MICHAELANGELO-RAPHAELO

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

VIGILANCE IS OUR PROTECTION

Trust but verify

Politicians often lie

Anything for a cushy job

Voted in it’s you they rob

Their way to cover lies

They call it compromise

Cull them each election

Vigilance is our protection

Monday, January 19, 2015

RULE BY MONEY: (rev 4)

RULE BY MONEY:

Nearly 2 out of 3 in USA do not vote

Government of, by, for people remote

Majority of USA voters abdicated

USA democracy of, by, for people desecrated

Both parties of our parents are dead

Red is radical and blue is red
Glass half-full slowly drains
Money-clad rulers hold the reins

Money-clad rulers a plague

Both parties affected the same

Non-voters stay away

Functional democracy slain

Where do all the tax cut dollars go?

To offshore banks! Don't you know?

Money-clad rulers' tax evasion.

Rewards of greed and corruption.

Tweedle Red Vs Tweedle Blue

Both parties dance to money's tune

We vote for least worst candidate

Money-clad rulers just can't wait

Bamboozled non-voting majority
Ruled by the Money-clad minority
Non-voting majority abdicated
Functioning democracy desecrated

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

RULE BY MONEY

Money-clad rulers a plague

Both parties affected the same

Non-voters stayed away

Functional democracy slain

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Was the Iraq War About Oil All Along? Gore Vidal on Dreaming of War: Blo...: http://youtu.be/bvcCc7kyGIg via @YouTube

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"Why Do They Hate Us?" Gore Vidal Interview on Perpetual War for Perpetu...: http://youtu.be/Slk2yqAItvs via @YouTube

Longtime Critic of U.S. Empire, Iconoclastic Writer Gore Vidal Dies at 86: http://youtu.be/CCpGJWK6a80 via @YouTube

Gore Vidal on Understanding America's Terrorist Crisis: http://youtu.be/509x6ldT3wI via @YouTube

Americans Your Lack Of Education Is The Joke Of The World Gore Vidal: http://youtu.be/G12qRzAOxCg via @YouTube

DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS

Bamboozled non-voting majority
Ruled by the Money-clad minority
Non-voting majority abdicated
Functioning democracy desecrated

consider: MICHAELANGELO-RAPHAELO: Oliver Stone: The untold history of the United States (10 Links)... http://michaelangelo-raphaelo.blogspot.com/2015/01/oliver-stone-untold-history-of-united.html?spref=tw

-- CARL SAGAN, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987

One of the saddest lessons of history is this:

If we've been bamboozled long enough,

we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.

We're no longer interested in finding out the truth.

The bamboozle has captured us.

It is simply too painful to acknowledge

-- even to ourselves --

that we've been so credulous [gullible].

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash

in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle

requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage.