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Wed Dec 18, 2013, 09:45 AM Dec 2013

What’s New? I’m Glad You Asked… | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Dec. 18, 2013

“What’s new?”
“Not much.”
“Same ol’ shit, right?”
“Yeah... same shit, different day.”

This ridiculous and ridiculously common exchange is typically followed with loud chortling as if these are the first humans to ever experience this particular exchange.

Such is life in a corporate propaganda state…

“Same shit, different day”

As sad as this refrain is within the context of any human’s everyday life, it contains a frighteningly accurate connotation in a big picture sense.

Because we’ve yet to work up the courage and/or tactics to stop the carnage, here is just a infinitesimal sampling of the “same shit” that happens every “different” day:

--Roughly 200,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed (primarily to create room for pastures and feed crops for doomed cattle).
--Almost 3,000 American children are born into poverty.
--About 13 million tons of toxic chemicals are released across the globe.
--Somewhere between 150 and 200 plant and animal species go extinct.
--Close to 2,000 women are raped -- in the United States alone.
--Nearly 30,000 children under the age of five die from preventable causes.
--Hundreds of millions of sentient beings are murdered for food (sic) by a global industry that consumes and destroys one-third of the planet’s land surface and is the top source of human-created greenhouse gases.

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http://worldnewstrust.com/what-s-new-i-m-glad-you-asked-mickey-z
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