Respected Professor Biko Agozino,
Most importantly Russian forces are finally on the move (land, sea, air) and apparently that's all that Swedish TV is interested in at the moment (non-stop). How are things over there in Virginia where I understand the CIA headquarters are located?
How many ways to skin a cat?
Of course, "the encoding is always decoded in different ways" - the heavily coded Torah itself is interpreted/ understood at more than seven levels ( by the specialists) and the Christian fun-da-mentalists also have their own understandings. I was thinking about the latter yesterday when I read Erick Ybarra On Vigilius which starts with what could well be an aside to some of the disputes about book versus blog publishing in this series:
"Usually I do not take serious interest in online personalities and their slew of (self-published on Amazon) books. This is because generally, their content is low quality (as compared to mainstream authors) and short, reading much more like a series of blog posts than a serious literary endeavor.", writes Craig Truglia, an Eastern Orthodox Church missionary in Cambodia…
It's funny that you should refer to him as "Prophet McLuhan" when you know full well (or don't you?) that Muhammad – sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the last prophet - and that the Quran is the Last Message, and that just as my Muslim tutor Adel Hamza (of Mansoura, Egypt) used to inform me, by definition, a Muslim is someone who does not tell lies, speak less of a prophet of the Omniscient ever telling a lie….
In concluding his on the whole rather negative coverage of Marshall McLuhan in the Fontana Modern Masters series, Jonathan Miller wrote,
"And yet I can rehabilitate no actual truth from what I read. Perhaps McLuhan has accomplished the greatest paradox of all, creating the possibility of truth by shocking us with a gigantic system of lies. "
Of war and peace, the truth just twists – and this is no singing zone, it's now war, and clouds of war that we're talking about and the truism that "with war, the truth is the first thing to be thrown out the door" (I said so)
As dear John Pilger makes clear in this article, indeed, the lie is the message now.
The big lie, the nice fat lie, the evil black lie, the presidential lie, the little lily-white lie, all of which are spouted from the mouths and pens of the 419 con men, and above all, in this crisis, the White House lies: Pilger says "Biden lies about Russia", and it is not at all surprising to have a liar sitting at the Oval Office, or that in the usually turgid media language, he is someone known as a compulsive liar and a paranoid hypochondriac, often embracing what Shakespeare has defined as "the lie circumstantial" and "the lie direct"
Predictably, over here in Sweden (little America) there is some fear about the possible nuclear in the air, so we have Professor Porter (Anglo-Swede) talking about "The Russian Bear"
I repeat, if there could be a moratorium of an agreed x number of years during which Ukraine and the remnants of the former Warsaw Pact countries should not join NATO then that would signal the end of the crisis but former Comedian Zellenskyy is "as stubborn as an illiterate goat " - he could have avoided all this but is being "inspired" by people like Biden to " fight". In the final analysis, in my opinion, it's the comedian, the useful idiot and his instigators that should be held fully responsible
--On Thursday, 24 February 2022 at 05:34:31 UTC+1 biko...@yahoo.com wrote:"In 1964, McLuhan famously declared, "The medium is the message". The lie is the message now." Prophet McLuhan was wrong, according to Stuart Hall, because the encoding is always decoded in different ways - hegemonic, reformist, or revolutionary interpretations - irrespective of the media or the message.BikoOn Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 18:58:51 GMT-5, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:--
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