Two Methods Which Lead to the Same
End
08-25-07
mpg
Chavez,
Latin cultural unity & the amassing proletariat - posted by PG
A quote...." 08/20/07 "ICH" -- -- To this day, rhetorical deployments
of the Marxist agenda send shivers down the backs of the Western
citizen. Somehow, extending the duration of the Cold War ending in
1991, the Red Scare continues to loom over the head of Western ideals.
Of course, environmental dissipation, nuclear war, and terrorist
activities have diminished the priority status of the Marxist threat.
Yet Marxism is still regarded as the ultimate “anti-freedom,” positing
it in direct opposition to the capitalist agenda. For many, the end of
the Cold War proved that Marxism was both unreliable and illegitimate
in the context of the times. However, the “era of globalization” that
defines post Cold War society forces us to look at Marxism in a whole
new light: one unified global civil society."
Editor’s
note - Yes, yes,
yes....everything Marx said about "Capitalism" is true; however, almost
everything he said about its "solution" was false. -- Capitalism in
it's naked form is utterly amoral, predatory, vicious and in the end if
"allowed" to go through it's naturally inevitable and increasingly
ferocious boom and bust cycle, will leave one tiny all powerful fascist
elite owning everything....and everyone.
The truest form of Capitalism, "laissez-faire" Capitalism, always
destroys "free markets" wherever and whenever it gets a firm hold on a
society. It destroys unions and smaller competitors and all who
stand in its way with whatever legal or illegal means it can bring to
bare. It rigs the system, it controls the game, it bribes the referee
and cheats to gain as much unfair advantage as it possibly can.
As a self-reinforcing, self-rewarding mechanism it will eventually
write its own rules and laws overriding all others for the benefit of
the few elites and corporations concentrated at the top of society’s
social-economic heap, and the elites so blessed will NEVER give up the
power or the wealth they bribed, bought or stole their way into.
For most of the people trapped in the system's web it always becomes
the slot machine that never pays off, the company store where you
always go deeper into debt.
It strips everyone and everything of any morality, decency, or
conscience and brings a society down to its lowest common
denominator..."how much is it, or how much are you,
worth to me"
becomes the sole mantra of existence. It starts wars...
ALWAYS, every single
time, without any exception, absolutely guaranteed, and in the
case of the United States, it has done so with remarkable regularity
almost
every ten years. It reduces people to flesh and bones and
nothing else, when all is said and done, everyone, absolutely everyone,
becomes a commodity; a worker unit, a killer unit, a sex unit, an organ
donation unit. Capitalism recognizes only
money as its God and man as
being fundamentally evil...and as a system it celebrates both of these
beliefs.
Capitalism promotes and glorifies sociopaths and psychopaths. As
Marx observed, capitalism...in a relentless economically unavoidable
process caused by the boom and bust cycle of the economy, a cycle
always exacerbated by the unchecked greed and corruption practiced by
its own elites, will inevitably merge with, and become one with, the
Leviathan state in a remarkable synthesis known as fascism. It
will do this while rapidly becoming totally unrestrained by any moral
prohibitions, covenants, or the very laws upon which the society had
originally been founded upon. It will become the Beast.
In its last throes, at the very bitterest of bitter ends...it will eat
itself and all those it traps within its system ...
ALIVE.
"Communism" however is not a viable alternative solution, free markets
really do work better than "command economies".(and please.... let no
one delude themselves that
a) the United
States has a "free" market, or
b) that
Capitalism has anything to do with how a "free" market really operates)
Although national power, transportation (roads, dams, canals and
railroads only), risk systems (health and pension insurance
only), and national resources (water, oil, gas....and possibly mining)
lend themselves naturally to national control because they benefit all
and need to be distributed amongst all, are in some cases not market
driven (who wants to get sick?), whose costs and demand projections are
long term and can be easily calculated, and in the end are the natural
resources and heritage that belong to the people of the country. (it
really is the Iraqis oil after all, not ours), it is still essential to
realize that free markets in all other cases are a better determinate
of supply and demand through price action.
