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CIVIL CRAP

The poor new newspaper said
Oh yah
now I can paint the rain
And people will believe me

The richest one said
Oh no
And I can invent people who would support your news
So what do you think?

The poor newspaper said
Cool
Let us play with nuts and dumb heads
The richest news said oh no
Don’t say that
But say
Let us wash some empty minds
and drive the intelligent ones to madness
but
think of how much money we can make
pitting the madness against the void

Style / type: 
Free verse
Review Request (Intensity): 
I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Last few words: 
CIVIL CRAP (The propaganda of the false media about Libya). http://new.neopoet.com/node/2562,,.,..,..,Thanks Jess for fixing the end and last two lines, :)
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The media has always been a tool of the wealthy or powerful, it is a joke how they try to paint themselves as independent. Your poem speaks loud and clear, fotunately we don't always believe what we see in the press. Love Roscoe..

Roscoe Llane,

Religion will rip your faith off, and return
for the mask of disbelief that's left.

Yes Lan they lie on their selves most of the time, but still money comes(!!??)

Thanks my dear for the comment

Mona Rose

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The wheels that churn out propaganda are relentless in their pursuit.

Your poem is both important to recognize and enjoyable to read. Thank you Mona, I hope peace returns post haste.

~A

Thanks my dear Anna, your prayer might help.

Mona Rose

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It is with relief that I read this poem. In a time of unrest the media always plays up the negative................scribbler

I wish if I can know how to stop it. We need the truth to come up, I'm sure it will but people are scared coz they used to believe such media.
It was very big shock to us the Libyan when we saw some Arab channels played big part in this mess.
When we come out to the streets supporting the leader, these channels change the news and say: its revolution against the system.

Mona Rose

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The media certainly seems to tell us lies to grease the wheels of the establishment. But isn't the internet becoming a new form of media. In that we can exchange ideas without fear of being fired, or publicly penalised for it. The truth can come out, but the sad thing being we already know the truth, even if its not always spoken in the newspapers and on the television. Its good to see a poem of yours again dear Mona. Hope you are well considering the troubles in your country. Love John

At least we have our own voice.

Thanks my friend,

Mona Rose

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everything is different depending on where you are. I think only the people who are there really know what is going on. nice work

You can never pick anyone up if you are busy putting them down

yes Randy ,they are selling the lies and get paid .
What a nice crap and shit they swim in!

Thanks

Mona Rose

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The pictures has been taken not for the town but for the old city in the middle of my town. The name of my town(
( Mizdah))

Enjoy

http://travelingluck.com/Africa/Libya/%28LY29%29/_2214826_Balad%C4%AByat...

Mona Rose

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Who can hide the sun with his hands?

thanks

Mona Rose

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Fine sister, I won't come!
Salam

Mr. Ayaz
YOU
U are not wellcome here in my page , ,,

Mona Rose

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Thanks for posting this!

always, Cat

*
When someone reads your work
And responds, please be courteous
And reply in kind, thanks.

Nice comp on this! I enjoyed this as Im listening to punk music
Like Jesus and the Mary Chain and Black Tambourine and My
Bloody Valentine... To read this is like dark coffee
and walking through the freezing snow
exhilarating and exciting!!

I'm saying the truth and nothing but the truth.
I had my share from the dirty war in my country and all I know that the real truth did not appear to the surface yet.

Mona Rose

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Barry and I just watched her in the Cleveland City Clubs, repeat showing on PBS. I ordered the tape for our MEPF.

Amaney A. Jamal
Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University

Click Here to Purchase CD or DVD http://www.cityclub.org/Programs/Archived/tabid/174/Default.aspx

Friday, February 20th, 2012 - noon

Amaney Jamal is Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and she currently directs the Workshop on Arab Political Development. Jamal's current research focuses on democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Arab World. She extends her research to the study of Muslim and Arab Americans, examining the pathways that structure their patterns of civic engagement in the US.

Jamal has written four books. Her first book, Barriers to Democracy, which won the Best Book Award in Comparative Democratization at the American Political Science Association (2008), explores the role of civic associations in promoting democratic effects in the Arab World. Her second book, an edited volume with Nadine Naber (University of Michigan), looks at the patterns and influences of Arab American racialization processes. She is revising a third book on patterns of citizenship in the Arab world, tentatively entitled Of Empires and Citizens: Authoritarian Durability in the Arab World (under contract with Princeton University Press). Jamal is also a co-author on the book, Citizenship and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9-11. Finally, Jamal is working on a new single-authored book project entitled Living Poverty: The Urban and Rural Poor in Comparative Development. Jamal is a principal investigator of the "Arab Barometer Project," winner of the Best Dataset in the field of Comparative Politics: Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award (2010); co-PI of the "Detroit Arab American Study," a sister survey to the Detroit Area Study; and Senior Advisor on the Pew Research Center Projects focusing on Islam in America (2006) and Global Islam, (2010). In 2005, Jamal was named a Carnegie Scholar.

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If only all Americans knew the truth and really cared...... Be well dear Mona.

~

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