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Rolla Peace News June 14, 2016 |
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================================= Dear Friends:In this newsletter is: 1. NOON VIGIL FOR PEACE: THIS WEEK, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2016 2. UNDERSTANDING CORPORATE POWER 3. THE MISFIT MATHEMATICIAN (Tom's column, http://tomsager.org) I Can See The Mountains, I Can See The Sky, With Three More Minutes To Go
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We vigil for peace in front of the Rolla Post Office THIS THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2016, (and all subsequent Thursdays until peace is established) from Noon to 1:00 PM. Please try to join us. The temperature is predicted to be in the 90s. If you do not feel comfortable standing with us in front of the Post Office, please consider driving by and showing your support for our message by honking your horn and flashing a peace sign. 2. UNDERSTANDING CORPORATE POWER It's pretty simple, actually. The corporate elite do not care about you. At all. They do not care about people, animals, countries, or the planet. They care about money and power, and nothing much else. To get these things, and they never have enough, they will oppress, rob, enslave or kill anyone who gets in their way. They will lie to you, and they are masters of plausible untruths. They control the media, the schools, the whole legal system. They decide what your children learn in school, the news you read or watch, who can vote. They make the laws. They provide a little bread and a lot of circuses to keep people distracted and under control. Worst of all, they encourage false hope that everything is going to be all right, trust them. Chris Hedges compares what's happening here and now to what happened to the Jews in Poland during the Nazi occupation. Like us, the Polish Jews were told to cooperate and stay calm, and nothing bad would happen to them — right up until they walked into the death camps. It hasn't gotten that bad here, yet, but if you haven't noticed, our civil liberties are gradually disappearing, our every communication is monitored, the jobs that pay a living wage are being shipped overseas, and our planet is dying. It's very tempting, especially for those of us who are affluent enough to still be comfortable, to lay low and hope for the best. If we don't wake up and create an alternative to the miserable future that is being planned for us, we will soon be living that future — or perhaps there will be no future for any of us. 3. THE MISFIT MATHEMATICIAN (Tom's column, http://tomsager.org) I CAN SEE THE MOUNTAINS, I CAN SEE THE SKY, WITH THREE MORE MINUTES TO GO The Doomsday Clock stands at three minutes to midnight; Noam Chomsky thinks it might ought to stand closer. I suspect he's right. The world is threatened by the dual menaces of nuclear war and climate change, and, to quote Isaiah, “he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare.” In describing our world leaders Chomsky uses the phrase, “beyond insanity.” He doesn't even mention that the next president of the United Stated will almost certainly be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, two of the most unfit individuals on Earth to have their hands on the nuclear launch codes. I cannot do this article justice in a few paragraphs. Read it! The title of this snippet comes from Johnny Cash's song, 25 Minutes to Go; but with an important difference. In Johnny Cash's song, a man is led unwillingly to the gallows. In reality, we have not only built our own gallows; we walk willingly toward it. ================== Rolla Peace News is distributed by email once a week on Tuesday evenings (except on rare occasions) and is posted on the web at http://tomsager.org (click on Grassroots Rolla: top of rightmost column).If you don't wish to get notices of peace events in the Rolla area, let me know and I'll take you off this list. If you want to be added to this list, let me know. Wage peace, Helen helenm (at) fidnet.com ### |