Intrigue Infiltrates Yasser Arafat Estate?

  As critical as exhuming Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafatal-Qudwa al-Husseini’s body is to detect if he was poisoned, as long-alledged by Palestinians, it’s still likely we’ll just continue being overwhelmed by opponents’ inability to share enough humorous anecdotes with each other to calm their agression. Such as, maybe imagining some Columbo character suddenly popping up to quiz diplomats. Picture Hillary Clinton with a cigar. Oh, sorry, yeah, this isn’t Cuba. Hillary with a hookah because somehow confronting there’s nothing holy about Jihad, or war in any language, could cultivate some awareness it’s extremely doubtful God supports killing over any disagreement anywhere on the planet. While another potentially comic accusation, Israel is accused of making, is Arafat was involved in mass corruption by secretly amassing a $1.3 billion fortune by 2002 as Palestinian economics has remained far short of mass prosperity. But it’s plausible that huge number is legitimate since Yasser was in a very competitive world where power is money. If the figure were quoted at 2.2 or .3 billion(s) then I’d be a little more upset. 
  But 1.3 in 2004 is chump change for moguls. Going along to get along is the political formula for why we seem perpetually stuck. Al Jazeera covered this contaminated Arafat clothing story by pursuing Mrs. Arafat, which has led to the Palestinian Authority deciding to see if Yasser’s bones reveal the legendary Palestinian leader really was poisoned as many old comrades claim. But Associated Press’ KARIN LAUB reported Palestinian officials signaled Thursday they’re not rushing into an autopsy though Switzerland’s Institute of Radiation Physics has found Arafat’s clothes contained an elevated level of a radioactive agent fueling press speculation of foul play. Yet Arafat’s older pictures of himself don’t seem to particularly represent a spry seventy-five. But for people worth in the billion range, it’s assumable the best medical care possible should enable them to carry on awhile further. The virtual King of Palestine certainly had a lot of reasons to live.

  The institute said more tests are needed and Arafat’s widow Suha has demanded his remains be exhumed from under a glass-and-stone mausoleum in his former West Bank compound. And Arafat’s successor, President Mahmoud Abbas, agreed to an autopsy in principle, but the final decision will apparently take time. Abbas aide Nimr Hamad said a team of experts would be sent to Europe to learn more from the Swiss institute and French military hospital where Arafat died Nov. 11, 2004.

  Another hurdle to consent is close relative, nephew Nasser al-Kidwa, who’s a former Palestinian envoy to the United Nations and Yasser Arafat Foundation head and custodian of his uncle’s memory. Earlier this week, al-Kidwa seemed cool to the idea of an autopsy, telling Al Jazeera he believes the Swiss institute findings are sufficient proof Arafat was poisoned. Al-Kidwa has not been reachable for comment since then. While Abbas has said he’ll only order an autopsy if the family is on board, but did not define whom he meant.

  In Arafat’s last three years, he was confined by Israel to his walled compound in Ramallah, the Muqata, because the Palestinian leader was seen by Israel and the U.S. as an obstacle to peace efforts and sponsor of attacks that killed hundreds of Israelis.

  Israel has emphatically denied any role in Arafat’s death. Dov Weisglas, a high-powered aide to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, told Israel TV on Thursday, “Israel did not kill him, I say that with certainty.” Weisglas said Arafat had already been marginalized by that time. Weisglas added Israel had chances to assassinate Arafat, but decided not to.

  After the 75-year-old Arafat fell violently ill at his compound in the fall of 2004, Weisglas was among the negotiators with Palestinian officials over the terms of departure for medical treatment abroad.

  “The man was very, very sick,” Weisglas said of Arafat. He also said one of the Palestinian interlocutors warned him that if Arafat died in his compound, “just like for 2,000 years you had to prove you didn’t crucify Jesus, then for another 2,000 years you will have to prove you didn’t kill Arafat.”

  Weisglas, a former Sharon aide, also suggested Arafat may have been killed by a medical mistake at the French military hospital. “What happened in France is they gave him a partial blood infusion, he recovered, then they gave him a full blood transfusion that was probably a medical mistake, and he went into shock and never recovered.” Senior French military doctor Denis Gutierrez said Thursday he cannot comment on such claims because of French medical privacy laws. He said any information about a blood transfusion would be in the medical report submitted to Arafat’s family.

