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Thursday, December 21, 2006

What we've never seen before couldn't possibly exist

gore vidal, as usual, offers trenchant insights into what's happening in and to the united states, as viewed from cuba...
We have had since 9/11 a coup d´etat in the United States, the first we've ever had, in which a group of rather dishonest oil and gas people were able to seize the power of the State and by so doing they ended up with the Congress in their hands, they ended up with the presidency and much of the judiciary and much of the courts. It happened very fast. It's quite unique. It will be a great story one day at the moment it's just something the people don't understand. What they've never seen before doesn't exist really.

it's got to be more than coincidental that, only three posts earlier, i was writing about the coup d'etat...

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