I intended to do this only once a week, but today I'm feeling that I must do something. Peace is not a goal that can be relegated to the back burner, and while my gifts do not lie in inspiration or opposition, I can at least provide intelligence to bolster those at the front line.
The World Socialist Website is reporting something that is kind of important. I say that sarcastically, yes I do.
"Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian industry to be prepared to divert all its efforts into war production."
The human race is about to confront it's greatest fear, whether it is capable of eradicating itself from the face of the earth.
Last night, James Corden made an announcement at the beginning of his Late Late Show broadcast on the subject of the cholera epidemic in Yemen:
[video:https://youtu.be/PZuLxgzxfKY]
I felt it appropriate to make sure the c99 community was aware of this.
"The small things you can do matter more than the giant things you can't!"
Thank You!
Today, Veterans Day 2017, is nothing like Veterans Day 1977, forty years ago when I observed my first Veterans Day after getting out of the military.
“The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did ’em.” - Joe Hill, The Fireman
To me, murder is murder. There should be no diplomatic immunity, executive privilege, or collateral damage when it comes to killing human beings. Some may say that war is different but that's a lie because all war is a lie. The wars conducted this century under presidents Bush, Obama and Trump are based on nothing but lies.
Pyongyang 1953
Considering present day circumstances, how are people affected when they read the below excerpt from the DPRK’s Foreign Minister’s cable to the United Nations Security Council dated 13 January 1951.
Could it be? Are the people in charge of this country that crazy? Would they really risk a nuclear war based on lies?
Heh. You bet your ass they are and would.
(top line attributed to Walter Benjamin and the bottom one to Louis Pasteur.)
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
African Proverb
Napoleon once said, "What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
(paraphrasing ~François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694–1778), "Jeannot et Colin”)
People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