  At the time, French doctors said Arafat died of a massive stroke and, according to French medical records, suffered inflammation, jaundice and a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC. Mrs. Arafat, who is estranged from most of the Palestinian leadership, has lived outside the Palestinian territories since before her husband’s death and has not explained why she waited this long to have the tests done, but the findings of her cooperating with Al-Jazeera was first broadcast Tuesday.

  The Swiss institute detected on Arafat’s belongings, including a toothbrush, a fur hat and underwear, elevated traces of the radioactive substance polonium-210 that is extremely lethal in small doses. Polonium’s most famous victim is KGB agent-turned-Kremlin-critic Alexander Litvinenko, who died in 2006 after losing all his hair and turning blue which are symptoms not displayed by Arafat. However exhuming remains, particularly of a revered Arafat, could offend ordinary Palestinians’ sensibilities, though the top Muslim cleric in Palestine has said religion would not stand in the way of an autopsy. Though, senior PLO official, Hanan Ashrawi, said Abbas assured her he would cooperate with any investigation.” We want to know. We want closure,” she said. “This was not an ordinary man.”

  Also chiming in Thursday, Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Gaza Strip government run by Arafat’s rival, the Islamic militant Hamas, told a Gaza audience, “We support the extraction of the body of the late President Arafat for re-examination in order to discover the elements who facilitated the assassination.” And the cycle of revenge continues, no?

7/6/2012

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Intrigue Infiltrates Yasser Arafat Estate?

7/6/2012 concluded: Also chiming in Thursday, Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Gaza Strip government run by Arafat’s rival, the Islamic militant Hamas, told a Gaza audience, “We support the extraction of the body of the late President Arafat for re-examination in order to discover the elements who facilitated the assassination.” And the cycle of revenge continues, no?

April 11 - May 3, 2017

Wikipedia - Arafat's death status update
The Jerusalem Post - March 6, 2017, Interior Ministry Nixes Yasser Arafat Street in Israeli-Arab Town

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Time Marches On

  Yasser.
  We conclude. Time doesn't. Though the future includes that battle. My guess is it's the bitter perpetuation of self-righteous vengeance, obviating resolution, that, for whatever reason, is most dishonorable in our Creator's face. Self-righteous pride and perpetual revenge. 

Shaping Public Relations’ Shape

  There's a sense in the public sphere, screamed for justice raises the volume as taunted. As goaded, to be frank. And oh how there's so many ways of agitating performances when brazenness rules. "The world's a stage" and scary what generations slap together trading up from costumes to suits. Military school brats become president? Don't we think we're pragmatic?

  The point. Ruthlessness inevitably rules. But as impossible as winning without hurting anyone is. What a cruel world couldn't afford learning, shouldn't, necessarily, be our plight. When even in mere people years, time's waited on our feuds' resolving a very, very, long, long, time. Limitless generations. How the heck, had civilization even gotten this far, otherwise?

  Well. Now that righteous rule intends to flip switches through chivalrously threatened repercussions. Everything's seemed to have been let slip, a notch, down the tubes, for the power to believe righteousness rules. When unethically, morality's just used when bargaining tool. 

  For instance convince America that Criminal Law Enforcement is and always has been on the right track. Noble and upright as WE ALL want them to be able to be. BUT US Attorney General Jeff Sessions' known intention is to rid the land of the lawless. In execution a rather broad directive for the already uptight country. Rather than perceiving our land as being of broad influences, corrupt people must be stamped down, and out. When the governments and Legal Authorities are all responsible for the very Criminal Enterprise System aspect that our Peace Officers are manipulated to enforce. This militarized relationship in America is, just one of many large veneered excuses, all muddled together, leaving us with resentful, out of their minds, intoxicated and sober, people who've lost touch with their humanity. What's truly wrong won't be solved till corrected at the core. 

  Bleeding heart liberals? Yada yada decades of repeated redundancies. Ruling the world as it is, should be more than manipulating ignorance. Ambition beyond arrogant signs.

