Brazenly Callous Disregard for Life

Ensconced in the House and Senate

“War is never short of horrifying, but cluster munitions stand out even amid the terrible weaponry of modern war.… [A mandate of the U.S. Congress has prohibited] the transfer of cluster munitions with

over a 1 percent failure rate to any foreign nation. 

“Since most stockpiled U.S. cluster munitions have a failure rate of 2 percent to 6 percent (independent studies and humanitarian organizations cite much higher estimates that range from 10 percent to 40 percent), this effectively functions as a ban on U.S. transfers. 

“But recent requests from members of Congress and from officials in Ukraine are calling on President Biden to waive this transfer prohibition.” Defense One by Nuria Raul April 13, 2023: “Biden Must Resist Calls to Send Cluster Munitions to Ukraine Transferring the weapons may bring tactical benefits but would be a strategic disaster.” https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2023/04/biden-must-resist-calls-send-cluster-munitions-ukraine/385142/

DISREGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE

Boasted by

Same creatures who champion “rights” of “preborns” 

“‘I hope every effort will be made to look into providing the cluster bombs (as) we have two million available,’” a sadistic Wilson utterance heard and reported by various news outlets. 

A South Carolina lawyer with non-active-duty military service and entrenched state and federal government employment (including staffer of U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond) dating to the early 1970s; seated in the U.S. House by special election in 2001; and in September 15, 2009, reprimanded by the U.S. House of Representatives for interrupting the President’s remarks before a Joint Session; the action by the Congressman “was a ‘breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings’ of the Joint Session”— Charleston, South Carolina, native Addison Graves WILSON (who calls himself “Joe” Wilson (Biographical Directory of the United States Congress).  Almayadeen News April 28, 2023 “Congressman Pushes for sending banned cluster bombs to Kiev,” by Al Mayadeen English (Source: Agencies), https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/congressman-pushes-for-sending-banned-cluster-bombs-to-kiev

Shouted in a press release dated March 21, 2023, Members of the US House and Senate call for export of cluster bombs to conflict arena in Eastern Europe: 

U.S., Senators James E Risch of Idaho and Roger Frederick Wicker of Mississippi along with U.S. Representatives Michael Thomas McCaul Sr. of Texas and Michael Dennis Rogers of Alabama fire off a missive (or missile) to the President of the United States (cc to arms-export advocates heading defense and state) urging his administration “to immediately provide cluster munitions… to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.” https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/rep/release/risch-wicker-mccaul-rogers-urge-biden-to-send-dpicm-to-ukraine

BACKGROUND on Cluster Bombs

Deadly Significance of this issue

The Convention on Cluster Munitions adopted in 2008 grows out of civilization’s caring and deep concerns for human health and broader regional and international, societal and environmental concerns, some of which are these: 

• “That civilian populations and individual civilians continue to bear the brunt of armed conflict” 

• “That the remnants of cluster munitions kill or maim civilians, including women and children, obstruct economic and social development, including through the loss of livelihood, impede post-conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction, delay or prevent the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, can negatively affect national and international peace-building and humanitarian assistance efforts, and have other severe consequences that can persist for many years after use” 

• The determination of States Parties to the Convention “to put an end for all time to the suffering and casualties caused by cluster munitions at the time of their use, when they fail to function as intended, or when they are abandoned.”

Article I section 1: Each State Party undertakes never under any circumstances to: 

(a) Use cluster munitions 

(b) Develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, directly or indirectly, cluster munitions

(c) Assist, encourage or induce anyone to engage in any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention.

The Convention was adopted on May 30, 2008, in the Republic of Ireland (Dublin), by 107 States and signed seven months later in Norway (Oslo). On August 1, 2010, the Convention “entered into force” and “became binding international law.” The current total of Member States of the Convention is 123: 111 States Parties and 12 Signatories.

Convention States Parties in the Americas:

Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay.

