Sunday, April 24th, 2016
What will it take?
Author: Stephan A. Schwartz
Source: The Schwartzreport
Publication Date: 24 April 2016
Link: What will it take?
Source: The Schwartzreport
Publication Date: 24 April 2016
Link: What will it take?
Stephan: Yesterday when I did my initial search for the next day's edition, I saw the first massacre story. Later the Ohio story came in and of course as I looked there were the usual one-off murders, suicides and accidents. I decided to compare it with another day, and randomly picked the number 16 and went back to that date and lo here are just some of the stories I found.
We have a full-blown epidemic going on, and as a country we simply will not face it. Ninety two people a day; if they were dying of some obscure virus, the media would be running around with its hair on fire -- remember Ebola.
I am dedicating today's SR to some of the stories I read. I'm sorry this is not how a wellness oriented society lives. Ask yourself: How much longer am I willing to put up with this?
You write:
As an Australian, I am as horrified as you at the daily gun deaths in the US, but there’s a gap in the logic above. The reason for virus or bacteria media hysteria, compared with the gun problem, is (at least) two-fold: the infections can spread *exponentially fast* once established–whereas gun deaths, as you point out, are roughly linear with population year after year in the US; and very few people parade around their lethal infections as a proof of manhood or patriotism. Your analogy fails. A better comparison might be psychosis, which seems to be partly heritable and partly responsive to cultural triggers.
Damien
I absolutely agree with you Stephan … And would welcome any suggestions you can give about what we can do about it. We really need to stop this insanity.
I could write a long essay on this, but I well spare you. Suffice it to say that karma, which means deeds, really works. We live in a passive aggressive society and collectively live in a lie, are unwilling to pay for the truth, or live by our own law. The constitution requires that (Only) the congress shall declare war…. and yet it has not been declared in 75 years and we collectively murder dozens a day, each day.
As a veteran of a Navy Air outfit called the “Grim Reapers”. I experienced the awesomeness of the air power we cover our eyes from seeing, but pay for each day. We expect the ‘news’ to be brought to us by the advertising industry, bought and paid for by corporate interests, more interested in gaining subsidies that covering ‘the news’ which is a series of our shames. Hence the most powerful army in the world has a chance of being lead by a game show host.
Hello America, during Ben Franklin’s time the average citizen would spend
$1.50 a month on the press. Not newertaintment. That would equal $30 in today’s dollars but it went to pay reporters and publishers with differing views. It paid for content and protection of reporters and publishers, not PR.
Today it goes to popular extortion engines such as Comcast that see the internet as their profit center, and are selling your eyeballs to the highest bidder. What can we do? Have our internet bill cover content, for a start. Till then support independent publishers like democracynow, or the center for Public Integrity, or the ICIJ that is publishing the Panama papers.
Those young boys who follow orders on your authority to do autrocities and the cannot sleep as old men and kill themselves at 22 a day (another lie, it is more) just cannot seem to get their consciences right. Thank You For Your Service…. My Derriere. Honor the constitution as all servicemen and women and federally elected representatives swear to do….. but do not do.
To Thine Own Self Be True. or be passive agressive robotic murderers and be shocked, shocked that what goes around comes…….
”””””””’ well, I didn’t spare you much.