This has been a tragic month. First the suicide of Robin Williams and the world wide response; and now the killing of a teenager, Michael Brown, by a police officer and the worldwide response to that as well. Both incidents have gotten much attention on the major as well as social media.
Surrounding these tragedies too is the awareness of on-going rebellions and slaughter of civilians in several countries right now: the Gaza Strip, eastern Ukraine, Syria and northern Iraq as well as civil and genocidal violence on the African continent and the recent ,"the vastly underestimate[d... ] magnitude of the outbreak" of Ebola as confirmed by the CDC.
Certainly it must be acknowledged then that times are in the least very unstable, and America as a nation has recklessly managed it's relationships with other nations and in fact has foolishly engaged in the violence by taking sides with those that have been characterized as the aggressors and oppressive forces that are razing civilian urban and rural areas, killing countless children and destroying life preserving infrastructure. Some even claim the US is now involved in a third World War.
Preceding all of this and through out is the financial corruption and the blind eye to it of governments here in America and abroad. Time is running out for our leisurely economy, for liquidity has already been quietly drained out by the ultra-rich. And all the while we continue to ruin our ecological chances for nurturing any future for life on earth.
So if these overwhelming conditions don't scare you to action then you have yet to scrape the sleep from your eyes!
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