  O ye of so much belief, you've wrought your righteous venue. But morality's damned when worn upon the chest in self-righteous vengeance. Attorney General Sessions has shown no distinguish-ment between rule of law and how the law's been abused to facilitate this vast virtually uncivilized mass he'd prefer were punished into extinction. Cha-ching. The Great Harda__ Cultural divide. Whoopee. A mess of denial of misunderstood bigotry. Out of which all the world's sordid rivalries emanate to begin with. Allah/God created none of these man-made farcical tests of devotion, right up to, and including, an unethical undermining of morality through commercialized enforcement. Talk about overstuffed sentence. 

  But certainly scripture should lead people to think we're eventually growing up. Past this dreadfully long stage where those who aren't learning how wrong violence is, require destruction. Actualizing that ole cliché about two wrongs not making a right. Grown up for no other purpose than to die for a living? That's not an honorable deceit. This world sure has problems with where it invests its' pride. So says this only Republican alive. Fake Republicans, your conspiracy of individuals take the drift? Novelists don't rule. But possibly falling all over themselves in the aisles.

  Our political stage appearing-ly overrun by Strung-Together-Embellished-Non-Desciptive-Adjectives. Where has this all led? Soapbox View  
  Man. Every re-reading I want that preceding "Fake Republicans" reference re-written. Strike the accusation completely. Coming close, but not closer. Because nothing's as nearly flippantly sarcastic. Stuck? 

  Winners can craft a political power however preferred. But when there's less inclination to second-guess, that's a tyranny too. Accept and denial, hand-in-hand, when a moral compass isn't affordable. Strategic. Right?

  Crap.

  The State of Arkansas is news for executions.

  The Soapbox View is The Death Penalty as a principle may have justification. But the world's just not responsible enough. Ken Saro-Wiwa of Nigeria, etc. Throughout the world the rationalization for execution is wrong and the only way to right that is humans not killing humans. Period. We need to correct the distorted mindsets that create tragedy because hatred's the dangerous thing. Death penalties are wrong. But just another ruthless sign people are used to and had to accept, anyway?

Morality's not tough. Being moral is.

Soapbox View

War's good for nothing, too. 

TO THE LIVING'S RESTING IN PEACE TOO

  Civilized War the oxymoron. Military honor as pure as freshly fallen snow is applicable. But, overall. Nothing qualifies as justifying circumvented ethics. 

  Liberals think certain things while we're not what liberals think about us. So narrowly contrived, the country's swimming in it. Floating on bloated air. And drowned. Taken in by the quest for reaffirming firmer mean management overrides civilization's social progress. The world's wars are all about inflated egos. Governor Gateway of New Jersey screaming marijuana's the social enemy. Preying upon people's instincts to believe in authority. An authority unwilling to share responsibility for the entire mess. The throne upon which Governor Gateway of New York also sits alongside. Ethically challenged? Why? It's a contrivance that marijuana use is immoral and unethical. What happened with a decade of alcohol prohibition was allowed to perpetuate and fester for generations fostering protection from an organized contrivance. Smart at manipulation but dumb solving crime?
  So fluidly installed is this polished idealism, that the harsher aspects of the newer, sarcastically referenced "regime", that should alert supporters some stats are mythological. Rantings of a press, controlled press, etc. Sleight of hand. What gives smoke and mirrors validity. America's got the politics it's paid for, these, oh so many, politically financial, lucrative years. Power that has so far righteousness-ly precluded raw responsibility for all this world's sins of omission. Face responsibility for the Criminal Enterprise System, please?

Pollution At All

  I heard the applause. And outright screaming. As if they'd been paid to sit in Congress for a partisan State of the Union Address. After especially poignant speakers' phrases that sized up America's present political drama, highlighting the March For Science Day 

that purportedly opposes the organized (conspiracy of individuals) screwing with nature past our capacity to adapt and survive in our currently accepted civilized manner. But who's to say all the Morlocks are destined to live, thoroughly unhappily, underground when the insatiable need to devour and dominate is satisfied.

  Take out the content and the Day's major event was like any other politically staged rally. Insert the Beatles and the glamorization provided by women's screams might just get us to the next plateau someone's claimed to've won that's just another chip torn from the grasp of irresponsibility's infatuation with contrived luxury. No matter how real. I understand bicycling's too much work. But people don't drive safe enough, and machine rule's tomorrow. Not now. And exploiting energy's just gall.

