Leader of World's Greatest Armer and Financier of Terrorism and Arms Dealer to Nations that Fund Terrorism Lectures UN General Assembly on Fighting Evil of Terrorism

Vide quod possit improbitas et nequitia, ut cum eius esse exstinctam vim ad laedendum credas, reviviscat.
Momus, Book IV, Leon Battista Alberti.

"Autumn Stone"

"God Doesn't Belong to the Yankee Dollar"

Mission Accomplished!

"My Fellow Americans, a few publicity stunts by a terror group our partners in the region and ourselves have created has allowed me to convince you bombing Syria is appropriate---of course bombing Iraq is never an issue."

Moon Drops Blue

ISIS, Al Qaeda 2.0(Improved Model to Terrify People into Supporting Never-ending Wars Profitable for Contractors, Energy Cartels, and Banks)

Who else had US-made stinger missiles? Losing Stinger Missiles and having other US arms "accidentally" fall into the wrong hands is great for business.

Sing It

Baldwin on "Looters"

Super Moon, Perseid Tails

Super Moon, Tree Branches

Super Moon, Perseid Trails

"So I get to bomb Iraq too?" "Good one Barack!" (laughter)

"I am a firestarter..."

"We're all riders on this train"

Obama and the US Congress Wholeheartedly Supports and Arms People Who Believe Genocide is "Permissible"

Super Moon Falls

For You

Chaplin, "Monsieur Verdoux"

Self Portrait with Philosopher's Stone and Cane

"Lead the mind, as by a hand, to the contemplation of invisible realities."
---Basil of Caesarea

Happy 4th

White Supremacists Block Busloads of Children and Women Arriving at Detention Center to Start Deportation Process in California

"It will confirm me bold; the child o'th'Court.
Let blushes dwell i'th'country."
Thomas Middleton, The Revenger's Tragedy, Act 1, Scene 3.

The Damned

"A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned in the next world, if only to justify itself for making their life a hell in this."

                  R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism.

Siena

Urbs Senarum in Etruria admodum nobilis est, et agrum late patentem possidet.
--- Pope Pius II, Commentaries.

No Kidding

Plus de Miracle

The small but abiding shock 
of apprehending bodies 
dispense with agency.

Children speak love
without prompting.

Birds sing at three hands
past the witching hour.

Marvels of otherwise
unremarkable days.

Bodies

   
"Daily habit makes one forget that one has a body that is equally subject to all the laws of destruction in the physical world as is a piece of wood that we saw or cut in pieces, and that the body moves in accordance with the same laws as any other physical machine constructed by human beings. --Only on certain occasions do we become sharply aware that our body is a physical object which can be destroyed--and then we are frightened at ourselves, suddenly feeling that we supposed ourselves to be something we are not, and that instead we are something that we fear to be."

                                          ---- Karl Philipp Moritz, Anton Reiser, Part Three.   

"For You"

Satire

"The best are convicted as the worst strut with impunity."




Under scolding heaven
handless men kill.
Mars seduced the God
he cuckolded, then
placed his divine consort
in southern California.
The Goddess, heels grown high,
inspires play which
seduces doe-eyed mortals
to His terrible craft.

Diagnosis

     "The disease of reason is that reason was born from man's urge to dominate nature, and the 'recovery' depends on insight into the nature of the original disease, not on a cure of the latest symptoms. The true critique of reason will necessarily uncover the deepest layers of civilization and explore its earliest history. From the time when reason became the instrument for domination for human and extra-human nature by man---that is to say, from its very beginnings---it has been frustrated in its own intention of discovering the truth. This is due to the very fact that it made nature a mere object, and that it failed to discover the trace of itself in such objectivization, in the concepts of matter and things not less than in those of gods and spirit. One might say that the collective madness that ranges today, from the concentration camps to the seemingly most harmless mass-culture reactions, was already present in germ in primitive objectivization, in the first man's calculating contemplation of the world as a prey. Paranoia, the madness that builds logically constructed theories of persecution, is not merely a parody of reason, but is somehow present in any form of reason that consists in the mere pursuit of aims."

                    ------Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason, (176; ch. V).

Venerie

A name for the air and nothing more

Spleen 68

The cock silent as lace and slow rain,
parce que personne sacks empty palaces.

Communard bones shook en rage
as students above ground
called their tombs la plage.

Banks where pretty women
smiled wide as boulevards,
singing slogans,
their eyes on young men who,
cent ans avant, buried reds sous les pavés.

