Surreal Estate Bubble: Privatized Surveillance and Secrecy Boom

In the previous post on Wikileaks we noted the offense taken by
the Government and Journalists for the intrusion upon Government's
privilege of secrecy at all levels. Set this against the explosion of
surveillance and intrusive security firms making a mint, all of
the revenue subsidized by taxpayers, off violating the civil liberties
of Americans and citizens of other nations.

The Private Realm at present is a Surreal Estate where, according

to the Government and its Media Handmaidens, only the state has

property rights. Americans need to rouse themselves from the

stupor borne of fear and idolatry towards an Authoritarian

Security state.

Wikileaks serves as a challenge to all states, and their elites,
creating and holding dominion over this Surreal Estate. Greater

access to information is a step towards crashing their Surreal

Estate Market and recapturing the Real Estate of our civil liberties.

Wikileaks: Fulfilling Obama's Promise of Transparency(Now Facing Charges from DOJ and Pleas for Assassination from "Constitutionalists")

(Truth Held to the Fire by Both Sides)

“Information is the currency of democracy.”

-- Thomas Jefferson.

"As president, Obama will restore the American people’s trust in

their government by making government more open and transparent

and by giving regular Americans unprecedented new tools to keep

track of government officials, who they are meeting with, who is

giving them money and how they are spending taxpayer dollars."

---E-Mail from "Obama for 2008"

The irony of Attorney General Holder looking for ways to charge Julian Assange

of criminal activity when Wikileaks is busy following through with a major vow

of President Obama's campaign is bizarre. Candidate Obama railed against the

secrecy of the Bush Administration at every stop on the campaign trail. Now, as

President, he zealously prosecutes those who listened and are acting on his vows.

Anybody else laughing at this clumsy tripotage?

Another incongruity is the "Originist" crowd calling for Assange's execution.

They hate Big Government except when it involves illegal wars, criminal

enterprise and the massive waste of taxpayer dollars handed to war contractors.

Anti-Big Government folks are against an informed populace. Interesting. I

guess they really do want a smaller government. But only in the sense that a

few can know about policies and implementations that the masses must

obediently, in ignorance, accept. Is democracy possible with this kind of

"small government"? Only a few in the know? Wouldn't President Jefferson

call that tyranny? Isn't media supposed to be a check on such Gov't abuses

instead of acting as a dutiful monkey butler?

Isabelle Takes a Powder

She doesn't smile enough.
A brahmin told her it relaxes
capillaries 'round the head.

All day her eyes' clouded amber
turns down, shamed by daylight's
lack of restraint.

At a dinner-party her gaze is weighted
by unease and the inability to escape 
daily travail.
In the bathroom a powder
ministers sufficient wonder.

Now her eyes shine like stars bathe in them.
The snowy bezeled ball makes her iris wax
with flecked flame.
Then her laughter is the euphony of pearls
raining on harps.

At home she caps the splendid eve...
fucking thorough as the deepest
Stax groove.

Dew rinses the magic down grated manholes.
Another morn awaits clad in clouded amber.

China and the Reunification of Korea

"There is nobody who on leaving this city does not possess greater
caution than when he arrived: by surrendering one's money to
others one learns how to preserve it, which is the only advantage
that foreigners derive from this city of enchantments."

------------Persian Letters. Letter 58, Montesquieu.


Two dinosaurs spawned by post World War 2 realignment sadly
outlive their purpose on this planet. One is NATO and the other
the partition of Korea. Wherever they roam one can see the tracks
of instability, rapacious economic policies and outdated cold-war era
militarism.

Most, if not all, Koreans desire reunification. There are only two
nations on this planet who'd attempt to stop this, Japan and The
United States. The first fears the economic competition. The latter
is not desirous of reunification because it renders their military
presence on the peninsula pointless.






We will always have flare ups and provocative war games between
North and South Korea as long as the US guards the parallel. It is in
the Pentagon's interest to have an enduring presence on the Yellow
Sea. The Failure of the latest G-20 meeting in Seoul has inspired
this artillery incident. Here it is apropos to recall the ballistic missile
fired from a Chinese Submarine just off the coast near Los Angeles......

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China could seize this moment and head a diplomatic effort towards a
foregone conclusion: The Reunification of Korea. With one stroke of a
pen they could cripple US hegemony in Asia and unite a prosperous
peninsula in their favor. They could also implement an Economic Aid
package involving US Bonds to ease the transition of the North into a
more open society.