NON-STATES PARTIES in the Americas: 

• Argentina
• Brazil
• United States of America
• Bahamas
• Dominica
• Barbados
• Suriname

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs: Convention on Cluster Munitions
https://treaties.unoda.org/t/cluster_munitions
Status of the treaty https://www.clusterconvention.org/states-parties/

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Suffering inflicted on Migrants long before Advent of Border Predators

More than a Century of Foreign Intervention

Earlier this year a writer published with the New York Post seemed to express “migrant” shock. Americans express “shock” a lot—often over crises they have caused, contributed to, or created.

Americans seem to like that word so much so that when the sadists in and around Washington attacked Iraq under demonically false charges in 2003—they like demonizing too—they named their murderous spree “Shock and Awe.”

When Americans led by government officials and loud media are not feigning “thoughts” and “prayers” and thanking unwilling sheep for sacrificing themselves to slaughter or mental maiming, they are feigning shock.

• · Shock for rabid violence.
• · Shock for rabid corruption in and around government.
• · Shock for homelessness and poverty and inferior education and rabid drug taking
  
  
  And, yes, as this New York Post author is shocked that people forced from their homelands by actions taken by USA entities are further injured on entry or when trying to enter the USA.

In commemoration of “Human Trafficking Awareness”— the Americans together with the UN like designating “days” for this and that (like mouthing vacuous thoughts and prayers) but not cooperating with each other and with nations in solving problems—the writer reports that:

Migrants are “deposited on the streets of (U.S.) cities and in towns of border states.” Some are “transported to destinations around the country where they are often isolated and vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking.”

Migrants are often picked up by traffickers promising jobs but who “lure them into indentured servitude, peonage, sex trafficking, extortion.” Traffickers will “demand” that migrants “pay off their debts by working for smugglers.” New York Post January 1, 2023 by Jessica M. Vaughan “Biden’s border policies facilitate shocking modern slavery,” https://nypost.com/2023/01/10/bidens-border-policies-facilitate-shocking-modern-slavery/

Americans also have deliberately short memories. They present a character of calculated ignorance. They love casting blame. All of these the writer demonstrates.

But the story is much bigger and deeper—far more horrendous—then the writer pretends. There is always a prior, a previous happening.

In this case, the prior is a decade’s long unquestioned (unchecked and unchastened) phenomenon: United States officials and their partners and paymasters’ interfering with violent aggression in other nations all across Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Africa.

Below is reflected part of the phenomena of injury inflicted on people long before they become migrants; and land on the borders of people who take pride in inflicting further injury on migrants and on the homelands of people forced by foreign aggression and interference to leave their homelands.

USA Foreign Invasions, Interventions

Involvement in Regime Changes

Pre-Cold War 1800s-early 1900s

Cold War 1947-1991

Pre-Cold War 

Mexican–American War (1846-1848) Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom-coup d’état against Queen Liliʻuokalani (1893) United States Invasions in Latin America: “Banana Wars” (1898-1934) United States Occupations (Provisional Government) of Cuba: First Occupation 1898 / Second Occupation (1906-1909) United States Military Government in Cuba (1906-1909) United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution/Mexican Border War (1910-1919/20) United States occupation of Nicaragua (1912-1933) United States occupation of Veracruz (1914 April - November Veracruz, Mexico United States occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924)

Cold War era (1947-1991)

Italy (1948–1960s)

Coup d’état Syria (1949)

Albania (1949–1953)

Coup d’état Iran (1953)

Coup d’état Guatemala (1954)

Syria (1956–1957)

Indonesia (1957–1958)

Assassination attempts on Fidel Castro (1959–2000)

Cambodia, Bangkok Plot to topple Prince Norodom Sihanouk (1959)

Coup d’état Congo (1960)

Bay of Pigs Invasion/Cuba (1961)

Operation Mongoose/Cuba (1961)

Dominican Republic (1961)

Coup d’état South Vietnam (1963)

