Once again, the media has gotten the sheeple worked up over nothing. First we had gay marriage, then we had the horror of the confederate flag and now we have the outrage over a Minnesota dentist killing a lion. He killed the lion on a legal hunt by the way.
Lions are wild animals. Some Einstein gave this lion a name so everyone could feel even more outrage over the killing of a single animal. In Africa, no one gives a shit. Here is an article talking about the whole spectacle: A Lion? These foolish stories are posted and pushed to keep people's attention away from the real stories that may make them a little less happy with their politicians or the corporations that control them. For instance, over the past day or so I have seen more posts over a dead lion than I saw about the Greek currency crisis or the potential debt crisis in Puerto Rico. The lion stories also outran posts about the bird flu epidemic that killed millions of chickens in the U.S. and caused the price of eggs to rocket to nearly $3 a dozen. I guess it's a lot easier to get people interested in lions after the Madagascar movies. Getting the people pissed off about a fucking lion is also safer for the media than focusing on the chicken story since most of the chickens were killed on large corporate farms where the use of antibiotics (these chickens ARE in the food supply) and overcrowded living conditions for the animals helped to spread the disease even faster. Read about it HERE Lions are not cute and cuddly people...no matter what you think of Alex the lion (from Madagascar movies) or even Cecil. Lions kill about 250 humans each year worldwide. That's more than the great white shark (about 100)... and no one seems to care when they get killed. In Africa, where big game hunting is allowed, the meat usually has to be donated to the local tribes. Thus, the meat isn't just wasted. Lions kill livestock in Africa as well, and thus the population often times needs to be pruned to keep villagers safe...But go ahead, give the man killers a name and feel bad about it. Another thing that the media wants to keep people unaware of is that there are people dying all across the world due to war. This is a tricky subject for the media. They try to keep all stories about the military positive. All the soldiers are heroes and we will see tons of videos of soldiers coming home and surprising their wives, or their kids or their dogs. You don't see many articles about the defense budget though, or how much the endless wars are actually costing us. You don't see the fact that suicide is one of the largest contributors to military deaths, or that thousands of innocent people are getting killed regularly in the lands that we occupy. They are not necessarily being killed by our soldiers either! That says something about the security for the average people in the regions where our military is active. There are other things that the media try to keep away from us. One of them is the fact that the average soldier makes a salary of about $40 thousand a year. That number is higher for officers and lower for the average soldier of course...even though it is the average soldier who is more likely to be shipped overseas and be stationed in an area that is more in harm's way. They also certainly don't want to advertise the fact that the corporations making the weaponry for the military is raking in profits hand over fist. That certainly wouldn't be good. Or that the average salary at Boeing (a large defense contractor) is $75 thousand a year, or that the average salaries for those working at General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman (also large defense contractors) are well over $70 thousand a year. Hmmm, soldiers $40 thousand a year, workers making weapons and ammo over $70 thousand. And what about the salaries and percs of the politicians? Salaries for congressmen and senators are about $174 thousand. For the speaker of the house its $223,500. When you throw in all of the percs that they receive, including their pension plans, the costs rise exponentially. So what's my point? The next time you feel compelled to post an article talking about something stupid, why not take the time to see what else is happening in the world that the media might want to avert your attention from. You have a choice you know. You can continue to play their game and live your life with the motto "Ignorance is bliss!" Or you can actually look into what is going on that is more important that the media is trying to steer you clear of. By the way, that chicken above is not named Cecil.In fact, it's a rooster, and as far as I know it was not made into that yummy meal pictured on the right. I just thought I'd put that up since I'm sure some of you bleeding hearts wanted to comment on my heartlessness. Oh, and finally, if you think the defense industry hasn't gotten fat off of the war and destruction of foreigners...the charts below show the stocks versus the S&P 500 since 9/11. Most of the stocks are up about 400% or so since that date versus about 100% for the S&P.
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