More History not taught in the US

The Revolution was all about "No Taxation without Representation."
Book TV on C-Span2 on Sundays led me to the following book:
NPR : Schama's Revolutionary Tale: 'Rough Crossings'
I'm sure it's available on ebay, it's here at Amazom, and probably at a local library (or should be.)

Slavery was becoming illegal (oh, those activist courts) in England and they were offering freedom to any slaves in the Americas to fight against the rebels. The got their freedom (and then the shaft, of course) and then went on to practice democracy in Africa. The survivors anyway.

"Whichever route he had taken, and whatever the trials he was presently enduring, British Freedom's choice of name proclaims something startling: a belief that it was the British monarchy rather than the new American republic that was more likely to deliver Africans from slavery. Although Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, had blamed "the Christian King" George III for the institution of slavery in America, blacks like British Freedom did not see the king that way at all. On the contrary, he was their enemy's enemy and thus their friend, emancipator and guardian."

It wasn't about freedom, like ever since, it was all about money.

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Not covered by the MSM

NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN

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Open your eyes to why we're at war

I appreciate when someone goes out and does the research:

"The Bush White House is a wholey owned subsidiary of Weapons R Us. The National Institute for Public Policy, which hired several so-called thinkers from weapons makers has three alumni in the Bush Administration. The Center for Security Policy, which has 8 weapons executives on its board, has 22 former board members or associates in the Bush Cheney gang. Thirty-two major appointees in the Bush Administration are former executives, consultants, or significant shareholders of weapons companies. Seven members of the Bush Administration came from Northrop Grumman and eight from Lockheed Martin - on whose board Dick Cheney's wife served until 2001, receiving a half a million dollars for whatever it was she did."

David Swanson has done an excellent job of research into why we've been at war since before my birth and if we don't get an independent media, long after our bones are dust. While he places the obvious connections to the current andministration, this pattern was in play long before Eisenhower gave us his closing act warning. Our culture has long been a lifelong indoctrination into the rah, rah, defense of the flag with some current evil we have to conquer from the heathens at our founding to the almost omnipotent "terarists" of today.
I really like his renaming of our war department from "Department of Defense" to "Department of Attack."

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A slaughter of innocents

25 Israelites have been killed and 13 were civilians…240 Lebanese have been killed and 14 were not civilians.

The MSM (thank you: Link TV & FreeSpeech TV), taking advantage of American ignorance, lack of curiosity, and inability to connect the dots, begins each report with the statement of the Israeli “response” to the Arabic “attack.” Never do they remember that the Arabic “attack” was in response to an Israeli action. This latest incident bears witness in that it actually began with the killing of a Palestinian family on a beach in Gaza as pertains to that local and the abduction of a Doctor and his son from Lebanon a few days prior to the taking of the two soldiers at that border.

France, England, and every other country with tourists there have managed, quite quickly, to evacuate their citizens. The US? Truly Katrina like in appearance, lacking. Sacrificial lambs, offered by the Resident, to give an excuse to involve our military, in reality. Any excuse to keep our world at war. Hey, at the least, Israel has to replace all those missiles and bombs! War profits drive the economy! At least they fill the pockets of the Resident's buddies.


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Vacation?

I haven't been posting. Too despondent. Link to video below got me in the mood once again. My own little spark against the lightening and thunder of the MSM.

I know the Resident is supposed to be dealing with worldly matters at the G8, but it looks to me he's taking an early vacation. The world is exploding and all he can get his mind around is dinner. Meanwhile our political parties are chomping at the bit, as exemplified by Gingrich and Biden on "Meet the Press," to take the US into war on the behest of Isreal.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this video is worth a million. Or, a whole lot more than any thing oozing from the lips of the Resident.

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