Sabino Canyon - Tucson Arizona

Sabino Canyon - Tucson Arizona - Photo by W. McClements

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabino_Canyon

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Broken America – Ferguson Missouri - Murder by The State

America is going nowhere fast. A half a century after the basic struggles for civil rights of African Americans in federal legislation lags behind and is basically forgotten all across the old Jim Crow South with new restrictive voter right acts designed to impede voting by the young, the old and along the color line.

While I would not like to be confronted by a gorilla sized petty thug like Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri, I do not understand how in a so-called civilized country how a cop can lose an entire clip of bullets in pursuit and summary execution of a “Jaywalker” “blocking traffic” in the streets of Ferguson Missouri. 

How a cop who kills a eighteen year old kid can blow town and go to Disney World for some R & R and not face the music of his actions while the local Ferguson PD is doing everything in its power to obscure the real issue here – the murder of a Black American citizen by a cop with a license to kill - is way beyond my pay grade.

Some facts are emerging why there is a town like Ferguson with 70% black population and a 90% white police force. The cops do not have to live in Ferguson. They have no investment or interest in the community. It is just a job. The people of Ferguson obviously do not count in their Ayn Rand like equation of life.

That in a period of as little as 15-20 years, the demographics, for whatever reason, went from white to black. Which makes me think that at least half of the white policemen on Ferguson’s police force started in a white town and now are just, in this suck ass American economy, just holding on for a pension no matter what it takes in terms of keeping loyal only to the core brotherhood of cops. 

Cops who in recent years have been outfitted with Pentagon war materials and dress for occupying a foreign country to push a corporate agenda and not the human agenda. That dressed in aggressive warlike kit and gear only makes our domestic police more of an occupying force in our local communities.  It is a serious disconnect from reality but what a paradigm shift of the importance of a global corporate spreadsheet philosophy over people and or humanity – what that really means when you look at it honestly.

I do not like outside people like the Reverend Al Sharpton, a snake oil meal ticket for life preacher type showing up on the scene. If African Americans have no better leaders to look to, perhaps it is time to pack up and move back to Africa for a better deal in having someone look out for your interests in the decimated and tribe warring and corporate resource gutted continent of Africa that is presently on the world stage. 

It is the same type of corporate culture of greed and inhumanity that sent so many into slavery in the first place starting four hundred years ago. A vicious circle perhaps.

Nobody can represent your interests on an individual scale or a cultural scale other than yourself. It is time for African-Americans to gather together, to work and vote their way out of poverty and ignorance like every other slice of American culture and their ongoing struggle of such.  

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Symbols of Ferguson Missouri Justice - Bullets and Cigars - Pieces of the American Dream? - August 15, 2014

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Gold Medal Flour - 1904 Advertisement

(copyright expired)

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Flash Flood - Tucson Arizona - Rillito River ( Little River River )

Grant Road



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Dodge Road

suspicious mind - elvis presley

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Where is M.I.A. Officer "John Doe" Ferguson Mo Police Dept.?

Where is John Galt?

Where is the Tea Party?

Where is M.I.A.

(trigger happy?)

Officer “John Doe”

Ferguson Mo Police Dept.?

Where is Justice?

Just asking.

Please don’t shoot me!

“Concerned Citizen”

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Boots on the Ground in Jim Crow Ferguson MO

Your anti-terrorism tax dollars being put to good use???

That is all you real people that pay taxes and none of you libertarian phony cheapskates. 


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The Great American White Male Christian Hate Machine – War on Women, Gays and People of Color Continues

The Great American White Male Christian Hate Machine:

Rafael Cruz, Pat Robertson, Rick Warren, Thomas Monson, Salvatore Cordileone, ETC. …

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Strippers Protest the Hate Machine that American Christianity Has Become

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The Fifteen States Where Women Are Not Considered Equal

The Fifteen States Where Women Are Not Considered Equal:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.

They never ratified the ERA Equal Rights Amendment and a ratify by a certain date had never been imposed before on any constitutional amendment, thus paving the way for a non-neanderthal, non-majority-catholic U.S. Supreme Court to knock down the artificial barrier to its passage.

Illinois is working on being the 36^th state to ratify. 

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/washington/battle-lines-being-drawn-illinois-equal-rights-amendment/sun-08102014-329pm

That leaves two states needed for passage in the primordial redneck soup in the deep South of America aside from the Mormon western states.

Stranger things have happened.