Coup d’état Brazil (1964)

Dominican Civil War (1965)

Indonesia (1965–1966)

Coup d’état Brazil Ghana (1966)

Coup d’état Bolivia (1971)

Coup d’état Chile (1973)

Chile (1970–1973)

Angolan Civil War (Cold War era Communist v anti-Communists 1975–1992; 1st and 2nd Congo War1996-2002)

Coup d’état Argentina (1976)

Coup d’état El Salvador (1979)

“Operation Cyclone” Afghanistan (1979–1989)

Nicaragua, Contras (1981–1990)

Somalia 1981/1988/1991- present

Chad (1982)

United States invasion of Grenada (1983)

United States invasion of Panama (1989-1990)

 Post Cold War 1991-Present 

1991-2013-2014-present [In a December 2013 speech before the “US–Ukraine Foundation,” a U.S. State Dept employee revealed that “the US had spent about $5 billion on democracy-building programs (read: programs of internal meddling, indoctrination, destabilization) in Ukraine since 1991” (emphasis added)
1991 Iraq	2003–2021: Iraq
1991 Haiti	2004: Haiti (coup d’ état)
1992-1996 Iraq	2005: Kyrgyzstan
1994–1995: Haiti	2006–2007: Palestinian Territories
1996 Coup d’état attempt: Iraq	2005–2009: Syria
1996–1997: Zaire	2011: Libya
1999: Bombing of Yugoslavia	2012–2017: Syria
2000: FR Yugoslavia
2001–2021: Afghanistan	2015-present: United States Army SF/ Navy supported KSA in Yemen/Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict

  Reference and news sources

United States officials and lawmakers have involved this nation in foreign interventions throughout the history of the United States of America.

Some “400 military interventions between 1776 and 2019” have been documented. Half of these occurred since 1950. More than a quarter of them occurred during the post-Cold War era.

A variety of objectives were asserted by someone. Al involved force, aggression, harm. Interventions have been reported to have “revolved around economy, territory, social protection, regime change, protection of US citizens and diplomats, policy change, empire, and regime building.

All have involved force, aggression, harm. All involved waste, want, fraud, and abuse. All caused migration, displacement, disease, starvation, illness, injury to mind and body. 

In one way or another, all have caused loss, ruin, or death.

But distracted Americans are not listening. 

These Americans seem to prefer ignorance. And government officials and media (traditional and nontraditional) are more than willing to serve up round-the- clock distraction, propaganda and pageantry, ignorance, blame casting, and utter nonsense.

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Radio Broadcast in Rochester Metro Reflects Nationwide Ruin of Theater of the Mind

Concentration Kills

I’m a long-time listener to good (well-prepared, well-presented) radio. 

I’m a person who appreciates excellence in broadcasting: good voice, good delivery, and good content—regardless of slant, subject matter or genre (news, analysis, humor, etc). Good “theater of the mind” should offer knowledge, useful learning—without preaching, proselytizing, or demonizing. I like learning and having my own knowledge challenged, broadened, expanded. I like respectfulness. Good radio respects its audience.

I abhor trash, vulgarity, carelessness; and unprepared, unstudied, intellectually inferior content. I abhor delivery in poor voice quality, unsuitable timbre, and delivery in nonstandard English language. I abhor rank amateurs (unprofessional broadcasters or podcasters), ignorant personalities and entities, parrots and rip and readers who spread trash and ignorance and pander to the basest and most ignorant element in society.

Unfortunately, that last bit reflects the caliber of iHeart and other concentrated media owners, employers and operators whose personalities and programming broadcast on radio in Metropolitan Rochester, New York.

Takeover and Vulgarization

Orchestrated Decline of Radio Broadcasting

United States Federal and Private Entities conspired in removing Rules and Regulations and proper Standards in Broadcasting and have thus Stymied all Possibility of true Excellence in Broadcasting

1987: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Fairness Doctrine of 1949 (requiring that audiences be exposed to a variety of viewpoints) was repealed.

