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   lo yeeOn to RichAsianKid@hotmail.com   
   Re: All these lucky and not-so-lucky Chi   
   26 Apr 13 01:02:55   
   
   XPost: soc.culture.china, soc.culture.singapore, talk.politics.china   
   XPost: soc.culture.taiwan, soc.culture.usa, soc.culture.latin-america   
   XPost: soc.culture.canada   
   From: acoustic@panix.com   
      
   In article ,   
   RichAsianKid   wrote:   
   >On 24/04/2013 7:39 PM, lo yeeOn wrote:   
   >> The Brothers Karamazov were burning money in Russia in the 19th   
   >> century and the Brothers Tsarnaev were burning explosives from   
   >> firecrackers packed in pressure cookers in America in the 21st   
   >> century.  And more ...   
   >>   
   >> In article ,   
   >> RichAsianKid   wrote:   
   >>> On 24/04/2013 2:06 PM, Albert K. Fung wrote:   
   >>>> ltlee:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> "The victim told police he was driven to a Shell Gas Station on   
   >>>>> Memorial Drive in Watertown. Inside the car, the brothers "declared to   
   >>>>> [the victim] that they were the Boston Marathon bombers and would not   
   >>>>> kill him because he wasn't American," the report said. When the victim   
   >>>>> saw an opportunity to flee, he ran to a nearby gas station where he   
   >>>>> asked the owner to call 911, the report said."   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Interesting propositional logic .... :)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The pair's bombs killed three, injured, and maimed well over   
   >>>> 200. One of the killed was a student from China, who was not   
   >>>> American. Many of the injured and in critical/serious condit   
   >>>> -ions are also not American.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Ditto for many who participated in the Boston Marathon race.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Furthermore, the hegemony of the post modern world spent gi-   
   >>>> normous sums of money, resources, blood and lives, in ending   
   >>>> two world wars and maintaining enduring peace throughout the   
   >>>> globe for 3/4 of a century. Which, is unprecedented in human   
   >>>> history.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Since the Roman Empire ....   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Regards,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Albert K. Fung   
   >>>> Rancho del Canto, Paso Robles, California, USA.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Imagine just imagine how much more it will fit a journalistic narrative   
   >>> had these bombers been right-wing militia WASPs? Ethno-masochism as some   
   >>> call it; and now suddenly there's this inconvenient kink.   
   >>>   
   >>> Lesson (again): perhaps not all immigrants are so necessarily swell for   
   >>> America afterall, some still more than others. And had it been a   
   >>> locally-brewed WASP you'd be sure you'll never ever hear end of it.   
   >>>   
   >>> But it's not.   
   >>   
   >> If you have money, then you are probably ok.  But these immigrants are   
   >> dirt poor and they have a certain strain of idealism, if you will,   
   >> that make them question what they are seeing, hearing, and   
   >> experiencing in their new world.   
   >>   
   >> The parents of the suspect brothers were allegedly lawyers in their   
   >> previous country of residence and yet at least the mother were   
   >> reportedly do facials.  And they were qualified for and receiving   
   >> social assistance during the ears as immigrants in Cambridge,   
   >> Massachusetts.  And they went back to the improverished Dagestan to   
   >> live as often as they can, as it seems.   
   >>   
   >> And then you see that banks are too big to fail while Pentagon budget   
   >> is immuned to across-the-board cut, which is seen by many as mainly   
   >> spent to kill Muslims, including mostly innocent Muslims.   
   >>   
   >> So there was an inevitable collision of ideas about justice in light   
   >> of what has actually happened in reality.   
   >>   
   >> So, it's little wonder that the suspect brothers began to move from a   
   >> very secular muslim background to that of a zealot's.   
   >>   
   >> And they did their research over the internet.   
   >>   
   >> The great irony here is that the US government has declared that the   
   >> internet would be a major component of its foreign policy - which is   
   >> confirmed by what has happened to Libya and is happening in Syria.   
   >>   
   >>    The construction of the Altoona data center could empower Facebook   
   >>    to broaden its horizons beyond just European and US data traffic.   
   >>    US media reports last month suggest some clues to their plans.   
   >>   
   >>    In late March, FBI general counsel Andrew Weissman discussed plans   
   >>    to monitor private Internet communications in real time.   
   >>   
   >>    And a cyber-security directive signed in February by US President   
   >>    Barack Obama, increased the mandatory security for private-sector   
   >>    firms such as Gmail and Facebook, which might soon be considered   
   >>    "critical infrastructure" entities and asked to share information   
   >>    with the federal government.   
   >>   
   >>    Moreover, the US government has long vowed to use the Internet to   
   >>    advance its foreign policy. The construction of multi-billion-dollar   
   >>    facilities by giants like Facebook and Google might fit within this   
   >>    framework. [From RT News; for details see attachment below]   
   >>   
   >> So, as the US government use the internet to screw other people and   
   >> execute its regime change program, people are using the internet to   
   >> orient their own view in light of what happens.   
   >>   
   >> In other words, the internet is a two-edged sword, so to speak.   
   >>   
   >> Ultimately, as I have always preached: Our government's belligerent   
   >> foreign policy perpetuates insecurity for all of humanity (inside and   
   >> outside the country) as well as Mother Earth.   
   >>   
   >> You can blame the FBI for dropping the ball; but you cannot deny that   
   >> our belligerent foreign policy engenders mistrust and even activism in   
   >> a myriad of extreme forms that we are poorly equipped to predict and   
   >> prevent from happening.   
   >>   
   >> In fact, many people are still finding it hard to believe that the   
   >> young suspect brother would do such a thing because he was universally   
   >> liked by his friends and viewed by them as a smart guy with a bright   
   >> future ahead of him - even his sophomore electronics lab partner sang   
   >> his praise about him even after what he has allegedly perpetrated in   
   >> Boston.   
   >>   
   >> So as I said, what has radicalized Dzhokhar Tsarnev?  Certainly not   
   >> the FBI!  Rather, it is the pompous people like Albert baby Fung,   
   >> Diane Blum Feinstein, Linsey closet Graham and company who still think   
   >> that the neocon-run government of ours is so cool and so righteous.   
   >>   
   >> And to response to the pomposity of AbF's incredibly unsubstantiated   
   >> propaganda, I will attachment Kevin Zeese's historical analysis at the   
   >> end of my comment in this post.   
   >>   
   >> lo yeeOn   
   >>   
   >> -----   
   >>   
   >> 1) North Korea and the United States: Will the Real Aggressor Please   
   >> Stand Down? - a counter-response to AbF's claim that the United States   
   >> has been instrumental in "maintaining enduring peace throughout the   
      
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