  Why wasn't the President of the United States' vehicle already electric when massive amounts of billions are thrown at the drop of a hat every which-a-way over the past decades. Priority number 1? After all it's not only the scapegoats' responsibility to be pragmatic. But accepting a certain amount of tolerated collateral damage is what being pragmatic is? Stoic? After all this generations' buggy whips have the financial wherewithal to whip us into the future financed by this fantasy creating pollution is financial stability. When we're just not smart enough. All that money just sitting there in the earth. So much temptation. Well documented. Maybe someday the whole planet'll just be one big ball of asphalt and cement? Thing is, it is that simple. The corruptibility of power is ensured by a public's accepting the hiding from these various, nearly enough, self-evident truths. Agenda? Pants on fire.

A Scientists' March on Washington Is a Bad Idea 

by Robert S. Young

The New York Times January 31, 2017

Substantial Assessment of the Political Quandary by a scientist.

So In Conclusion

  Bill O'Reilly's spun off. Broadening the purported pragmatic political outlook's franchise base. That overarching projection that archaically refers to liberals as believing, for the most part, virtual nonsense, to be frank. While, irresponsibly, demonstrating arrogant indifference to ethical environmental aspirations. The pragmatic veneer's hooked people. Line and sinker. Political method? Yes. 

The Long View / Jon Meacham 

April 26, 2017 The New York Times Book Review

The Man to Blame for Our Culture of Fame

  Celebrity poisoned our establishment. Because Congress, the President and our Courts were all established for protecting the people despite what organized coercion enforces and projects. But over and over it's bandwagon or nothing. Rise like a revolutionary force so the status quo reactionary hasn't a clue. A Drug War that's lasted generations in the false belief it's a completely immoral pattern of behavior. Self-righteousness judged the world to be damned. Thrilling bunch of legislators and jurists we are, huh? Political appointees. ... .
  Who's got the time? Means there's no such thing as single voices? Means leverage beats argument? Means though we know more today than yesterday, tomorrow knows less because of what we haven't learned by today. Now ...

Just an earthbound twisted lie. Pink Floyd

(oops) "Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I"

LEGACY

Europe’s Missile Shield Conundrum Brings Together Russian and German Foreign Ministers

  RT, Russia Today reported German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, met Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, Thursday, in Moscow, to, as RT notes, discuss NATO and Russia’s role in Europe’s security that depends on every country’s cooperation for protection from weapons that were never very practical in such enormous quantities to begin with. Incredible diplomatic expense spent over a threat that has for all intents and purposes hung over our heads sixty-seven years. Doubling a theoretically less sophisticated era’s fantastically long Thirty Years War? While also fairly deniable, the world has never prospered financially more from war, though entirely debatable as societies have existed for no other reason than war before, while some still, after a fashion, continue now. For most of history territorial conflict was one of few opportunities that afforded a way for people to feed themselves through pillaging or providing monarchs backup stability. But as the world’s still overrun by conflict, our lack of modern progress is mystifying unless it’s realized how much we’ve depended on status quos. So however much negotiations are important, there’s still the earmarks of a complete boondoggle about this issue of nation-states protection from themselves. Fully defensively militarized Europe is too funny to not be extremely hilarious, while too tragic to not be ridiculous. No doubt a lot is at stake both nationally and internationally as RT reiterates the meeting’s necessity was many European officials are silent on US plans to construct a missile defense system in the heart of Eastern Europe.

  Germany’s Foreign Minister offered some candid remarks in an interview published in the Friday issue of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, saying, “I keep openly stressing time and again that security in Europe can be strengthened only through common efforts, and only together with Russia. I insist on continuing and, if possible, expanding cooperation between Russia and NATO. This concerns a common missile defense system as well.” Uh huh. Handouts wrapped with more ostentatious ribbon.

  The German Foreign Minister said Russia’s concern over being a future target is unwarranted, while pointing to areas of cooperation between Russia and NATO, like terrorism in Afghanistan. “Security of Russia, Europe and the U.S. can be ensured only by joint efforts rather than against each other.” Whether Germany brings Russia on board remains to be seen, but Westerwelle stressed Germany is actively involved in addressing issues of global and European security. While Russia has warned the US and NATO on numerous occasions that unless an agreement is reached on missile defense, the world faces another arms race. But unless fulfilling everything’s destruction, why would anyone want to do that if conscience is any guide? Though the commercialization of war unfortunately in our past has been enough of an incentive to ignore right and wrong.

