Oh you crooks and clowns of late, late neoliberalism, what are you on?

No, we s-o-o-o-o-o don’t want any.

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WE might ponder Jeanette Winterson’s semiotics of sex(uality/ isation) raising critically urgent questions about the 1990 – 20.. (?) Marshall Samuelson Bourlag Friedman (each of these men is of course long dead) lawyers’ orgy of intellectual property, branding and billionaire-/ government-backed milking, churning & bankrupting of #smegrowth worldwide
..See Jeanette Winterson, “Imagination and Reality” in “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery” Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1995

On April 3, 1948, President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

Shown here are the first and last pages of the resulting law, most commonly known as the Marshall Plan.

Public Law 472 (The Marshall Plan – page 1) General Records of the United States Government Record Group 11 National Archives and Records Administration

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Dedication of this document: Kellyanne Conway’s Alternative Facts**..

In the psycholinguistics coup of the 21st century Ms Conway spectacularly drew together Gramsci’s false consciousness, Foucault’s post-fact discourse (+society, economy and most disturbing of all 3 pillars of active human interpersonal consciousness or transactions – the study of which now lies at the heart of revived functionalist sociology and now of 21st century economics – I must add culture – thus depressive mental illness, suicidal behaviour and acts of coercion, capture & lethal violence against weaker persons and children, even babies, mostly females, have proliferated, other-manipulation, exploitation, depersonalisation and otherising spawning psychotic dehumanising objectification of persons – all humans – obviously including old & slow people as mere opportunities for the enterpriser’s profit or sexual gratification and ultimately as objects to be bought, sullied and sold), post structuralist theory, post constructionism & our present negatively cascading bake, fry, go-hungry, flood, freeze & get very very sick postmodernist neoliberal Reverse Robin Hood/ Aus-trail-yanns/ All Let Us Rejoice/ I-yamm Ewe-are Wiya Horse… Let-Us-Further-Enrich-Those-Jolly-Good-Chaps-the-Super-Rich frenzy!

A mere twenty-four million of us. We Who-oo-oo–oo.

What a cracker🥸🤠😵‍💫🤢

“Alternative facts” was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President, Kellyanne Conway, during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s false statement about the attendance numbers of Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the Inited States of America 🇺🇸 …Wickipedia

YE shall learn the true names of things is a biblical injunction. A well-functioning society cannot endure city newsreaders who insult regional audiences by mispronouncing or even recasting the names of people or places for the supposed phonetic grasp of obviously bewildered new immigrant speakers of English as a second, third fourth landguage.. whoops spelling not. Or maybe it’s just pedants on the #ABC’s cockamamie “committee on spoken English,” obsessing about commercial content (introducing the 1969 Volkswagen station wagon!) as they do. TRUE NAMES are so fundamental to the integrity and indeed ontological security of working people and students as to siloise and usually ethnically isolate them, even exposing them to violent assault if the regional-culture names are not understood or correctly articulated. It is Written in the Old Testament or Torah, many of yours professed sacred text, and I’d condidently guess similarly configured in The Koran.

I’d actually predict not guess because what are each ot the Middle Eastern Abrahamic texts but a raft of stories about people and places (supposedly originating in an idylliic garden nestled at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers) in an area of approximately 1m square kilometres representing approximately 1/ 510th of Earth’s surface between Iraq and the Mediterranean Sea, say 2,000 – 5,000 years ago, that so animated George Herbert Bush and his “crusader” son and a cause celebre for murderous European Islamophobes between 1095 and 1291 when Roman Catholic armies attempted to recover the city of Jerusalem from Islamic rule.

Alternative facts: Lord Have Mercy on Us Your Obedient Servants. Essentially the crying truth is we MUST give our kids a chance to learn the language that grew out of their own community, region and ancestors’ lives: beats living hell out of driving them into engineered confusion, disaffection, deep dis-associative distress, sadness, trauma, social withdrawal, depressive mental illness, self harm or suicide..

John 08012023