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Everywhere, the ‘authoritative’ spew forth: talking heads, hired to impart wisdom, partial often in impartial guise, complicit in the consumer con-game we call society, where the mediocre is hailed as great!
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Before the makeover, "it was a sort of con-game spot where everyone wanted your money," said Vasil Yaroshevich, a 31-year-old computer programmer and photographer.
Moscow Tries to Soften Edges of Storied Park Richard Boudreaux 2011
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Entire generation soured on the corrent political process, viewing it as a corporate con-game. yeah, the TPB verdict was a real “win”, there.
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Everywhere, the ‘authoritative’ spew forth: talking heads, hired to impart wisdom, partial often in impartial guise, complicit in the consumer con-game we call society, where the mediocre is hailed as great!
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While I am at it: it's the same matrix that says killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people from the poor brown communities here in America to the poorer brown communities in Gaza, Baghdad and Kabul is "self defense," or justified by another big matrix con-game: GOD.
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Now here they are both pulling the same rhetorical hoax, like a pair of bumbling confidence-men who both accidentally play the same part in a two-person con-game.
Iraq 2009
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But, boy does this con-game work wonders for the wealthy!
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If you haven't heard of PublishAmerica before, it's seems to be sort of a cross between a vanity press, a POD publisher, and a con-game.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009
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The above is simply con-game circus - much the same as John McCain claiming on TV one fine morning "The fundamentals of the economy are sound," on the same day that 4 or 5 major Wall Street Glitter-Houses turned into Poor Houses and began running for Socialist bailouts.
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Now here they are both pulling the same rhetorical hoax, like a pair of bumbling confidence-men who both accidentally play the same part in a two-person con-game.
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