Voter SWAG 2012

Victim of Drone Strike

Record Homeless Rate. Inequality rising. More Austerity to Come

Record Incarceration Rate. Widespread Torture, Inhumane Conditions

Increase in Police Brutality, with Impunity

Torture Room at US Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan

Servers at NSA. Dedicated to gathering communications of Americans on Computers, Phones, etc.

Armored Military Vehicles for Local Police Forces provided by DHS

More Bombs for Foreign(Mostly Poor, Muslim, with Water and Carbon Energy Resources to Exploit) Nations that do not Obey

Every vote, even for a Third Party Candidate, legitimizes all of this.

November's Mutability Mutes None

1. Every cock a stiletto shining death down dark corridors

2. Life is mutiny. So beautifully futile a rebellion it overcomes oblivion each moment

3. November's the cruelest month. Trees shed habits of green, plucked naked by cold hands.

4. Let hair spill endless o'er ivory shoulders and delight Nyx in abandoned measure. 

As Darkness' Share Rises, Remember Your Love is...

Like the Morning Sun.

Deadly Dispositions

Sorry, children, the United States demands friendly dispositions!

(Psychotic States take every measure to exact and extend death and dismemberment.)

h/t Arthur Silber--> http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2012/10/paths-of-resistance-i-refusal-to.html

Esprit de Corps

Marx has the last laugh.

Objective idealism becomes commodity fetish.

Synecdochal Shrug, Fascist Serendipity (Rand's Pulp Sadism and the Election)

Corporate political machines compete to win majority share in the profitable business of eliminating "parasites".

Empire's Requiem

Drones whistle requiem.

No Creature Escapes Capital's Sadism

Capital is the most destructive drug on Earth.

Let's Watch the Debate!

Sheep lost in a sea of spectacle.

The President of a Nation Bombing Several Muslim Nations and the World's #1 Arms Dealer Pontificates at United Nations about Peace, Values, and "Muslim Rage"

The best part is when he, as President of a nation with the largest Nuclear Arsenal, and the only one to use it on civilians in warfare, lectures Iran about their "Nuclear Program".

Blessed

Piss On It 2012

Flow Forward.

Had to Post, Funny Cartoon

Chan Lowe, South Florida Sun Sentinel, 9/14/2012.

Patriot Day, an Imperial Nostrum

The Unbearable Gravity of Wartime Presidents. 

A massive security failure enables warmongers, snoops, torturers, and Executive mass murderers to act boldly in our name. Truly a day to be most Patriotic. Forget the blood, civil liberties, and public wealth going down the War on Terror's drain. American Empire Inc. cashes in and leaves you the privilege, as a Patriot, of paying the bill. Be proud.

The People's Hero

"for the spirit of our country...I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create more growth, more equality...and a greater possibility of world peace."

R.I.P.

Rachel Corrie interviewed two days before she was murdered in Gaza by the IDF, heavily subsidized by US taxpayer dollars, using a Caterpillar bulldozer.

America Furens

Any Valid Discussion of Gun Control Must Address Epidemic of Police Unnecessarily Gunning Down "Suspects" and Bystanders* with Overwhelming Force

A homeless man with mental health issues, holding a knife, was confronted by 6 cops. When he failed to obey order to drop the knife(one man with a knife, 6 well armed cops) they ended the "standoff" by firing 46 bullets into his body. Where are Gun Control activists when the police murder those they are trained to protect via asymmetrical gun violence?
*9 Bystanders were wounded by errant bullets as NYPD shot and killed murder suspect.

Tiny Spark

Weil

"Whether the mask is labelled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus---the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battlelines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others."

                                       --- Simone Weil, "Reflections on War", 1933.

Window's End

Published carousels burn to motes.

A trillion pixels flood the moats.
We're not free but we're interested.
Every white screen defenestrated.

Debs

"I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition."

The Lens

She lived a few blocks from a walkway that arched above the interstate. Late, when stillness settled over the freeway, she'd bring a camera to capture its thrall.

On her perch she looked down on white lines and black asphalt bracketed by constant yellow, a flat page marked by rubber, shattered glass, bright reflectors.

Occasionally a car or truck interrupted. She'd set the camera on her shoulder and skip the passage.

Telemaquerie

"Since politicians say what their auditor wants to hear, Jack made the $3.5 billion military build-up sound to me like so much 'pump-priming for liberals,' a group he deeply despised. 'No one can be liberal enough for the New York Post,' he used to say. But then the speed with which so many liberals abandoned Stevenson to join him was a source of his amused contempt as he himself went about courting conservatives like John J. McCloy."
------Gore Vidal, Palimpsest, p. 362.   

