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I have ADHD, and tend to use anger and superiority to access my dopamine reward system, so take what I write with a grain of salt (and know that I do too)....
Rios Montt was convicted of genocide last Friday. I saw a news report on channel seven - I've been clean and sober of Corporate Programming, but my ex-wife was watching the nightly news while I was cooking my sprouted lentils and tofu. I commented, "they left out the fact that our government put him in power," without realty knowing. She did NOT like that comment. I asked her when the last time she heard a news report about the Koch brothers, and she didn't know who they are (but she's probably heard their Heritage Foundation or Kato Institute used to support news reports), and I asked if she thought it was right the rich can buy their invisibility from the news while still manipulating our opinions, to which she began to yell I should shut the fuck up, and that was the last time she buys me food (to which I said, yeah, kill the messenger, that three buck bag of spinach was totally worth being yelled fuck at).
So, I bookmarked that story mentally, and Democracy Now covered it extensively, and I believe I've made a further connection I'd like to share with you all....
Allan Nairn reported from Guatemala in 1982 and was there for the trial. He said at one point on Democracy Now, this Monday:
Now, oddly, perhaps, the connection that came to my mind, is of the phrase, "regional stability," when used to justify the CIA over-throw of democratically elected leaders, and the new learning I obtained from watching economist Richard Wolff speak so eloquently about giving Democracy a chance to replace Capitalism in the USA. He said that before the "New Deal" was struck in our country, that the labor unions, and the Socialist and Communist Parties in America were VERY powerful during the Great Depression, and that many here in America were dissatisfied with the 25% unemployment at the time, and, that the president knew that we were on the verge of electing a different set of players into government that would be willing to move the country in a different direction (and commented this was not taught as a part of our history for some reason). That in itself was something of a revelation to me, but I did not doubt what Richard Wolff said because I know he was taught at the top schools here, and knows a lot about how things work in other parts of the world as well (and I had been exposed to the idea that the banks actually precipitated the fall of the stock markets to gain control of, and privatize, our monetary system, which we now know as the Federal Reserve (which is a bank owned company from which our government has to borrow from for each printing of money, and pay interest for, each time) in the film. "Thrive."
And, so, the McCarthy-ism here was not, perhaps a fear of Russia taking over our country, but actuallty a quashing of internal forces. And, so, the statement, "regional stability," is perhaps not a fear of the spreading of communism, but a fear that American's will remember their history, and think again of trying something different, as Capitalism here hasn't just experienced the Great Depression, and the Economic Collapse of 2008...but has experienced 55 other periods of instability or corrections, or whatever you want to call them. I myself have lived through several during which my (low) wages have been frozen for a couple of years each (remember, I have ADHD, and so have worked most of my life in low wage jobs, not having been diagnosed until a year or so ago after being kicked out of high school for exactly the type of behaviors now readily associated with ADHD, or understanding what it takes to concentrate and be able to read books). So, to my mind, now, the statement and justification, "Regional Stability," really, truelly, means, "Thought Control," or preventing the American (USA) People from imagining any other way of doing things than letting big business do whatever the hell it wants, and allowing them to make big bucks selling guns and stuff to our military, and allowing certain government agencies to get un-holy powerful, killing by proxy un-told hundreds of thousands of People in South America (and other parts of the world, like Vietnam to name one huge example) in the process, but making it seem completely different in the nightly news.
One element of the fall-out of this process is that when you massacre the People in a village, or provide the guns and ammo and military intelligence for the rich in those countries to do that, there are People who become displaced and have to flee their country.
But, the rich here have developed a line of reasoning for that also, and so we bottom feeders who have decided to trust the explanations of the rich, and watch the nightly news, or Corporate Programming, have been taught to call those People "*Illegal Aliens." Which is pretty fucked up, if you ask me. And, now, after allowing the rich to phrase things for so long, we have a LOT of true believers, who have been taught to see things as they are NOT.
Go figger'
* Harvest of Empire is a book and now a movie explaining how each action the US government has taken in South American counties has resulted in refugees who had to move, and wound up here in the U.S. It is co-authored by journalist Juan Gonzales, who reports on Democracy Now sometimes (he's the one with visible dopamine access, the heart of the show, IMHO).
