tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post7993073633416718288..comments2024-01-16T03:55:26.266-05:00Comments on Welcome to Pottersville 2 (Blogging Against Fascism!): US Have Been HoodWinked? Secrets of the Empire RevealedCirzehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-90016708061969000832009-11-28T15:25:52.270-05:002009-11-28T15:25:52.270-05:00I'm guessing he got sick of Aramco.
Funny how...I'm guessing he got sick of Aramco.<br /><br />Funny how those guys go into education after screwing up the world isn't it?<br /><br />Thanks for your comments!<br /><br />SCirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-41098492266800757822009-11-28T15:10:25.081-05:002009-11-28T15:10:25.081-05:00Fortunately I had a pretty good Prof. He agreed w...Fortunately I had a pretty good Prof. He agreed with my conclusions, said my work exceeded the requirements of the class, and gave me an A. He got into education after he quit working as an economist for Aramco for ethical reasons.TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397335545286040472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-29480667384322053402009-11-27T13:31:07.783-05:002009-11-27T13:31:07.783-05:00Thank you so much for the Sinclair (who passed int...Thank you so much for the Sinclair (who passed into eternity's pantheon of heroes two days after my birthday) reference, DB.<br /><br />There should be book clubs organized today for the sole purpose of reading his books (which is desperately needed for simple intellectual self defense in this whacko climate of hysterical hype over the triumph of "capitalism" and Neocon nonthink).<br /><br />He founded California's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and ran for rep for Congress, Senator and eventually on an End Poverty campaign for Governor - imagine how far CA had to fall to think Reagan qualified for same. Heinlein campaigned for him!<br /><br />He should be read widely; I would suggest getting one's feet wet with:<br /><br />The Jungle<br /><br />Dragon's Teeth<br /><br />Oil! (the basis of <i>There Will Be Blood</i> (2007), starring Daniel Day-Lewis)<br /><br />Fascinating man.<br /><br />Totally engaged life.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment.<br /><br />S<br /><br /><i>"The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I proved it in the case of EPIC.<br /><br />Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000.<br /><br />I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them."</i><br />_______________Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-23577403026848230662009-11-27T12:10:48.366-05:002009-11-27T12:10:48.366-05:00'I couldn't believe how naive the so-calle...<i>'I couldn't believe how naive the so-called educated class was, but, cross their palms with silver...'</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/u/uptonsincl138285.html" rel="nofollow">Upton Sinclair</a> said it best. <br /><br />Although public awareness on a broadly scaled level came too late to head off Babylon's collapse, I am thankful for the hubristically egregious stupidities of the Wall Street predators that made it impossible for any but the intellectually bedridden to not notice that a perilous game was afoot and farther along than most knew.<br /><br />;>)darkblackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06584075324283109495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-6570108894480576342009-11-24T14:06:11.932-05:002009-11-24T14:06:11.932-05:00You got it, baby.
Pretty good for one year of und...You got it, baby.<br /><br />Pretty good for one year of undergrad work!<br /><br />I have to admit that I was predicting this during my grad work in the early 80's as I wrote about what the Raygun had wrought - my profs were open-mouthed then in wonderment. I couldn't believe how naive the so-called educated class was, but, cross their palms with silver . . . .<br /><br />Thanks for the comment!<br /><br />SCirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3397167328061019765.post-25155551701744351542009-11-24T13:58:14.379-05:002009-11-24T13:58:14.379-05:00My economics education is only one year of undergr...My economics education is only one year of undergraduate work, bit even fifteen years ago, that was enough to tell me we were in trouble. I wrote my final essay on how corporations create pseudo-profit by privitizing profit, but externalalizing cost. Socialiam for the rich has buried the rest of us.TomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397335545286040472noreply@blogger.com