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The Homeless Churchless Pastor Rafael Cruz Gems of Wisdom 9 AUG 2014

@shanevanderhart Rafael Cruz is a vile hateful man, hardly the guy to represent a true christians point of view.
— Earl Clark (@JeaneeJoe) August 9, 2014

Rafael Cruz preaching Seven Mountains Dominionst theology and David Barton Christian-revisionist history. Warmly received by Iowa crowd
— Wayne Slater (@WayneSlater) August 9, 2014

Oh. RT @BrentGriffiths Rafael Cruz: Every church in the nation should have a voter registration table in its lobby. #iapolitics #FLS2014
— Brinda Estrella (@BrindaStar) August 9, 2014

More from Rafael Cruz: "Let's stop being politically correct, and let's become biblically correct!"
— Emma Margolin (@EMargoNY) August 9, 2014

Rafael Cruz, the father of @SenTedCruz, thinks that the Bible helps tell Americans who to vote for. #iapolitics #FLS2014
— Quentin Misiag (@quentin_misiag) August 9, 2014

#smarttake “@ZekeJMiller: Rafael Cruz: "social justice is collectivism. It comes directly out of Karl Marx"”
— Andrew Quinn (@AndrewCQuinn) August 9, 2014

"Every church in the nation should have a voter registration table in its lobby."


"Let's stop being politically correct, and let's become biblically correct!"


"...social justice is collectivism. It comes directly out of Karl Marx"


",,the Bible helps tell Americans who to vote for."


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Tea Party Texas Rump Parliament at times aka Texas Conservative Coalition Accused of Breaking Elections Laws

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/tomball/news/complaint-alleges-texas-conservative-tea-party-coalition-violated-election-code/article_227f3c84-0cec-11e4-886d-001a4bcf887a.html

A complaint has been filed with the Texas Ethics Commissioner against the Texas Conservative Tea Party Coalition because of its failure to file a required eight-day campaign-filing report before the May 27 Republican primary runoff elections.

The complaint was filed July 2 by Bill O’Sullivan, treasurer for The Woodlands-based Texas Patriots PAC. In O’Sullivan’s complaint, he alleges that some of the donors to the coalition might be companies or firms that do business with the county.

“I personally believe that this was a willful violation to conceal donors as I expect county vendors will be involved …,” O’Sullivan stated in the complaint.

But Duane Ham, chairman of the coalition, said while he doesn’t think his group violated the law, at end of the day, he protected donors from potential harassment from the PAC and not because of any connection with the county.

“If they had the eight-day report, they would have attacked those people at the polls,” Ham said. “Protecting the people who get involved with politics without being drug through the mud, I’m OK with that.

“They want to know who the donors are so they can tear the good people down.”

Not filing the eight-day report is a violation of Texas Elections Code 254.041 according the TEC website.

Donors for the Texas Conservative Tea Party Coalition

John Causey – $500

Michael Stoecker – $25,000 Loan

Halff Associates State PAC – $250

Ranney McDonough – $1,000

Cameron Maxedon – $250

Kim Cook – $400

Jeff Cannon – $545

Will Metcalf – $1,750

Bryan Yeates – $500

Wade Nelson – $545

Randy Roan – $1,500

Dennis Byrd – $125

Howard Riney – $125

Ray Milne – $125

Nick Allenby – $125

Craig Doyal – $1,500

Wayne Stroman – $1,200

Cecil Bell – $3,100

Rachel & John Anderson – $500

J.R. Harris – $550

Troy & Linda Stuckey – $1,170

Vince Ross – $70

Linda Mock – $160

Kristi Leggett – $75

Mark Holt – $100

Michon Kingsley – $170

Debbie Glenn – $55

Duke Coon – $1,000

Timothy & Marlene Weems – $1,000

Omero L Del PAPA, III – $1,000

Henry Brooks – $1,000

Richard Sheldon – $3,000

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Richie Havens - 1941/2013 - Follow

Let the river rock you like a cradle

Climb to the treetops, child, if you're able

Let your hands tie a knot across the table

Come and touch the things you cannot feel

And close your fingertips and fly where I can't hold you

Let the sun rain fall and let the dewy clouds enfold you

And maybe you can sing to me the words I just told you

If all the things you feel ain't what they seem

Then don't mind me 'cause I ain't nothin' but a dream

The mockin' bird sings each different song

Each song has wings, they won't stay long

Do those who hear think he's doing wrong?

