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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 08:46 AM Jan 2014

Pepe Escobar: The real State of the Union

http://atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-290114.html



The real State of the Union
By Pepe Escobar
Jan 29, '14

US President Barack Obama's State of the Union (SOTU) address was a somewhat surrealist spectacle. Way beyond avalanches of PR spin, the US government for a long time has not exactly done wonders for the public good. So as it advertises itself in front of a dysfunctional US Congress dismissed as repellent by an overwhelming majority of Americans - including, and expanding, on those 76% who are living paycheck to paycheck - what's left is a grand, old Hollywood production.

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The key theme of SOTU 2014 was the appalling income inequality in the US. Call it an appendix of this past week at the World Economic Forum in Davos - that snowy Vegas for the 0.00001% - in which the Masters of the Universe finally "discovered" inequality. So much inequality, in fact, that 2014 was instantly tagged by the Masters - and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - as the new 1914, all that furiously tweeted to all corporate boardrooms of the liquid modernity elite.

As Obama got into his groove, he proclaimed that Obamacare had won; that he would resort to ruling by executive order to get things done; and that a mixed salad of platitudes and vague proposals/generalities attested to the imminent success of his agenda of improving "opportunity" as the only answer to fighting inequality. Oh yes; and that the American Dream was not in a coma.

No word, of course, about the "gentle", progressive dismantling of what's left of US democracy, via the Orwellian/Panopticon complex, through which 0.00001% elite rule is painfully achieved in a sanitized Total Information Awareness (TIA) environment. With the US government in total control of the Internet, that once-upon-a-time dream - the revolution will be televised - won't happen even on the web
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Pepe Escobar: The real State of the Union (Original Post) unhappycamper Jan 2014 OP
No, it will happen in the streets, and it won't be suitable for Hollywood Demeter Jan 2014 #1
 

Demeter

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1. No, it will happen in the streets, and it won't be suitable for Hollywood
Wed Jan 29, 2014, 10:43 AM
Jan 2014

but it will happen, never fear. There are only 85 of them, and 7 billion of us.

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