More Nixon. No Jesuits.

Sun Aug 13 10:17:14 CDT 2017

Will it get better? Look into this guy's face and let me know what YOU think.

http://www.ktvn.com/story/36123640/unr-student-marches-in-charlottesville-white-nationalist-rally

"I'm not the angry racist they see in that photo" says the angry
racist we see in that photo.

Read the whole story to see how the constant drumbeat of an as yet
poorly understood, newly devised form of right-wing propaganda has
fucked with some people's minds to the point where they are now
inoculated against any attempts at dismantling the idiot constructs
that control their booby-trapped brains.

I mean that literally, and I've seen it up close. Some people's brains
are literally booby-trapped against any and all efforts at growth or
reform. We're dealing with something new and apolcalyptic here, on par
with the madness that has infected so much of the Middle East and
Central Asia.

J

On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> What a world.
> Will it get better if everybody just gets high?
>
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Indeed. Excellent find/commentary.
>>
>> J
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > from Jonathan Schell's The Time of Illusion. Which I picked up
>> > because I have 'always' wanted to read it and now the key theme
>> > ---illusion and its effects---seemed it might offer some insight into
>> > the current US admin's massive shell game of articulated illusion.
>> >
>> > This: we are reminded how Nixon ran and won as the peace candidate who
>> > would
>> > get us out of the Dem war in Vietnam. The anti-war voices at all levels
>> > shut down at the '68 convention. How he convinced many of the nation's
>> > influential opinion-mongers that he was a 'new' Nixon, not the one who
>> > had
>> > ended
>> > his own career earlier. How he actually had a post-election lunch with
>> > Humphrey--to
>> > show the nation's new unity; how he spoke of how 'the Negro"--the word
>> > faded
>> > quickly around this time--would rise higher under his administration's
>> > policies; how
>> > his administration would be so transparent, the whole nation would be
>> > reassured.
>> >
>> > Then he beagen the absolutely secret bombing of Cambodia; he ordered a
>> > plan
>> > to
>> > 'round up' anti-war protestors; he wrote memos on how PR image-making
>> > was
>> > the only way to publicly
>> > run the admin; he ordered wiretaps on some aides and five major
>> > reporters
>> > (previous
>> > AG Ramsey Clark declared the recent law re warrant permission
>> >  was unconstitutional and he would never); Schell argues that even a
>> > couple
>> > of bills
>> > were presented that were INTENDED to fail so that where Congress stood
>> > vs
>> > his
>> > admin was evident to all.
>> >
>> > Schell shows how Nixon's PR image campaign then became a "domestic war"
>> > against
>> > any kind of nay-saying. Even invading Cambodia was a test of national
>> > resolve and commitment not real horrible policy.  Which lead to Kent
>> > State,
>> > hard hats beating up on protestors, among other horrors.
>> >
>> > Hating Nixon, which almost any writer worth reading,  not only Pynchon,
>> > did,
>> > and was the least we should have done.
>> >
>> > And Nixon did in secret what Pres Trump does openly, is one way to frame
>> > it,
>> > Trump's base image-making just for his base.
>> >
>> > What a world.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> https://twitter.com/americamag/status/895357514061144064
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 9:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Yes.  As were also the Jesuits.
>> >>>
>> >>> David Morris
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:09 PM Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>> >>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> In some respects the East India Company can - especially with view on
>> >>>> Pynchon's work - be characterized as an early IG Farben ...
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-east-offering-its-riches-to-britannia-191140
>> >>>> http://brugger.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/1/4/2014824/empire.pdf
>> >>>>
>> >>>> > ... It is sometimes said that the British acquired their empire in
>> >>>> > a
>> >>>> > fit of absent mindedness. The evidence as shown in this painting
>> >>>> > dating from
>> >>>> > a time when the British colonial expansion in India was really just
>> >>>> > beginning may, however, suggest that the early founders of the
>> >>>> > British
>> >>>> > Empire were not absent minded at all but knew exactly what they
>> >>>> > wanted ... <
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Am 29.07.2017 um 08:42 schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "Something richer than many a Nation, yet with no Boundaries, ---
>> >>>> which,
>> >>>> tho' never part of any Coalition, yet maintains its own great Army
>> >>>> and Navy,
>> >>>> --- able to pay for the last War, as the next, with no more bother
>> >>>> than
>> >>>> finding the Key to a certain iron Box, --- yet which allows the
>> >>>> Britannick
>> >>>> Governance that gave it Charter, to sink beneath oceanick Waves of
>> >>>> Ink
>> >>>> incarnadine." (M&D, p. 140)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> > ... The process of colonial rule in India meant economic
>> >>>> > exploitation
>> >>>> > and ruin to millions, the destruction of thriving industries, the
>> >>>> > systematic
>> >>>> > denial of opportunities to compete, the elimination of indigenous
>> >>>> > institutions of governance, the transformation of lifestyles and
>> >>>> > patterns of
>> >>>> > living that had flourished since time immemorial, and the
>> >>>> > obliteration of
>> >>>> > the most precious possessions of the colonised, their identities
>> >>>> > and their
>> >>>> > self-respect. In 1600, when the East India Company was established,
>> >>>> > Britain
>> >>>> > was producing just 1.8% of the world’s GDP, while India was
>> >>>> > generating some
>> >>>> > 23% (27% by 1700). By 1940, after nearly two centuries of the Raj,
>> >>>> > Britain
>> >>>> > accounted for nearly 10% of world GDP, while India had been reduced
>> >>>> > to a
>> >>>> > poor “third-world” country, destitute and starving, a global poster
>> >>>> > child of
>> >>>> > poverty and famine. The British left a society with 16% literacy, a
>> >>>> > life
>> >>>> > expectancy of 27, practically no domestic industry and over 90%
>> >>>> > living below
>> >>>> > what today we would call the poverty line.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The India the British entered was a wealthy, thriving and
>> >>>> commercialising society: that was why the East India Company was
>> >>>> interested
>> >>>> in it in the first place. Far from being backward or underdeveloped,
>> >>>> pre-colonial India exported high quality manufactured goods much
>> >>>> sought
>> >>>> after by Britain’s fashionable society. The British elite wore Indian
>> >>>> linen
>> >>>> and silks, decorated their homes with Indian chintz and decorative
>> >>>> textiles,
>> >>>> and craved Indian spices and seasonings. In the 17th and 18th
>> >>>> centuries,
>> >>>> British shopkeepers tried to pass off shoddy English-made textiles as
>> >>>> Indian
>> >>>> in order to charge higher prices for them.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The story of India, at different phases of its
>> >>>> several-thousand-year-old
>> >>>> civilisational history, is replete with great educational
>> >>>> institutions,
>> >>>> magnificent cities ahead of any conurbations of their time anywhere
>> >>>> in the
>> >>>> world, pioneering inventions, world-class manufacturing and industry,
>> >>>> and
>> >>>> abundant prosperity – in short, all the markers of successful
>> >>>> modernity
>> >>>> today – and there is no earthly reason why this could not again have
>> >>>> been
>> >>>> the case, if its resources had not been drained away by the British
>> >>>> ... <
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/india-britain-empire-railways-myths-gifts
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>
>> >
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