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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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Televised silence around Iraqi refineries becomes part of the trick, as Added slogans and inverted addages help hide a managed oil procedure that turns extraction off and on.
This page continues the previous one by making media omission itself a tactic. Mark Twain, addage, the typed phrase 'mess is more,' owners, governments, and contractors collapse into one cynical logic where war becomes engineering maintenance. The clearest correction makes the second addage something Added to the spin, while other handwritten overlays are documented but omitted where unplaceable.
A policy poem disguised as a comedy about addages. Mark Twain gets half-truth-inverted, mess-is-more replaces less-is-more, and the real procediure is revealed in the handwritten coda: turning it all off. The spin is the job, and the job is concealment.