South Korea needs to escape US control of their political system.
They need to stop being Japan, Jr..

With the US out of the Korean Peninsula East Asia could be free
to grow on its own terms. Fostering organic trade relations unfettered
by the strain of military alliances.

The Panglosses of Private Enterprise

"It was all indispensable," replied the one eyed doctor, "and private misfortunes

make the public good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the more

everything is well."

--------Pangloss in Candide, Voltaire.

“Now, if you talk about bailouts for everybody else, there comes a place where if

you just start bailing out all the individuals instead of telling them to adapt, the

culture dies.”

-------Charles Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 9/14/2010.

Mr. Munger, as well as his "good friend" and partner, Warren Buffett,

says we should "thank God" the Government had the taxpayers bail out

the Investment Banks. Private misfortunes, fraud and racketeering by

Wall Street investment entities, should be rescued by the very public it

fleeces daily. And, we should be thankful for the opportunity of helping

those who destroyed our pensions, savings and social safety net our tax

revenue secures.

After the derivatives driven debt crisis and various other episodes of

malfeasance by private enterprise; British Petroleum in the Gulf,

ENRON and many others; why do Americans still have more faith in

private enterprise over public enterprise in providing best for all?

This "one-eyed" naivete is akin to Pangloss's belief that "Everything is

for the best." It displays a total ignorance of the past and parrots marketing

points corporate media outlets broadcast as gospel truth 24 hours a day.

Private enterprise benefits a few with the revenue of many. To believe it

provides better outcomes for society, insofar as being egalitarian, just or

ethical, is to deny its very essence. It was created to provide revenue for a few.

The past 30 years have been "The Age of Private Enterprise Panglosses".

They reign uncontested. Poverty rates are rising. Income gaps have never

been greater. Social Mobility is nil. The wealthiest 2% are doing wondrous

as the lower 98% are stagnant or doing worse. Corporations and Banks sit

on mountains of cash. Average Americans suffer foreclosure in record

numbers or live under enormous debt burdens. And still, after all this, we

hear the proud banter of these Private Enterprise Panglosses telling us it's

all the Government's fault. They're half right. The Government sides with

them.

We should give them another chance to help us(out of our wealth). And, for

God's sake, don't ask them to "rescue civilization" or give a penny more in

taxes because that's asking too much. It would destroy them. And what could

we ever do without them? Thank God they're around to pilfer everything that

slipped through their fat fingers last time.

Jubilee II

The day, silent with labor,
hastened the demise of dusk's calm.

Youths danced in the square,
their pliant limbs
coarsely figured
by tambourines'
frenzied clamor.

Shadows glided, undisturbed,
'cross tacit house-fronts
as the horned moon
began its lonely rise,
jealous of fire
in the square
and lithe bodies
gathering 'round
its gold.

Paper lamps swayed
left to right,
gracious as a mother's gait,
drawing gentle arcs
above revelers' heads.

The Last Tide

The light trill of Ines' voice spreads gentle as a songbird's

wing over the room. A weightless tide of waves carry words

in a suasive andante. I awoke and escaped the pull of an

ominous dream. The sea was troubled and no moon lit its

crests with kind silver. My grandfather was wading too far

from the shore. I sensed sea monsters were lurking under the

endless black to take him.

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He passed in 1986. I was a child then. Many people as close have

died since. His death broke life's cherry.

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Ideals are like the cruel expanding ink blots of an interminal

writer's block. The wall Kafka tried to write through. Character

appears lost to the living. It is buried in seeking. Writing is an

act that consumes the world in character.

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We can disintegrate particles with the heat of one million

suns. Why can't we practice justice? Our hopes float on an

ocean of appeasement.

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I go out to greet the public. Smiles are foolish. Laughter is never

kind. Eye contact is offensive. A people without character avoids

justice. This nation cannot face its defeat. When voices rise the

tide has already taken them. Fraud is the basis of our culture.

We derivate to suspend the realization as the heat of one million

suns destroys a quark. Love loses to death.

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His character speaks to me in dream. It never leaves. He rarely

laughs. Death allows him a free tongue. When I tried to save

him he pushed me away. It wasn't in anger. His look was gentler

than Ines' voice. The gesture's beauty eclipsed the most vivid

mixed metaphor. I didn't confuse it with pity.