Rios Montt was convicted of genocide last Friday. I saw a news report on channel seven - I've been clean and sober of Corporate Programming, but my ex-wife was watching the nightly news while I was cooking my sprouted lentils and tofu. I commented, "they left out the fact that our government put him in power," without realty knowing. She did NOT like that comment. I asked her when the last time she heard a news report about the Koch brothers, and she didn't know who they are (but she's probably heard their Heritage Foundation or Kato Institute used to support news reports), and I asked if she thought it was right the rich can buy their invisibility from the news while still manipulating our opinions, to which she began to yell I should shut the fuck up, and that was the last time she buys me food (to which I said, yeah, kill the messenger, that three buck bag of spinach was totally worth being yelled fuck at).
So, I bookmarked that story mentally, and Democracy Now covered it extensively, and I believe I've made a further connection I'd like to share with you all....
Allan Nairn reported from Guatemala in 1982 and was there for the trial. He said at one point on Democracy Now, this Monday:
These statements jibed with the quotes of Rios Montt, who was taught perhaps by our advisors, not to look at the indigenous People as Mayan Indians needing to be exterminated, but as communist rebels who are bad for business.
Now, oddly, perhaps, the connection that came to my mind, is of the phrase, "regional stability," when used to justify the CIA over-throw of democratically elected leaders, and the new learning I obtained from watching economist Richard Wolff speak so eloquently about giving Democracy a chance to replace Capitalism in the USA. He said that before the "New Deal" was struck in our country, that the labor unions, and the Socialist and Communist Parties in America were VERY powerful during the Great Depression, and that many here in America were dissatisfied with the 25% unemployment at the time, and, that the president knew that we were on the verge of electing a different set of players into government that would be willing to move the country in a different direction (and commented this was not taught as a part of our history for some reason). That in itself was something of a revelation to me, but I did not doubt what Richard Wolff said because I know he was taught at the top schools here, and knows a lot about how things work in other parts of the world as well (and I had been exposed to the idea that the banks actually precipitated the fall of the stock markets to gain control of, and privatize, our monetary system, which we now know as the Federal Reserve (which is a bank owned company from which our government has to borrow from for each printing of money, and pay interest for, each time) in the film. "Thrive."
And, so, the McCarthy-ism here was not, perhaps a fear of Russia taking over our country, but actuallty a quashing of internal forces. And, so, the statement, "regional stability," is perhaps not a fear of the spreading of communism, but a fear that American's will remember their history, and think again of trying something different, as Capitalism here hasn't just experienced the Great Depression, and the Economic Collapse of 2008...but has experienced 55 other periods of instability or corrections, or whatever you want to call them. I myself have lived through several during which my (low) wages have been frozen for a couple of years each (remember, I have ADHD, and so have worked most of my life in low wage jobs, not having been diagnosed until a year or so ago after being kicked out of high school for exactly the type of behaviors now readily associated with ADHD, or understanding what it takes to concentrate and be able to read books). So, to my mind, now, the statement and justification, "Regional Stability," really, truelly, means, "Thought Control," or preventing the American (USA) People from imagining any other way of doing things than letting big business do whatever the hell it wants, and allowing them to make big bucks selling guns and stuff to our military, and allowing certain government agencies to get un-holy powerful, killing by proxy un-told hundreds of thousands of People in South America (and other parts of the world, like Vietnam to name one huge example) in the process, but making it seem completely different in the nightly news.
One element of the fall-out of this process is that when you massacre the People in a village, or provide the guns and ammo and military intelligence for the rich in those countries to do that, there are People who become displaced and have to flee their country.
But, the rich here have developed a line of reasoning for that also, and so we bottom feeders who have decided to trust the explanations of the rich, and watch the nightly news, or Corporate Programming, have been taught to call those People "*Illegal Aliens." Which is pretty fucked up, if you ask me. And, now, after allowing the rich to phrase things for so long, we have a LOT of true believers, who have been taught to see things as they are NOT.
Go figger'
* Harvest of Empire is a book and now a movie explaining how each action the US government has taken in South American counties has resulted in refugees who had to move, and wound up here in the U.S. It is co-authored by journalist Juan Gonzales, who reports on Democracy Now sometimes (he's the one with visible dopamine access, the heart of the show, IMHO).
