It's not just Kansas where something's "the matter"
Hey Folks,
Here’s the problem: we are our own worst enemy.
Sometimes we’re ignorant; sometimes we’re stupid; but we often accomplish our own degradation by exercising our best “values” and “altruism.”
Our masters are so adept at feeding us crap that we praise them for it (or at least those among us who are given wide public exposure praise them for it). It’s the slave mentality – the slave accepts the fundamental assumptions of the master – it’s as old as Moses in Egypt and well-illustrated in U.S. slavery where the most pliable, gullible, self-denying “good” slaves were moved into the house and “dressed up.”
Case in point: the story below.
It’s pathetic - on so many levels. Yet it is not unexpected that someone would be found to be held up and publicized as a “shining example” of how a “Good American” behaves.
First of all, these Alaskan native Americans are in sad shape BECAUSE of our government – our government from the BEGINNING of it – not just since Bush. They have immeasurable reason to resent rather than defend the Enforcer-in-Chief - of the white world.
But they’re patriotic.
Secondly, they live in ALASKA – for god’s sake – a state flush with OIL and oil WEALTH !! Yet they must pay “heating oil prices [that] are among the highest in the nation.” They can’t pay it and they’re not getting help from the blessed government to stay warm.
But they’re patriotic, nevertheless, and defend our president, a Texas oil man.
Third, there’s plenty of reason to call Bush a “devil.” But they’d rather freeze their patriotic butts off than admit it.
Fourthly, they are upset with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela (who is offering to help them) for criticizing Bush.
Our mainstream media haven't made it exactly common knowledge that the wealthy 20% of Venezuela have criticized Chavez for helping the 80% of Venezuelans who live below the poverty level - the impoverished “negros y indios” as one white, elite Venezuelan media mogul called them with a snear.
This is how the wealthy scum of the world maintain their privilege; we help them; we defend them; we take on their enemies; we freeze for them; we starve for them; we die for them.
At least some of us do. And those are the "virtuous" ones you read about in the paper. Maybe the rest of us ought to raise some hell.
Finally, Oscar Wilde said some things worth repeating here:
“We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so.”
“As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.”
- Uke Man
Poor Alaskans reject free oil offer
Venezuelan leader’s comments about Bush sour deal
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Jeannette J . Lee
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In Alaska’s native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating oil prices are among the highest in the nation.
And yet a few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."
The heating oil is being offered by the petroleum company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush’s nemesis. While scores of Alaska’s Eskimo and Indian villages say they have no choice but to accept, others would rather suffer.
"As a citizen of this country, you can have your own opinion of our president and our country. But I don’t want a foreigner coming in here and bashing us," said Justine Gunderson, tribal council administrator in the Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon. "Even though we’re in economically dire straits, it was the right choice to make."
Nelson Lagoon residents pay more than $5 a gallon for oil — or at least $300 a month per household — to heat their homes along the wind-swept coast of the Bering Sea, where temperatures can dip to minus-15. About one-quarter of the 70 villagers are looking for work, in part because Alaska’s salmon-fishing industry has been hit hard by competition from fish farms.
The donation to Alaska’s native villages has focused attention on the rampant poverty and high fuel prices in a state that is otherwise awash in oil — and oil profits. In 2005, 86 percent of the Alaska’s general fund, or $2.8 billion, came from oil from the North Slope.
The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, a native nonprofit organization that would have handled the heating-oil donation on behalf of 291 households in Nelson Lagoon, Atka, St. Paul and St. George, rejected the offer because of the insults Chavez has hurled at Bush.
Chavez called Bush "the devil" in a speech to the United Nations last month. He has also called the president a terrorist and denounced the war in Iraq.
During the past two years, Citgo, the Venezuelan government’s Texas-based oil subsidiary, has given millions of gallons of discounted heating oil to the poor in several states and cities — including New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine — in what is widely seen as an effort by Chavez to embarrass and irritate the U.S. government and make himself look good.
John Manly, a spokesman for Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, said the governor thinks Chavez’s donation is a ploy to undermine Americans’ faith in their government. But he said it is up to each village to make its own decision.
