[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune for Nov. 8 on YouTube

[C. G. Estabrook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcdpT09f4d4


On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:09 PM, C. G. Estabrook <cge at shout.net> wrote:

> Populism and neoliberalism, China and liberalism, Bolshevism and fascism are the subjects of tonight's discussion on UPTV (repeated thru the week).
> 
> Tonight's is the "Between Revolutions" Edition of News from Neptune.
> Yesterday (November 7) was the anniversary of the Bolshevik coup in 1917.
> Tomorrow (November 9) is the anniversary of the National Socailist German Workers' Party putsch in 1923, Kristallnacht in 1938, and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.
> 
> The last stanza of Guenter Grass' sonnet, "Novemberland" (in an indifferent translation):
> 
> "...November Dead, let it rest!
> We have enough to do with us, the living
> For these are not those who have awakened
> And recognized themselves as perpetrators of the same thing.
> Neither written off nor tax-free is the profit from the debt 
> for which I am responsible..."
> 
> --CGE
> 
> 
> "I'm really good at killing people” --President Barack Obama
> 
> <www.businessinsider.com/obama-said-hes-really-good-at-killing-people-2013-11#ixzz2k6eHk1p6>
>