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i find it peculiar to read stuff from conservatives who like so much the language of freedom and liberty and all that when it doesn't mean anything getting all fluttery jittery about a movement in egypt that's demanding freedom and try to reduce it to some crude hydraulic affair prompted exclusively by price fluctuations. seaver's got a far more important cause right---which aligns this with events like mai 68 in paris in particular. an oligarchy centered on the ndp/mubarak has plundered egypt for 30 years under the figleaf of a state of emergency, selling it to the world as standing fast against imaginary Enemies like those that populate the fever dreams of the glenn beck set----but maybe that's what makes american conservatives nervous, really--the image of people revolting against an oligarchy. could happen here and then where would you be? stuff this freedom business back in the bottle before its too late.
it appears that the mubarak clique has resigned en masse from the ndp.
i think the walls are crumbling.
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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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