7/6/2012

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Europe's Missile Shield Conundrum Brings Together Russian and German Foreign Ministers

7/6/2012: The German Foreign Minister said Russia’s concern over being a future target is unwarranted, while pointing to areas of cooperation between Russia and NATO, like terrorism in Afghanistan. “Security of Russia, Europe and the U.S. can be ensured only by joint efforts rather than against each other.” Whether Germany brings Russia on board remains to be seen, but Westerwelle stressed Germany is actively involved in addressing issues of global and European security. While Russia has warned the US and NATO on numerous occasions that unless an agreement is reached on missile defense, the world faces another arms race. But unless fulfilling everything’s destruction, why would anyone want to do that if conscience is any guide? Though the commercialization of war unfortunately in our past has been enough of an incentive to ignore right and wrong.

May 4 - 31, 2017

Unfortunately war's commercialization was, from the beginning, the incentive to ignore right and wrong.

This is Allah/God's life everyone should get less awkward. 

A Grand Parade of Pyrotechnics

  Universally used. Broad essays are a type of calisthenics. Not so craftily carved for broad release, that they specifically cater to various purchasers' griefs. But, while, recognizable, established, stature's how the world turns, an independent siren call is as intimidatingly challenging. As, apparently, once on, there's no taking myself off the soapbox.

ELECTIONS FOR EVERYONE?    

 Receiving THE WOLFIAN MAGAZINE 10
Special Edition: General Election 2017 Submission Request 

  Coinciding with the British General Election of June 8^th 2017, I was delighted. Because being from across the, as it were, pond. British politics are relatively none of my business, per se. However, I wrote a fairly coherent Cold War satire without ever visiting the Soviet Union or Russia. Just so my American credentials, regarding the blacklistings, etc., are unblemished, so to speak. Bill Clinton visited and became President. Times change. But the basics behind peoples' manipulation hasn't. Personally in Paris when the wall fell.

  Basically, from any view, we’re all victims of history's cobwebs. Just the ability to commercially manipulate the concept there's a left or right political outlook, confines the public to jargon fueled arenas. Participating in circles without escape? On the, NYC, radio I heard Marine Le Pen referred to as part of the new Populist movement. Deliberately robbing the emphasis on a nasty bigotry that's been nostalgically slipped back out from under humanity's repressive closet door full of ghosts that show up really spooky in the contrived light. 

  Is humility really gone for good? Because it is just political to, understand, develop, and exploit cultural nuances. But unethical to facilitate bigotry's remaining exploited and misunderstood. Commercial reality? Malarky, so-called Modern American Republican Party. Facing history is not shrugging it off. To borrow the phrase, proselytize brother. It's shame. Not arrogance. That's humility before the Lord. Conditioning the public to resent a loyal opposition is, yes, undemocratic. Not only that, the obsessions' benefits of the doubt reach only just so far ... boo. Considering everything's fake? I am, for the moment, the only Republican alive.

  So besides separate political environments being, relatively, the same difference, are manipulative American political perceptions directly applicable to British politics? Certainly the British Conservative train of thought derives from an ethical pursuit of individual independence. Not just the insurement of power's relegation of the individual to submission to the world's vast array of corporate states. and not just purely result from particular political advertising successes that framed the public consciousness to value certain harda__ expressions as more patriotic? Ha!  
  No political entities can really speak independently for any of us, is something to face. Don't Be Anyone's Sycophant isn't just advice. It's a dream. When what's really been understood as a public whole, has been the manipulated approaches to misunderstanding how everything actually is capitalism and how socialism works as well. While both political concepts, as currently pasted, are infamous for sticking it to the consumer where the opportunity's found. 

  There comes a time you hope people listen and at least give, the logic of independence, some skillful thought as to how all our lives actually evolved here from back there. It's not baffling how dogma's unstructured and twisted out of proportion. That slogans still replace the public sphere's coherence with ludicrousness that's preposterous when there's just, only one bottom line. Financial flow. Like Peace, Love and Understanding. What's so funny about vultures deciding who rules? Laying up wealth that has nothing better to do than lounge around with their own crowd, remaining, far and distantly, the crutch stifling "capitalism from the bottom up." 

