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The election as a distraction.

840 views · Published 31 October 2016 · 16:54 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Swordsage · 2016 · Entertainment

Yep, you read the title right. Despite all the noise being generated about it by our mainstream media, the current United States Presidential Election is being presented to us as an "entertaining" distraction, and not as something we need to be properly informed about in order to participate in a real meaningful way. Worse, it's distracting us from other really important issues that we should be paying attention to, such as the worldwide tensions over Syria, or what's happening in North Dakota right now concerning the protests over the pipeline being constructed there. I go into that a little bit here.

some links in case you are interested:

Syria conflict:

http://www.theweek.co.uk/syria/65094/russia-vs-nato-is-there-a-risk-of-world-war-iii

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/08/yes-it-could-happen-again/373465/

http://www.democracynow.org/topics/syria

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=862#newsletter1

North Dakota pipeline protests:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37790839

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/amy-goodman-on-the-north-dakota-pipeline-standoff.html

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/new-american-mega-pipeline-youve-never-heard-dakota-access-bakken

http://www.democracynow.org/topics/dakota_access

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