Realists effaced the possible
avec Lacan flooded lacunae.

Entering the palace,
cocks, loud as ever,
crow.
               
                  In every intime non
                    grave reds heard
                         Foucault.

To Me

Atropos

             I
Above
crisp sails swell full cheek.

In white cloth,
                               bright as scant cloud
                               crossing Sun,
I pace the deck.

          II
Run blind
 threadless youth,
        heels break in time.

Hooked by form's lure,
she cuts livelier lines.

Spring Forward

Spring Fog, Black Bird at Margin

NATO Exists to Nurture Fascism in Europe

Leaders of Nations Bankrolling and Arming Fascism Cheering Their Efforts

Appointed Fascist PM of Italy with Cabinet

Fascist Leader of Spain Receives Support of President of World's #1 Fascist Financier of Fascism

Ukraine

Hungary

Greece

"The poor could live here too..."

"Nothing like the way it feels..."

h/t  www.blckdgrd.com

Dickens Never Gets Old

     "The members of this board were very sage, deep, philosophical men; and when they came to turn their attention to the workhouse, they found out at once, what ordinary folks would never have discovered,---the poor people liked it! It was a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes, ---a tavern where there was nothing to pay,---a public breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper, all the year round,---a brick and mortar Elysium where it was all play and no work. 'Oho!" said the board, looking very knowing; 'we are the fellows to set this to rights; we'll stop it all in no time.' So they established the rule, that all poor people should have, the alternative(for they could compel nobody, not they,) of being starved by a gradual process in the house, or by a quick one out of it. With this view, they contracted with the waterworks to lay on an unlimited supply of water, and with a corn-factor to supply periodically small quantities of oatmeal; and issued three of thin gruel a-day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on Sundays. They made a great many other wise and humane regulations having reference to the ladies, which it is not necessary to repeat; kindly undertook to divorce poor married people, in consequence of the great expense of a suit in Doctors' Commons; and, instead of compelling a man to support his family as they had theretofore done, took his family away from him, and made him a bachelor! There is no telling how many applicants for relief under these last two heads would not have started up in all classes of society, if it had not been coupled with the workhouse. But they were long-headed men, and they had provided for this difficulty. The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people."

                  ---------- Dickens, Oliver Twist, Book I, Chapter 2.




                                       

This Little Angel Turns 3 Today

Clouds, Heavenly Gossamer

Rise, my sisters, Clouds eternal,
Shining bright with morning dew,
From the roaring Ocean's bosom
To the sky, the world to view.

-----Aristophanes, The Clouds, Act I, Scene 2.

"Electricity is dangerous when it is raw."

The Fascists in Ukraine Have an Old Friend

"Western Capital will liberate you as it has Iraq, Afghanistan, Estonia, Libya, etc.!"

Manicured Lawnzilla

"It is not impossible to witness an abnormal deviation in the hidden or visible operations of the laws of nature."
-----Lautreamont, Le Chants de Maldoror, Book IV, 7.

Bright Blue Seas Above

So that, above in yonder place,
Where love abides, and all is rest,
All we may be forever blest.

---Confessio Amantis, John Gower.

Contra Contract, Love's Work

Turbines spin dominion.
The seductive hum
of articulate current
promises heaven.

Dour knaves rouse jaded monks.
Seasoned moths know better
than to singe wings in fire.

Burnt skin skies
flush my love's eyes
weeping cinders.

No politics or apology,
I'm in love with this world.
It blooms bright
as skin burns.

All turmoil,
turbines' hum,
washed away by
warm blood.

Backhand Eyed Sibylline(A Look Forward to 2014)

Sed quoniam mea causa expedita est, videamus nunc quid haruspices dicant.
Cicero, De Haruspicum Responsis. 

*Please read disclaimer at end.


1. Erdogan indicted for corruption and forced out of office in Turkey.

2. More unrest in Egypt and, as now, met by brutal repression.

3. Civil War intensifies in Iraq.

4. South Sudan regime collapses. US/NATO, in support of clients, rush in to another quagmire.

5. Abe's economic policy leads to banking crisis in Japan.

6. China offers bond purchase program to help Japan in exchange for island rights in South China Sea.

7. US fails to scuttle deal between Japan and China.

8. Israel escalates bombing campaign in Lebanon to take attention off crimes in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in West Bank.

9. Assad consolidates power despite Saudi/GCC/Western support of terror groups.

10. ISIS becomes #1 Al Qaeda group US focuses on by March. ISIS was funded and armed by Saudis/GCC and US/NATO for past 6 years.