While the church bell tolls its one note song

And the school bell is tinkling to the throng

Come here where your ears cannot hear

And close your eyes, child, and listen to what I'll tell you

Follow in the darkest night the sounds that may impel you

And the song that I am singing may disturb or serve to quell you

If all the sounds you hear ain't what they seem

Then don't mind me 'cause I ain't nothin' but a dream

The rising smell of fresh cut grass

Smothered cities choke and yell with fuming gas

I hold some grapes up to the sun

And their flavor breaks upon my tongue

With eager tongues we taste our strife

And fill our lungs with seas of life

Come taste and smell the waters of our time

And close your lips, child, so softly I might kiss you

Let your flower perfume out and let the winds caress you

As I walk on through the garden, I am hoping I don't miss you

If all the things you taste ain't what they seem

Then don't mind me 'cause I ain't nothin' but a dream

The sun and moon both arise

And we'll see them soon through days and nights

But now silver leaves are mirrors, bring delights

And the colors of your eyes are fiery bright

While darkness blinds the skies with all its light

Come see where your eyes cannot see

And close your eyes, child and look at what I'll show you

Let your mind go reeling out and let the breezes blow you

And maybe when we meet then suddenly I will know you

If all the things you see ain't quite what they seem

Then don't mind me 'cause I ain't nothin' but a dream

And you can follow and you can follow; follow

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Rep. Jodie Laubenberg Texas - Yelling Personal Preferences for Privacy Over National Security W/ Texas DL Fingerprinting Law

Too bad Texas only has a part time legislature, meets every two years for six or seven months and then shuts down.  Next official session, the 84^th Legislature meets in January 2015. Texas to an outsider like me it operates on 19^th century Territorial Time and or not real modern Statehood Time IMHO.

Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, the rep who thinks that rape kits cause Abortion, taking away a raped women’s right to the miracle of conception in conjunction with the Rape Daddy’s magic holy spermy thingies (taking sperm out of the Rape Victim’s womb), thinks that fingerprinting people in the Driver’s License bureau is an invasion of privacy.

Ironically, since illegals can’t get a DL to get car insurance because they are (Catch 22) illegal, it is only the God Fearing (?)(cannot find Jodie’s religion affiliation anywhere btw) people of Texas who have to get fingerprinted. God Bless Big Brother Texas. LOL

This in a state that elects a Canadian to the Senate without asking for a valid American Birth Certificate ( half-assed backward ) etc.

http://www.dallasnews.com/investigations/watchdog/20140802-watchdog-lawmakers-say-they-didnt-give-dps-ok-to-fingerprint.ece

Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker, says her antenna lifted when her 76-year-old mom visited the Plano driver’s license office recently and was fingerprinted.

“They do not have the legislative authority to do this,” Laubenberg says. “I was there in 2005” when the bill the DPS says gives them permission was enacted. “I guarantee this would have blown up if that was part of the bill.”

The 2005 law said the DPS could collect “an applicant’s thumbprint or fingerprints.” Two sponsors of the original bill have said it wasn’t meant to let the agency collect all 10 prints; only if a thumb wasn’t available, fingers could be used. That was, they say, their intent.

The decision to fingerprint all Texas drivers was handled by DPS through rule-making, not law, Laubenberg said, and that’s not good enough.

“I’m all for supporting DPS, but this one is a privacy issue. And this is one that we need to debate publicly. … I want them to cease taking fingerprints.”

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Texas’s Rump Parliament DBA TCC Texas Conservative Coalition 501(c)4 - Files Amicus Brief Regarding Marriage Equality

This Brief is filed with the consent of all parties.

No party’s counsel authored this Brief in whole or in part. No party or party’s counsel contributed money intended to fund preparing or submitting the Brief, and no person other than Amicus Curiae, its members, or its counsel contributed money that was intended to fund the preparing or submitting the Brief.

/s/ Russell H. Withers Russell H. Withers

Attorney of record for Amicus Curiae

Texas Conservative Coalition

http://www.scribd.com/doc/235959859/Texas-Conservative-Coalition-marriage-brief

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/08/06/3468086/texas-lawmakers-marriage-brief/

TCC Texas Conservative Coalition Signers of Amicus Brief:

1-Brian Birdwell, Texas Senate

2-Donna Campbell, Texas Senate

3-Bob Deuell, Texas Senate

4-Craig Estes, Texas Senate

5-Troy Fraser, Texas Senate

6-Kelly Hancock, Texas Senate

7-Robert Nichols, Texas Senate

8-Dan Patrick, Texas Senate

9-Ken Paxton, Texas Senate

10-Charles Schwertner, Texas Senate

11-Larry Taylor, Texas Senate

12-Charles “Doc”Anderson, Texas House of Representatives

13-Trent Ashby, Texas House of Representatives

14-Cecil Bell, Jr., Texas House of Representatives

15-Dwayne Bohac, Texas House of Representatives

16-Dennis “Connass” Bonnen, Texas House of Representatives

17-Greg Bonnen, Texas House of Representatives

18-Angie Chen Button, Texas House of Representatives

19-Tom Craddick, Texas House of Representatives

20-Brandon Creighton, Texas House of Representatives

21-Myra Crownover, Texas House of Representatives

22-Gary Elkins, Texas House of Representatives

23-Pat Fallon, Texas House of Representatives

24-Allen Fletcher, Texas House of Representatives

25-Dan Flynn, Texas House of Representatives

26-James Frank, Texas House of Representatives

27-John Frullo, Texas House of Representatives

28-Craig Goldman, Texas House of Representatives

29-Larry Gonzales, Texas House of Representatives

30-Lance Gooden, Texas House of Representatives

31-Linda Harper-Brown, Texas House of Representatives

32-Harvey Hilderbran, Texas House of Representatives

33-Bryan Hughes, Texas House of Representatives

34-Jason Isaac, Texas House of Representatives

35-Phil King, Texas House of Representatives

36-Tim Kleinschmidt, Texas House of Representatives

37-Stephanie Klick, Texas House of Representatives

38-Lois Kolkhorst, Texas House of Representatives

39-Matt Krause, Texas House of Representatives

40-Jodie Laubenberg, Texas House of Representatives

41-George Lavender, Texas House of Representatives

42-Jeff Leach, Texas House of Representatives

43-Tryon Lewis, Texas House of Representatives

44-Rick Miller, Texas House of Representatives

45-Geanie Morrison, Texas House of Representatives

46-Jim Murphy, Texas House of Representatives

47-Rob Orr, Texas House of Representatives

48-John Otto, Texas House of Representatives

49-Tan Parker, Texas House of Representatives

50-Charles Perry, Texas House of Representatives

51-Larry Phillips, Texas House of Representatives

52-Scott Sanford, Texas House of Representatives

53-Matt Schaefer, Texas House of Representatives

54-Ralph Sheffield, Texas House of Representatives

55-Ron Simmons, Texas House of Representatives

56-John Smithee, Texas House of Representatives

57-Drew Springer, Texas House of Representatives

58-Van Taylor, Texas House of Representatives

59-Ed Thompson, Texas House of Representatives

60-Steve Toth, Texas House of Representatives

61-Scott Turner, Texas House of Representatives

62-James White, Texas House of Representatives

63-Bill Zedler, Texas House of Representatives

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Why Does The G.O.P. Hate America So Much?

Strange Love of the Republican Party Towards America in 2014

Why does the G.O.P. hate America,

Or,

What America is it that it thinks it loves?

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Ronald Reagan Remembered

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Mo Brooks, living proof on the validity of the theory of Natural Selection.

Mo Brooks, living proof on the validity of the theory of Natural Selection.

“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated.” ~~ Charles Darwin

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Cuban Racism of Ted Cruz and Rafael Cruz Sr. Attacks Barack Obama – Potential Civil Rights Model for a Future Free Cuba

Beer and Pizza Tea Party Immigration Racism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Cuba

The Cuban census reports that 65% of the population is white while foreign figures report an estimate of the number of whites at anywhere from 20 to 35 percent.[1][2][3] The Economist states that, although the population is now mainly black or mulatto and young, its rulers form "a mainly white gerontocracy"…

A survey[year needed] showed that white Cubans believe that blacks are "less intelligent than whites" (58%) and "devoid of decency" (69%).[3] Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba by Mark Q. Sawyer discusses the racial ideology prevalent in the country.[5]

According to anthropologists dispatched by the European Union (EU), racism in Cuban is systemic and institutional.[1] Black people are systematically excluded from positions in tourism-related jobs, where they could earn tips in hard currencies.[1] According to the EU study, black people are relegated to poor housing, were excluded from managerial positions, received the lowest remittances from relatives abroad, and were five times more likely to be imprisoned. Blacks also complained of suffering the longest waits in healthcare.[1]

Esteban Morales Domínguez, a professor in the University of Havana, believes that "the absence of the debate on the racial problem already threatens {...} the revolution's social project".[6] Carlos Moore, who has written extensively on the issue, says that "there is an unstated threat, blacks in Cuba know that whenever you raise race in Cuba, you go to jail. Therefore the struggle in Cuba is different. There cannot be a civil rights movement. You will have instantly 10,000 black people dead".[6] He says that a new generation of black Cubans are looking at politics in another way.[6] 

Barack Obama's victory has raised disturbing questions about the institutional racism in Cuba.[1] The Economist noted, "The danger starts with his example: after all, a young, black, progressive politician has no chance of reaching the highest office in Cuba, although a majority of the island’s people are black."