Fenelon smiles a kind curtain.  (I boycott accents.)

"Every night a strange geometry..."

From Kabul to Anaheim, Occupation Finds a "Homeland"

Kabul

Anaheim

Militarized response for any resistance to state brutality anywhere.

Trakl

Tassels wave
fragile wings.

The book falls
from lots cast,

an anxious God's
measure.

Chance, again,
as it will in time,
breaks the stylus...
cradling worlds
on papyrus.

The fields lie fallow
as this world
turns against
breath.

"Who'll dress their wounds?"

Progress!

"Licensed prostitution, direct material theft, house-breaking, murder, brigandage for the lower classes; while skillful spoliation, indirect, refined theft, clever exploitation of human cattle, carefully planned and brilliant executed betrayals, transcendent pieces of sharp practice in short, all the truly elegant vices and lucrative crimes which the law is far too polite to interrupt remain the monopoly of the upper classes."
                                                                     ----La Phalange, December 1, 1838.

Progress: LAPD Enhances Community Event with Rubber Bullets, Tasers, Tear Gas, Brutality

"Well, this shows that if this be law, it is not the law of righteousness; it is a murderer, it is the law of covetousness and self-love. And this law that frights people and forces people to obey it by prisons, whips and gallows is the very kingdom of the devil, and darkness, which the creation growns under at this day."
------ Gerrard Winstanley, "A New-Yeers Gift for the Parliament and Armie", (1650).

(Photo of LAPD aggressively blocking "Chalk Walkers" and others peacefully attending public Art Walk)

Rimbaud's Marriage

            I

A beggars eyes
can't sway the Sun.
Infinity's shadow
to fierce bonfires succumbs.

Chaos crests such
blinding brightness.

          II

Hooves beat
ashen cloudtops.

Four horses choke
on the dust 

of nightmares.

Apostasy's bit

slips away. 
 

And, dear love,
it moves me so
my cock
buries its head.

Apostasy

The blind was drawn.

Leaving by train,
a letter in my lap, windows
unmarred by the city's erosion
to inconstant gray.

She sat across from me,
Foi o Mar in her eyes.

Black cloth billowed
in those dark sea eyes
like our breath...
       in time with the engine.

Tacitly, we shared a burden.

Head against the pane,
I succumbed in dream
to the double-drone.

What Would Ms. Leipholz Think?(My First Schoolhouse Becomes a Strip Joint)

Shocking! US Supreme Court Rules Congress Has Right to Levy Punitive Tax on Citizens too Poor to Afford Health Insurance

Good thing I just bought some Hospital Chain stock!

Summer Lasts

Untangling

"Since the emancipation of the third estate, the formation of bourgeois democracy and its transformation into mass industrial democracy, the neutralization of politically relevant differences and postponement of a decision about them has developed to the point of turning into its opposite: a total politicization of everything, even of seemingly neutral domains of life."
 ----Karl Lowith.

1. The future will be ruled by meth addled drone operators.

2. Neither trot nor ski because the shit mars snow.

3. Monetization is the easiest nihilism.

4. Editing T.S. Eliot: "This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but without giving a single fuck for 'people'."

5. The English and French Revolutions did fine without adhering to Scientific Principles. The Liberal fetish for a popular appreciation of Evolutionary Theory is reactionary.

6. Hegel's work is the best criticism of "common sense" philosophy. (Realism, Empiricism)

7. Orthodoxy is where ideologies go to die. (please note alternate meanings of "doxy" and "die")

8. Making conscious resistance to authority an ideology places it under glass, dead, pinned like a butterfly enabling hierarchical collection and classification.

9. Natural Selection: Mythical as the land of milk and honey, rational kernel of the Cosmos, etc.

10. Social Media: Canaries crying in sharecropped mines.

Pop Fascism 101 (Rock N' Roll Has Always Been)

Exhibit A: Stoic, Tightly Coiffed Guitar Gods*. Athletic Men, Defined Muscularity, Genitals. Beautiful Ancillary Woman. Science. Missile.

*Of course Marr is the "Guitar God" here but hard to miss huge piece Sumner wields.

