The US Empire, with its approximately 1000 military bases worldwide,
humongous military budget and arms sales,
is the gorilla in the room* (no offense to gorillas).
 
Umpteen political candidates jockeying for position
(no offense to horses) & slying vying for the hen-house
of your mind (no offense to hens or foxes).
 
Can we really talk?
I don’t know
because it’s a social butterfly society
(no offense to eggs-larvae-pupas-butterflies).
 
If people didn’t follow every single sexual urge like a moth to a flame,
there would be less molestations,
less rapes,
less over-population burden
(no offense to moths).
 
Many people unemployed or living paycheck-to-paycheck
or homeless or hungry,
proving
it’s a lipstick on a pig global economy
(no offense to pigs).
 
With all the oil spills, tanker explosions, nuclear accidents,
mountain-top coal mining . . .
the dominant energy resource extractions are
a bull in a china shop
(no offense to bulls,
or China
except for air pollution,
river pollution . . .
persecution of dissidents,
torture of Tibetans . . .)
 
The pesticides and neonicotinoids corporations (Bayer, Syngenta, and others)
are busy as bees (no offense to bees*).
 
The Project for a New Middle East has countries such as Iraq, Syria, Yemen
lined up like ducks in a row (no offense to ducks).
 
If all offense-ive military actions
by anybody or any country
were boycotted (no offense to boys),
illegalized (no offense to eagles),
and thwarted (maybe a little offense to warts)
the menagerie,
which includes you and me,
would breathe
more
freely

• “Which country is the biggest threat? The U.S. was voted the biggest threat by far, garnering 24 percent of the vote. Pakistan was a very distant second with 8 percent, followed by China (6 percent) and Afghanistan (5 percent).” from “Womp! This Country Was Named The Greatest Threat To World Peace”
• “Paul Stamets - How Mushrooms Can Save Bees & Our Food Supply | Bioneers” (26 min)