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U.S. calls for unity as crisis wrecks markets
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In bad economy, power cutoffs soar
-In London, Bloomberg Calls for Optimism
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg received the Freedom of the City of London. He posed with Sir Michael Snyder, left, deputy chairman of policy of the Corporation of London, and Stuart Fraser, the corporation’s chairman
These items aren't presented as being related directly, or at least no more than all events are directly related, the way fish starving among dead coral are related to songbirds starving in the exoticized landscape of suburban Atlanta.
Keats wants me to, or to be able to, entertain, which means in this context hold, two opposing ideas without "any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
I try.
This is chaos, this is the dam breaking because of bad engineering and shoddy construction materials and practices.
This is the dam breaking because explosive charges were set at its base and touched off remotely, intentionally, timed to the second.
I'm not irritable.
I'm not reaching.
The American whatchadewey, the people, back in 2006 sent a big smoke signal to Washington, that the war so-called in Iraq had to stop, right now.
It didn't you'll notice.
This is chaos, this is the dam breaking because of bad engineering and shoddy construction materials and practices.
This is the dam breaking because explosive charges were set at its base and touched off remotely, intentionally, timed to the second.
I'm not irritable.
I'm not reaching.
The American whatchadewey, the people, back in 2006 sent a big smoke signal to Washington, that the war so-called in Iraq had to stop, right now.
It didn't you'll notice.
And - important point - everyone who felt like that then has been joined by at least one other person who feels like that now, and no one has gone back the other way.
If you don't think that's important you probably aren't even reading this.
So faced with mounting opposition to their disgusting campaign of self-glorification and world domination, the greasy eminences behind the invasion of Iraq and the stalled somewhat crusade to do to Iran what was done to Iraq are shaking down the world economy, most especially and significantly the US economy segment of the world economy. To weaken their enemies, and pre-emptively weaken their potential enemies.
If you don't think that's important you probably aren't even reading this.
So faced with mounting opposition to their disgusting campaign of self-glorification and world domination, the greasy eminences behind the invasion of Iraq and the stalled somewhat crusade to do to Iran what was done to Iraq are shaking down the world economy, most especially and significantly the US economy segment of the world economy. To weaken their enemies, and pre-emptively weaken their potential enemies.
That's you, us.
Who has time and energy to freak about the chronic festering of Iraq and the over 2 trillion dollars it's consuming out of the US treasury, when the money's vanishing - all the money - threatening to vanish down the perspective tracks toward infinity.
I am reaching, but I'm not irritable.
This is also transferring great quantities of wealth, from faceless corporations to faceless individuals. Not a negligible matter all by itself. And if you don't go along with the program somehow no one at all will come and take away without even existing in order to be able to do that but still existing enough like the wind or a wave in the ocean to do that and will take away the whole economy, or at least the economy you know and have come to love, to love as if it were your home, or the street in front of your home.
Since it's all made up numbers and abstract ideas what difference does that make?
You can still grow corn and potatoes, you can still mend shoes, you can still take in laundry and deliver milk and bake bread and clean other people's houses and build other people's houses and fences, and raise and sell rabbits and pigs, or make and sell mandolins and ukeleles, and you don't need money to do any of that, and people have done that without any money having to change hands at all before. So who cares?
You do because you were born harnessed to the wheel.
I am irritable.
You were born in harness and it's all you know.
And the reins and traces of that harness go right back to the greasy motherfuckers taking the whole thing down to raw fear and the breaking line between heroic self-sacrifice and craven obedience.
I am reaching, but I'm not irritable.
This is also transferring great quantities of wealth, from faceless corporations to faceless individuals. Not a negligible matter all by itself. And if you don't go along with the program somehow no one at all will come and take away without even existing in order to be able to do that but still existing enough like the wind or a wave in the ocean to do that and will take away the whole economy, or at least the economy you know and have come to love, to love as if it were your home, or the street in front of your home.
Since it's all made up numbers and abstract ideas what difference does that make?
You can still grow corn and potatoes, you can still mend shoes, you can still take in laundry and deliver milk and bake bread and clean other people's houses and build other people's houses and fences, and raise and sell rabbits and pigs, or make and sell mandolins and ukeleles, and you don't need money to do any of that, and people have done that without any money having to change hands at all before. So who cares?
You do because you were born harnessed to the wheel.
I am irritable.
You were born in harness and it's all you know.
And the reins and traces of that harness go right back to the greasy motherfuckers taking the whole thing down to raw fear and the breaking line between heroic self-sacrifice and craven obedience.
Bush says economy will be fine in long run