It Means Nothing at All

Not Augustine or Aquinas, Here's the True Inspiration for Obama's "Kill List"

"But the anathema must strike down man most directly and most visibly: the exterminating angel circles this unhappy globe like the sun, and allows one nation a respite only to strike down others. When crimes, and especially crimes of a certain kind, accumulate to a designated point, the angel relentlessly quickens its tireless flight. Like a rapidly turning burning torch, the immense speed of his movement allows him to be simultaneously present everywhere in his formidable orbit. He strikes all the peoples of the earth at the same time. At other times, a minister of a precise and infallible vengeance, he pursues particular nations and bathes them in blood. Do not expect them to make any effort to escape or alleviate their sentence. It is if as we saw these great criminals, enlightened by their consciences, requesting the punishment and accepting it for the sake of their atonement. So long as they have any blood left they will come to offer it, and soon a sparse youth will get used to telling of these devastating wars caused by the crimes of their fathers."
--------- Joseph de Maistre, St. Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence.  

will anyone hear? does it matter?

Whistling Graveyards(Pop Fascism's Latest Hit)

“Barack Obama believes in options: ‘Maintain my options,’ “ said Jeh C. Johnson, a campaign adviser and now general counsel of the Defense Department."--"Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will"(to kill anyone he decides), Jo Becker and Scott Shane, New York Times.

The New York Times is once again floating "serious leadership" campaign propaganda for an Executive hoping to earn approval for a policy of indiscriminate(by it's own stated "principles") mass murder.

Namedrop Augustine and Aquinas to dazzle "thoughtful" liberals with Crusader apologia. Natch.

The decider is tested in secret. Can he continue to muster the will to kill anyone he wishes? It's a hard cross to bear. In the safety of the White House he meets with his advisors and mulls over which faces to erase with joystick operated drones. Very serious and heroic to take up the power of life and death over anyone, anywhere, at any time. A caricature of a living God brought to you by the latest military technology.

Fear not proud Americans. He's "maintaining his options" as Commander in Chief of the greatest nation forever. If he decides to kill you know his principles deemed it necessary to protect the Homeland. He's got your back, even in death. Accept his principles and, as a patriot, surrender your will to "his options".


The sound of whistling fills the sky...

Bloody Diamond: Head of England's Oldest and Wealthiest Crime Family Celebrates 60 Years on the Dole

"She sang a heavenly lullaby,
The song of renunciation
By which the people, that giant clown,
Is lulled from its lamentation."

---Heine, Germany: A Winter's Tale.

Rant in Response to Attempted Defenses of President Obama's Drone Assassination Policy

(in response to various comments on this piece--> http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/the-kill-list/257890/
where a man, though troubled by deeds[indiscriminate mass murder], reaffirms his faith in Obama with an emphatic comment)




Nice to see REALPOLITIK along with historical precedent not even remotely analogous(Barbary Pirates) trotted out to defend a policy of indiscriminate mass murder. "Terrorist" is a term used to dehumanize insurgents. People hate a brutal occupation by foreigners. Torture, indiscriminate violence, mass murder are common occurrences(McChrystal, "Amazing how many people we've killed..."). Afghanistan and The Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11. They offered to hand Bin Laden over to President Bush if they were shown evidence of his complicity. The US was offended by that demand and bombs fell. In short, President Obama was wrong in 2008, Afghanistan was never "the right war". It was just as criminal as Iraq(Earlier this year Obama issued a proclamation making the Anniversary of the Iraq War a "Day of Honor").

If you wish to look inside the heart and mind of an unapologetic warmonger then read President Obama's Memorial Day speech at the Vietnam Memorial. He used the myth of soldiers returning from Vietnam being spit on to set up a counterpoint where he, the patriotic Warlord, lauded them as undefeated heroes in battle. The Vietnam War destroyed millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians for no reason. Vietnam was never a threat. Still, our boys were undefeated! They died for freedom! Their "service to the nation" was valorous! Obama believes protests and lack of political will prevented our mass murdering "heroes" from taking their undefeated record in battle to a complete aggressive war(greatest crime of all according to Nuremberg Tribunal) victory. 

Militarism is bankrupting this nation materially and spiritually. Its zeal for rapine is imitated by our masters of finance. President Obama absolves their past crimes and enables their aspirations. Torturers, war criminals, and financial fraudsters nestle, like the Children of Abraham, in his bosom. Whistle Blowers catch his wrath. In public he makes jokes and boasts(Jay Leno) about drone strikes. He's the face of a Top Secret due process free assassination program not subject to public examination. Why can't he, the star of the Star Chamber, crack jokes and wax proud?  

