Gleanings
"US economic growth slows to slowest pace in almost 5 years" says the headline as the DOW hits a record 13700. My MSN home page is from Winston-Salem NC ( a place i lived for a few years) and daily reports on the closed factories, furniture, textiles, tobacco, manufacturing. Airline employees took a 40% pay cut. Insider trading is on the rise (Check out Che Bobs recent post)
The Dems fold, Cindy Sheehan quits, more people hopefully take the constant barrage of fundraising pleas from both parties and throw them in the trash. Surge keeps surging, we can't stay and we can't leave.
Walking into the Hitchin Post tavern in Melrose Mt after a hard day guiding I ran into fellow fishing bum Jim Harrison. Drinking Stoli on the rocks, Jim spins some great tales of saltwater flyfishing with Ted Williams and Stu Apte back in the day. I love True North and the poetry, but he is one wild character, eyes askew, untamed hair and random teeth, he could be any homeless guy in any big city.
This supposed "free speech" fight in Venezuela creates a lot more questions than answers. Look at the dress and skin color of the two groups of demonstrators and you start to get a feel for Venezuelan society. What role do Amnesty Int , Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders play in political battles? How does propaganda or for that matter advertising in general fit into our notions about the free exchange of ideas? Does modern mass media change the paradigm? The discussion rages over at Renegade Eye. What role did media play in the Rwanda massacres, in Hitlers rise to power, in the Iraq War?
posted by troutsky @ 6:44 AM
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14 Comments:
Wow, I didn't know you used to live in W-S. That's right down the road from my new home. Any recommendations for good local stuff?
the "free speech" issue in Venezula is such BS. If a network TV station advocated the violent overthrow of the government it would be off the air in a second.
BTW I'm back : )
The opposition to Chavez had popular support, the world media, human rights groups, parliments supporting them, and they still lost. Pathetic.
Chavez's supporters are firing back. 300-500 thousand of them. He gave a speech where he talked about Gramsci's theories.
I appreciate you keeping tabs on the situation in Venezuela. I spend most of my time in my books so that I have a hard enough time following the news coming from the U.S. to say nothing of the wider world out there.
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Ya Troutsky, quit spamming other people's blogs with personal insults and racial epitaphs [?], whatever those are.
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I'm watching your back,
My blog was threatened also. It is not going down without taking down an enemy blog or two.
The above has nothing to do with me. I was off line for at least 48 hours.
You guys cry too much. Ask any person in my blog community about the antics of Brown.
Then again as advocates of repression and brutality you clowns may think threatening children, genuine spam and racial slurs are funny so long as the target is correct.
racial epitaphs [?], whatever those are.
Perhaps this is an example?
Wow. talk about having the right picture for the right moment
Eric,
Perhaps this is an example?
That tomb must be at least 100 years old... I hope...
The grave marker is indeed more than a century old. It's from an historic graveyard in Napa County, California. I love old graveyards, both because they can tell so much about local history, and because I find them rather atmospheric.
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