Keep Calm… And Leave The Violence To Them? | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

July 19, 2013

“Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.”

- Naomi Klein

Every minute of every day, the corporate media reinforces the dominant culture agenda. For example: only some varieties of violence are worthy of public debate.

After the George Zimmerman verdict was announced, we were treated to breathless reports of "two major California cities ... assessing damage and tallying arrests from violent protests.” The loyal propaganda commissars didn't even flinch when explaining how "officials asked for peaceful behavior" while simultaneously promising a “crackdown” should the demonstrations “escalate again.”

In other words, we must adopt pacifism while they rule with an iron fist. (You know… the “master’s tools,” and all that.)

Carnage in Every Bite
From the L.A. Times, we also learned of an Oakland restaurant called Flora, which allegedly was the target of post-verdict "violence" on Monday, July 15. A quick check of Flora's dinner menu that evening showed grilled flat iron steak, buttermilk fried chicken, and "grass-fed" chuck.

In other words, we must pretend non-violence is our choice while the global animal by-products industry confines, breeds, tortures, and murders 53 billion land animals per year; consumes and destroys one-third of the planet’s land surface; and stands as the No. 1 source of human-created greenhouse gases and thus, climate change.

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[yurbud]

1. the meat angle makes a lot of people who would otherwise agree tune out