http://www.nytimes-se.com/

‘Yesterday, in the spirit of great satire, the Yes Men published a fake edition of The New York Times from the future, filled with stories that many of us would love to see in print. Friedman’s resignation is one of the editorials. I urge you to check it out, and forward it to everyone you know. It’s truly priceless. Even the ads are biting and hilarious.

From their explanation:

This special edition of The New York Times comes from a future in which we are accomplishing what we know today to be possible.

The dozens of volunteer citizens who produced this paper spent the last eight years dreaming of a better world for themselves, their friends, and any descendants they might end up having. Today, that better world, though still very far away, is finally possible — but only if millions of us demand it, and finally force our government to do its job.’

The fat lady has finally sung her last, ugly note.

America’s White man’s burden was suddenly dumped on and became a Black man’s burden. His mission? To put an end to the White man’s brutal, imperial and endless wars of Peace and Democracy…and the whole world roared ALLELUIA!

The World’s poor, especially Blacks and peoples of colour, looked in awe at this man’s arrival on a blazing chariot soon to be seated on the gilded throne of the most powerful nation of the world ushering in “The First Coming of the Black Messiah”, thus paling into insignificance the long overdue “Second Coming of that other One” ….

I could hardly contain a beady eye and a knot on my throat seeing on TV the populace of that nondescript Kenyan village erupt with joy and acclaim the Son of one of its inhabitants as the Divinely chosen for such an august task. It was as if Jerusalem had been overnight moved and plonked lock, stock and barrel on this village and renamed the New Jerusalem, or as if the $700 billion bailouts earmarked for the flatulent American fat cats had instead rained like manna from heaven in bundles of dollar notes on to this village. .

Had such a miracle taken place, the Israeli Zionists would immediately claim that they had been defrauded. The name ‘Jerusalem’ like that of ‘Holocaust’ were exclusively unique Zionist brand names which couldn’t be used or applied in other contexts. They would rush to the United Nations and demand immediate reparation for such blatant abuse. They would argue that most of that $700 billion should be returned to them as compensation for this outrage. Moreover, they would insist that they had far better uses for that money than these backward Africans who would just squander such a windfall acquiring puny items, like bicycles, portable radios, coloured blankets and beads.

After the huge party it’s natural that the hangover will soon follow. With such extraordinarily high expectations , signs of a hangover are already looming. Ralph Nader put it succinctly with the question: This Black Messiah’s “basic choice is whether he’s going to be Uncle Sam for the people of this country (and the world) or Uncle Tom for the giant corporations” and the elites, i.e. become either “a great President or a toady”. My feeling is that he will follow in the footsteps of his predecessors. He will talk the talk of peace while at the same time walk the walk of more wars….

Wish I knew the answers.

thanks for the reflective read, with the momentum we’ve gained in the wrong direction, there are numerous minds with the same hidden thoughts…except for the Obama groupies. Hard not to see the world any other way when one finally realizes how hard the system is actually working to bone us dry without a reach around.

Nonetheless, there’s a maxim that Dr. Dyer uses from an unknown source which says, “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”, a perception is reality approach, and not easy to do, but easy to forget.

It’s a thought for the crowd.

Best to all.