11. Obama's approval ratings drop to record lows. ACA will continue to be a disaster.

12. Democrats will lose Senate majority and seats in House.

13. Market correction in April.

14. Peace talks with Iran collapse, as planned by US.

15. Libya descends into a full blown civil war.

16. Pakistan refuses to allow US/NATO to transport fuel, munitions, etc on their roads in protest of Drone strikes.

17. UN condemns US Drone Strike assassination policy as a violation of International Law.

18. Push for war with Iran in US fails due to lack of public support in fall.

19. General Sisi, dictator of Egypt, is assassinated.

20. After market correction in April widespread riots in US.

21. US client state in Yemen collapses. Saudi Arabia invades with US air support.

22. Greater US Military presence in Colombia as well as first use of Drone Strike Assassination in Western Hemisphere against resistance groups.

23. Taliban offensive in May nearly takes Kabul.



*These visions are inspired by the Deity. They do not exhibit any parti pris.

Somniloquy

Venerie,
hunting disease.

Columbian litigation,
human bone
heap mountains.

Archivists weep ink
on dust,
death in measure.

Laws ghostwritten
spirit
hidden treasure.

An Epitaph

      "In all societies, which are simply a union of minds, a common character is formed. This universal soul adopts a way of thinking which is the effect of a chain of infinite causes which multiply and combine century by century. Once the tone has been given and received, it alone governs, and everything that sovereigns, magistrates, and peoples may do or imagine, whether it seems to conflict with the tone or to follow it, always relates to it, and it dominates even the total destruction of the society."

                                           
                                     

                                       Mes Pensees, Montesquieu.

Happy Holidays

May Tricks

So many titles for us:
Consumer, citizen, worker, and the ponderous
Community;
Take those pills.
They may not make life better,
but best to make it go.

Be thankful the great few
acknowledge us in classified
nomenclature.

Subjects of charts and graphs,
stacked higher than Babel,

Reaching a reasonable Heaven
supervisory Gods orchestrate.

We must cherish sacrifice,
for we are always asleep.

They live our collective dream.
Our civic duty is to be happy
(Collateral damage of
Beautifully choreographed
Genocide).

Their license demands our payment.

Stupid Shit Fascists Do that Western Media Loves to Capture on Film and Show Over and Over Again

Marion Heights, August 1952

Agnes smiled when Lover dropped her off and said he'd be around to pick her up at closing time. She'd heard that before. He laughed when Agnes took up the wagon and guaranteed she wouldn't need it.
     It was late August. The days were dry and warm. Around 4 cool winds came as the Sun lowered. At 5 Agnes stopped working and gathered up groceries to take home.
     The sky spread callous orange above the store's closing. Agnes stood out front waiting for Lover. The owner wished Agnes good evening and walked to his house across the street. She bowed her head a little and told him to have a nice evening.
     Lover was across town at the Tavern on his 5th round. Life's good when others buy long as he keeps singing "Old Shep".
     Agnes took her wagon down the road home. Cool wind stroked her graying black hair back. She was 35 with a youthful face, her body strong. Home's only 2 more miles, no better weather for a long walk.
     When Mr. Bell slowed to a stop beside Agnes and offered a ride, she turned her head, laughed, and said the exercise kept her young.
     Dusk gave to night as Agnes pulled her wagon into the door. Her sister had the kids. Lover wasn't home.

Thanks

US National Security, Forever Led by Unapologetic Psychopaths

The World's Indispensable Killer and Arms Dealer

"I can go no farther here. I should be counted censorious, and perhaps unjust, if I should enter into the unpleasing work of reflecting, whatever cause there was for it, upon the unthankfulness and return of all manner of wickedness among us, which I was so much of an eye-witness of myself."
--- A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe. 

Waves

"Yes kids, your Daddy's really good at killing people."

New shitty book out details how President Obama bragged to aides that he's "really good at killing people." Source:  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/4/obama-brag-new-book-im-really-good-killing-drones/

Clearance

"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be so had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."


               
                    ----Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, Preface.
               
       

NCAA and Militarism, Plantation Prop for Empire

Duke basketball players taking target practice at West Point, Coach K's alma mater.

"Love Feels Good Though We Stuck in the Hood"

Sweet song from Ghost.

K/M

"It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find complete rest in which to adopt a position: backwards." 
         
