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Beginning of the End of America
Beginning of the End of America. That is the title of Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment this week. “We have lived as if in a trance. . .” he began.
Do you find that phrase as alarming as I do–or did? “Beginning of the end of America.” Gradually, the more I let climate change sink in and I resist the growing fascism, I find the idea of the fall of American civilization less alarming. It seems closer to inevitable. I stop wondering whether my own children and their children will survive. The question I have been asking are will civilizations survive? Will humanity survive?
Like so many people, I listen to Keith Olbermann’s weekly Special Comment. When I can stand the clownish context, I watch on television. When I miss it, I watch online–usually. Also like so many people, I wonder how long he will be able to do this. Even if this is the most popular spot on NBC or MSN (the only one I bother watching, for sure), can this go on? When voicing one’s opinion of Dick Cheney to his face is an act of terror, how can Keith Olbermann speak so directly week after week? Does the fact that nearly 70,000 people have watched the commentary on You Tube alone in the past couple of days give Olbermann any measure of protection?
The man is not going to be quiet as habeus corpus begins to die in Bush’s signing of the Military Commissions Act. I don’t know why they let him keep talking in this growing climate of fascism, but I listen and I talk about it. Keep talking. Face-to-face communications will always be free. Exercise your rights.
Full transcript on Common Dreams.
Full transcript and video on MSNBC.
Video on You Tube - 86,206 views, 1755 comments and counting. The number of views went up by 18,000+ in the several hours it took me to finish this post. That’s 0.0006% of the now 300,000,000 population of the U.S. (as if all views came from the U.S.).
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