Hillary Clinton on death of Libyan leader Muammar Ghadafi
Fox News – October 24, 2011
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We came.
We the exceptional.
We the powerful.
We the wealthiest nation on Earth.
We the liberators.
We fight to secure your human rights:
~ your right to education
~ your right to health care
~ your right to have food on the table and safe drinking water
~ your right to a roof over your head.
We saw.
We saw the criminalized homeless languishing on your city streets.
We saw the line for a meal outside your local food pantry.
We saw the crumbling roads, bridges, and water pipes.
We saw the mass incarceration of blacks and brown-skin peoples.
We saw the demonstrations for a higher minimum wage.
We saw your dead floating in the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina.
We saw your protests against police brutality in Ferguson and Birmingham.
He died!
Jesus Christ died on a cross.
Lakota Chief Sitting Bull died defending his people.
Emmett Till died by lynching at the age of fourteen.
Martin Luther King Jr. died in his struggle for African-American civil rights.
Eric Gray died, suffocated during arrest, for selling cigarettes on the street.
Tamir Rice died at the age of twelve for playing with a toy gun in a park.
Sandra Bland died in prison after a minor traffic violation.
How many more will die?
ISIS is out to kill us.
Only the gods know why.
Three Worlds One Vision 
That’s some article alright.
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Sha’Tara, our collective dissonance has been bothering me for sometime now. Until I saw that video clip, I didn’t know how to put it into words.
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You litany–because it mentions Emmett Till–reminds me of one of my favorite poems: http://www.afropoets.net/jamesemanuel1.html
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Thanks for sharing the poem. A tragic and shameful period in America’s history.
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Are you saying we are hypocrites?
The terrorists are in the mirror.
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We in the USA are in denial if we cannot see our national hypocrisy. Is there any terrorist organization with more destructive force than we possess? Count the bodies. Or have we stopped counting?
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I’m with you 100%. I’m just glad to find other people saying it. Lately, I’m embarrassed to be an American. I’ve read “Open Veins of Latin America” so am intrigued with your experience in imports and exports. Haven’t been to Brazil, but I loved Peru. Machu piccu shows what people can accomplish if they cooperate.
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Katharine, thanks for signing up to follow my blog 🙂
Brazil is a beautiful country; its people are very warm. Sadly, the country is in crisis right now.
Think of what we can accomplish as a nation if we ended our wars and used that money to invest in our people.
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If we could put our soldiers to work on the home front, doing something useful, everyone would profit. I remember when passenger rail was a realistic choice, but Amtrak has reduced it to a mere skeleton of what it used to be. We don’t need fancy. We just need utilitarian, with enough car cars so that people could drive their own cars to and from the rail terminals. There’s a lot of work for everyone, if we just shift our focus to things that benefit rich and poor alike.
Does the US have the worst public transportation system in the world, or what?
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I hope you didn’t take it personally when I said the terrorists are in the mirror. I was referring to the US generally, our so-called “leaders,” and the mass media, which would rather exploit the problems than solve the problems.
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No, I didn’t take it personally. I understood that you were making a generalization.
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Reblogged this on Guyanese Online.
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Thanks for the reblog, Cyril. Have a great week 🙂
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That exceptional country – that white and Christian nation – in the hands of President Trump.
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All is Our War
Wake up at dawn
finding myself looking for peace
sun’s already on the horizon
green knolls of grasses
sway in the wind
birds chirping and tweeting
cuckoos roosting
kisskadees eloping on mango trees
donkey brays loudly
in the backyard
drowns roosters crowing
spunky with their manhood
inside chicken coops
vegies sprite and green
then …
sounds of explosives
turn the mind to war
it is not a rumour
it is for peace they say
everything is war
our creation our innovation
motivation from the womb
we give birth to war
we are war
manifestation from peace
nothing to stop us
what we come from
how we talk we walk
no yesterday no tomorrow
climate cursing our war
rising oceans and seas
volcanoes and tsunamis
all is our war.
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Thanks, Leonard.
“we give birth to war / we are war”
~ Herein lies the dilemma of our species. Evolve or self-destruct.
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Superb post and poem, Rose.
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Thanks, Angela 🙂
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