  Political sophistication replacing dignity and honor through the skill to translate chanting crowds into popular culture has an extremely malignant history. Obviously I'd not brought that up if I thought it would help. But years pass, that become the next, again, hoping the public's too mature for sycophancy. But propaganda is doled out in measures, that rely on amplified awareness when jousting like a demon has the most allure. As these days, that the show's a show's extremely transparent. Such that it's probably impossible for politics to bring people to their senses? Why the cultural revolutions are contrived as threats, when custom's advancement is the real source of social advance. But within the, feeding on itself, big picture? Diplomacy's a retreatment behind power to strike without compromise. That there's ruthless rule, is why there are rules. Pro bono lawyers. Why there's so much smoke and so many mirrors, the public believes anything, as needs be. 

CMF

Life's such a grand adventure of discovery, the crying shame's individuals allowing their understanding to be framed.

This is THE WOLFIAN ISSUE 10 

Between The Lines: Power's nutshell. 

Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this cartoon.

     ... 
  Is a world where a sign of winning is the willingness to manipulate others, avoidable? As for instance, what Robert Ludlum fictionalized in The Chancellor Manuscript, describing a labyrinth-inal conspiracy of conspiracies of individuals. Bold schemes requiring bold victims never gets old and why Shakespeare doesn't die, they'd say.

  Well. Don't underestimate something Kim Jong-un and President Trump have in common. Preserving power while leaving out all the messy stuff involved in capitalism from the bottom up. 

Power's Before Honor and Ethics Always?

  See, what we're, as yet, really unable to get a handle on is, where does all this ceremonial meaning get us? The redundant pomp and circumstance. Superfluous to the emotionally shattered and shattering dilemmas, and coincidental consequences, that slip past our solving and elude rectification because power's really remote from the collateral damage caused. As a consequence, innocent victims and, where there's no shame, there's no honor. So, for the purpose of pacifying an alliance, once again, an American President put forward the ideal that one side's all the good guys whose obligation is to destroy the other ones. Everyone, apparently, expected to feel lost, and caught up, in this jihad nonsense that's scarred all our lives. Loosely derived from an obsession with enforcing morality every society has room for being far better at. Crime a state enterprise? Violence a religious act. What should end is our being made fools of. 
  Add to this whole load of crap, the literal preposterousness of a couple of American (high school) military school graduates emphasizing military might, when the really righteous goal is settling all this nonsense down. Not reinvigorating the delusion by encouraging jumping further in. It's okay because some have the best lifeboats money can buy and weaponry to protect them? When it's not about misconstruing equality, but a world that's better for everyone. Just what the damned feuds didn't need, was more fuel. 

Case in point, a president's claim God favored retaliation 
caused this appeal - 

George W. Bush Please Apologize

  So the current president's arrogant inclusion of this statement, 

"DRIVE THEM OUT OF THIS EARTH."

while speaking before a partisan Saudi crowd, again emphasizes the revengeful nature of the whole problem. Why the coincidences of humanity's losses aren't just risen from the dark by the alienated, dispirited minds of people used for impractical ends. Flags have been waved for cover many times before throughout history. Also declarations that God willed dominion over humanity by humanity. When we really crafted ourselves this way, and get nowhere free devising the myriad avoidances of direct blame. When each and every one of us not truly facing ourselves, results from others framing our brains to find comfort in the vicious cycle of hatred for others.
  Peace will guide the planets isn't just drivel, made up for a song. Or just another answer blown in the wind, my friend. ... .
  So actualities are on record. The president visited and touched cues while no one involved wants the hint revealed. That alienating and militaristic taunting is what involved all of us in this nonsense, in the first place, ... after all. And don't tell me I don't respect my friends in the military. Nonsense has gone on long enough. No?

  Avenging rivalries is how things are. So much of life consists of lying to each others' faces anyway. No matter how hard it's tried, Life's not a perfect trial in a perfect Court of Law. 

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People's ethical lapses are our faults for wanting a pedestal?    

*   Crime, Contagion and Commerce by JoAnne Brown

from Scientific Authority & Twentieth-century America

edited by Ronald G. Walters

Soapbox View pursues the Twin Legacies 
Andy Rooney and I.F. Stone?