Rogue States and Banana Beer Tastes!

Headlines make me laugh sometimes, primarily because I read too many of them I suppose. Gift of insomnia and internet access. Anyhow, these are the buzzwords of the headlines from the Independent. Shocking eh? The UN has grown into an ever more formidable lap dog of US foreign policy pundits but hey, people can now drink beer that tastes like bananas so isn't that swell?

Here is a topic for a better headline. A question of intent...

"This leads us, as always, back to the question of intent. One could say that the corporation and the people who run it never intended to kill anyone, that they were merely trying to make a profit. Presumably, that statement is true, and is also a central point of this book, because the same could be said for slaveowners: Weren't they just trying to make a buck? If you kill someone while you're trying to earn what you perceive as an honest dollar, is the person you kill any less dead (is the murder any less complete?) than if you kill him in a drug deal gone bad, in a drug-induced backyard fight, if you drag him behind your pickup because you've been taught to hate members of his race, or if you hang him because you perceive him as a threat to the way of life to which you feel you are entitled?" (Derrick Jensen, "The Culture of Make Believe" pg 294)


Question intent. Question information. Question justification. Question rhetoric.
Question "need." Question "freedom."Question "authority." Question the "use of force."
Question why it is so important that you believe exactly what you're told to believe...

peace!