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Soldiers at Shannon

On my recent trip to Ireland I flew in and out of Shannon airport, which has been used by the U.S. military for it's operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, torture-trip "renditions", and who knows what else. While waiting for my flight to New York, I was surrounded by dozens of US soldiers, browsing around in the gift shop, and the the departure gates. If you actually talk to a soldier, even if you're completely against the "war", you will usually find a decent guy or gal who you wouldn't have any problem with in everyday life. Yet unfortunately they believe enough of the propaganda they are told to serve the interest of profit & power. It's hard not to have a distaste for their presence, knowing what this illegitimate administration is using them for. And I'm hardly alone in this feeling in Ireland. There have been numerous protests against the US military use of Shannon airport, if you haven't heard about it, that's for the same reason you possibly haven't heard any of the overwhelming evidence that contradicts the official 9/11/01 story: Bush(corporate government, i.e. fascism)-supporting owners of our corporate media that limit, and in cases like 9/11, eliminate, opposing viewpoints and facts.

The US military in Ireland gives the feeling of injustice, of the divine Will for peace and justice being mocked by the devil, so to speak, as China's occupation of Tibet does, with their oppressive and abusive police and surveillance cameras installed throughout the towns...their influx of people and goods, destroying the Tibetan culture with intent...
It's like the continued occupation of Northern Ireland by the UK, causing violence, hatred, suspicions and division continually....Things like this are a stain on humanity, and they need to be thoroughly washed out. There is no compromise, US and UK out of Ireland (and Iraq/Afghanistan too, of course), China out of Tibet. Some things are 100% wrong and just need to end. And what's the common denominator for my evaluation of whats "wrong"? Fascism, which is systematic violence; violence being the root factor of discernment.

Last night I was watching a PBS show on the FCC, and its Republican tool-of-the-devil director who is completely ignoring the overwhelming dissent, by the Public and Congress, at the new proposed media conglomeration regulation, that will allow even further concentration of power (fascism) in the media, controlling the information we hear, assuring that the really crucial info, say on 9/11, The Federal Reserve, etc. will never enter the mainstream. That's why I give him the harsh"tool-of the-devil" status, I think of the devil as defined as "The Great Deceiver", whose deception leads to enormous harm; recent examples that I refer to often are the great deceptions of 9/11, the elections, WMD's, etc. Lack of crucial truth, and the presence of propaganda in the media is a fundamental obstacle to the progress of humanity and the end of the destructive status-quo paradigm. Media conglomeration is part and parcel to this, it always decreases crucial truth and increases propaganda and disinfotainment.
The FCC director is blatantly ignoring the will of the majority of Americans and Congress, which makes him a fascist, plain and simple. I know we cant have a pure democracy for every decision that needs to be made bt government, but this decision is following countless Public (and Congressional) hearings that all overwhelmingly said the same thing: "NO!"

The majority of Americans were against the Iraq "war" before it began, and the majority of Americans voted for Al Gore and John Kerry, but democracy was trampled and fascism won, with years of death, oppression and destruction following.

It's the same old story, since the beginning of civilization: the few oppressing the many and keeping humanity in a degraded state of tyranny, poverty, oppression and destruction...

Why wont "liberals" call it fascism when that's what it is? Until they do, its not likely to stop, especially when it is supported by the ever-present foundational Big Lie of 9/11.

bullshit masculinity in the USA

The completely bullshit idea of masculinity held by many American men is truly ridiculous. Two areas reveal this to me very clearly:

1. Eating meat (especially steak) is seen as some kind of macho behavior, when in fact it just shows you like others to kill defenseless animals for you to eat. Often "macho" guys will slander a guy that's vegetarian as being "feminine", which is non-sense, a real man would'nt be afraid of being perceived of as different and receiving slander from fools when standing up for his principles.

2. Supporting unjust war/militarism. These fools will back-up any military adventure, (usually until it effects them personally) with the sub-conscious hopes of being perceived as really masculine. Instead they are just cowards unwilling to speak-out against the chicken-hawk "leaders" that continue to kill our own people and foreign civilians, (by the hundreds of thousands in Iraq/Afghanistan alone). I, and every other activist speaking out against the lies of Bush, Inc. are the real "men"; we aren't cowards, we speak openly against mass-murderers, unafraid of the consequences.

Another aspect of extreme moronic hypocrisy with many Americans, both men and women, is their stance concerning the events of 9/11. Rather than look into the overwhelming evidence that the official story is a Big Lie, they just believe the official story, given by known liars and murderers, out of fear of being thought of as "crazy"; the irony is of course that you are really being crazy for believing and supporting obvious lies.