(va: To dupers and dupees everywhere) The Thinker by Auguste Rodinat the California Palace of the Legion of HonorImage from Wikimedia CommonsPublic Domain: Author, Karora On odd occasions, one can encounter contrition in the red-white-&-blue, balloon-strewn ballroom of 6-AM, post-convention chaos. That’s where I encountered PR. He was alone, seated in Thinker repose, a damp hanky drying […]
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(Tea Party 1 : Tea Party 2) To the offended: You may be adamantly against the recent stimulus packages and bailouts of Big Business (as proffered by GWB and BHO), but if you are a laissez-faire capitalist or corporate libertarian, you are a porter for economic tyranny (as in T-Party) whether you admit it or
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(All indented quotes are found in Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor, © 1999, A Plume Book. You should read this book if you are an investor and/or speculator, or if you are financially related to one.) Not only was the “vast fund of stupidity”* a growth industry in
(All indented quotes are found in Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor, © 1999, A Plume Book, pp. 59, 67, 67, 69, 76, 77, 92.) In memory of the birth of the South Sea Company (in 1711 – 300 years ago), Deja Vu Times recycles a few comments/quotes from
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(P-Con = sketch-stories exploring the déjà vu of Power, Publicity, PR, & Propoganda Concerns.) This sketch-story was inspired while watching “Donald Trump’s Golf War” documentary, aired on “The Passionate Eye” – CBC News Network, Sunday, March 20, 2011; available for ONLY a limited time at http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2011/golfwar/
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~ http://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2009/08/ten-dictates-practicalities-of-laissez.htmlhttp://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2010/06/yes-we-get-it.html
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~~~So many of my acquaintances are panicked by government power (with some considerable justification), yet blasé (to the extreme) regarding the corporate giants who massage the backs and egos of elected officials. Giants who supply-line election and PAC coffers; giants who demand and receive favors; giants who even write legislation. Does it not seem strange
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