As others have noted, what if every nation on the planet began killing anyone anywhere in the world because they felt they might be a present or future threat? The US supports terror groups in Iran assassinating scientists and promoting regime change. Those are real threats. Does Iran have a right to bomb the White House for funding acts of terror and leading the effort to levy collective punishment(sanctions) on their people? Assassinate former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor Rendell, etc. for supporting MEK? 

A guy posting youtube videos critical of US foreign policy is not a threat to the greatest military machine in human history or the "homeland". The United States visits this kind of psychotic violence on poor destabilized nations(Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Libya--Muslim nations). The bomb plots breathlessly reported on by our courtier media are invariably planned and supplied by our own security organizations here and abroad. These plots serve to create a predicate for the psychotic violence. It does not surprise me that Americans support drone strikes. Decades of dehumanizing Muslims(by our gov't, news media, literature, movies, etc) has laid the groundwork. The War on Terror is a lie. It is a war of aggression against any kind of insurgence(youtube videos, familial relations, spatial relations too) that dares to even hint at resisting US hegemony. Also, every government loves creating "threats" to justify increased security powers(destruction of human rights, more spending for arms etc).    

For Tomorrow

Executioner's Pride, from Ned Dennis to John Brennan

"In proportion as Mr. Dennis exercised these intellectual qualities with which he was gifted, in reviewing his best chances of coming off handsomely and with small personal inconvenience, his spirits rose, and his confidence increased. When he remembered the great estimation in which his office was held, and the constant demand for his services; when he bethought himself, how the Statute Book regarded him as a kind of Universal Medicine applicable to men, women, and children, of every age and variety of criminal constitution; and how high he stood, in his official capacity, in the favor of the Crown, and both Houses of Parliament, the Mint, and Bank of England, and the Judges of the land; when he recollected that whatever Ministry was in or out, he remained their peculiar pet and panacea, and that for his sake England stood single and conspicuous among the civilized nations of the earth: when he called these things to mind and dwelt upon them, he felt certain that the national gratitude must relieve him from the consequences of his late proceedings, and would certainly restore him to his old place in the happy social system."
                       ---Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, Chapter 74, (the hangman's thoughts).

Well, President Obama agrees.  And that is why I am here today.

I stand here as someone who has been involved with our nation’s security for more than 30 years.  I have a profound appreciation for the truly remarkable capabilities of our counterterrorism professionals, and our relationships with other nations, and we must never compromise them.  I will not discuss the sensitive details of any specific operation today.  I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods.  For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost. At the same time, we reject the notion that any discussion of these matters is to step onto a slippery slope that inevitably endangers our national security.  Too often, that fear can become an excuse for saying nothing at all, which creates a void that is then filled with myths and falsehoods.  That, in turn, can erode our credibility with the American people and with foreign partners, and it can undermine the public’s understanding and support for our efforts.  In contrast, President Obama believes that done carefully, deliberately and responsibly we can be more transparent and still ensure our nation’s security.


---John Brennan, "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy", (speech given at Wilson Center).

in loco parentis

Sainty knits and murmurs, "I can't. I can't."

Market Makers, Cartesian Demons

"Uncertainty is gripping world financial markets, after elections in Greece and France raised concerns about the future of austerity measures to help rescue Europe's debt-ridden governments and its ailing economies."
   ---Voice of America, "Uncertainty Grips World Financial Markets in Wake of European Elections", 05/07/12.




"Accordingly I shall now suppose, not that a true God[Market], who as such must be supremely good and the fountain of truth[Wealth], but that some malignant genius exceedingly powerful and cunning has devoted all his powers[Capital] in the deceiving of me; I shall suppose that the sky, the earth, colors, shapes, sounds and all external things[Property] are illusions and impostures of which this evil genius has availed himself for the abuse of my credulity[Labor Power]; I shall consider myself as having no hands, nor any senses, but as falsely opining myself to possess all these things[Property]."
      ----Descartes, Meditations On First Philosophy, Meditation I. 






(Bracket Material Added by Evil Genius)

Hipsterism: The Liturgy and Vestments of Submission to Imperial Culture

"'I am not concerned with jurisdiction of the courts as Hess or others are.'(Laughs.)"
Albert Speer(Hipster Archetype), Interview before Nuremberg Trials, 1946.

