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Astonishing slap in the face of Bush from Tom Friedman. | 21 comments (21 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Astonishing slap in the face... (4.00 / 3)

Friedman is an asshole, a front runner and quite likely a mouthpiece for some level of the Intel community as well.

But that's OK.

He is a BRILLIANT asshole and front runner, and he works for some very important people.

This level of the U.S. is NOT going to go away. Not without a cataclysmic, revolutionary movement and/or some sort of natural or man-made disaster on a huge scale. And if it DID go away it would just return in another form. It's genetic. Part of the human genome. Deal with it. It is a good thing that these people are finally coming to their senses about the sheer stupidity of fighting expensive wars to provide cheap oil...oil that will be gone before we can ever pay the debts that we are accruing in the effort to control it.

I said that Friedman was "brilliant". Well...he is brilliant given the competition and given the level on which he works.

Millions of us figured this out years ago.

I guess that we are just fucking geniuses.

But on the level of humanity that stoops to power...the rest of us seem to be getting through.

Good thing, too.

Just in time.

Just as it always was.
So it goes.

Maybe we'll survive THIS crisis, too.

Ya think?

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Sat Jan 7th, 2006 at 09:20:34 AM EST

Re: Astonishing slap in the face... (none / 1)

Maybe we'll survive THIS crisis, too.
Ya think?

It certainly is cause for guarded optimism that the "PermaGov" has decided that they've ridden the oil train to the end of the line, and that the only way to keep making big bucks into the indefinite future is to get on board with saving the planet.

Jared Diamond's "Collapse" doesn't make for a profitable business plan, unless you sell swords and maces to warlords.

Ecological collapse is already happening. Your resentment of the word doesn't change the fact that it is occurring.

by Knoxville Progressive (green_planet_2000 (at) yahoo (dot) com) on Sat Jan 7th, 2006 at 09:41:52 PM EST
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Re: Astonishing slap in the face... (none / 0)

Guess who owns the majority of critical patents for all of that future technolgy?

by rumi on Sat Jan 7th, 2006 at 09:49:11 PM EST
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Re: Astonishing slap in the face... (none / 1)

If you've got the specifics, that would make a hell of a diary.

Is it moral to support the beast if it has a monopoly on the technologies that can save the planet from environmental destruction? Juicy ethical dilemma for the frog chorus to discuss...

Ecological collapse is already happening. Your resentment of the word doesn't change the fact that it is occurring.

by Knoxville Progressive (green_planet_2000 (at) yahoo (dot) com) on Sat Jan 7th, 2006 at 10:05:58 PM EST
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Re: Astonishing slap in the face... (none / 0)

I've done similar diaries but not one concentrating on that technology. I'll put one together. The patent issue is one that really stood out in the effects it had on the marketed GWoT and even 9/11.

We could treat a world of ills and the momopolists could still make money, just not so damn much. No way we cure them all but it would be an improvement. We need to reinstall or invent the corporate social conscience. Someone has a great diary currently on the pitfalls treating a corp like a person.

The trouble with key patents are they can determine the supporting technology or business and that can also cause more harm than good. For instance, the issues with ICG and global sales of coal bring in deals with Asia and Australia where importing countries buy coal at a higher price from the folks that sell the technology needed to use it. Meanwhile our energy prices here are putting people on the street, in part, because a global market set those prices instead of local supply and demand. Consumers lose all around and the top dog investors rake in more than they should.

by rumi on Sat Jan 7th, 2006 at 10:42:42 PM EST
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Re: Astonishing slap in the face... (none / 1)

I would say Friedman is "clever", but not "brilliant".

Whether he's a shill for others or not I can't say, but it seems clear to me that he's his own biggest fan, and that it is this narcissism, if nothing else, that stifles any new chance at brilliance he might have had.

Denial is our most dangerous adversary.

by sbj on Sat Jan 7th, 2006 at 10:28:38 PM EST
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Re: Astonishing slap in the face... (none / 0)

The word "brilliant" when modified by such words as front runner and asshole does come out somewhere near "clever" when all is said and done.

He is brilliant considering his competition in that field.

I mean...compared to say O'Reilly or Coulter?

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"Brilliant!!!"

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Sun Jan 8th, 2006 at 06:45:40 AM EST
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Re: Astonishing slap in the face... (none / 0)

P.S. he is definitely a shill for Israel...

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West

by Arthur Gilroy (arthurgilroy<at>earthlink.net) on Sun Jan 8th, 2006 at 06:47:17 AM EST
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