NP - Krugman: Petrothoughts (Via Kevin Drom)

[alice malice]

And he looks good, even on torture and Cuba and black men and boys
dead in the streets as the brutal police force murders a day and
nothing done from him, the first black man to hold the office. He
lookin real good. Killer, just killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 7:03 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Did you see this?  Not that I would know if they have the facts right,
> but it is a fairly detailed account anyway. And, I'm not, obviously,
> interested in the truth or the facts here, but in how the Empire,
> under the supposedly weak and ineffectual gum chewing  Obama, pivots,
> ropes and dopes and builds a legacy. America is still the program to
> watch. Putin can take his shirt off and pull out his big nukes,
> wrestle his bear and play Castro in the wood, but Obama is waging war
> all over the planet and all the world can do is get behind his leading
> from behind or be pushed aside and made to scramble after a depleted
> bank account. The decline of America theory we keep hearing about is
> obviously not a good one. The Empire is striking back at phantoms, at
> Castro's ghost, can see Obama smiling at his portrait of JFK, at
> Putin's dog and pony show to South and Central America, at old and new
> Europe alike, even at OPEC and the Saudi Arabian oil kings, and he's
> not swaggering, not giving grand 3 hour speeches, he's just cool, a
> cool cool killer.
>
> http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/war-in-ukraine-a-result-of-misunderstandings-between-europe-and-russia-a-1004706.html
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
> <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 19.12.2014 um 03:47 schrieb alice malice:
>>>
>>> It's impossible to know the truth. Though you admit this, Thomas, it's
>>> fairly obvious that your summary is limited, as you say, by the
>>> propaganda you read and favor. So forget about your claim to the
>>> truth, what you provided is your opinion of what happened, a claim to
>>> history.
>>
>>
>> I make factual claims. Some of them are debatable (and I usually make a
>> point of saying so), most of them, in my opinion, are not.
>>
>> Just refute them, will you?
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> P.S. As for "truth" and "history": I fear those big words that make us so
>> unhappy.
>>
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