Before destruction of the Fairness Doctrine, broadcast license holders were required to present “controversial issues of public importance;” and to do so in a manner determined by FCC rules to be “honest, equitable and balanced.” (And clean!)

1990s: FCC relaxes regulations on ownership of multiple radio stations.

Entertainment Communications (aka Entercom) in 1999 purchases 43 radio stations from Sinclair Broadcasting and becomes the fifth-largest radio broadcaster in the United States its ownership totaling “88 stations in 17 markets.”

Without broadcasting standards, shock jocks begin to rise and pander to pop and commerce and the basest of society: tough-guy aggression, vulgarity-driven, and culturally divisive.

2008-launched: iHeartMedia owned iHeartRadio (aka "iHeart"), a “freemium broadcast, podcast and radio streaming platform”

2010-launched: Audacy (orig CBS Radio acquired by prev. Entercom 1968–2021, aka Radio.com) owned by Audacy Inc (launched 2010) ownership exceeding 235 local radio stations in the United States

2011: FCC rips the rules from the Federal Register and the decline accelerates with on-air personalities and their promoters’ pledging their allegiance to the recklessness that “anything goes.” 

2015: Conglomerate Clear Channel Communications becomes conglomerate “iHeartMedia”

2017: Entercom merges with CBS Radio.

2018: CBS Radio’s corporate successor Entercom (turned Audacy, Inc.) enters shock jock genre

2019: iHeartRadio national umbrella brand for iHeartMedia’s radio network claims “128 million registered users” in the United States

Concentration corresponds with Decline in Quality Broadcasting

2011: 90 percent of United States media controlled by six companies

In the six is Murdoch’s News Corporation that split (June 28, 2013) into two separate companies: in News Corp publishing assets and Australian media assets; in 21st Century Fox broadcasting and media assets. 

iHeartMedia (formerly Lester Lowry Mays’ Clear Channel Communications) claims ownership of more than 1,200 stations.

BROADCASTER                                                                                NETWORKS

iHeartMedia

Premiere Networks The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show Fox News Radio Fox Sports Radio TheBlaze TTWN Media Networks NBC News Radio Black Information Network

 

Cumulus Media

Nash FM Westwood One Dial Global Local NBC Sports Radio Westwood One News

Audacy, Inc.

CBS Sports Radio Sabres Hockey Network New York Yankees Radio

Reference Sources: Encyclopedia last updated February 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IHeartRadio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership
https://sports.yahoo.com/shaq-on-the-draymond-green-stomp-i-would-have-done-the-same-thing-155655039.html

All the “freedom” Talk among Americans (Particularly freedom of speech talk) is no more than talk. 

Empty words.

To understand what these talkers mean by “freedom,” one has to look to their actions.  

When Americans mouth (recite, mantra, parrot) “freedom,” they are focusing on themselves, their individual (self-centered) words, ideas, thoughts; that which is “possessed” or is believed to be possessed by them—in whatever situation they find themselves. 

Their actions reveal their true beliefs.

Americans embrace an individual, selfish, notion of “freedom.” The notion of freedom that they subscribe to is a freedom intended exclusively for them and theirs. 

In their minds, the notion of freedom extends only to them; and, contrary to any intelligent reading of the Bill of Rights under the U.S. Constitution (or any universal declaration of human rights), freedom of speech is not the inalienable right of all human beings, a societal right under law. They do not differentiate license and rights. (One can buy a license but should not be able to buy a human or   constitutional right.) 

These Americans do not understand the principle of societal responsibility; or that, by definition and design, a narrow-mindedly drawn or applied freedom of speech robs others of utterance, platform, freedom of expression.

Speech should not be the possession of concentrated wealth or of the loudest speaker.

Freedom of speech should not be a commodity subject to bulldozing by billionaires.