                                                
                                                 Soren Kierkegaard, Journals IV A 164 (1843)

11

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

                    

                    Marx, Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

Das Atta Kapitroll

Three cheers for the Lumpenproletariat Marx despised. Disciplined workers as the ultimate bearers of class consciousness betrays a burgher's(or bookkeeper's) priggishness. Marxism should welcome those who refuse to engage in disciplined labor. Lumpenproletarians shirking socially accepted forms of labor amply display keen class consciousness. To exclude them renders the anointed working class's "heroic struggle" reactionary.


(bittersweet apologies to Harry Heine)

Supernova

"The daring flames peeped in and saw from far
The awful beauties of the sacred choir,
But, since it was profaned by civil war,
Heav'n thought it fit to have it purged by fire."
John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, 276.

September Storms

Like the scent of rain suggests showers,
facts are fairy tales awaiting a moral.

Pockets

Leaves of old paper
crisp to the touch,
                             with revenant scrawls
                             that slipt our clutch,
open locked doors
in empty homes.

"Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum"

The vindictiveness of those embarrassed by Snowden’s whistle blowing burns a Bonfire of Surveillance State Vanity for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear. The same can be said of the “treatment” Imperial jackals provided for Bradley Manning. Law is not an issue. Terror is deemed the most efficient form of “justice”(cf. JSOC Night Raids, Signature Drone Strikes, Militarized Police, old Espionage Act wine poured into new skin and used against Dissent).

Remember Obama’s opening words to the world when he proudly announced the due process free execution of a useful and powerless bogeyman: “Justice was done.” He placed his cards on the table that night. America cheered.

Haunting Deserts of the Real

Counterrevolution Consolidates Victorious Military Coup, US Backed SCAF Slaughters Peaceful Pro-Morsi Protesters

Smoke rises from anti-coup protest center in Rabaa. Police and Military slaughter pro-Morsi protesters.

Autumn Nears

"And I pretend to myself..."

Levantine

Shadows stretch
as if spirits
of bodies
reach for light.

Crowns settle
on cool brows.

Golden tongues
summon stars fire
rain laurels.

"I believe in the world as in a daisy, Because I see it."

(title from Pessoa)

"If I Was a Girl..."

Cleavage

You need this face,
       altar of the soul,
a resting place

       Our fragile pole
    immersed unsure in
       ubiquitous space

      haunting parole.

Eve

"But someone pass me
The fragrant cup
Full of the dark light,
So that I may rest now; for sweet
It would be to drowse amid shadows."
----"Remembrance", Holderlin.

Samsara

"The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands—the ownership and control of their livelihoods—are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease."

—Helen Keller, 1911.

Summer, My Love, and We Must Sigh It

Crown fires
raze temples
to ground,
darling.

Ash blankets
the valley.
Shut tight
twilit eyes.

Ruddy faces
rise from shelters
of burned out
cities.

We must love.
Flames envelope
in waves thick
as blood.

It's summer,
time to sigh
over holocausts,
darling.

Sugar and Stone

An umbrella left
on a dissecting table
  disconcerts.

Rainfall on Paris,
large drops sweet to gypsies
an artist carelessly passes.

He loosens his tie
 under a canopy
  of newsprint.

Daydreams of Velázquez
crying over a broken globe,
and loses himself.

    Rain makes stones 

under that ghastly tower
      precious gems.

He stops and muses to himself,

"A corpse is not so shocking."

QOTD

"But yes, I've not mentioned the Zimmerman trial much because what can be said about a country where a murdered black kid is put on trial for his own murder?"

----BLCKDGRD


http://www.blckdgrd.com/

Sunset

The Sun was covered
 by a purple robe.
Regal night arose,
Queen of day's broken promise,
 spray of stars
her shattered crown.

Arbors

Terpsichore's on tree-tops
swaying gently
in moonlight.

She reins in the rough arc
of nascent limbs,
light as plucked feathers
in a gale.

The forest is drunk
with insentient song.

Ghosts of melodies
haunt your ear,
late traveler.

Unsettled by life's absence,
it's not your hollow breast...
Some youthful egress?
Give it a name.
Still bewilderment
keeps you wakeful
'til pale moon's
panned away
by morn's gold.

Laura Nader, "Culture and Dignity: Dialogues Between the Middle East and...

Daze

A gavel falls

but makes no sound.

Dream spills
down fleece slopes
into wake's gutter.

Hands can't gather gold
buried in clouded eyes.

Agree with Title, Country Bath Truth

COMMENT: Nothing worse than foolishly seeking nothingness as something better. Call me sentimental.

