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Sorry not to make tonight's meeting (responsibilities attendant on
getting my wife's aged aunt to the hospital), but AWARE ON THE AIR
will record at the usual time this week - 1pm Tuesday in the Urbana
City Council chambers. (Maybe we'll ask for a handout.) <br>
<br>
By then Obama-Fraud #2 (pretending he was defending Social Security,
Medicare, & Medicaid) will have joined Obama-Fraud #1
(pretending he was anti-war) in the consciousness of all who care to
look, and we'll try to point out its implications for Obama's
Ongoing Murders in the Mideast...<br>
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Members and friends of AWARE (MOAs & FOAs) are invited to join
the open-ended discussion (and showing of videos) about the war.<br>
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The new introduction to the program, read at the beginning, is as
follows:<br>
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<i>"Good evening, & welcome to AWARE ON THE AIR for the 30th
week of 2011.<br>
<br>
"Our program is presented by members & friends of AWARE, the
Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana, a local peace
group - and brought to you by Urbana Public Television.<br>
<br>
"Each week at this time we bring you news and comment about the
wars that the United States government is conducting around the
world, and about the opposition to them, here and across the
country, by people like us who see that these wars betray our
democratic principles.<br>
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"Today the US government is threatening, invading, and occupying
countries from North Africa to the Indian subcontinent, and from
Central Asia to the Horn of Africa - a vast circle with a
2,000-mile radius, sometimes called the Greater Middle East: the
US military calls it 'Central Command.'<br>
<br>
"This region has the world's greatest concentration of oil and
natural gas, and our government is spending billions of dollars
month after month to control it. Control and not just access to
these energy resources is what the US government wants: we in fact
import very little oil from the Mideast, contrary to what you've
heard, but control gives the US government an unparalleled
advantage over oil-hungry rival states in Europe and Asia. <br>
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"We're killing people in the Mideast and North Africa because
China needs oil, and our government wants to control where they
get it. Our government says that we're conducting these vastly
expensive wars to stop terrorism and protect civilians; but we can
see that, instead, we're killing civilians and creating
terrorists. These wars are against the interests of the vast
majority of Americans.<br>
<br>
"But the war policy remains essentially the same whether the
Republicans or Democrats are in office. The Obama administration
is at least as eager as earlier ones to kill people to maintain
control of the region. More than a thousand members of the U.S.
military had died in Afghanistan ALONE since Obama became
president - more than under Bush. Of course, many more Afghans
than that have died, and many more Americans than that have
received serious injuries..."<br>
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--CGE<br>
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