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Zelaya’s been camping out on the Nicaraguan side of the border with Honduras and calling the Obama Administration’s bluff. The OAS has censured the corporate coup in Honduras, MERCOSUR has censured the corporate coup in Honduras and even the head of the Honduran Military has stated that his posse, for one, “will not hurt the Honduran people”.

Meanwhile, it turns out that the corporate cops sealing the border from Nicaragua — in an increasingly ridiculous attempt to keep the President from returning to his office — are cutting off all traffic into Honduras . . .

and trucks are backing up . . .

Meanwhile some more, it seems like Zelaya is just sitting around fast talking or sweet talking or whatever ya wanna call it . . .

and the military police are just sittin’ and listenin’ or whatever ya wanna call it too. . .

I think that middle guy must be just lighting a cigarette — here’s what it look likes when you’re a cop drinking fruit juice

and here’s what it looks like when you’re a cop getting a pizza delivery . . .

and when you’re standing out in the rain

here’s what it looks like when the President’s wife stands in your face and looks right through you . . .

and here’s what it looks like when the pueblo remember that you are in the 99th percentile — aka, not white in Honduras

here’s the 99th percentile feeling pretty good about how things are progressing

after the long walk to the border to welcome the President

not always sure of how things were going to work out but steady on your feet, nevertheless

Nice work muchachos!

A number of Gs, over the years, not a lot of Gs, just a few, have emailed me asking for suggested reading. Just now the subject of top ten required reading came up in a headline string — so I finally had enough curiosity to figure out what mine looked like and here it is. In no particular order of importance (that would just be too damned demanding).

1. Confessions of an Economic Hitman
2. A Game As Old As Empire
3. Land of Hypocrisy
4. Strange Liberators
5. Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
6. A Century of War
7. Seeds of Destruction
8. The Creature from Jekyll Island
9. Malcolm Gladwell
10. On Killing

Anyone who wants to know who TF I mean when I say “we”, there’s your answer.

Here is an image posted by Getty Images, featuring a Honduran supporter of Zelaya’s populist policies. The picture, in and of itself, is not without merit, but the real exhibit, in this case, is the copy that went with it.

Here’s the copy that went with it :

An indigenous follower of the Garifuna ethnic group of toppled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya plays the drums during a rally to demand his restitution in power near the government house in Tegucigalpa July 6, 2009. Honduran coup leaders faced further isolation Monday, after blocking ousted President Manuel Zelaya from flying into the capital’s airport, where soldiers killed two of his supporters, according to police. UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday said the Organization of American States should work to restore constitutional order in the Central American nation, after the OAS suspended Honduras in an emergency session at the weekend.

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Is this woman “indigenous”? No. She’s clearly of African descent. The Garifuna are of African descent. But you don’t need to look that up to see that that, in fact, is what this woman is.

Postmodern culture is overwhelmingly right brained. That is, it relies heavily on visual and auditory information systems. Right brain thinking is holistic, prosodic (emotional) and intuitive. It’s calculations are approximate.

What we have here is an excellent illustration of how words mean in that kind of mind. The word “indigenous” has overwhelmingly appeared in the context of impoverished people. It’s not that our erstwhile copy editor really meant to use the word the word indigent, they really don’t know that indigenous is another word for native — or they don’t know the difference between Africa and America (that’s always a possibility).

She’s not a native American. She’s African American. To be more specific, she’s an impoverished African-American.

That’s why the PoMo mind can believe that “Freedom & Democracy” is what their tax dollars are fighting for in Iraq. That’s how a jury in the United States can condemn a man to life as a vegetable in the US prison system for talking to someone who talked to someone about cheese and some sports equipment.

It’s not a problem. It’s the problem.

Yesterday, on the 4th of July, Hondurans poured out into the streets to censure the local corporatocracy’s coup for the eyes of the international community. It’s time like these that make you realize just how powerful, how ubiquitous, the Global Justice Movement really is.

It’s hard to pick a favorite, but I think this might be it :

. . . although, for some reason, I really like this one too :

All in all a great show guys, keep up the good work! Universal right livelihood here we come.

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