Good short interview with Noam. He played cowboys and indians when he was a kid, btw:https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/most-of-the-world-is-just-collapsing-in-laughter-on-claims-that-russia-intervened-in-the-us-election/

“…So what’s the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn’t publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it’s a global system and of course he didn’t say it, it’s an intervention force under US command, as we’ve seen in case after case. So that’s NATO. So what happened to the years of defending Europe from the Russian hordes? Well, you can go back to NSC-68,6 and see how serious that was. So that’s what we’re living with….”

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another view:http://nova.wpunj.edu/newpolitics/issue22/kelley22.htm

“… Besides assuming that the “universal” is truly “self-evident,” the neo-Enlightenment Left cannot conceive of movements led by African Americans, women, Latinos, gays and lesbians, speaking for the whole or even embracing radical humanism. The implications are frightening: the only people who can speak the language of universalism are white men (since they have no investment in identity politics beyond renewed ethnic movements arising here and there) and women and colored people who have transcended or rejected the politics of identity. Moreover, they either don’t understand or refuse to acknowledge that class is lived through race and gender. There is no universal class identity, just as there is no universal racial or gender or sexual identity. The idea that race, gender, and sexuality are particular whereas class is universal not only presumes that class struggle is some sort of race and gender-neutral terrain but takes for granted that movements focused on race, gender, or sexuality necessarily undermine class unity and, by definition, cannot be emancipatory for the whole.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not giving priority to “identity politics” over the struggle to dismantle capitalism and to build a world we’ve never seen before — a world free of market forces and all the terrible things that go with it. Rather, I have trouble with their characterization of race, gender, and sexuality as narrow identity politics while “class” is regarded as some transcendent, universal category that rises above these other identities. Indeed, Gitlin calls the first three, “birthrights,” and despite an obligatory nod to Anthony Appiah, he fails to treat these categories as social constructs that have enormous consequences for how class is lived. Along with these so-called “identities” come regimes of oppression. Are churches being burned because black people are alienating white folks? Is that why the Justice Department focuses much of its investigation on black congregations rather than white supremacist groups? Is pro-Prop 187 sentiment and callousness toward immigrants the result of Mexican and Central American immigrants’ refusal to be “inclusive?”

I FIND THE NEO-ENLIGHTENMENT POSITION INCREDIBLY PROBLEMATIC GIVEN WHAT WE K…” see link

Some hedges

Billy_T wrote:

wv wrote:

Anyway, i am online, kinda, barely (thru frontier) but I’m switching to Xfinity Comcast tomorrow. They are coming out and they ‘say’ I’ll have faster improved speed, blah blah blah. We’ll see. I may be offline again after they come, i dunno.

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WV,

You probably already know this, via your switch to the Cable Modem, but just in case (I’ve had Comcast for more than a decade now, and did tech support on Cable Modems long before that):

1. You should buy your own, instead of renting theirs. It will pay for itself in less than a year, and then each year after that, you’re saving money.

2. Take advantage of their free antivirus software. I get Norton through them, and if you previously paid for it, that’s a nice savings each year too.

3. Make sure you have a good router, with the latest consumer protocol (802.11ac) and set it up with WPA2-PSK(AES). If it uses the private IP address in the 192 series, switch it to 10.0.0.1 instead. Though the 192 series still works fine.

4. Each year, you’re probably gonna get a big increase in price from Comcast. Just call in and negotiate it back down. I’ve done this successfully, with only a coupla failures, for more than a decade. It costs them more to lose you as a customer than to keep you, even at the same rate as last year or better.

Hope all is well —

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Well, i dont understand any of that tech-talk BT — all i know is this thing is lightning fast. I’ve never had anything like this. Its faster than a Rams three-and-out. Its faster than a blitzing LB rocketing through the Rams OLine…

I have a friend who said she has trouble with comcast internet when it Rains. So i asked the hookup guy about that and he said its probly SQUIRRELS.

Squirrels are attacking the Internet, apparently.

One wonders what they WANT. Why the internet?

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Yeah i particularly liked this term: ‘shadow white house’.

“Obama will be overseeing it all from a shadow White House located within two miles of Trump. It features a mansion, which he’s fortifying…”

Face it zn, we are too stupid to survive. If there’s anything Trump/Hillary and the Rams Offense has taught me, its that…we are too stupid to survive.

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Mackeyser wrote:

Considering that we have outperformed every worst case scenario (even the outlier case scenarios),

Is the over/under on civilization 8.5 years?

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I dunno but the cockroaches and crows are six point favorites
at this point.

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As for Manion vs Goff…they can be evaluated against each other and IMO Goff showed he was already better than Manion and should only widen the gap this year.

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So you are saying Ag is stark raving mad, then.

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