On the Sidelines of the American Game

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We in this country, for those readers who are American or at least living here, have been utterly brainwashed into a perpetual state of discomfort and fear.



We tend not to be newsmakers, and often not even coherent and detached enough to be news sharers; Americans are quite often very dependent on the opinions of others in order to make a statement at all.

The condition of our media outlets says a lot. Cnn leans very heavily in favor of the Democratic candidate. Which is so strange considering how they profited from Bush's wars. It's like they just want us to forget about Bush and 9/11 unless it becomes convenient for them to resurrect them. Same with things like the supposed death of Osama bin Laden.



In fact, I had to pause a moment to even recall his name. That the omnipotent zombie scapegoat could actually fade from the memory of someone my age is frightful -- even if I don't buy the official story does that mean I should be forgetting all about it??

The newspapers are calling it "overconsumption" and "information overload".

Back in the day, that was called Brainwashing. I'm not sure what we should call Brainwashing on the scale of millions and billions of people. It's possible that among those billions, very few actually care much about who is elected over here.



But it does matter. The proof of the importance of this stage in the game, that we are in endgame moments, lies in the fact that the media did not die down and bury the Republican candidate. If he was really cut from the same cloth as every other Republican, but for whatever reason the gang wanted to award Hillary the presidency, there would be a lot of media silence or at least, a good excuse to put the lid on the Trump jar.

The fact is that the media isn't even keeping up with, ie tracking, some of the actual game changing details of this election. They are so concerned about doing the job they are paid to do, supporting one client and bashing another, that they are missing the point of journalism. They are failing to capture the true essence of the moment.



As Frank Herbert would probably say, humans at their core fundamentally crave chaos. It's hard to can chaos and offer it like the media offers us other things.

All they can do is offer its substitute and hide their all too human panic, a panic unique to classes of people who for too long have been free to mislead the others.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

May the best person win. But above all, let none of us accept a life of living on the sidelines when dictators and tyrants proscribe the rules to the game our forefathers invented. Tyrants usurp the rights that are inherently yours. A hero helps you realize that power in yourself.

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One person killed, two wounded in shooting near LA-area polling station

By Paul Vercammen, AnneClaire Stapleton and Steve Almasy, CNN

Updated 8:21 PM ET, Tue November 8, 2016

Azusa, California (CNN)One person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting Tuesday near a polling location in this city near Los Angeles.

The initial shooting was followed by a gun battle with responding police officers at the scene near the Memorial Park North Recreation Center, where voters were spooked by a volley of shots.

Police are looking for a female suspect and are trying to determine if there is also a male suspect.

Acting Azusa Police Chief Steve Hunt said police found multiple victims on the residential side of the street, across from the polling place. Three people were taken to a hospital, where one victim died.

Two of the victims were women. Hunt said he didn't know the gender of the dead victim.

Hunt said police also spied a body in the doorway of a home, but it was unclear whether the person was alive.

Images from a news helicopter showed two feet sticking out the front door and a police robot shining a light on the body.

At least three tactical teams were on the street outside the house, which might be where one or both suspects tried to hide during the gunfight with police.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the shootings were related to Tuesday's elections. Two schools were on lockdown and the polling center, along with another nearby, both were "impacted," authorities said.

Two voters who were inside the Memorial Park North Recreation Center when the shooting occurred spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity. The shots were not fired inside the polling station, witnesses said.