In These Times

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• • 19 Nov 08
  • 10:18 am

  Beautiful! Go Big how? Intentions materialize realities; my intentions are materializing these words; your intention, o reader my Reader, keeps you passing your eyes over them. Whose intentions are now materializing a tsunami of hate? NO1 told all these people to do all these hateful things. NO1 is speaking, and you are hearing. Re: the myths with which Fear-Mongers, both Right and Left, are jacking us again; McClellan's "manipulating the media narrative." Watch McCain's concession. At the mere mention of Obama, the crowd starts booing, doing violence even to his name. He holds out a hand to tamp down the hate …

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• • 20 Nov 08
  • 10:25 am

  Thanks for the link Stargod. With all due respect, I listen to Obama when I want to hear the real real Obama. The "who's the real Obama?" gambit was overdone before the election was over, IMO. I am concerned with our next president's intentions. Looks to me like he's either being, or about to be, run like any other asset by the same fiends who've been jacking us into this Waste Land, and sticking us with the bill, for centuries now. There are some among us, who think they know how to machine us into Being aware of this we share: …

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• • 20 Nov 08
  • 10:52 am

  Cyclops, I'm looking at you, pal, have you seen d'oh! my bad, that was 'no man.' Here comes Some1 now. Here! I am NO1 (and so are you, o reader my Reader! that's the Good News)

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• • 17 Nov 08
  • 9:52 am

  What are think tanks for? http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-08192005-162045/ "The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit public policy organizations constituted by section 501c3 of the U.S. Tax Code ("think tanks", TTs or "tanks") monitor and adjust governance norms and networks by using research, analysis, and advocacy to structure discourse about social problems and solutions among multiple elites and in the popular imagination." TTs exist for myth-making. Here again, our hubris leads us into catastrophe. "America is center-right!" the Right began whining on November 5. And now we add, "The horrible noise you hear is not Friedman's mythical free market crashing all around you." The horrors of Friedmanism …

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• • 18 Nov 08
  • 7:33 am

  Ken Silverstein, here quoting James Pethokoukis of U.S. News & World Report (a double major in Soviet politics and American history...) adds another attempt at myth-making to the list: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/11/hbc-90003866 If history is any guide at all, voters may still be terribly cranky about the economy when they cast their ballots on Nov. 6, 2012 and thus likely choose the 45th president of the United States — be it Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal or some other Republican without “Bush” for a last name. Once again a “change” election for an impatient America. The same bad economy that doomed John …

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