{"id":81632,"date":"2016-10-24T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=81632"},"modified":"2016-10-20T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T12:39:24","slug":"mahalo-thank-you-bob-dylan-singerpoetsongwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/10\/mahalo-thank-you-bob-dylan-singerpoetsongwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters of War Have Names!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jim-albertini.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jim-albertini.jpg\" alt=\"jim albertini james\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>Mahalo [Thank You] Bob Dylan, Singer\/Poet\/Songwriter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. Among his many songs written over decades was \u201c<em>Masters of War<\/em>\u201d that included these lyrics:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Come you masters of war, You that build the big guns, You that build the death planes. You that build all the bombs. You that hide behind walls. You that hide behind desks. I just want you to know I can see through your masks&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Let me ask you one question. Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Do you think that it could? I think you will find When your death takes its toll<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>All the money you made Will never buy back your soul&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Not even Jesus could forgive what you do!&#8230;\u00a0 And I&#8217;ll stand on your grave till I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re dead.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan-300x169.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bob-Dylan-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"bob-dylan-300x169\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Masters of War Have Names! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top U.S. War Corporations include:<strong> Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp., Raytheon Co., Boeing Co., General Dynamics Corp., General Electric, Halliburton Co., Academi, G4S Risk Management, KBR, \u00a0etc. \u2013 <\/strong>the list of corporate and government \u201cMasters of War\u201d is long, very long! [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_private_military_contractors\" >Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>*********************************<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cHow many deaths will it take till we know that too many people have died? The answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.\u201d<\/em>[Dylan]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make Peace Not War! <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mourn all victims of violence<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Reject war as a solution<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Defend civil liberties.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Mourn all victims of violence<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Defend civil liberties<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Seek peace by peaceful means through justice in Hawai\u2019i and around the world.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Oct. 28, 2016 \u2013 788th week) \u2013 Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>___________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>James Albertini is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>, and director of\u00a0<\/em>Malu &#8216;Aina Center for Non-violent Education &amp; Action<em> &#8211; P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai&#8217;i 96760. Phone (+ 808) 966-7622 Email: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:ja@malu-aina.org\">ja@malu-aina.org<\/a>\u00a0 Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/\" >http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/malu-aina.org\/?p=4206\" >Go to Original \u2013 malu-aina.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Bob Dylan&#8217;s many songs written over decades was \u201cMasters of War\u201d that included these lyrics:<br \/>\n&#8220;Come you masters of war, You that build the big guns, You that build the death planes. You that build all the bombs. You that hide behind walls. You that hide behind desks. I just want you to know I can see through your masks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}