Here’s the problem: we are our own worst enemy.
Sometimes we’re ignorant; sometimes we’re stupid; but we often accomplish our own degradation by exercising our best “values” and “altruism.”
Our masters are so adept at feeding us crap that we praise them for it (or at least those among us who are given wide public exposure praise them for it). It’s the slave mentality – the slave accepts the fundamental assumptions of the master – it’s as old as Moses in Egypt and well-illustrated in U.S. slavery where the most pliable, gullible, self-denying “good” slaves were moved into the house and “dressed up.”
Case in point: the story below.
It’s pathetic - on so many levels. Yet it is not unexpected that someone would be found to be held up and publicized as a “shining example” of how a “Good American” behaves.
First of all, these Alaskan native Americans are in sad shape BECAUSE of our government – our government from the BEGINNING of it – not just since Bush. They have immeasurable reason to resent rather than defend the Enforcer-in-Chief - of the white world.
But they’re patriotic.
Secondly, they live in ALASKA – for god’s sake – a state flush with OIL and oil WEALTH !! Yet they must pay “heating oil prices [that] are among the highest in the nation.” They can’t pay it and they’re not getting help from the blessed government to stay warm.
But they’re patriotic, nevertheless, and defend our president, a Texas oil man.
Third, there’s plenty of reason to call Bush a “devil.” But they’d rather freeze their patriotic butts off than admit it.
Fourthly, they are upset with Hugo Chavez of Venezuela (who is offering to help them) for criticizing Bush.
Our mainstream media haven't made it exactly common knowledge that the wealthy 20% of Venezuela have criticized Chavez for helping the 80% of Venezuelans who live below the poverty level - the impoverished “negros y indios” as one white, elite Venezuelan media mogul called them with a snear.
This is how the wealthy scum of the world maintain their privilege; we help them; we defend them; we take on their enemies; we freeze for them; we starve for them; we die for them.
At least some of us do. And those are the "virtuous" ones you read about in the paper. Maybe the rest of us ought to raise some hell.
Finally, Oscar Wilde said some things worth repeating here:
“We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so.”
“As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.”
- Uke Man
Poor Alaskans reject free oil offer
Venezuelan leader’s comments about Bush sour deal
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Jeannette J . Lee
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In Alaska’s native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, and heating oil prices are among the highest in the nation.
And yet a few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil."
The heating oil is being offered by the petroleum company controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, President Bush’s nemesis. While scores of Alaska’s Eskimo and Indian villages say they have no choice but to accept, others would rather suffer.
"As a citizen of this country, you can have your own opinion of our president and our country. But I don’t want a foreigner coming in here and bashing us," said Justine Gunderson, tribal council administrator in the Aleut village of Nelson Lagoon. "Even though we’re in economically dire straits, it was the right choice to make."
Nelson Lagoon residents pay more than $5 a gallon for oil — or at least $300 a month per household — to heat their homes along the wind-swept coast of the Bering Sea, where temperatures can dip to minus-15. About one-quarter of the 70 villagers are looking for work, in part because Alaska’s salmon-fishing industry has been hit hard by competition from fish farms.
The donation to Alaska’s native villages has focused attention on the rampant poverty and high fuel prices in a state that is otherwise awash in oil — and oil profits. In 2005, 86 percent of the Alaska’s general fund, or $2.8 billion, came from oil from the North Slope.
The Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, a native nonprofit organization that would have handled the heating-oil donation on behalf of 291 households in Nelson Lagoon, Atka, St. Paul and St. George, rejected the offer because of the insults Chavez has hurled at Bush.
Chavez called Bush "the devil" in a speech to the United Nations last month. He has also called the president a terrorist and denounced the war in Iraq.
During the past two years, Citgo, the Venezuelan government’s Texas-based oil subsidiary, has given millions of gallons of discounted heating oil to the poor in several states and cities — including New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine — in what is widely seen as an effort by Chavez to embarrass and irritate the U.S. government and make himself look good.
John Manly, a spokesman for Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, said the governor thinks Chavez’s donation is a ploy to undermine Americans’ faith in their government. But he said it is up to each village to make its own decision.
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