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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 12/10/2017 - 7:14am

The US Economic Plan
Dumb down the People, Take their Money


(repeat as necessary)

The fatal flaw with this economic model is that after enough time, the people are broke and can no longer provide for the 1%. How dumb are we? I'll be better able to answer after Tuesday's election here in Alabama. They've got the propaganda machines running on high in anticipation. Do you think the Israeli embassy move is a distraction to insure passage of the tax scam? I wouldn't be surprised. Despite everyone's sense that T-rump is an idiot, I wonder how such a supposed dumb ass can yank the chain of almost every news outlet in the US at any moment. As Chris Hedges often says, things are not broken, they are going as planned for the 1%. Sadly, we think we live in a democracy when it is really corporate feudalism.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 05/14/2017 - 6:43am

I've had no internet this week. It is a capacity issue they hope to resolve shortly, which I think means they oversold their capacity and are making up for lost time. Do you think they will discount my $60/month for 3 Meg service?

At any rate, I couldn't do any research this week and only heard the big stories...Macron, the banker, wins the French presidency; the son of N. Korea refugees won the S. Korean election; and Comey, Comey, Comey ad nauseum.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 04/23/2017 - 6:40am
The Global Corporate Coup Keeps Marching Onward,
but Science will not be Silenced
(just ask Galileo)

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Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Rossetti

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 03/05/2017 - 6:08am
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War And Peace
Franklin Pierce Adams

"This war is a terrible thing," he said,
"With its countless numbers of needless dead;
A futile warfare it seems to me,
Fought for no principle I can see.
Alas, that thousands of hearts should bleed
For naught but a tyrant's boundless greed!"

Said the wholesale grocer, in righteous mood,
As he went to adulterate salable food.

Spake as follows the merchant king:
"Isn't this war a disgusting thing?
Heartless, cruel, and useless, too;
It doesn't seem that it can be true.
Think of the misery, want and fear!
We ought to be grateful we've no war here.

"Six a week"--to a girl--"That's flat!
I can get a thousand to work for that."

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 02/05/2017 - 6:01am
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The Peace Of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Open Thread - The New Year Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 5:18am

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

A New Year
William Arthur Ward

Another fresh new year is here …
     Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
     To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
     To live each day with zest …
To daily grow and try to be
     My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
     Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
     And sing more joyful songs!

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Open Thread - The Christmas Weekly Watch

Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 12/25/2016 - 5:06am


Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Cool Kwanzaa, and Festive Festivus (for the rest of us),
or just have a good day if you are a devout non-celebrant.
Welcome to the Christmas day edition of the Weekly Watch!

Christmastide
by H. P. Lovecraft

The cottage hearth beams warm and bright,
The candles gaily glow;
The stars emit a kinder light
Above the drifted snow.

Down from the sky a magic steals
To glad the passing year,
And belfries sing with joyous peals,
For Christmastide is here!

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