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So, what of the victims of the continuing gun massacres in the United States?  Well, they will continue to be made and suffer, for as long as both the Federal and local governments and the American people continue to deny and/or ignore the need to do anything to effectively stop it.  And so, the victims, for a combination of reasons, such as them having been too traumatised, and/or believing in the validity of the 'Constitutional right' to bear and use arms, must continue to suffer.  And their families and those who share their pain, shall continue to congregate in their places of worship and beseech God to help them.  To protect them from the from the deadly gun violence which they are self-inflicting.  But, it seems, without Americans having to give up their guns, and placing their trust in God.  But, of course, God has long stopped listening to the prayers of Americans asking to be protected from such violence.  Because God is aware that Americans have grea

But, Americans, as a nation, might consider that they have both time and a large enough population. to cope with the ravages of their enraged country men massacring other Americans in increasingly large numbers.  After all, the country is comprised of a massive land mass, and there are over 300 million Americans populating it.  They are certainly right, if they are of the opinion that you cannot kill all of them with repeated and frequent episodes of unhinged individual Americans indulging in mindless bloodlust.  Probably perceiving of themselves as their very own 'American Sniper', but on other Americans, and not on some foreign designated 'enemy.'  Even if it is the same psyche, 'the normalisation of guns and gun violence', giving rise to both the 'national violence', and that responsible for creating 'American Sniper.'  The Gun, it seems, is a large part of what makes the stereotypical American. And so it is, that Americans,

Including the likelihood of becoming refuges from their homes.  The madness of the current situation seems beyond all logic.  That the instability and ethnic conflict, whether under the rule of the the murderous 'Islamic State', or the legitimate but compromised or ineffectual Iraqi government, should become the daily and ordinary life and fate of ordinary people.  Whether they be 'Kurds', 'Shias', 'Sunni', 'Christians', 'Turkmen', et al, why, you might ask, can people not accept and be allowed to be just that,  people ?  To be Iraqis. Not necessarily, Iraqi Kurds, Iraqi Sunnis, Iraqi Shias, Iraqi Christians, Iraqi Jews, Iraqi Yazidis, but just, Iraqis.  Just ordinary humans? Of course, until they begin to do so, the inter-communal and inter-ethnic and inter- and intra-religious conflicts will continue. Move on to the latest 'liberated' region in the Iraq/Syria conflict zone, that of the Syrian city of Raqqa. 

The regional government of Catalonia has, by its holding of illegal, if popular Independence Referendum, places the people of the region in some peril by its action. It has caused a lot of uncertainty to befall the Catalans, which now imperil their economic, social and political lives.  They are now, it seems, likely to lose their regional autonomy; even though it might only be for a period of time.  While the Central Government of Spain, sets about putting out what, the advocates of an independent Catalonia, might argue, are the embers of 'a free and independent Catalonia.'  It is one of the ironies of the current crisis that, the effect of the Independence referendum and the threat of the Regional government of Carless Puigdemont.'  Is that it has precipitated a situation, which is more in keeping with the conditions which are more conducive to fanning the flames of the case for independence.  Very ironic, indeed. In other words, it is arguable that, th

Well, when acts of barbarity, in the form of  systematically and 'socially legitimised' gross violence and cruelty, oppression and the dehumanisation of other humans.   For whatever reasons, are accorded the dubious 'honour' of being labelled as ' cultural' , it is time for the people who so indulge in them, to take a serious look at themselves.  And ask themselves the question: ' What the hell are we doing, what have we become, how did we allow ourselves to become stuck in the past, when other people have progressed ?' Yes, because such a society is suffering from socially and intellectually arrested development.  It is a society which is not showing itself to be in charge of how its culture develops and advances. As opposed to being kept and practised in it original but now incongruous form.  With the rest of humanity changing and progressing, while it lazily and cowardly seeks refuge in the ' traditions of our people .' Even t

If I were to argue that this is so, would that mean that I am wrongly blaming the women?  By saying they should take responsibility for what they are societally doing to themselves?  Probably in their belief that it is, or might be what their men desire, and what will make them more desirable to their men?  Is it all about the low self-esteem that tribal women have; them thinking that their worth to their men can only be measured in terms of their perceived sexual desirability to their men.  Although, the fulfilment of the sexual act, might hardly be one of pleasure, but rather brutality, as the groom tries to penetrate the mutilated vagina of his wife? And yet, how ironic it is, that, in the daily living of people within societies which continue to inflict this act of barbarity on their children and women, the ordinariness of life persists.  A man will love his wfe and children as much as his more enlightened western counterpart.  As will a woman loves her husb

Pretty much most, if not all of what America does in the Middle East, it is doing for Israel, its spoilt and wayward protege.  Yes, there is the economic factor, but America's protection for Israel trumps it all.  Notwithstanding the fact that the government of Israel can be very disloyal and machiavellian towards the United States.   Especial the current of of Netanyahu, is as arrogant, disloyal and traitorous as there has ever been.  Israel under Netanyahu is as dangerous as Donald Trump, in increasing the level of instability in the region.  It will pretty much do nearly everything to 'create' the raison detre for America to wield its big stick over the region.  Including creating and stoking tensions and conflicts wherever it can. As it is doing in Syria,  and as it has done and is doing in goading and encouraging Trump to decertify the Iranian Nuclear Agreement, and 'demonising' Iran.  In a nutshell, the Government of Netanyahu has th

Yes, they must get carry on, until the next massacre jolts them again, hoping that it will not be them in the cross hair of the gunman or gunmen. But who can tell?  Still, they might think, what can we do about it? True, more Americans could carry guns; not that it would have helped many of those who fell victims to Stephen Paddock's period of madness. They could, though, organise a 'million person march' to Washington, and, say, smaller ones to their individual State legislative offices.   To demand corrective action from their local and national legislatures.  So, why do they not do so?  It has been done for other issues, so, why not in pressing the case for gun control?  Why is it, that Americans really buy that shit about having a gun, no, not only a gun, but small and big arsenals, as their Constitutional right, and that they need them to defend themselves from the government? Are Americans still at war with their government after over two cen