OUR LIVES OUR RIGHTS

• This is Ethan McCord, the soldier shown rescuing children out of the van in the Collateral Murder video revealed by Bradley Manning via WikiLeaks. After the video was released, Ethan became an antiwar activist. As Bradley has inspired other soldiers to speak out against injustices, hopefully he will inspire you to take action in his defense. Visit www.bradleymanning.org to learn how.
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Photo Via: Save Bradley Manning Facebook Page

DILEMMA: Trying to fit in “or” Struggling to stand out…?

 

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• “I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.” —EUGENE V. DEBS

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9 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS ARE JOINING THE PROTEST AGAINST NBC’s NEW REALITY SHOW

• “A group of 9 Nobel Peace Prize winners have published an open letter to NBC over its new reality show “Stars Earn Stripes.” A show that pairs up celebrities and American military members for military-related challenges. The Laureates wrote the letter to add their voices to the growing chorus of global citizens who are alarmed by the increased militarization of societies, and how the entertainment industry contributes in particular to desensitizing people of all ages to the realities of war.

 

• During the Olympics, touted as a time for comity and peace among nations, millions first learned that NBC would be premiering a new “reality” TV show.”

—BUSINESS INSIDER

 

• “In response to the criticism, NBC released a statement to the Associated Press that said: “This show is not a glorification of war, but a glorification of service.” Chairman of NBC Entertainment Robert Greenblatt and producer Mark Burnett, said, “This program pays homage to no one anywhere and continues and expands on an inglorious tradition of glorifying war and armed violence.”

 —ABC NEWS

 

• Desmond Tutu and the other laureates say; “It is our belief that this program pays homage to no one anywhere and continues and expands on an inglorious tradition of glorifying war and armed violence … Real war is down in the dirt deadly.  People military and civilians die in ways that are anything but entertaining … As people who have seen too many faces of armed conflict and violence and who have worked for decades to try to stop the seemingly unending march toward the increased militarization of societies and the desensitization of people to the realities and consequences of war, we add our voices and our support to those protesting “Stars Earn Stripes.”

—OPEN LETTER TO NBC FROM 9 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS

 

• “One of NBC’s corporate parents, General Electric, takes war very seriously, but not as human tragedy — rather, as financial profit.  (GE is a big weapons manufacturer.) A retired general hosting a war-o-tainment show is another step in the normalization of permanent war.”

—PRISON PLANET

OUR WARS ARE KILLING HUGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE, PRIMARILY CIVILIANS, OFTEN CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY

REGULATE..??

—The U.S wealth and development only shows, to the less developed countries, the ideal image of its own future…
FACT:
—Note: “We” = The U.S.—
◊ We (The U.S.) represent 5% of the world’s population.
◊ We consume one quarte of the world’s resources.
◊ We generate one third of the world’s pollution.
Sources and more info:
– http://youtu.be/YztbmuNxQuI (Video)
– http://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats#src1
– http://www.worldwatch.org/node/810

Quick Facts about Guantánamo Bay:
Approximate number of prisoners detained at Guantánamo since January 11,2002: 779
Number of detainees released due to insufficient reason to keep them: 600
Number of detainees who remain at Guantánamo as of February 2012: 171
Number of trials completed since it’s opening: 3
Age of the youngest Guantánamo prisoner: 15
Age of the oldest Guantánamo prisoner: 98
Number of suicide attempts in Guantánamo Bay since 2002: 23
Number of alleged suicides amongst Guantánamo prisoners since 2002: 6
Interrogation methods in Guantánamo include, but are not limited to: water-boarding, physical abuse, forced injections, sexual assault, sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation, environmental manipulation, violent dogs, forced nudity, using phobias, extreme cold, cultural humiliation, sensory bombardment, stress positions, sensory deprivation, isolation, ect.
In 2010, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (former aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell) stated that top U.S. officials, including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, andDonald Rumsfeld, had known that the majority of the detainees initially sent to Guantánamo were innocent, but that the detainees had been kept there for reasons of “political expedience”, meaning their reasons were inclined towards domination rather than being fair or just.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/ news/guantanamo-decade-damage-human-rights-2012-01-11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBmEbvhe5GI&feature=player_embedded

◊ ”Crony capitalism is about the aggressive and proactive use of political resources, lobbying, campaign contributions, influence-peddling of one type or another to gain something from the governmental process that wouldn’t otherwise be achievable in the market. … As a result, we have neither capitalism or democracy… It is a system run by powerful, political and corporate forces.”
—DAVID STOCKMAN
President Reagan’s Budget Director
Source:
• BILL MOYERS: CRONY CAPITALISM
billmoyers.com