Freedom of speech should not be subject to commercialization or the buying and selling by entities or individuals capable of or interested buying and selling or cornering the market (denying utterance to others).

At the same time, speech should be disciplined. It should be subject to and bound by proper principles and standards, rules and regulations. 

Freedom should not presume, infer or permit anarchy or violence of language or action. The right of free speech should not be the private possession or domain of concentrated wealth or commerce nor of merger, force or belligerence.

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Americans Slaughtering their own Mirror their leaders’ Indelible Marks of Slaughter Abroad

(Brand USA)

• Bush2 ordered unspeakable obliteration citing nonexistent WMDs. 
• Obama kept a hit list and ordered foreign executions. 
• Trump ridiculed peoples and nations; withdrew from peace treaties and ordered assassinations.
• All of these men and partners threw up barricades, sanctioned, stole, starved, and terrorized by act, order, lawmaking or acquiescence.

U.S. Aggression, Death Toll Abroad 2022 update

United States leadership is directly or indirectly (by order, legislation, act or acquiescence) conducting aggression under the pretext of “fighting ‘terrorism’ in 76 countries.” 

The deadliest of these sadistic acts have reportedly occurred against the nations, peoples, institutions and cultures of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Business Insider Daniel Brown and Azmi Haroun, August 26, 2022, “The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have killed at least 500,000 people, according to a report that breaks down the toll,” https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-people-have-been-killed-in-iraq-and-afghanistan

Killing Fields Update 2021

“At least 929,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.”

Since 2001, “more than 387,000 civilians have been killed in the fighting.”

United States hysteria and reckless actions following the event occurring on September 11, 2001, in New York City and Northern Virginia have forced “at least 38 million” people from their dwellings and homelands of “Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya, and Syria.” Except World War II, the displacement total “exceeds the total of people displaced by every war since 1900.”

Creating terrorist and terrorism: Countries against which the U.S. has committed aggression, destabilization and occupation have turned into laboratories “in which militant groups… hone techniques of violence and recruitment” spread across the South, Central and West Asia, and beyond. 
Source: https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures/2019/direct-war-death-toll-2001-801000

Mirrored: Monkey see Monkey do

Sadism in the Homeland

Firearm Deaths, Injuries                                                

Year 2023 to date   

APRIL 12 UPDATE

Firearm Deaths, Injuries

•           Gun Violence Deaths (all causes) total: 11,777

•           Gun Violence Injuries total: 9,042

•           Mass Shootings: 147

Deaths, Injuries of Young people

•           73 dead children

•           411 dead teens (ages 12-17)

•           165 injured children

•           989 injured teens

                                                 
Gun Archive’s latest report April 10, 2023

• Gun Violence Deaths (all causes) total: 11,525
• Gun Violence Injuries total: 8,820
• Mass Shootings: 146

Deaths, Injuries of Young people

• 71 dead children
• 398 dead teens (ages 12-17)
• 157 injured children
• 973 injured teens

Mass Shootings Ending MARCH, Early April

KILLED – INJURED

MARCH 25- 29, 2023                                                            APRIL 1 – 10, 2023

March 25

Hempstead, New York: 0 - 4

Shreveport, Louisiana: 1-5

Macomb, Illinois: 1-10

March 26 Minden, Louisiana: 0 - 4

Little Rock, Arkansas: 2 - 5

Minneapolis, Minnesota: 0- 6

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 2 - 2

March 27

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 0 – 5

Nashville, Tennessee:  7 -0

March 29

Memphis, Tennessee:  2 – 5

April 1

Baltimore, Maryland   3 – 1

April 2

Fayetteville, North Carolina:  1 - 4

Moreno Valley, California:     0 - 4

Washington, D. C.: 0 - 4

April 3

Pueblo, Colorado: 1 – 3

Atlanta, Georgia: 1 – 3

Tennessee, Jackson: 0 - 4

April 4

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1 – 4

April 5

Virginia Beach, Virginia: 0 - 4

April 6

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 0 - 4

April 7

New Orleans, Louisiana: 0 – 4

Isle of Palms, South Carolina: 0 – 5

April 8

Houston, Texas: 0 – 4

April 9

Orlando, Florida: 3 – 2

April 10

Louisville, Kentucky:  5 - 4

April 11

District of Columbia: 1-3

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

Wikipedia reported “List of mass shootings in the United States in 2023” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023