Communism as expressed by some of its adherents is a system whose
premise (which is wrong) argues that man is a "blank slate", that man
can be socialized and molded to "fit" society’s “norms”, that naturally
occurring drives, ambitions, the seven deadly sins, what have you, are
not "inherent" in man's nature and are simply caused by the actions of
an "unjust" society. As such it will eventually recognize no
higher authority than that of the Leviathan state and in the end,
exactly as occurs with Capitalism, unrestrained by any moral
prohibitions, covenants or laws, but unlike Capitalism, worshiping the
state as its God, and
racked by a sclerotic, bureaucratic economic
command and control system, Communism inevitably disintegrates into a
political and economic ruin.
Unchecked, unrestrained, Capitalism-Fascism eventually
burns itself out,
taking tens of millions of people with it.
Unchecked, unrestrained, Communism-Totalitarianism eventually
wears itself out,
taking tens of millions of people with it.
Both systems are fundamentally, unalterably, evil. - mpg
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Impending
Economic Crisis: The Myth that Markets Get It Right and Operate
Efficiently
Must Read - Related
article - A quote...."In them, he [Minsky] constructed a "financial
instability hypothesis" building on the work of Keynes' "General Theory
of Employment, Interest and Money." He provided a framework for
distinguishing between stabilizing and destabilizing free market debt
structures he summarized as follows:
"Three distinct income-debt relations for economic units....labeled as
hedge, speculative and Ponzi finance, can be identified."
-- "Hedge financing units are
those which can fulfill all of their contractual payment obligations by
their cash flows: the greater the weight of equity financing in the
liability structure, the greater the likelihood that the unit is a
hedge financing unit."
-- "Speculative finance units are units that can meet their payment
commitments on 'income account' on their liabilities, even as they
cannot repay the principle out of income cash flows. Such units need to
'roll over' their liabilities - issue new debt to meet commitments on
maturing debt."
-- "For Ponzi units, the cash flows from operations are
(insufficient)....either (to repay)....principle or interest on
outstanding debts by their cash flows from operations. Such units can
sell assets or borrow. Borrowing to pay interest....lowers the equity
of a unit, even as it increases liabilities and the prior commitment of
future incomes."
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More
War on the Horizon
A quote...." Lies, unprovoked aggression, and delusional
expectations--the same ingredients that produced the Iraq
catastrophe--all over again. The entire Bush regime and both political
parties are complicit, along with the media and US allies"
Allawi
Pays $300k for Anti-Maliki US Campaign
A quote...."Documents obtained by IraqSlogger show Iraqi Prime Minister
Maliki's chief Iraqi opponent, Ayad Allawi, is paying Washington
lobbyists with close ties to the White House $300,000 to help with
Allawi's efforts in the U.S. to promote himself and undermine
Maliki. - The powerhouse Republican firm retained by Allawi
is Barbour, Griffith, & Rogers (BGR), and its BGR International
unit is headed by President's Bush's one-time White House point man on
Iraq, Robert Blackwill, who will lead the lobbying efforts on Allawi's
behalf."
Iraq's
would-be champion
A quote..."The US has floundered its way through a prodigal list of
favourites in its futile attempts to run Iraq, from Ahmad Chalabi, the
silky weaver of neo-con dreams, to Nouri al-Maliki, a prime minister
immobile in a web of sectarian nightmares. Moqtada al-Sadr, it is fair
to say, was definitely not one of them. But is he the spider at the
centre of the web as painted, in lurid but broad-brush strokes, by the
Anglo-American occupation? Or is he the emerging pan-Iraqi champion,
and Arab icon of resistance, painted surreally by his admirers?"
Editor's note : This is
Middle Eastern politics we're talking about here, unlike American
politics which is so completely and pathetically predictable (extend
the American Empire and worship all those with money and power), Middle
Eastern politics, especially Iraqi politics are a confusing blend of
sectarianism, nationalism, tribalism, religion, family, interfering
neighbors, and a plethora of gangs, guerrilla groups, death squads and
other factions
almost
all of whom are being supported by the malevolent, murderous,
utterly insane superpower currently occupying that country.
