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12-07-2008, 10:19 AM
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Location: Rockland County New York
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What I can't understand is that the market when up 250 points Friday because investors believe that there is going to be additional bailouts for Wall Street. Things are tanking and the market is going up?
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12-07-2008, 10:22 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Rockland County New York
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Quote:
Originally Posted by evilnewbie
No we won't, it will be classified Top Secret by the government and nobody will chase after it, not even reporters cause they are paid by Big Media who get money from Big Business...
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Welcome to the near future. The government, corporations and the media are now in charge of controlling what we see, hear and think. When will they start burning books? |
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12-07-2008, 05:46 PM
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Didactic Member
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Hunkering down atop Mt Shasta
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Why burn books when they can simply be ignored? As Dmitri Orlov said,
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The American way of dealing with dissent and with protest is certainly more advanced [than the Soviet Union's]: why imprison dissidents when you can just let them shout into the wind to their heart's content?
The American approach to bookkeeping is more subtle and nuanced than the Soviet. Why make a state secret of some statistic, when you can just distort it, in obscure ways?
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Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US | Energy Bulletin |
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12-07-2008, 06:52 PM
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Senior Member
Status:
"I didn't take the "Blue" pill"
(set 22 days ago)
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Great State of Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stac2007
Welcome to the near future. The government, corporations and the media are now in charge of controlling what we see, hear and think. When will they start burning books?
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They don't have to burn books..not too many people actually read anymore..it's all covered by the TV/radio/iPod..just watch and listen. |
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12-08-2008, 01:08 AM
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Cantankerous
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Los Angeles Area
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Nobody is controlling what we see, hear and think. You can go on the internet or the local library and read whatever you want. Even revolutionary material like the Communist Manifesto....
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