People Are the Iphigenia Obamamemnon Happily Sacrifices to Propitiate Gods of the Market

"It was her fate in the very hour of marriage to fall a sinless victim to a sinful rite, slaughtered to her greater grief by a father's hand, so that a fleet might sail under happy auspices."
--- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura.

"Lately"

"Remove the tunics touch"

Constructed Foes, Pretexts

"Such a perfect democracy constructs its own inconceivable foe, terrorism. Its wish is to be judged by its enemies rather than by its results. The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive. The spectators must certainly never know everything about terrorism, but they must always know enough to convince them that, compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic."

                            ----- Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle, IX.

Interpres Divum

(archive)

Burn true,
Flamen.

Leap gracefully,
forsake economy.

The Son
brings Angels
to bury Pan's
piping.

Fate sings.

Clouds float
pharmacies over
tacit cities.

"Machineries of Joy"

On the Banks of the Potomac

On the banks of the Potomac
where nimble-eared scribes
trickle down dew from
rumor's ripe red vine,
eyes bright as cloudless
noon's blast level
reckonings.


On the banks of the Potomac
where sharp coins and sharper
heels sow currency
blooming cluster bombs as
bright-cheeked Cleons strut
in fortune's green
reckoning.

The Genocide Implemented on Iraq Is Not a "Mistake". It's a Conscious Policy of US/NATO Establishment, Through Aggressive War, Sanctions, and Black Operations, to Destroy a Society

Predator with prey.

Sanctions on Iraq caused the deaths of millions, mostly women and children.

One of these men was not a participant for over 20 years of Genocide in Iraq.

For over 20 years both parties in the US, and its NATO allies in Europe, engaged in a calculated assault on the Iraqi people. The genocide practiced in Iraq started long ago and has not ended. It was not a "mistake". It was well planned and championed by an overwhelming majority of establishment politicians, media figures, and policy "experts". Even today 41% of the American people feel the Iraqi War of 2003(a single stage in a long line of genocidal policies practiced on Iraq) was justified. George H. W. Bush began the crime spree with Desert Storm, no fly zones, and sanctions. Clinton continued it with a carpet bombing, routine bombings, and tougher sanctions. His hopes to engage in aggressive war on Iraq were stymied by lack of popular support. Maybe he can find comfort in the fact that more Iraqis died under his sanctions and bombings than under any other US President. George W. Bush took the torch, used a massive security failure in the US(9/11), a pliant media(NYT, WaPo, Every TV News Network) leaking false intelligence about Iraq obtaining Uranium, developing WMDs, and engaging with 9/11 hijackers, to begin a new phase of aggression on an already broken nation: "Shock and Awe". US pols and journalists crowed about sending Iraq back to "The Stone Age". As of today:



                               MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

Thank you enlightened Western Powers!

Fucking Pigs: 7 Bullets for a 16 yr. Old, 3 in the Back

Scene

"They seemed just then and there, for a mind fed betimes on the Leatherstocking Tales, to project as in a flash an image in itself immense, but foreshortened and simplified--reducing to a single smooth stride the bloody footsteps of time. One rubbed one's eyes, but there, at its highest polish, shining in the beautiful day, was the brazen face of history, and there, all about one, immaculate, the printless pavements of the State."

                                       ----- Henry James, The American Scene, Chapter XI, V.

In the United States Supporters of Diplomatic Failure, a Disastrous War of Aggression Based on Deceit, Become Leaders of Diplomacy

Obama's two selections for Secretary of State voted for the Iraq War. They also supported bogus theories that Saddam had WMDs at the time and ties to Al Qaida.

RIP Hugo Chavez (Political Figures Who Make Sincere Effort to Help Poor People, Rather than Serving Wealthy Interests, are Despised and Vilified by Western Political and Media Establishment)

According to US pols and pundits, Chavez's popularity with the people of Venezuela proved his diabolical nature.

"Some of us are prisoners/The rest of us are guards"

Translated

The Moon, a celestial ghost,
haunts earth.

Untroubled, solace shines
over my hearth.

The night is my page.
It dyes pale sheets.
My feet sink like stone
in cool sands.

Winds solicit
snapdragon skulls
to sing

a bittersweet chorus.

I forget Bolek,
passed out on tracks,
who never roused 

to collect himself.

America, Worst Reality Show Forever

Flanked by trained killers in uniform, an ebullient First Lady announces film depicting the CIA as crafty heroes in league with Hollywood producers a winner.

"My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real."
                                                 -------Gustave Flaubert


Quarterly "budget crises" loom, igniting fire in the tinder minds of partisans. It's not real, but repetition gives it weight; like drowned women once proved witches and tortured or assassinated Muslims now prove terrorists. (Both achieved through a "legitimate legal process".)

We cannot forget, ever, there are enemies everywhere plotting to destroy our "way of life". They have names: Socialists, Anarchists, Communists, Fundamentalists, Terrorists, et al.. God forbid we stop funding the world's greatest murder machine forever in its mission to sustain peace and freedom for everyone.

Principalities sing threats and crises daily in every medium.

Can it be more real?

Sequester the Wind

"...but it's gonna hurt soon."

