Odracirys

If someone comes across my Google+ page or my blog and only views one of my posts, that person could determine from that post that I am a tree-hugging liberal, an über-nationalist, or a supporter of foreign dictatorial regimes, among other things.  The reason for this is that I call things as I see them.  80% of the time, I may support one group, but I may not support them that other 20% of the time when I think they're wrong.  I try to be as objective as possible.  My views sometimes confuse those around me, but the thing to remember is that I am consistent with what I believe to be the best position based on the evidence I have at hand, instead of merely latching on to one group and mindlessly accepting every position they advocate. You may remember my recent posts, " Propaganda in the West " and " More Propaganda in the West ".  Those were both about how the United States is messing things up and actively trying to create enemies out of nations that are wil

In case you missed my first installment of "Propaganda in the West", here is a link: http://odracirys.blogspot.com/2014/06/propaganda-in-west.html If you read that, you will notice that I'm not saying that the West has the most propaganda.  Far from it.  However, it does exist and I often notice it.  Therefore, I like to call it out once in a while. This installment focuses on the article, "Pentagon cites 'dangerous' Chinese jet intercept". ( http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-cites-dangerous-chinese-jet-intercept-165354051--politics.html ) This was a news story about China, and even before I read it, I knew that it was going to be an American overreaction to something either trivial, or something that would have been called a Chinese provocation if the tables were turned.  The US media loves making China into the bad guy, no matter what the truth of the matter is.  Sometimes, China is the bad guy and deserves the criticism it gets.  However, that do

My previous post on Google+ contained the video "If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls".  Below is a link to that post, and below that is a link straight to the YouTube video. My Post:  https://plus.google.com/u/0/100881434227795038077/posts/a3uEEBomwDE YouTube Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UMp9fsAJo The post outdid all of my expectations and became by far my most viewed post on Google+ up to this point.  I am extremely happy about that, because it is a post about the most important issue for me, which is animal rights.  Below are some statistics as of the time I am posting this on August 22nd. +1s:  1178 Reshares: 304 I sincerely thank everyone who +1ed and/or shared my post!  It really shows the power of a post.  I am sure that on top of those who +1ed it, there were other people who saw it and didn't do anything, either because they didn't like the idea of showing that they "liked" such a violent video, or for other reasons.  Of cours