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	<title>Comments on: CNN Blackballs a Statesman</title>
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		<title>By: M. Frederick Voorhees</title>
		<link>http://publicintellectual.wordpress.com/2007/10/10/cnn-officially-blackballs-gravel/#comment-332</link>
		<dc:creator>M. Frederick Voorhees</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not sure if you mean (a)  the Wolves are the U.S. and the chickens are other countries like Australia, or if (b) the Wolves represent capitalist elites everywhere and the chickens are the rest of us.  Both metaphors make sense in their own way, and I believe that in both cases the chickens will prevail.

Call me a dreamer who&#039;s living in the clouds, but I still believe in there&#039;s a piece of everyone that&#039;s inherently good; that some obstructed, sleeping instinct inside of us never stops yearning to replace hate with understanding, and that we&#039;ll make it happen in the (soon-to-be) post-Bush world.  But those of us that already see through the dog &amp; pony show need to resist our urges to become cynical or apathetic or violent again. The greatest weapon of the rich &amp; powerful elites is their ability to divide us, to fold the world population over on itself until individual citizens become so overwhelmed by the wrongs of governments that we&#039;re all too eager to take it out on each other.  

But we can&#039;t give up on one another.  If the cycle of corruption is ever broken it will be ordinary citizens who break it--not governments or the media or capitalists or militaries.  Eventually the day will come when everyone sees the corruption and questions it.  And that&#039;s when the rules will change, and business will be fair, and government will be balanced, and the media will be &quot;fair and balanced,&quot; and the soldiers of the world will fight for just causes rather than on behalf of lucrative investments.

See I seek Utopia, too :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not sure if you mean (a)  the Wolves are the U.S. and the chickens are other countries like Australia, or if (b) the Wolves represent capitalist elites everywhere and the chickens are the rest of us.  Both metaphors make sense in their own way, and I believe that in both cases the chickens will prevail.</p>
<p>Call me a dreamer who&#8217;s living in the clouds, but I still believe in there&#8217;s a piece of everyone that&#8217;s inherently good; that some obstructed, sleeping instinct inside of us never stops yearning to replace hate with understanding, and that we&#8217;ll make it happen in the (soon-to-be) post-Bush world.  But those of us that already see through the dog &amp; pony show need to resist our urges to become cynical or apathetic or violent again. The greatest weapon of the rich &amp; powerful elites is their ability to divide us, to fold the world population over on itself until individual citizens become so overwhelmed by the wrongs of governments that we&#8217;re all too eager to take it out on each other.  </p>
<p>But we can&#8217;t give up on one another.  If the cycle of corruption is ever broken it will be ordinary citizens who break it&#8211;not governments or the media or capitalists or militaries.  Eventually the day will come when everyone sees the corruption and questions it.  And that&#8217;s when the rules will change, and business will be fair, and government will be balanced, and the media will be &#8220;fair and balanced,&#8221; and the soldiers of the world will fight for just causes rather than on behalf of lucrative investments.</p>
<p>See I seek Utopia, too :)</p>
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		<title>By: Daniel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The power wielded by the American media never fails to sicken and frighten me. Australia isn&#039;t that much better of course!

Given the media are part of the Big Business Wolves us chickens don&#039;t stand much chance, eh?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The power wielded by the American media never fails to sicken and frighten me. Australia isn&#8217;t that much better of course!</p>
<p>Given the media are part of the Big Business Wolves us chickens don&#8217;t stand much chance, eh?</p>
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