APRIL 1-11 EXCERPT

1st
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
3 killed, 3 injured at shootout
Los Angeles, California
1 killed, 3 injured in retail parking lot
Baltimore, Maryland
3 killed, 1 injured

2nd
Fayetteville, North Carolina
1 killed, 4 injured at shopping center bar
Washington, District of Columbia
4 injured
Moreno Valley, California
4 injured

3rd
Jacksonville, Tennessee
5 injured discovered in automobile
Atlanta, Georgia
1 killed, 3 injured apartment complex
Pueblo, Colorado
1 killed, 3 injured

4th
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1killed, 4 injured in a neighborhood

5th
Virginia Beach, Virginia
4 injured
Kansas City, Kansas
6 injured at scene of drug investigation

6th
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4 injured in a neighborhood

7th
Isle of Palms, South Carolina
6 injured on beach
New Orleans, Louisiana
4 injured on Interstate 10
Park Forest, Illinois
1 killed, 3 injured at family gathering

8th
Harris County, Texas
4 injured in parking lot of apartment complex

9th
Orlando, Florida
3 killed, 2 injured at Easter egg hunt in park.

10th
Louisville, Kentucky
5 killed, 8 injured at Downtown bank (shooter recently terminated employee)

11th
Washington DC
1 killed, 3 injured at a funeral home

Americans’ Record Killing their Young hits Headlines.

“Gun deaths of U.S. kids up 50 percent in grim new record,” Xinhua (sourcing Canadian TN and Pew Research), April 11, 2023, Global News, Editor, https://english.news.cn/northamerica/20230411/3cc7f8cbde7d4be9aee11aff355ac3d0/c.html

Reported in 2021 were an estimated “2,590 gun deaths of children and teenagers under the age of 18.”

Statista Research Department October 19, 2022, report on Assaults in the USA - Year 2021

• “1.4 million Assaults … (using) personal weapons (e.g., hands, fists, feet)”
• “69,423 Aggravated Assaults (using) handguns

“Percentage of violent crimes reported to the police”

• Overall “45.6 percent”
• Aggravated assault reported: 60.5 percent
• Rape and sexual assault reported: 21.5 percent

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251919/number-of-assaults-in-the-us-by-weapon/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/251934/usa--percentage-of-violent-crimes-reported-to-the-police/

World Population Review “Stabbing Deaths by Country 2023”
North America (excerpt)

• “Knife-related homicides accounted for less than 20 percent
• “Firearm deaths were responsible for roughly 76 percent of all homicides

[Stabbing data indicate percentage of homicides committed using knives and sharp objects but are not indicative of the homicide rate or the total number of homicides in a given country] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stabbing-deaths-by-country

American Leaders’ Lessons to America’s Young

The masters’ message (mirrored among the masses) is this. When something goes other than “your” way, turn on the tantrum of the child— but this tantrum must be (and is) far… far worse than any tantrum of any child. 

Commit a most heinous act (or a series of them). Kill or maim. Destroy some person, place, or thing. Destroy anything and everything. And, as you are operating in the image of and on orders from a god almighty blame-casting Exceptionalism (conjured up in your own warped mind)—expect to get away with Murder. Expect to get off scot-free—unchecked and unchastised no matter what act or how horrific the act you have committed.

There’s something seriously wrong in a homeland where homegrown powers cavalierly and boastfully slaughter over here and over there. And, on top of that, when they carry on a local-to-global business of creating killers and other destroyers.

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