To put it bluntly, although Machiavelli would find himself completely
at home in America, he'd be a naive waif who wouldn't last five minutes
in the seething caldron that has now become Iraq. If Moqtada
al-Sadr can help stop the bloodshed in Iraq, peaceably bring it's
fractious factions together, devise a plan to equitably share that
nation's oil wealth, and help America and its murderous carpet baggers
leave as expeditiously as possible....all well and good.
But alliances and intentions in that part of the world can change
daily, and very few individuals, even if they have them to begin with,
can maintain their peaceable goals and good intentions in the violent
evil maelstrom currently whirling across that poor nation.
It took the United States and its wealthy elites twenty long arduous
years to destroy and tear apart Iraq, it will be a long time before it
can be put back together again. – mpg
For more on this see....
The
Method - 05-07-07 - mpg
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Taliban
Push Poppy Production to a Record Again - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 — Afghanistan produced
record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a
staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand
Province, according to a new United Nations survey to be released
Monday."
Exporting
Instability
A quote...."Under the guise of promoting a "security dialogue" in the
Persian Gulf, the Bush Administration has proposed $63 billion in arms
transfers to the Middle East over the next ten years. As is so often
the case, team Bush seems to prefer to let the weapons do the talking,
even when it claims to be engaging in diplomacy."
Montebello
SPP Summit: Canada's Sovereignty in Jeopardy: the Militarization of
North America - posted by PG
A quote...."Canadian jurisdiction over its Northern territories was
redefined, following an April 2002 military agreement between Ottawa
and Washington. This agreement allows for the deployment of US troops
anywhere in Canada, as well as the stationing of US warships in
Canada's territorial waters. "
The
Empire And The Independent Island - posted by PG
A quote...." 08/20/07 "CNA"- - -The history of Cuba during the
last 140 years is one of struggle to preserve national identity and
independence, and the history of the evolution of the American empire,
its constant craving to appropriate Cuba and of the horrendous methods
that it uses today to hold on to world domination."
Recruiting
For Iraq War Undercut in Puerto Rico - posted by PG
A quote...."SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The political activists, brown
envelopes tucked under their arms, staked out the high school gates
just after sunrise. When students emerged from the graffiti-scorched
streets of the Rio Piedra neighborhood here and began streaming toward
their school, the pro-independence advocates ripped open the envelopes
and began handing the teens fliers emblazoned with the slogan: "Our
youth should not go to war."
Steep
Price Paid by Those Who Blew Whistle on Iraq Fraud
Must Read - Some
quotes...."One after another, the men and women who have stepped
forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have
been vilified, fired and demoted. - Or worse. -
For daring to
report illegal arms sales, Navy veteran Donald Vance says he was
imprisoned by the American military in a security compound outside
Baghdad and subjected to harsh interrogation methods." -
"“If you do it, [blow the whistle] you will be destroyed,” said William
Weaver, professor of political science at the University of Texas-El
Paso and senior advisor to the National Security Whistleblowers
Coalition. - “Reconstruction is so rife with corruption. Sometimes
people ask me, ‘Should I do this?’ And my answer is no. If they’re
married, they’ll lose their family. They will lose their jobs. They
will lose everything,” Weaver said."
This is what "your" government does. No good deed goes
unpunished, no
bad deed goes unrewarded, by our illustrious elites....and all those
who
service them. - mpg
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Huge
payout for men framed by FBI - posted by PG
A quote...."A federal judge in Boston has ordered the US government to
pay out more than
$100m
(£50m) in the case of four wrongly
convicted men." - "They and their now deceased friends Louis Greco and
Henry Tameleo were accused and convicted of killing Deegan in a small
alley during a robbery in Boston. - Mr Limone and Mr Salvati were then
exonerated in 2001,
after FBI memos dating
back to the murder surfaced showing the men had been framed. - bold/italics by website author
This is EXACTLY how "your government" works. Never ever forget
that, never ever forget that this is the SAME FBI
that knew about the "terrorists"
training at various flight schools throughout this country prior
to 9/11, the same FBI who
backed off
of the Saudi Royals and bin Laden families (our nation's
"friends") when told to do so by unknown higher officials,
flew these very same families out of the
country days
after 9/11 at
the
request of bin Laden himself and these higher
officials, an incident which only came to light because Judicial Watch
diligently took these guys to court, sued them for four years, and
finally got the memos detailing their deeds.