Michael

"On ne tue pas de coups de fusil aux idees"
            --Denis Diderot




Four marks past zero
the messenger was taken,
as he lived,
in light.

Words escape flame.
The message burns.

Our enemy kills in silence.
Angels sing this death.

The song still moves.

Random Song

"Why should I care?"

Enlightenment Theology: The Bourgeois State Numbers the Very Hairs on Your Head

(ex cathedra)

Content erased before leaving mark. It was not blood that cleansed them.

Saul of Tarsus swearing he's a citizen of the Empire...



unhorsed.


(nervous laughter)

The 90's: Rise of Pop Fascism in the United States(Pt 6, Sanctions, Routine Bombings, Genocide in Iraq)

(Excellent documentary despite grainy footage)

"It was worth it."

The 90's: Rise of Pop Fascism in the United States(Pt 4, Serbia and Kosovo: Destabilize, Bomb, and Plunder)

Destabilize Kosovo arming and funding Al Qaeda affiliated drug runners and human organ traffickers. Incite Serbian response and trigger refugee crisis. Use violence and refugee crisis to call for unilateral US/NATO bombing of Serbia and Kosovo(targeting infrastructure, media centers, and urban areas with cluster bombs). Settle for same peace deal US declined at Rambouillet months earlier. Expand NATO and plunder. (Sound familiar?)

The 90's: Rise of Pop Fascism in the United States(Pt. 2, Cordon Sanitaire)

Police Brutality, Incitement, and Complicity displays urgent need for Militarized Police. (Permanent Urban National Guard)

Night of Dark Leaves

Black against blue,
no escaping stars,

night of dark leaves
gives wing.


Shades assemble.

No human voice,
not even a whisper,
accompanies the
music of gunfire.


Intrigue, with tongue to ear,
seduces the still hour.

The 90's: Rise of Pop Fascism in the United States (Pt 1, NAFTA Debate, Both Faces)

"Politics of Fear versus the Politics of Hope."

Blog Bathroom Stall Graffiti

The Bureaucratic Organization of Knowledge

Informed and Efficient Control of Bodies



UnAversity

InterNET

IP Un-freely



Government Secrecy/Classification

Social Media, Formatted and Fenced Agora

Tollbooth'd Info Distribution



Bourgeois Required New Theology and Liturgy (Information Becomes Spirit[Law] and Letter[Instrument] of Capital)

Rationalism Replaces Theology as Mode of Authoritarian Control of Knowledge

End of Knowledge: Efficiency, Never Ending Dream of Exploited Bodies


Warfare as Extension of Intelligence Wielding "Information" as Weapon

Godot the Monument

Cloaked in dust,
impatient,
he craves
tending hands.

               Not a clock,
               or covered ears at
               crow of cock...

Still he sits.
Listless stares

pass sans care. 

"Protesting Was Sexy On a Saturday Night"

Excellent Documentary on Obama as "More Effective Evil" (h/t Margaret Kimberley, Freedom Rider)

A Friend Made This Video for a Great Guided by Voices Song

Clean rockin'.

Growth Demands Love Among the Ruins at Lower Prices

Over 1,000 lovers died so Western garment peddlers could sell hip clothing cheaper in "more advanced and enlightened societies". Out of love, economists comfort Western clothes horses by calmly producing graphs and charts proving this sacrifice is necessary for "growth" in "less advanced societies".

                             
                             

                              And that glory and that shame alike, the gold
                                                 Bought and sold.

                           --- "Love Among the Ruins", Robert Browning.

Soon

Happy May Day! (Remember, You Have the Right to Be Lazy)

A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and his progeny. Instead of opposing this mental aberration, the priests, the economists and the moralists have cast a sacred halo over work. Blind and finite men, they have wished to be wiser than their God; weak and contemptible men, they have presumed to rehabilitate what their God had cursed. I, who do not profess to be a Christian, an economist or a moralist, I appeal from their judgement to that of their God; from the preachings of their religious, economics or free thought ethics, to the frightful consequences of work in capitalist society.

In capitalist society work is the cause of all intellectual degeneracy, of all organic deformity. Compare the thorough-bred in Rothschild’s stables, served by a retinue of bipeds, with the heavy brute of the Norman farms which plows the earth, carts the manure, hauls the crops. Look at the noble savage whom the missionaries of trade and the traders of religion have not yet corrupted with Christianity, syphilis and the dogma of work, and then look at our miserable slaves of machines. 

      ---Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy, Chp. 1.