Accepting the benefits of Empire while not giving a shit about it is not only a narcissistic defense, it's obscene collaboration. Here ironic detachment becomes abasement masters find most pleasing.


***Thanks to Pere Lebrun for a series of valuable posts on Hipsters.

http://perelebrun.blogspot.com/

The Cassandra England Never Deserved

Experimenta lucifera(Fried Bacon)

"Now experiments of this kind have one admirable property and condition: they never miss or fail."
---Bacon, Novum Organum, Bk 1, xcix.

Instruction for Protesters(PSA by DHS, FBI, and Various Municipal P.D.'s)

Obama 2012: Just Drone It

"You don't see any dead people. All you see are wobbly gun sights and then hits. Bull's-eyes supposedly. It's like a game..."
"Right. Because CNN's got the TV rights for this war---and the next and the one after that..."
---- Gunter Grass, My Century, 1991.

Supporting Mass Murder as a High Ranked Official in US Gov't = Surest Way to Earn "Presidential Medal of Freedom"

"The horror in the merely schematic."
           --- Kafka, Diaries.

"Do What You Will": May Day Greetings from Dr. Rabelais

"All their life was regulated not by laws, statutes, or rules, but according to their free will and pleasure. They rose from bed when they pleased, and drank, ate, worked, and slept when the fancy seized them."
Francois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book 1, Chapter 57.

#STOPDRONEY2012

"The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians."
----Bartolome de Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.

Election Year Jam

"It's over. No we just begun."

Oracular Phiz

Contemporary Surveillance(Parody Before its Time)*.  *DISCLAIMER: HUMOR ENDEAVORS TO ANNUL TERROR.  

Cum pli ans

Unfold in song.

In a Moment I Always Loved Lena and Forgot in Taxonomy

             Nostalgia, a deathless wine interred cold,
         tames warm eyes drunk on Sun-ripened scent.

                             She translated
                              sense to love,
                             like an inkblot
                               of idle pen                     
                             time expands
                              without end
                   

Spring, Almost Past

You escape.

For the Nazarenes

"The time has come for me to say for the benefit of all how I discovered beyond any doubt that the stories of the Galileans are the inventions of deceivers and tricksters."---Julian the Apostate, Against the Galileans.

Enough to move an Infidel's heart(galloping like a Morisco's). Within the secured paradise of del Prado it remains an experience.

Capital Danaids

"Look! The sun coming through the clouds---like God emptying His bedpan on the world."---Buchner, Woyzeck, Scene XVI.

Specie

To create history with the very detritus of history.--Remy de Gourmont.

1. Pink Slime, America's muscle.

2. US Healthcare: Asylums on the Moon, Chemotherapy in the Sun.

3. Cinema teaches us violins cry better.

4. My heart a honeycomb where the Queen needs no drone.

5. Purchase acres of sky, you'll never ration the Sun.

6. Ethic: Praise idlers and view morality as an enemy to sensation.

7. Des Esseintes dreamed Social Media.

April Fools

"The production of the products of labor is pretext and cover for the...exploitation and oppression of the laborers. The scientific method of concealing this state of affairs is called political economy."
     -----Karl Korsch, Karl Marx, vol. 2. 

Pendant

Vacant arcades
where tired spirits
breathe heterodoxy

Every age exhales its end
    still
                  this world never
                    needs saving.

The ornament,
     fossils in
cracked mirrors.

Subsidy Con: Mandating Purchase of Health Insurance Does Not Mandate Health Care

One moment please. We must determine whether your insurance covers this and, by good fortune it does, calculate the deductible.

Hi Haters

Quanto iste innocentior esset, tanto frontosior appareret

Angel Strike

An Angel says fuck it all and smokes it after hearing President Obama made anniversary of Iraq War(Crime Spree) a "National Day of Honor".

Link--->http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=67599

Merry Paris

Limp rope, not birds, gathers over Avernus.

Reverie's Wreckage

"A skeleton turning into a tree, with legs and ribs forming the trunk, the arms stretched out to make a cross and bursting into leaves and buds, sheltering several rows of poisonous plants in little pots, lined up as if in a gardener's hothouse." ---Charles Baudelaire, (Instruction on Frontispiece for Les Fleurs du mal)

The Obliviousness of a Military Occupation Attempting to "Win Hearts and Minds" and the Insanity of Asking, "Why Do They Hate Us?"

