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We Are the Centaurs, My Friends: We Are the Necessary Heroes for Deluded Promethean “Fathers,” Open the Jar, Pandora, and Why the Gods Are LOL

Posted on November 14, 2012 by sillymickel

We’ve Fallen and We Can’t Get Up: Like Chiron, We Need to Take Inside Us the “Sins” of Promethean Fathers to Stop Millennial Cycles of Suffering Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Eight: Return of the Centaur and How We Look … Continue reading →

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Forgetting the Past, We Were Doomed to Repeat It … The Revolution That Wasn’t Televised: Before Voting Romney, Remember, We Knew This Before

Posted on November 3, 2012 by sillymickel

If Freedom of the Press Was Repealed, How Would You Know? Dire Vision, Revelation … Words a Decade Old Come Back to Haunt Culture War, Class War, Chapter Seventeen: Freedom Repealed Dire Prediction: Before Voting for Romney, Remember, We Knew … Continue reading →

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If Freedom of the Press Was Repealed, How Would You Know? Freedom Repealed, Part Two—Dire Vision, Revelation … Words a Decade Old Come Back to Haunt

Posted on November 1, 2012 by sillymickel

A Revolution That Would Not Be Televised: If We’d Lost Freedom of Speech and of the Press, Would You Find Out About It on the News? Dire Vision, Revelation But before going into either my writing from 2000 or the … Continue reading →

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Dire Prediction: Before Voting for Romney, Remember, We Knew This Before. Will We Continue Shooting Ourselves in the Foot?

Posted on November 1, 2012 by sillymickel

Forgetting the Past, We Were Doomed to Repeat It … A Message Arrives from Twelve Years in the Past Predicting Today’s Events: Freedom Repealed, Part One A Message Arrives from Twelve Years in the Past Predicting Today’s Events We are … Continue reading →

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Money Madness and the Rise of “Obvious Truths” … Around Taxes, the Wealthy, Job Creation, Democrats, Republicans, Generations, Your Life, and You: When ALL You Hear Are Lies, You Think It HAS to Be Truth

Posted on August 19, 2012 by sillymickel

Foolin’ the People … About Money, About “Us” (The 1%), About Taxes, About Job Creation, About Democrats, About Republicans, About Generations, About Your Life, About You: Choose the Red Pill Culture War, Class War, Chapter Fifteen: Money Madness Tax the … Continue reading →

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Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago? Foolin’ the People About America and The Rise of Obvious “Truths” … It’s About Creeping Corporate Insertion Into Every Aspect of Your Life.

Posted on August 13, 2012 by sillymickel

Peaking in the Sixties, Starving for Prosperity, The Compassion Gap, Starving the “Beast,” Humbug for the Poor, Democratizing the Hate … Your Money or Your Life Culture War, Class War, Chapter Fourteen: Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago? Peaking in … Continue reading →

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Context of The American Awakening – The Great American About Face: Cool Hand Gipper (The Great Hustle) and What the 1% Would Still Have of Us

Posted on August 10, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War, Chapter Thirteen: The Great American About Face Once Upon a Time, Kindness Was a Noble Thing Why Insist on the Same Mistakes That Led to the Great Depression? You don’t know what I’m getting at. But … Continue reading →

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A Rising Tide Lifts All Yachts … The Rich Are Getting Richer and the Workers Are Getting Humiliated: Money Madness … Foolin’ the People About Money, Part 4

Posted on June 16, 2012 by sillymickel

Money Madness … Foolin’ the People About Money, Part Four: Increasing Humiliation of Working People, the Rich Get Richer at Our Expense Obvious “Truth”: A rising (economic) tide lifts all boats . Real Truth – The Rich Get Richer at … Continue reading →

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Foolin’ the People About America. Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago? Part One: Peaking in the Sixties

Posted on May 24, 2012 by sillymickel

Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago? Part One: Peaking in the Sixties Obvious “Truths”: Americans are innovators and problem-solvers. There’s nothing Americans can’t do, no problem we can’t solve, once we put our minds to it. Things just keep getting … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Arab Revolution, Economics, Education, globalrevolution, Health and wellness, History, News and politics, occupycollege, occupywallstreet, psychology, Spirituality, WeThePeople | Tagged America, Americans, car, cars, cash, college, consumer, culture, current-events, debt, education, Eighties, Environment, family, Fifties, Fifty years, government, health care, health insurance, history, hospital, house, job, maternity, medical, mortgage, mothers, obvious truths, occupycollege, Peaking, pharmaceuticals, politics, poor, population, reagan, Republicans, ronald reagan, scholarship, seventies, Sixties, small business, society, standard of living, voodoo economics | Leave a comment

Foolin’ the People About History: Reagan’s Great Ruse and The Face of the Enemy, Ours

Posted on May 24, 2012 by sillymickel

The Great American About Face, Part Four: Foolin’ the People About History…Reagan’s Great Ruse and The Face of the Enemy, Ours Foolin’ the People About History Obvious “Truths”: Reagan “saved” America. Reagan saved Americans from an oppressive tax burden. Reagan … Continue reading →