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Are we ready for the Last Tide? Will the Sun always gild our days

with a promise of neverending growth?

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Tighten your belts and listen to the dead. They know the fear we

prune and water daily only strengthens death's hold. We barter

character for false ideals. Justice is discarded like an overly candid

friend. Fraud triumphs by its own terms. Love is devoted to revising

the past.

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We must swim against the tide. Unseen monsters are not as great

as ignorance make them. Love is the deepest way of knowing. It

stands fearless in truth.

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Life laughs at me.

My grandfather looked upon me with a love that rose above all

tides and monsters. Debt disintegrates in the presence of such love.

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Love is stronger than the heat of 14 trillion suns. It consumes the

imposture of debt.

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Incipit the Jubilee.

The Medieval "Little Optimum", Black Death and Climate Change Deniers

The above is a painting by Matthias Grunewald. In the lower right corner

of the painting is a bloated and sickly humanoid figure with open sores.

This demon represents a plague sufferer in Grunewald's time(ca. late 15th

early 16th Century Europe). He had treated many plague victims and used

their sickly appearance not only in this piece, "The Temptation of St. Anthony",

but also in his "Crucifixion" of the Tauberbischofsheim Altarpiece. When

present day Climate Change deniers mention what climate scientists call the

warming of the Medieval Period, the "Little Optimum", it is used as a post hoc

argument against manmade Climate Change and as a rational bromide stifling

need for concern when temperatures are trending up. What they always fail to

mention: The "Little Optimum" led to the greatest kill off of the Human species

in recorded history, The Black Death. World Population fell by at least a third

with massive death tolls in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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The warming during this period created great crop surpluses and the need

for bulk and break sites, Cities, to store them. Trade grew exponentially with

the great surpluses held in cities.

Trade between East and West facilitated the Yersenia Pestis virus, carried

by fleas and passed to Black Rats(Rattus Rattus), to spread over a large

land mass stretching from east China, through the Russian Steppes and

the Levant, to the far west of the British Isles and the Iberian Peninsula.

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Climate change, throughout history, always brings unforeseen consequences.

The Black Death was one of them. For Climate Change deniers to utilize the

"Little Optimum" in defense as a benign climate event that was a boon without

harm displays an astonishing ignorance of not only Medieval European

history, but of all available World History. The Plague never left Europe

and Asia fully until the late 19th Century. It returned cyclically for nearly

a half millenia killing thousands in every recurrence.

Pre-Emptive War Criminal Book Tour Invasion!

Cutting the carpet with the elan of psychopaths, these two mass murderers put their
names to memoirs detailing their "spiritual travails"........as if they have a smidgeon of
soul between them. Mass Murder, torture, bankruptcy and tyranny are their only legacy.
I am against burning books. I'd rather we burn these two sociopaths. But, one could say
in defense, "They said God inspired them!". Shameless. Did they use Iraqi and Pashtun
blood to print these Necronomicons?

London Youth Against Neo-Thatcherism(Austerity)

Students, Workers and the Elderly are asked to tighten their belts to bail

out the rampant fraud and gambling losses of Investment Banks.

War on Social Safety Nets has always been the focus of Globalist Finance.

The IMF always preaches austerity as it, like a Vampire, sucks more wealth

from nations and funnels it into banks. The Western Poor will soon learn

what the "Third World" poor has dealt with for years. Globalism is baring its

fangs and it's great to see people in France, Spain, Greece, Ireland and the

UK stand up. In the US citizens have protested by electing reactionaries

who are even worse shills for the vampires.

Until people rise up and demand to be heard, their rights will be trampled and

futures destroyed.

Vodaphone gets a 4 billion pound tax write off as students suffer cuts to tuition

aid.

Fuck the future and appease Corporations! Fuck that!

Apollo Psychopompos

Eyes alight
to blinding showers
of lustrous hair.

Life rises in cresting waves

brightly breaking.

At dusk he decamps the sky
and leaves lines of marked brilliance
to guide us through growing darkness.

It Will Happen Here(The Midterm's Message)

"The new governor's ambition was to clean up the streets and protect them
from any further blots upon their honor; he talked about streets as if they
were people."

------------ Albert Cossery, The Jokers.



