Mary,
Miriam summed it up perfectly. Those troops are in place to defend
our military industry and the corporations profiting from it. These
are the same corporations that have taken over our American
government, and turned our citizens into consumers. So every holiday
is another opportunity to force American Consumers to buy buy buy. We
have been under years of conditioning to become enraged if any upstart
nation dares to challenge our right(our corporate right) to plunder
when and where we wish.
And by the way, one reason I love this list so much is because we can
say whatever is on our mind, and those who read our words are not
forced in any way to accept a single word. No cash, no credit cards,
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Carl Jarvis
On 10/20/17, MARY CONVY <CCRUSER@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Carl, We have 1.3 million troops stationed around the world. They are
trained to fight, not make peace. I worry much more about our militarization
than commercialism of holidays.
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: Remember Armistice Day
Maybe Veterans Day would be a good Holiday to take over and promote
World Peace and Brother/Sisterhood. But we'd probably find a way to
corrupt it, if we did. Look at what we've done to Christmas, Easter,
Labor Day, Thanksgiving(football day), The Fourth of July, and even
Mother's Day. All have become highly commercialized. And we wonder
if Capitalism has any impact in our thinking?
My dad was born on November 11, 1912, just another regular day. For
his sixth birthday they declared it to be Armistice Day. But it's
hard to celebrate an armistice that went South, so they changed the
name to Veterans Day in honor of all the men...and later, women, who
went forward to defend the right of our Capitalists to plunder
wherever they chose. But anyway, since the day is used to having its
name changed, calling it World Peace Day would be no big deal. And as
long as Capitalism is our way of life, the name would not interfere
with the Capitalists from their plundering and stealing our hard
earned dollars.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/20/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Subject: Remember Armistice Day
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Originally called “Armistice Day,” the holiday began in 1918, celebrating
the end of World War I and the idea of ending all war. A 10-year campaign
launched that year resulted in the ratification of the Kellogg-Briand
Pact
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact reads:
"The High Contracting Parties solemly declare in the names of their
respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of
international controversies, and renounce it, as an instrument of
national
policy in their relations with one another.
"The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of
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