I am back on high speed internet. I do not recommend Dial Up to anyone. I am paying the same price as dial up for half a year, then the bill will only be ten extra dollars a month. This isn't as high speed as my comcast days, but it is close enough. So good people, any of you on dial up, take it from me, round up the extra ten bucks. The internet is just not the same with dial up.
That being said, I will be able to blog more often than I have been. It will never be like the old days when I was pumping out tons of posts and doing a lot of leg work to out paid trolls and their disinformation. But I am back in the game.
Our lives are filled with much propaganda. The biggest example of this is with how the word terrorism has become distorted. Vocabulary is a big part of our lives. Terrorism is real, I am not saying otherwise. But is Al Quaeda for real? In that, is it really a big time player disrupting civilisation?
A look into history will show that the CIA helped form that group. One needs to go back to the Afghan-Soviet War to understand this.
But what about state-sponsored terrorism? Doesn't that exist and pose an astronomically greater danger to us? I believe so. When World Wars have been allegedly fought to maintain boundary lines, what does it say about the US' illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan?
What about the Middle East? Surely the Palestinians and others have engaged in hard core terrorism. But one could easily ask what are the roots of terrorism. If states like Israel treated its people better without the apartheid-like conditions, would there be this Intifada?
I lived a bit in Ireland. I got to learn firsthand what the Middle East is probably going through. In the North, the Irish have been treated like second hand citizens. In a way, the "troubles" have had more to do with economics than with religion. Perhaps the problems of the world boil down to more of civil rights problems than any kind of religious conflict. With terrorism, I advise folks to consider the question of why do they hate us. Or think of it as the fable of the elephant with a thorn in its foot. If we remove the thorn, won't the angry being relax and no longer pose a physical threat?
And what about welfare? The closed-minded are bombarded with the notion that useless eaters are driving economies into the ground by siphoning off of government tits. But what about corporate welfare? What about our wasteful and murderous promotion of a military economy?
We need to stop buying into the status quo. That means that we are in a long-term struggle for peace and justice. That means we can never give up promoting the truth and real values.
