LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Black Ops Ambitions

Include what we are not seeing reported much, except locally, where he is planning to set up Blackwater West, on an enormous chunk of land outside of San Diego. Predictably, Democracy Now has been all up on it. NPR did a sort of a story on it.

Here's what the locals feel.

The land is a chicken ranch, near Potrero, a tiny rural town east of San Diego.



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