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Big business wants to improve the standard of living for everyone ...
Okay, now who's out of touch with reality? Geez, you say something like that, and then you say that a disinformation campaign on a much smaller scale than the one you just participated in is impossible? Dude! Crack kills! [Smile]

No, I'm being unfair ... I'm sure you genuinely believe what you're saying. You give off a benevolent vibe. But you should know better.

See, you can say that a disinformation campaign is impossible ... but we know that's not true. For one thing, people are talking about the Pentagon, aren't they? Something smells fishy there.

But again we run into the same old problem ... you aren't going to consider that talk valid until it's CNN or someone similar doing the talking. While it's us normal folks, it's wild-eyed conspiracy theory ... while it's a talking head on a screen, it's official reality.

Allow me to submit that the disinformation campaign has failed, in spite of CNN's participation ... much like the similar campaign that insists that global capitalism is a really great idea for everybody.

Man, I don't even think capitalism is a good idea for those of us in the United States. I'm quite offended whenever anyone talks as though capitalism is as much a part of America as democracy.

Y'know the old saw about how "Communism and socialism would be great, if only human nature didn't make them impossibly corrupt!" Well, that's basically true -- and it's also how I feel about capitalism. Want proof? Easy. Go ask anybody without any capital.

As for the likelihood of the Oil Boys slamming planes into the WTC being affected by a hit to the world economy, the fact remains that it played directly into the Shrub's political hands. He was able to get away with some really disgusting tax breaks to some really disgustingly rich people. Microsoft alone walked away with 1.4 billion dollars in retroactive tax cuts. The government becomes more like comicbooks every day -- now they're doing financial retcons.

Maybe those Y2K bracings made the WTC attack possible? I don't know. But the fact remains that the Shrub and the Oil Boys came out on top of this one, in spite of the way things could've gone. You can't tell me you don't wonder just a little bit about whether or not they knew that.

Speaking of Microsoft ... if you're interested in what the shrinking middle-class of America thinks about capitalism (though they probably wouldn't put it in such terms), why don't you ask a Seattlite how he feels about Microsoft?

See, we're not afraid of losing our jobs. Economically, America is way too arrogant to worry about that as much as we say we do. The generation that remembers the Great Depression is either dead or has been drinking out of so many aluminum cans that their memories are lost to Alzheimer's. We protest against global capitalization because we know what capitalists are like.