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To: Slagle who wrote (17561)	4/22/2007 1:59:20 PM
From: RJA_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218793

I am busily preparing, and I think with some success for what I think is coming. I think it is being caused by a combination of political expediency, stupidity, apathy, lack of knowledge of history, or refusal to learn its lessons. Not by conspiracy. If things go wrong its handy to have some group to blame. That I see as the MO of a looser. Just my humble opinion.

To: Slagle who wrote (17561)	4/22/2007 3:17:03 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218793

Slagle, We love conspiracy theories. Keep them coming! Your viewpoints are very interesting. There is the contrast between your rationality and balance in your posts and almost paranoic distrust of globalization. It will be too simple to dismiss you as a nut, as RJA is doing in his posts. On one hand, your posts are relevant, there is a fair amount of verifiable historical and geographical detail in your posts. That was noticable in your balanced recounting of anecdotes about Phillipines. Also, you are obviously very interested in and well researched about native american life. There are also references to your connections and hints of insider connections that you quote as support for your world view. Regarding US media, the suggestion about conspiracy is easy to believe. Most people in the US believe that the media is free and it is trying to tell them the truth, only that the truth takes time to come out, sometimes needing investigative journalists and at other times distractions happen because of the commercial nature of the business. This is of course the most generous view of US media. Then there are other people who are conscious of the fact that media is not independent, but very strongly directed by competing forces of corporations, hollywood, trade groups, and political parties, with very little involvement of the government. Such people know that there are conspiracies (a few people manipulating the situation) because they might have been involved with them in some ways. Movie and book promoters know how to take advantage of the buzz and push guests with stake in the product to media channels at just the right time. Wall Street knows how to create buzz around their IPOs without blatantly violating the law. Politicos know how to distribute sound bites to the media so that 50 messengers relay the same argument around the same time, till even an intelligent viewer falls for it. So these conspiracies do exist. The only problem is that most people who understand the sophistication of the media always believe the conspiracy exists only in cases where their own viewpoint is contradicted. So if they are against Bush, they are ready to believe that the neocons/Bush/Cheney are the the conspirators in the Iraq attack, they are an aberration, while the rest of the US policy is balanced. Then there is Slagle, whose suggestions are even more mind bending. And in the case of Cho of Virginia Tech getting even crazier. But more about that later.. -Arun