieval > relics aside. Are European monarchs next? How can America, a nation founded > by revolution against monarchy and which fancies itself the very bedrock of > democracy in the world, support monarchy in *any *form in the 21st > century? > > Maybe the reason the whacko right-wing cries for “American exceptionalism” > is because they know we longer *are* exceptional. If we really were, we > wouldn’t need to go around blathering about it. We would show some > humility, lose our worn-out free market dogma and just BE exceptional. > > Events of the past week – both despite and because of their gruesomely > hypocritical nature – can result in a quantum leap in the revolutionary > consciousness of humankind if only we are able to grasp their significance. > > Maybe Americans need more time off so they can travel abroad more. Maybe > if they supported unions they would get that time off to travel. Maybe if > they traveled more and shopped less, helping Japan in its time of need > would have been a national priority and bombing Libya would have seemed the > absurdity that it has proven to have been. > > *Dean Henderson* is the author of five books: Big Oil & Their Bankers in > the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global > Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network > <http://www.amazon.com/Big-Their-Bankers-Persian-Gulf/dp/1453757732/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358999452&sr=1-1&keywords=big+oil+%26+their+bankers+in+the+persian+gulf>, > The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries > <http://www.amazon.com/The-Grateful-Unrich-Revolution-Countries/dp/1453764518/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3>,Das > Kartell der Federal Reserve, Stickin’ it to the Matrix > <http://www.amazon.com/Stickin-Matrix-Dean-Henderson/dp/1477698221/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2> > & The Federal Reserve Cartel > <http://www.amazon.com/Federal-Reserve-Cartel-Dean-Henderson/dp/1495917789/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1392574258&sr=1-2&keywords=the+federal+reserve+cartel>. > You can subscribe free to his weekly *Left Hook* column @ > www.hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com > <http://www.deanhenderson.wordpress.com/> > > > > > > EM > > On the 49th Parallel > > Thé Mulindwas Communication Group > "With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in > anarchy" > Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi > "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni > katika machafuko" > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ugandanet mailing list > Ugandanet@kym.net > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet > > UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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