© Jon StephensonA young Afghan villager named Sadiqullah was wounded in his right ear when he was shot allegedly by U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales at the home of his father, Haji Mohammad Naim
It was early in the morning, perhaps 2 a.m., when gunfire awoke 14-year-old Rafiullah.
He looked outside the house he'd been sleeping in with his grandmother, an aunt, two cousins and his sister, and he saw a man with a weapon walk to a shed that housed the family cow and open fire, shooting the animal dead.
"I told the women inside our room: 'Let's run! Let's get out of here,' " recalled Rafiullah, who like many Afghans goes by only one name.
In the next compound, a short distance from the house where Rafiullah had been sleeping, Haji Mohammad Naim awoke to the sound of dogs barking wildly in the street.
"Then there was shooting, and the dogs stopped barking," said Naim, who's in his 50s.Shortly afterward, there was pandemonium at Naim's front door as Rafiullah and a handful of terrified women and children poured into his yard, seeking shelter. Minutes later, another woman and a young girl emerged from the darkness.
"She was screaming and crying," Naim said of the woman. "She said, 'My husband has been martyred,' " meaning that he'd been killed.
Suddenly a silhouette appeared, moving rapidly behind a bright light. Naim thought that U.S. forces were raiding his village, and he expected a squad of soldiers to arrive. Instead, he saw just one man.
"He got closer, and then he started shooting at me," Naim said.
Comment: The economy has been in shambles since 2007. Is it Greece's fault? How about the Bankrupt United States, it's wars, lack of investment in infrastructure? Could less wars of deception have helped if Joe Public were to have an income and purchased good/services that were imported or homegrown vs. his Tax Dollars buying more bullets, missiles, bombs..?
Could it be the constant strain on our brains from the fear-mongering (War on Terror™), war profiteering and sabre rattling of the Western World that is pushing the economy over the edge? Could it be the hyper inflated cost of fuel that has and is tightening the spending of the average household? There are many factors pushing and pulling at peoples wallets and purses, and it's the persons who control the economic strings that are ruining the World Economy, and it's evident, to those paying attention, that it's intentional.
The economic crimes against people are not just in Greece, or the United States..
The real statistics on the economy are kept out of mainstream news. 5 years into the current Depression and the people with Jobs and money still don't consider the economy as bad as during the Great Depression. Others going without, losing their homes, jobless, know this to be a much worse situation. And yet somehow the illusion of an economy limps along. And it is this illusion that is milking the last of the middle class into complete economic loss.
Here's a recent sample of how it works: Shareholders Weren't Invited to the Real Party -and it works well. Sadly, yet intentionally, the mainstream media doesn't want to talk about the puppetry, war, price fixing/gouging etc.. that are really causing the Great Global Economic Depression.