It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. Sometimes silence is damning.The Bush Administration refused to deny the claims of former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. O'Neill has claimed that that Bush Administration started planning an invasion of Iraq 10 days after occupying the White House in January 2001. According to CBS News, "Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan would not confirm or deny that the White House began Iraq war planning early in Mr. Bush's term. But, he said, Saddam 'was a threat to peace and stability before September 11th...'" If Bush could deny it, he would deny it. In this case, the truth has a plain face. Waiting to see if the American public is paying attention, Mother Davis Return to the Irregular Times Main Page
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