the state of things

I find myself alarmed at the fact that no one in America seems to be giving a shit about the invasion and brutal attacks against Gaza and the Palestinian citizens. People are being murdered by countless attacks from missiles and helicopters and no one is speaking out against it. What's wrong with America?

I read articles about Greece, Jordan, France, Italy, and South Korea and how the citizens become outraged and hold mass rallies against the things they oppose. Where is the political drive in Americans? Thousands of Greek citizens rebelled and were outraged by the shooting of a student protester:

Police shooting sparks Greece riots

Left-wing groups have called for more protests to be held in the capital later on Sunday [Reuters] Greece's interior minister has appealed for calm in the wake of widespread rioting after police shot dead a 15-year-old boy in Athens. Police said the teenager was shot in the traditionally left-wing Exarchia district of the Greek capital on Saturday after the boy tried to throw a firebomb at a patrol car. Rioting quickly spread outside the capital to other areas, including Greece's second city Thessaloniki and the holiday islands of Crete and Corfu. Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the Greek interior minister, said: "Regarding the planned demonstrations, everyone has the right to protest but not by destroying property or turning against innocent people." He denounced the violence as "against human rights" and defended the police response saying that "no rage, even justified, must lead to protests like those we saw yesterday [Saturday]". Barnaby Phillips, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Athens, said local "people are shocked by the extent and ferocity of the violence". He said that the political fallout from the rioting.

Thousands of Jordan citizens protest and rally against Israel's attacks and ground invasion of Gaza, and the last major protest America's seen was in the seventies during the Vietnam War.

Why are we Americans so lackadaisical to the situations we are surrounded by? The "War on Terror" and the invasion of Iraq was critically disputed and opposed, yet all we did was talk about how dumb it was. We complained and had rallies that quickly died from lack of participation. There were no protests. No one really did anything.

And now there is a war in Gaza and Americans do nothing, but read shitty biased news reports coming in from American corporations that side with Israel, and we listen to a dumb ass president that blames Gaza for everything while in full support of Israel. I don't blame him though--we did the same freaking thing in Iraq... except ours was worse, we attacked a country that had absolutely nothing to do with September 11.

I find myself overwhelmingly incredulous to the future state of America, even with the upcoming inauguration of Obama. I am incredulous towards the president, the economy, sustainability, and American citizens.

But, as with all things, I have hope. Without hope I am nothing because without hope I am worthless.

'Missiles everywhere'

Moussa el-Hadda, a retired doctor in the Gaza Strip, said "all of Gaza is dark except for the flares fired by F-16s and Apache [attack helicopters]".

Flares lit up Gaza City as Israel used artillery, fighter jets and attack helicopters [AFP]

"The F-16s for the first time are flying very low and shooting missiles everywhere.

"Nobody can leave their home, we have no shelters and Israel knows this. They just bombed everywhere and most of their bombs are hitting houses," he told Al Jazeera.

Earlier, Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, told members of parliament that Gaza City was partially surrounded.

"We have hit Hamas hard, but we have not yet reached all the goals that we have set for ourselves," he said.

Dozens of Palestinians were reported to have been detained during the Israeli push into the Gaza Strip, with Israel saying they were Hamas fighters.

On a separate news,

My writing has been going a lot better.

I shelled out about three to four pages today on a novella I'm trying to finish before I go back to Calvin. Hopefully it'll end up decently.

My music writing however, has been going quite terribly. I'm composing some great stuff, but I can't write lyrics right now to save my life.

I've hit a mental road block lyrically.

Although my prose has been flowing out like endless diarrhea.

My sister is abusing the cat again...
I'm gonna go stop her.

Both news articles from Al Jazeera English dot net.