“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
- Albert Camus

The drones are filling the skies, as reported by Tom Barry, making the progression from assassins on foreign grounds to domestic agents in border control, drug enforcement and even regional law enforcement activities. As the drones hold a proud history of hundreds of known incidental casualties of women and children in other countries already, is this really what we want? The only possible benefit I can think of is at least a drone could not sexually harass a suspect. But with the increased military presence in the streets, the idea that citizens will fall victim to immoral injustices is already happening, as in the case reported by Matthew Vaz involving an elderly nun facing sentencing for wholly made-up criminal charges. It is not paranoia that in this day and age, if you protest or boycott the industrial complex you will be punished to the fullest extent of the law no matter who you are or how logical your arguments.

In that respect, Ray McGovern reports on how plain the excuse provided by the younger of the Boston bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is when compared to his accusations and the rolling thunder rising against him and his chances for a fair trial. Says Tsarnaev’s message:

“The [Boston] bombings were in retribution for the U.S. crimes in places like Iraq and Afghanistan [and] that the victims of the Boston bombing were collateral damage, in the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world.  Summing up, that when you attack one Muslim you attack all Muslims.”

If the United States military did not exist to advance the agendas of American corporate powers this would never have happened. We can play revolted over the Boston deaths, but the truth is that American soldiers have murdered hundreds of thousands more innocents around the world. This does not excuse the Boston suspects (who have yet to be found guilty in a court of law), but it does point out that what was done was an act exponentially smaller than what our own government is indeed guilty of daily.

But rationality has no place in this modern world we walk. I mentioned before of how the Christian church likes to inform their followers of how badly they are being persecuted around the world. The truth of the matter is polar opposite, as seen in this article from Adam Lee. Those Christians just love throwing the first stone, contrary to everything they purport to believe. But then, the CDC is stating that now one in five children in America suffers from some mental disorder or another. Considering the world that’s being readied for them I am surprised that number is so small. Although I do think many of those diagnoses are drastically over-used, particularly bipolarity and ADHD. Kids are kids, so please stop getting them addicted to legal drugs.

Did Wal-mart pay over 24 million in bribes to build on top of a sacred Mayan ruins? It would not at all be the first time. That company’s practices are inherently ugly.

And more news coverage courtesy of Abby Martin’s BREAKING THE SET.

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“Integrity has no need of rules.”
- Albert Camus

Peter Schroeder reports how Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew is, essentially, an idiot. Exactly what level of rationality is capable of accepting the idea that postponing the payment of bills might improve anybody’s credit? This is like ordering a pizza, and when the delivery guy shows, asking him to go back and double the order, while also informing him to just deal with the fact that he won’t get the payment for a few more weeks. Would your landlord allow your rent to pile up, based on your word alone? Because obviously, one’s complete and totally ineffectual ability to pay bills is clear enough evidence that they are indeed good for it in the end. Jesus.

The sharp Steven Rosenfeld reports on the six takeaways of the in progress IRS scandal. His list is more and more infuriating as it progresses, and all the more on the money for it. In a perfect world, blatant hypocrisy should lose out to common sense in every time.

And to go along with my theory that most domestic cyber attacks are enacted by the United States government itself, the New York Times and the Financial Times have been hacked again. We know that the government has been spying on even the most bland of news agencies. Tell me they are not looking for ways to get inside and create this kind of abuse. The commercial media will already do whatever their owners say, but to throw them into such disarray will only prod them further in spreading baseless paranoia and fear. Effect and cause.

Yahoo looking to buy Tumblr for over a billion? I’m not a fan of either business, so such a consolidation would make me like them even less.

And here is a fine example of lazy, cowardly reporting, from Kirsten Grieshaber. Let’s all just ignore the fact that the modern banking system was initiated by the multiple pope-bankrolling Medici family. Let’s also ignore the fact that there has been a line of numerous murders indirectly related to the Vatican’s book-keeping going back to the 1970s. I especially enjoyed this bite:

The Vatican also uses papal visits with major leaders to seek allies in lobbying on behalf of Christians who face discrimination and in some cases physical violence in parts of the world.

I have heard this all my life and nothing could be farther from the truth. The church’s entire dogma is based on self-punishment, so you’d think being persecuted would be dandy, only there is no real persecution going on. Not unless the Christian faithful are the instigators, as is almost exclusively the case around the globe.

But in more joyous news, a father-less anteater has been born at a Connecticut conservation center. It would appear as though the Second Coming was reincarnated all wrong. AUM SHIVA, I guess.

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