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Disturbingly fascinating: I wish to play a (sort of) devil's advocate here:   Is it possible that the poor working conditions and low pay led to increases in violence, rather than the butchering of animals? Or perhaps, a bit of both?   We know that poverty is connected to increases in community crime. We also know that abuse can create violence, in turn. Such working conditions as low wage workers have often been faced with in factories could certainly be regarded as abuse.   Just offering some possible alternate partial or full explanations. Not that it isn't reasonable, when thinking about this, to imagine that someone who was involved in killing hundreds of kangaroos (or other slaughterhouse animals) a year, getting practiced and desensitized in using a weapon, might become more violent. Historically, when killing for food, a participant might only successfully hunt several wild beasts a year, if that. In many societies, even agrarian ones with domesticated animals, the number might even have been lower. And, in many cultures, there was a ritualistic prayer or other symbolic gesture related to understanding the sacrifice involved, that often prevented it from becoming mindless violence.   p/s no shock that Nike is involved.

Thank You:  Thank you so much Chris I will always love and you have a special place in my heart and Iam crying all I want is the best for you and me I am always here and I understand now I am blessed  I will never forget you Chris.

Nations have long memories: Oh, yes, they do. And we are keeping those memories fresh with every drone strike on the people of Somalia. We don't want resolution, but rather for the tin pot dictators of our choice to keep control. Colonialism ended in Africa, but only on paper. The nations left, so we could claim self-righteousness, but the corporations stayed behind and that's where the real control is (see: Elon Musk's inherited emerald mines in South Africa for one particular example, and Pat Robertson's corporate diamond and gold mines in the Congo and attempted ones in Liberia, for another). As a bonus, most of the countries were handed over to dictatorial governments who could be more openly vicious and enact slave labor, something that was going to be increasingly difficult for colonial governments to do post-WW2, especially in a more literate western world, with advancing communications technologies. So it was a win for propaganda, and a win for profits, as it is less costly to let tin pot dictators handle the enforcement of slave mining camps and "running" a country than for colonial governments to do it.   "Peace is a big word but so is starvation"   Great lines. Not many wiser have been etched. Hammer right on the nail. One could even posit that starvation - if history is proof of anything - is both literally and figuratively an even bigger word than peace. Rising crime in the increasingly food insecure USA is even proof of that (but they'll say we just need more police, of course).  

In a dearest friend, I have walked similar, and feel it: ..in your words.   The beauty of this is almost too much to bear. It's love wrapped around tragedy, and tragedy wrapped around love, simultaneously. Twin planets orbiting each other, with a third, the one where graceful, peaceful and euphoric moments occur. We are three dimensional in body. Our emotional existence seem to be three dimensional, too. Tragedy and beauty can exist simultaneously, somehow. Hold the beauty closest to your heart, where ever you are. May you reflect on the love within all moments, even these, because that is where the shrines to what true family, friends and lovers mean grow their tallest.    

Thank you.: Appreciate the tips and advice. And just for taking the time to read it. I will give all of our advice a good look over. : )   Like you, I do go back and edit through the years, as well. Often, even in the moments after posting, I see things I'd like to edit ; ) But I felt a little stuck here. Appreciating your support.

Empire Crumbling: . The rot sets in. Time to renew, to purge. An old fashioned revival in a compground tent replete with choir and tamborines is what we need. . Lady A .

War: I keep asking why another war? Russia's quiet coup of strong men has subjugated their people again. Rebellion with the hope to unseat Putin Lurks. The question is will they wake up when they discover the shelves in the stores empty. Eventually, they may want their country back. . ~A~