“History doesn’t repeat itself,” Mark Twain said, “but it does rhyme.”
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Month: October 2010
Put magic in a bottle, digitize it and turn it into a webpage and you have these new capabilities. DZ Slides
[audio: http://digitalmeme.com/audio/MakingCon_101013_Ax.mp3]
Are the elite financiers behind BIG capital pushing austerity measures to protect the dollar value of the huge bailouts they received? We’re good, now you bear the brunt of the pain? On the larger scheme of things, does money as it is now make any sense? or has it been hijacked by a Las Vegas style high stakes gambling elite?
And British novelist John le Carré interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! along the same lines.
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Aztec poem
Here is the great city
Of Mexico-Tenochtitlán,
In this place that is renowned,
In this place that is exemplary,
Where the wild cactus fruit grows,
In the middle of the waters,
Where the eagle screeches,
Where the eagle spreads its wings,
Where he tears apart the serpent,
Where the fish swim in the blue waters,
In the yellow waters,
Where the boiling waters are found,
Where feathers drown in tule fields,
Where we are found,
Where all the peoples of the four directions
Of the world will return.
– Aztec poem, translation by Miguel León Portilla