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[aid] => mick
[title] => THE "GREAT" GAME
[time] => 2004-03-08 08:34:00
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[bodytext] => They call it the great game The dominance of the world by the powerful It stems from an arrogance so ugly, so awful O/ ‘We have 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of its population. In this situation, our real job in the coming period … is to maintain this position of disparity. To do so, we have to dispense with all sentimentality … we should cease thinking about human rights, the raising of living standards and democratisation.' George Kennan, U.S. strategic planner, 1948 O/ What kind of a government do impoverished people vote for? Those that support the rich elites? Or those who redistribute to the poor? Does this answer why the great U.S.A. Is always undermining these people? Does this tell you why when they say “Democracy!” They lie? Look at Haiti. Look at Venezuala soon. 'Governments sharing wealth with the poor!? We can’t have this! Our rich backers will scream! Fund some death squads, arrange for torture!' Create a groundswell of anger Fabricate some facts Get the CIA in there and active Do the usual dirty acts This great game brings such awful pain While the elites move their chessboard pieces Those who have little will have that taken away As only their suffering increases O/ “There are others saying we are already in a fascist sort of mode; if you say something often enough, the people will begin to believe it. And that strategy has been applied with great success by this administration – weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda-Iraq ties...other ‘evidence’ being produced to justify an unprovoked war. And so I think we all ought to be worried about fascism.” Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst O/ [comments] => 1 [counter] => 241 [topic] => 41 [informant] => steeleyes [notes] => Edited per comment left on your own poem. It is sad that so far out of 600+ comments, very few were on any other YPDC member's work. :( Comment removed. Over five hundred poems and under old rules that would equate to over 1500 comments on work by other site members. Moderator_18 June 7, 2012 [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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