Ken Doll Hannity vs. Russell Brand II - Personal Attacks for Having a Brain and an Opinion

FOX NEWS KEN DOLL Hannity and "Friends" do personal attacks on Russell Brand for having a brain and an opinion contrary to Fox New's "J" Street Sponsors.

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St. Jerome Catholic Church Kentucky Politic-ing on its Non-Taxpayer Non-Dime

No Separation of Church and State in Kentucky in St. Jerome’s Politics Fair.

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2014/08/02/candidates-urged-dont-mess-up-at-fancy-farm/13506939/

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes met Saturday for the first time in a year, sparring on the stage at the annual Fancy Farm Picnic in western Kentucky.

With the crowd a bit better behaved than in past years, Grimes hammered on McConnell, listing a series of her policy positions and urging to respond that McConnell "doesn't care."

McConnell for his part took shots at Grimes and a series of gaffes she and her campaign have made…

The crowd of ... was loud and boisterous as always but they didn't chant throughout the entire speeches, largely complying with the request of St. Jerome Catholic Church officials who organize the picnic.

"When you agree with what they say, cheer. If you disagree, boo." Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham urged the crowd. "And then shut up and let them go on with their speech."

First Baptist Church of Royal Palm Beach – Cheap Bastards of Christ Dump Hungry Homeless into Jail for $2.25 Worth of Cookies

You can’t get more white in America these days without the white “Christians” not wanting to get their clean paws dirty tending to the poor or other obsolete Jesus bullshit like that.

A homeless man steals some cookies and these cheap bastards as a church that does not pay taxes dumps the dirty hungry homeless onto the jails to support at hundreds or thousands of dollars a day to support by real taxpayers.

Real Moral Authority - BULLSHIT.

A-merican “Christianity” is so fucked up and GOP these days = F.Y.I.G.M. = (wink, nod) = A-men?

I apologize. This kind of stuff makes me so angry about how a gated church in a probably gated community gets tax free and money laundering privileges that the founding fathers never envisioned. Whatever.

The British link below btw mentions Los Angeles - a typo. 

This is a redneck Kristian church in redneck stand your ground Floreeda. 

 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/church-presses-charges-after-homeless-man-steals-225-worth-of-cookies-9644921.html

According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, the homeless man had been looking for assistance from the church when he entered the building and found the unguarded cookie jar.

After beginning to tuck into the church’s cookies, the man was greeted by the church's cleaner.

On finding the homeless man, the startled cleaner called the police.

After discussions between police and church members, it was decided that the church would press charges.

The homeless man was then arrested and taken into police custody.

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Ted Cruz’s White Cuban Racism Shapes American Foreign Policy on Immigration

Ted Cruz besides being a native born Canadian is not Hispanic or Latino and you never hear those terms from the right’s Fox Propaganda Machine used for him.

Ted Cruz is the traditionally racist white Cubano. “Cubano Blanco”. Not a cigar.

Castro when he went Commie, brought down institutional Racism in Cuba in terms of access to education and social services for the black Cubans kept at the bottom of Cuban society for centuries – but that ingrained national traditional racism still exists in Castro’s Cuba.

The words of hate coming out of Ted Cruz’s Mail Order Preacher Certificate dad's mouth against Obama is nothing but traditional centuries old Cuban Racism trying to keep the blacks slaves down in Cuba and inferior to the so-called white Spaniards at the top of the Cuban social heap. 

I have heard before from Hispanics that say they don’t like to travel through Miami’s airport for fear of having to spend any time there and have to encounter the traditional white Cuban (my shit don’t stink) attitude, the degree of venom delivered depending on race and color of the Spanish speaking person wandering the airport, asking for directions, in search of some decent human interface but all they get is that my shit don’t stink Cuban white racism instead.

The GOP had lumped all the Latinos and Hispanics together and think that they are stupid enough to vote for a Cuban like Rubio or Cruz and quite frankly, Latinos and Hispanics can smell the cat under the “friendly” dog overcoat of Cuban American and Cuban Canadian politicians like Rubio and Cruz.

Traditional Cuban racism leeches out in every move, word, Ted Cruz makes against immigrants that are not white and not “pure” Cuban.

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Gaza – the killing fields of a dying western culture.

all Religion is politics.

The mean desert god of the Jews is blowing up the refugees of Gaza who worship the mean desert god of the Muslims.  All with backing and cash of the mean desert god of the Christians in the United States.

Gaza – the killing fields of a dying western culture.

(a losing game for all parties concerned)

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