A spectre is haunting the land. It speaks with a dotardly tone and carries
a shoe black sculpted head of hair. Its specious truisms spread over the
land. "Shrink the government.""The Government must get out of the way
of the Entrepeneurial Spirit of America." etc. We are now suffering the
wages of Reagan's sins of debilitating labor value, increasing military
spending, deregulating corporate entities the successive four Presidents
have irresponsibly continued. The American people have masochistically
elected candidates who will not only continue the cronyism of Reagan but
go further and usher in the social inequalities of the 19th century.

The winners exclaim they will cut deficits and spending in a meaningful
way without touching the defense budget. They tacitly approve Dubya's
fiscal conservatism of cutting taxes while waging a global war on
terrorism.

They side with their funders, the Corporations. Expect to see a greater
income gap and over 15% unemployment as the new norm. Also expect
to see cuts in Social Security. Wall Street fraud will be celebrated.

Experts will say President Obama went too far to the left by signing
into law a Corporatist Healthcare Reform Bill and a toothless
Financial Reform Bill. On the contrary, Obama has invited reaction
by abandoning his base in moving to the right and encouraging a
catastrophic counter-reaction to go further in resistance.

In a few years a greater reaction will sweep away these Reagan epigones.
Immense damage will be done. A call for a strong leader will be heard. Americans
love uniforms. The United States will become an open Military Dictatorship.
As of now it is a soft and secretive Security Dictatorship. The Patriot Act and
Supreme Court rulings on Corporate Personhood, Speech and on disallowing
private discourse with groups deemed "terrorist organizations" have already
prepared the way. It will happen here very soon.

Prince Potemkin: Allegoric Sire of Wall Street Accounting

Apocryphal or not, the legend attached to
Prince Potemkin stands as an apt allusion
for current Wall Street Accounting practices.
Facades of earnings increases hide toxic
debts and decreasing demand. It's a show
for investors, not an Empress.

Distraction

Herein we indulge our pleasure in refined distraction.


A list of the finest pop songs of the past 10 years.


"Kids"----- Kelli Ali
"The Fear"------ Lily Allen
"Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III"---- Cornershop
"I'm Waking Up to Us"----- Belle and Sebastian
"Juxtapozed With U"----- Super Furry Animals
"Run"------ Ghostface Killah featuring Jadakiss
"Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken"----- Camera Obscura
"The Healer"------ Erykah Badu
"Portions for Foxes"------- Rilo Kiley
"International Player's Anthem"-------- UGK featuring Outkast
"Rise Up with Fists"------ Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
"Roxy"----- Supergrass
"She's the One"------ Caribou
"Bad Cover Version"----- Pulp
"Snowden"------ Doves
"Pyramid Song"------- Radiohead
"Hum"------Clem Snide
"Walmart Parking Lot"----- Clem Snide
"True Freedom"------ Eef Barzelay
"Tiny Spark"------ Brendan Benson
"Since K Got Over Me"------ The Clientele
"The Shy Retirer"------ Arab Strap
"Grindin'" ----- Clipse
"Spare Ohs" ------ Andrew Bird
"Fake Palindromes" ------ Andrew Bird
"Natural Disaster" ------- Andrew Bird
"Sweet Talk" ----- Spiritualized
"The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore" ------ PJ Harvey
"Atom"------- British Sea Power
"(Cunts Are Still)Running the World" ------ Jarvis Cocker
"Gone" ----- Kanye West featuring Cam'ron

Random, not in order of refinement.

MBS: The Harpies That Won't Go Away

"Not enough fat fingers in the world to plug this collapsing dike."
---Anonymous Quant


MBS have so fouled investment in the US to the point where banks
have no risk guarantees and, therefore, implied permission to commit fraud.
Also to the point where the Government and Media are conspicuously silent
on the total destruction of centuries of Property Law. All the risk is with
the little guy as the banks graft ponzi-chia pets onto every piece of property.
If the homeowner defaults the banks gain more. Fraud and ponzi schemes
are incentivized.

The rule of law abhors the vacuum of our present Financial System. It shakes
the dust of dollars from its sandals and leaves the small investors and homeowners
to the Harpies.

Corporate Entities are gaining in rights as individual humans lose more.
Granting the Harpies more license only hastens collapse.

Here we witness the course of the feast where our Harpies turn
on each other--->Bank of America v. Blackrock and Pimco. Bank fraud
now steps on the toes of big investors. Congress and Obama reprise
the role of Pilate. Washing their hands while fraud runs free.
Markets will not "sort these matters out". They will simply pass the buck
to the least leveraged. Property Law is for the Banks to interpret and for the
people to dutifully observe.

