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This morning, temporarily freed from the need to go
\n to the office, we were watching Fox news. We confess to a weakness for
\n Fox, as opposed to CNN, which has become our parents news network, and
\n hell, we are past 50. Fox is hipper, faster and less attached to that annoying
\n illusion of objectivity.<\/p>\n
Anyway, we swear we heard the promo announcer say "The We opened the Boston Globe, recently retrieved from our Last week the departing US secretary of health and human What the hell is going on here? Obviously, we are living The result is that the country is deeply disturbed and This is especially true when the electorate has as much But in America, hope doesn’t have a chance. With the national The fear is not overt, but it is ever present. It Stay tuned…..<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, temporarily freed from the need to go to the office, we were watching Fox news. We confess to a weakness for Fox, as opposed to CNN, which has become our parents news network, and hell, we are past … Continue reading
\n next terror attack is coming soon! Which US city will be hit?", like the
\n teaser to a coming attraction<\/a>, like
\n "Which desperate housewife will die?" Anticipating the ratings pop, no doubt.<\/p>\n
\n frigid front porch. The
\n top story<\/a>, front page above the fold, was
\n to the effect that a terrorist attack on a liquefied natural gas tanker (photo above)
\n — via methods such as internal sabotage, a rocket-propelled grenade,
\n a kamikaze flight, or a USS Cole-style suicide boat ramming — would cause
\n ”major injuries and significant damage to structures" a
\n third of a mile away and could cause second-degree burns on people more
\n than a mile away. It was illustrated by a map of East Boston, Everett
\n and surrounding towns showing the blast footprint for each level of damage.<\/p>\n
\n services said that he was surprised that terrorists had not
\n yet targeted the food supply. He practically issued an invitation and a
\n roadmap to potential psychos.<\/p>\n
\n in a dangerous world, but it is becoming equally obvious that the American public
\n is being worked into a paranoid dither with constant warnings about the
\n fantastic variety of disaster which could befall us at any moment. It’s
\n like the government and the main media have adopted and adapted that successful Hollywood standby,
\n the
\n horror\/disaster
\n movie, for their own nefarious ends.<\/p>\n
\n unsettled, mostly on a subconscious level. An atmosphere of cold unfocused
\n fear is permeating the American landscape, shadowing our days and haunting
\n our dreams. The most important lesson of the recently completed political
\n campaign is that the politics of fear trumps the politics of hope.<\/p>\n
\n to lose as ours does. How many of our liberties will we be willing to do
\n without to preserve our standard of living? The politics of hope may have
\n a chance, once in a while, in the pockets of
\n poverty festering
\n like
\n the
\n pox
\n on the
\n face
\n of
\n the planet, where the only loss the people have to fear is the loss of
\n their lives, since the own nothing else.<\/p>\n
\n psyche already deeply unsettled by the creeping subconscious realization
\n that we are hogging ten times our share of the world’s resources, and that
\n most of the rest of the human race hates us for it, the unspoken amorphous
\n fear is the realization that WE COULD LOSE IT ALL, in an instant, in one
\n insane
\n act, in a nightmare role reversal where the master becomes the slave. Payback
\n is a bitch.<\/p>\n
\n tugs and gnaws at our minds. And it is the most powerful psychological
\n and political force in the land today. Are we in the killing zone? How
\n can we know? It could happen at any moment. In
\n the
\n meantime,
\n why do
\n we
\n have
\n the feeling we are being set up for a fall? What
\n are they
\n preparing
\n us
\n for?
\n We are
\n trying
\n not to
\n be paranoid, but will someone please explain what all those guys in black
\n suits are doing in the bushes?<\/p>\n