Criminals Count Their Blessings on Thanksgiving

The
Wall Street 'elitists' are so thankful that most of them have not been indicted
this year and that the OWS folks are a kinder and gentler group than they are
that they will raise a toast with a few glasses of imported champagne for their
luck to continue.

The top boys at MF
Global give thanks that they can enjoy their turkey while the U.S.
Attorney’s office decides whether or not the missing $1.2 billion was just
sloppy bookkeeping and that they didn't really intend to steal the money. Jon
Corzine's appearance
before a US House of Representatives Subcommittee should clear it all up as he
reminds them that they are all really brothers in the big scheme of things.


Members of congress are especially thankful that this was not an
election. year and they've got a little time to counter the 'throw
them all out' talk and co-op those pesky protesters. The end of the world
was starting to look good to them.

Jack Abramoff counts his blessings
instead of cellmates as he tours the country hawking his
book and getting interviewed by all the media, even NPR
who now calls him a Washington reformer. He's an expert in corruption and Jack
is hoping that his 'confessions' will lift the public's perception of him as
slightly better than Newt
Gingrich. He doesn't speak of his possible 9/11
connections and a great number of people are thankful for that.

Most
folks don't realize it but Israel celebrates Thanksgiving wholeheartedly
although it's with a sneer for having to kickback some of the U.S. contributions
they receive and they resent the costs of their blackmail campaigns. They seem
to feel that it's all owed to them, perennial victims you know, so any thanks
they may give is relative.

What might be some of the ways Israelis should
be 'thankful?'

From The Council for the
National Interest:

American taxpayers give Israel over $8 million per
day

Additional financial costs: $3 trillion

On top of this are
the costs of the Iraq war: hundreds of thousands of lives & over $3
trillion

Special-interest lobbying.

Israel partisans in the U.S.
government and media

Campaigns by pro-Israel funders to engender
Islamophobia: to create fear and hatred of Muslims

Israeli-centric news
reporting by the U.S. media

Hollywood movies and television shows, which
often play a significant role in shaping attitudes and
beliefs.

All this and it's still never enough. It's
hard to imagine just what it would take for them to say 'thank you.'

The
Trolls of Hasbara have had a good year and should be very thankful for
their jobs. With the increase in anti-Israel, anti-zionist talk they have been
busy and they should celebrate because the coming year will see even more
opportunity for their 'work.'

Bush
and Blair are extremely thankful that they have been found guilty of war
crimes by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
instead of in their home countries. They won't be vacationing there anytime
soon.

Obama pardons
a couple of turkeys and gave thanks in hope that whoever is the next president
will show the same mercy on him for his crimes against humanity.





Military
contractors have had a big year and so it's expected that they party down in
thanks. Lots of their products got used up. The talk about cuts to their
business have been fake. They continue to be number 1 in the world with exports
on the rise.Their 'toys' are big sellers every season.




Big
pharma is grateful that ONLY every 14 minutes, a person is killed by
prescription drugs. Yippee, pass the pie!

The industrial prison system
is blessing counting that the number of those incarcerated in the U.S. is going
up, up, up. 2.3 million and rising. No
end in sight. A big shout out to the neverending 'War on Drugs' is always in
order.

The U.S. nuclear industry is overwhelming thankful that it was Fukushima
and not one of their own. Despite the initial flush of reports of danger, the
industry thanks the media and government for dropping the subject and for
telling us thousands of times how deadly deep
frying turkeys can be.

Last but not least, the mainstream media
thanks congress and state legislatures for once again not passing any laws
prohibiting them from lying about anything and everything they want to and are
paid to do.


For the rest of us just being alive and having friends
and family to share some time and a meal with is about all we have left.
Although we're thankful for that we still have this urge to shout for something
better.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Blessings to all.