Out
of prudence, I held back, but the understanding seemed to settle upon me: that the price
of my membership in the congregation was to preserve my
silence in the synagogue on the issue that I
regarded, more surely with each passing
year, as the gravest question
of moral consequence before us.
After almost a
year of silence, The Chinese Room has finally given us some more information
regarding this alluring title, alongside a new trailer.
Starting from the bottom: with
regard to Argentina — there is no mention
of the military junta in the mid-70s, nor the 30,000 (at the least) torture and killed, nor
of the mothers and grandmothers walking for 20 or more
years in
silence protesting the killings in a Bueno Aires plaza, nor is there is mention
of the billions
of dollars
of US military aircraft and other weapons (as well torturing equipment for sending high to low charges
of electricity through various parts
of the body (private parts though preferred, as they say), but sold to the junta in power which weighs heavily in the total external debt, nor
of the wholesale and retail sale
of government agencies or corporations, and
of the rights
of water (in the 1990s), and the default
of the government on various debts and contracts: 40 or more cases before the courts and ICSID — seems the sanctity
of the contract and personalty
of the international organization is a barrier to putting an end these very crooked and immoral business transactions, etc..
USA TODAY's editorial «5
years after Lehman, unfinished business,» misleadingly implied there has been a «deafening
silence» from Realtors ®, bankers and builders
regarding the future
of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.