16 Afghan Civilians, mostly women and children, were executed in their sleep by US Soldier(s) and then burned in attempt to cover up atrocity. (In Iraq they called in missile strikes after a similar atrocity.) The "Rogue", lone actor, scenario is being used, again, to stress this isn't the norm. They used it for Haditha and other atrocities in Iraq("rogue actors" at Abu Ghraib). As in Haditha massacre, the alleged "rogue" soldier is an officer. Civilians deaths in Afghanistan have been under reported by US/NATO forces and embedded journalists. Just as they were in Iraq, Libya.

America, The Party Ain't Jumping Like It Used To

I am not advocating violence. Heaven forbid! But when the Executive claims the right to kill any citizen it deigns a terrorist without due process, in complete secrecy, its time to move on. Earlier today Congress, with only a few holdouts from bi-partisan unanimity, passed a bill outlawing protest in accommodatingly vague terms. When are "you gon learn"? A general strike and no confidence boycott of the election would be fitting. Let the mass marketed warlord fundraising pageants burn.

Coup de main

Yellow sundress
blast by April sun
births the coup.

Light reigns
for a cursory
season.

The sundress sets,
April disrobes.

Covetous hands
cradle fallout.

America's Triumph of the Will

Assassins making the world safe for American sponsored War Crime.

The American "Triumph of the Will" does not feature athletes in Olympic competition. Instead it focuses on well armed, athletic, killers in camo "taking out" dangerous threats to the "Homeland". Terrorists(Hezbollah, AQ, take your pick) are in Central America planning to strike the US(Synopsis garnered from reading review).

It debuted this week end and conquered the top spot in Box Office sales. Nobody should be surprised. Explosions, killing dirty others, especially Muslims, with guns, and high tech accessories, what's not to love?

(Title of film redacted out of VALOR.)

The Iranian Threat: An Imaginary Problem Will Persist and Require an Irrational Solution

It is impossible to solve a problem that does not exist. The problem must persist and become a field made fertile by propaganda (Quds plot, Israeli embassy bombings, Hezbollah in Central America, etc) to produce a reality. Like theology this political husbandry preys upon ignorance and fear to harvest obedience. The yield was taken long before the seed was planted. In the past year threats have been exposed by our protectors. This problem was always a solution searching for a predicate.

War has already been declared. The trick is to keep it obscene enough to not excite protest at home or resistance from rivals abroad. Creep will occur, matters will get out of hand, and greater war will come. It is absurd to believe the same people who brought us Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya will not augment aggressive war by any means.

Not Much to Say But, "Here's a Glorious Flower"

It's cold out. I'm busy shaping a philosophy of night. This labor views the indeterminate as something willfully irrigated into standing pools of association or fields of principle in "daily life". The perianth in disarray and failing to sheath the bud terrorizes enlightened botanists.
.  

If You Have a Heart, Celebrate Love and Hate War (A Valentine)

Macromegas

"Perhaps nobody at my court would deign to look upon you; but I disdain no creature, and I hereby offer you my protection."
--Voltaire, "Micromegas".

The Giants of our "Globalist", Macro-Economic, order are not so kind. They openly show disdain for the "little people". Their economic plans incentivize unrest and death(suppression, resource wars). To drain public wealth and leave dissent in its wake is a lucrative business model that leads to more arms sales, stronger banks, and greater demand for violent suppression. Enlightenment reaches its end, a bloody Sunset.

Tehranicidal Dreams, Babes in Droneland Wishes

Can it hit Tehran?

Fatalist Chic

Pope Urban II Never Dies

We must save Jerusalem from the threats of the infidel!

"Enter upon the road to the Holy Sepulchre; wrest that land from the wicked race, and subject it to yourselves ... God has conferred upon you above all nations great glory in arms. Accordingly undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven."






Who believes the present charade of warmongering United States trying to restrain client state Israel, a proxy warmonger, from attacking Iran?  

Sophie's Dream

1921-1943

Hate war with every fiber of your being. That's the end of Love.

Don't kettle the dream.

Crass Ornament: Political Theater in America

"The structure of the mass ornament reflects that of the entire contemporary situation. Since the principle of the capitalist production process does not arise purely out of nature, it must destroy the natural organisms that it regards either as means or as resistance. Community and personality perish when what is demanded is calculability; it is only as a tiny piece of the mass that the individual can clamber up charts and can service machines without any friction. A system oblivious to differences in form leads on its own to the blurring of national characteristics and to the production of worker masses that can be employed equally well at any point on the globe."
Siegfried Kracauer, "The Mass Ornament", 1927.