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as an aside, have you noticed the consistent use of "perfect storm" and other such weather-related rhetoric in the american press accounts of this? you'd almost think that ike was tailor-made for opinion-management purposes---and notice the difference in interpretations being floated by the presidential candidates: for mc-cain this is a matter of subjective deviance--excess greed---which means obviously that neoliberalism itself is not at play insofar as his constituency is concerned---while obama talks about systems of regulation---which is not a recognition of underlying problems, but nonetheless is a far more lucid take on things than what mc-cain is offering. even at the level of terminology.
we'll see what the day brings.
but isn't ideology funniest when it's transparent?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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