I caught a great documentary on Sundance today about the demise of Lake Victoria because of an invasive species, the nile perch.  

http://www.sundancechannel.com/videos/230057968

Grist ought to review this one.  It would make a great blog topic.

Anyway my point was...  a night watchman (armed with poison tipped arrows) explained to the camera crew that people like him prize military jobs.  The word "civilian" is a curse. Civilians starve and are targets of massacre.

Soldiers get payed.  The film maker asked, "Do you fear war?"  The guard said he did not, that war meant he could get a good job and feed his family.  He made a dollar a day as night watchman.

Is that what this empire is becoming?  a place where people actually look forward to war.  As the only source of a job and survival?  pretty frightening.  This documentary finally really explains these horrors.  

The fish are flown to Europe as high priced fillets, the locals eat only the heads and carcasses, stinking with maggots and flies.  Guns and ammo for the endless wars are shipped back on the russian planes, flown by russian crews that use the many prostitutes available from the starving, dying local population.

This is a stark warning about what the kind of corporatist government we now have here does to humanity.  And the environment.  The council that fish biologists appeal to for action views a film about the lake's problems and the leader concludes.

You must show the good scenes too, not just the bad parts of the lake, he exclaims  "Fair and balanced" has reached Africa?  They have satelite dishes to get foxnews, at least the tiny wealthy class does.  You must present lies along with the facts, to be fair and address both sides of the issue.