Welcome to Fascism.

Non! France Stands Up to Global Banking Cartel's Pillage

Hopefully this gets more press in the States and Americans can learn, once again from the French, how a free people resists parasitic financiers.


Over two million marched. The world needs more frankness.

Solipsism and Scheherazade

Some, in desperation, find comfort in solipsism.

It walks with bare feet. In the rare instance someone takes its avocations seriously and notes the consequences–well, that's violation.

Despotic utopias free from ethical consideration arise. Where the sovereign “self” shelters itself from the messiness of others.


Personal wealth is the only value. A global crime wave of war, fraud and exploitation in its name goes unpunished. Our leaders champion all means with a flood of euphemisms.
Without crime the world's financial system collapses. Daily stock tickers are the seductive tones of a Scheherazade frantically spinning tales to forestall the inevitable.

Swerve Charm

Close the atom,
look up.
There is nothing
to see in equal light.

Quills of cirrus
shade gold days.

At sunset
gently rouse 
clement fires
that husband
explosion.

Tuck heads under temperate arms
and succumb to rest's sumptuous charms.

October Dawns

"The era of the finite world has begun."
----Paul Valery


Capitalism is kleptocratic in its zealous defense of private property and animist faith in self-interest magically inducing free markets to provide “fair” results to all. Markets have never been an impetus for greater human liberty and justice. The US Revolution began with a Tea Party resisting taxes issued by the West India Company(a corporation licensed by the Crown). The revolution began as a revolt against an abuse of the colonial market oppressing the colonists.
Ironically this revolution culminated in a Constitution that openly endorsed slavery through denying slaves human status.


If the world does not move past profit based economy through resource extraction and care for others then the end will come sooner rather than later. Inaction will result in a greater destruction of ecology and genocide. Capitalism has reached its end: global meanness. It is no longer sustainable unless mass murder, theft, rapine and fraud are utilized. The lawlessness of powerful nations and corporations adequately display this phenomena daily.


What powerful nations title terrorism is merely resistance against their policies of mass murder, rapine and theft.

Apres la Lettre, U.S. Congress Declares War on Physiocrats

"First comes eating and then comes morality."
--------Bertolt Brecht



After 40 years of enabling corporatist lust for cheap
labor the US Congress has now, sated and fat, facing
an eviscerated middle class, pointed an indignant finger
at China as the "Enemy". This big lie is disproved by the
simple fact that much of the goods imported into the US
from Chinese Cargo ships are filled with goods financed by
US Corporations subletting industry in China. Over 60%
of the goods are licensed and branded by US co's like
Apple, Microsoft and various textiles. US Corporations
and Wall Street financiers are profiting immensely from
our trade imbalance with China.

To blame China for currency manipulation and imply it
marks the sole reason for the trade imbalance is Herostratean
sophistry. First of all the US itself is busy manipulating its own
currency via Quantitative Easing and artificially low interest
rates. Secondly, as noted above, the trade imbalance enriches
US corporations, hedge funds and the financiers who have lobbied
Congress fiercely and successfully to destroy industry in the
United States.

NAFTA, GATT and other Globalist measures have not created
freer trade. Instead they have systematically destroyed the value
of labor around the world while benefiting financiers. If the US
Congress was serious it would undermine Global Labor arbitrage,
penalize US Corporations exploiting labor in under-regulated
foreign labor markets and increase the wages of US workers.
This would create the inflation they so dearly claim to desire. Their
actions, sadly, lead to destabilization and a further lessening of
labor value. Trade and currency wars are a globalist form of
austerity and, throughout history, invariably lead to real wars.

Those poor Physiocrats who advocated free and fair trade are
now witnessing their ideals trashed by the fraud, cronyism and
class warfare, rentiers against labor, of Globalism's disingenuous
adherence to "Free Trade". Hysterically the Globalists contort
themselves into a farcical crusade for "Fair Trade".

Americans should see this as a comical attempt to displace blame
for disastrous economic policies endorsed and practiced by the
Oligarchs over the past four decades. They're making out quite
well with trade deficits to China. Corporate profits are robust. The
people are tired of being squeezed and Congress(and their plutocratic
backers) knows it. So they scapegoat China and make "free trade" a
bogeyman.