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John, I don’t get the NG either, but every now and then they let me online to read a letter or two.
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<div class="">So, the number of times I attempt and am blocked are many.
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<div class="">On Aug 2, 2019, at 09:10, John W. <<a href="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com" class="">jbw292002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 8:08 AM David Johnson via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">Yes, it really is. Thank you for passing it on, Karen, to those of us who don't get the News-Gazette.</div>
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<b class="">On Behalf Of </b>Karen Aram via Peace<br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, August 02, 2019 6:53 AM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b> David Green<br class="">
<b class="">Cc:</b> Peace<br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> [Peace] Excellent letter to the NG, just saw it this morning.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">Over four decades, the globalized, financialized, high-tech economy has stagnated the incomes of over half of Americans, immiserating many, while making a mockery of social mobility amidst obscene accumulations of
private wealth.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">Consistent with this have been perpetual and ongoing “low-intensity” wars for economic domination, increased threat of nuclear war and species-threatening carbon-driven climate change, the latter exacerbated by all
the above.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">But these issues are too big to worry about, no less seriously address, and they might damage our fragile patriotic self-esteem, while distracting us from sports.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">Moreover, these problems can’t be laid at the doorsteps of Illinois state government, youthful local thugs or “Chicago pols.”<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">That’s no fun for News-Gazette editors as they lay out the next chapter in our local morality play, in which good must inevitably triumph over evil, unless it’s a football Saturday.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">But never fear, the STEM academic community has got this; that is, they’ve got the game-changing Discovery Partners Institute to lead us into the digital, artificially intelligent promised land.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">Who needs a decent health care delivery system when we’ve got gadgets in an imaginary research pipeline? Who needs a decent standard of living and adequate housing when we’ve got visualization and “big data”? And what
self-respecting University of Illinois professor or administrator doesn’t want to be hyped to high-tech heaven by ever-ebullient journalist/publicist/stenographer Julie Wurth?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">Surely, the Golden Age is within us and upon us, if we just clap for Tinkerbell, charge our smartphones and refuse to grow old.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">DAVID GREEN<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68)" class="">Champaign<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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