Guess they forgot to use a shredder, or perhaps they didn't have
something on the judge who presided over the case.
Guess they'll shop around next time.
Just think of how many other innocents are rotting away in this
nation's jails because they were easy targets of our
"law"
enforcement authorities, while the filthy rich with their connections
and wealth continue to literally get away with murder. Think
about how one day you might be our authorities next patsy...or the next
victim of one of this nation's "friends".
Perhaps we should be proud of our nation though, after all this country
truly does have the best judicial system and
"law"
enforcement that money
and connections can buy. – mpg
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Amerika,
2007
A quote...."Jonas Phillips is the third resident of Asheville, North
Carolina to be arrested in recent weeks for displaying a
pro-impeachment sign."
U.S.
farmers use inmates to harvest fields
A quote...."PICACHO, Ariz., Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Western U.S. farmers are
increasingly using inmates to harvest their fields as states crack down
on hiring undocumented workers. - Colorado started sending
female inmates to harvest onions, corn and melons this summer, and Iowa
is considering a similar program, The Christian Science Monitor
reported."
This country is beggining to look more like the Roman Empire every day.
- mpg
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He
Got Out While the Getting Was Good - posted by PG
A quote...."Back in those heady days of late summer 2002, Andrew Card,
then the president’s chief of staff, told The New York Times why the
much-anticipated push for war in Iraq hadn’t yet arrived.”You don’t
introduce new products in August,” he said, sounding like the
mouthpiece for the Big Three automakers he once was. Sure enough, with
an efficiency Detroit can only envy, the manufactured aluminum tubes
and mushroom clouds rolled off the White House assembly line after
Labor Day like clockwork."
Gobbel's
Principles of Propaganda - posted by PG
Some timely tips from the man Karl Rove admired so much and modeled
himself after. - mpg
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Posted to -
Sage
Observations - PG's quotes
"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our
institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing
people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history
have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a
nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject
class has always fought the battles."
-- *
Eugene Victor Debs*
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its
instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual
beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder
or be murdered in quarrels not their own"
-- *
Aldous Huxley* -
English novelist and critic, 1894-1963
"Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow
make sense. The thought that The State has lost its mind and is
punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence
has to be internally denied."
-- *
Arthur Miller*
playwright
"In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man,
but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
-- *
Thomas Jefferson* -
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of
Independence, 3rd US President
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When
the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to
give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from
responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."
-- *
Edward Gibbon* -
(1737-1794) Source: Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, 1909
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no
Constitution, no court, can even do much to help it."
-- *
Judge Learned Hand*
(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals
For the most recent quotes 08-25-07, goto....
Sage
Observations - PG's quotes - 08-25-07
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Brace
yourself for the insolvency crunch
A quote...."Be very careful. Interest rates in Europe and Asia are that
much higher now, with delayed effects starting to bite hard. Japan’s
economy has stalled to 0.1pc growth in Q2; the euro-zone has slowed to
0.3pc; and China’s refusal to import (by currency manipulation) makes
it a drain on world demand. Above all, the credit bubble that
perpetuated the rally of the last eighteen months beyond its natural
life has definitively burst."
What
Credit Crunch? - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."On AOL.com this week, the Internet-based loan company
LendingTree offered "Bad credit options" and a $425,000 loan for only
$1,376 a month. And Countrywide Financial, the nation's largest
mortgage lender, declared, "Bad Credit? Call Today. Refinance or Tap
into Your Home's Equity" in an online ad from its Full Spectrum Lending
Division."