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Heavy weather on the way

By Owen Paine on Wednesday April 22, 2009 02:06 PM

"I have the strong feeling that 2010 is going to look a lot like 1994. And God only knows what we’ll get in 2012, if people don’t rise up and fight this corporate bullshit."
Those are the grave warning words of the prophet Michael (aka Green Hornet) Dawson at his off-the-reservation carnival anti-Fort Apache blog.

Maybe. But then there's the Noah Clause. When the nautical patriarch got the tip from the guy at the top of the stairs, what if he'd said to himself, after the deity meet-and-greet, "Shit -- what's that all about? So we're gonna get some rain -- still looks like 16 years ago to me."

Shipmates and fellow small fry -- this is not cousin Clint's America anymore. This is not Lola Albright's God's brown earth anymore. Quantity change hath begun to become quality change, as Freddy Engels simplified histmat dynamics 130 years ago or so.

Get ready, red and pink souls. Start collecting the gopher wood. Start drafting your plans for a vessel. The rains will not stop, this time, for a long long time. The circus is comin' to town!

I'm saying this in spite of the occasional disquieting hint that the planetary crisis is -- ebbing. In fact I'm throwing caution to the winds here, disregarding the promptings of prudence.

It's time to go for broke! Time to go for the whole ball of wax! Forget my spotless oracular record over the past 28 years -- I'm blowin' the ram's horn here! The end is near, brothers and sisters! The global system has cracked! All the corporate jets and all the corporate suits can't put it back together again.

It's 1930 all over again, and next year is 1931.

Okay, I'm counterphobically going out on a limb -- now that everyone is saying the contraction is subsiding, the future looks like recovery may start, etc., etc.

I don't think the repugs will pull a major congressional power reversal like in 1994. Obama has the good fortune of real trouble here, not just a recession.

He may Hoover himself -- be a real DLC fool -- but between you and me, I think he won't. In fact I think all those neolibs are changelings, ready to catch the prog wave rising from the little people's hearts and minds.

I think Obie'll do enough to frame the coming job doldrums as "the best recovery human ingenuity can devise," and the press and the popular votin' majority will go along with him.

Comments (4)

op:

okay mr owen t.s. paine

so what's your ark gonna be ???

well i plan to retire from my roll
as big picture wide screen technicolor four wall "bloviator"
and join daughter and common law son in law
in the engine room of the class struggle
becoming another nut among the bolts
of
service and commercial sector unionism

building with balsa not gopher wood ???

maybe so
but...
maybe.....
not so

hce:

Say it aint so, Joe! SMBIVA splitting into radical and reformist sects!!! Have Van Mingle's barbs had something to do with this?

And BTW, what's happened to Al? Has he also been seduced into the real world of actually doing something?

Pajamahadeen, unite!! We have nothing to lose but our cringing self-images.

op:

Ear

Not so fast the rain must turn to down pour
B4 I'll re join the combat
Old guards. Are held in reserve
For a climactic
Brake thru charge

I certainly find it hard to believe that the farther-right can summon something coherent enough to sell, but NerO's certainly manufacturing opportunities for em.

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