"The Light of Reason"

"Did the light of Reason make the earth for some men to ingrosse up into bags and barns, that others might be opprest with poverty? Did the light of Reason make this law, that if one man did not have such and abundance of the earth as to give to others he borrowed of; that he that did lend should imprison the other, and starve his body in a close room? Did the light of Reason make this law, that some part of mankinde should kill and hang another part of mankinde, that would not walk in their steps?"

                                    ---Gerrard Winstanley, "New Law of Righteousness", 1649.

Palingenesis

In the beginning a vessel,
all was one within.
In time its broken

form spilled eternal.

                                          God is the breaking
                                    each beginning echoes still.

There is no silence
until the vessel mends.
There is no license
until this verse ends.

Valentine

Fly strait and gather honey.

Zero Dark Dorner: LA Police Chief Calls Fugitive Domestic Terrorist, Requests AUMF Powers in Southern California

"This is an act of domestic terrorism."  Added bonus for suckers, $1 million reward.

Here's a Peace Prize Recipient(Yes, the Nobel Committee Hearts Bloody, but "Humane", Colonial Intervention) Making Crusader Era "Just War" Defense in Acceptance Speech

How can there be shock over Renditions, Kill Lists, and Consistent War?

Fascist Immanence and the Power to Loose and Bind Earthly Threats

Hastily crafted Bulls leaked by His Eminence state this world is a vale of imminent threat Imperium's Immanence must vigilantly and violently exorcise to remain Triumphant.

Cleansing the Earth of apostasy, one drone strike or JSOC raid at a time.

Secretive and Secular Auto-da-fes daily.

Historic Vistas: Skeet Shooting Autocrats

Austerity takes aim.

Vice President Al Gore Singles Out Senator Biden for His Outstanding Work on the 1994 Crime Bill(Intensifying Racist Drug War and Empowering Police to Crush Rights of Citizens and Fill Jails and Prisons with "Undesirables")

The war on the poor and minorities required a bill to make police shock troops "in every community".

"100,000 more policemen in your communities." "3 strikes and you're out." etc.

A reminder of how the enemies of the marginalized---poor, minorities, etc--love to memorialize their assaults on those "communities" through legislation and say it's all "for the children". Black History Month shouldn't pass without highlighting past betrayals from supposed "friends".

From Clinton's speech:

"We will slash 270,000 jobs from Federal Gov't to take money out and use to hire 100,000 more policemen and build more prisons to put violent criminals in."

A Warm Face

"No more illusions"

Silvia Federici, November 22, 2012.

Pilgrimage

Bright Sun chanting clear,
pilgrims bathe forms
in brilliant air.

Day breaks
with fanfare.
Skin blushes
at ray's touch.

Light abates and
gently succumbs
to gracious Eve.

At the Address

{Obscene, tinder small lies to backfires

nourishing the big lie.}

His arms conduct but do not

embrace.

Words weave sheets

of focused tenderness.

Above our heads 

a conquering flag

slaps heaven to order.

Outside every window
a sword bearing Angelus

of terrible Eden.

Much Better than Obama Desecrating MLK Jr's Bible with His Bloody Hands

"Neither party is mine, not the Jackass or the Elephant."

"You Are Not Going to Have Diarrhea Any Longer!": A Sensible Prelude to the Second Inaugural of President Obama

"Make me a cake today."

Archangel

There is discovery in darkness.
Space makes thought its home.
Bodies, uninterrupted by light's
division, commune.

There is comfort in darkness.
Thought makes space its cloth.
Eyes, undisturbed by light's
terror, shepherd fire.

There is warmth in darkness.
Home makes space thought.
Hearts, untroubled by light's
breaking, beat in time.

US Law Enforcement Often Pushes Dissenters to Kill Themselves or Else

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/king-like-all-frauds-your-end-is.html

A letter from the FBI to Martin Luther King, Jr..

"Won't Keep Out the Lord's Burning Rain"

Austerity + Al Qaeda = More Specie for NATO Intervention in Africa and Asia

Mali is not the new home of Al Qaeda. It is the home of refugees from Libya. The home of Al Qaeda has always been nations US/NATO invade or bomb: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and now Mali. Nations where US/NATO desire regime change to secure "interests". In Kosovo, Libya, and Syria Al Qaeda affiliated groups were armed, trained and given funds for "organic uprisings". Either way, Al Qaeda is always an instrument of US/NATO intervention.

"Paternalist Racism" from Taft to McChrystal: "Responsibility" to Occupy and Slaughter Less Mature Humans Abroad Never Changes

“Like a teenager, you really don’t want your parents hanging around you, but … you like to know if things go bad, they’re going to help,” he said.

“We have an emotional responsibility” to leave US occupying forces in Afghanistan, he told AP.

-- Stanley McChrystal, 2013.

Read more: http://prn.fm/2013/01/09/gen-stanley-mcchrystal-afghans-are-like-teenagers-we-have-emotional-responsibility-to-continue-occupation/#ixzz2HWPWaBRi
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Taft "assured President McKinley that 'our little brown brothers' would need 'fifty or one hundred years' of close supervision 'to develop anything resembling Anglo-Saxon political principles and skills.'", and reports that the military greeted Taft's assertion "that 'Filipinos are moved by similar considerations to those which move other men' with utter scorn".

---above from Wikipedia entry "Little Brown Brother"--quoted material from book "Benevolent Assimilation"(lol).



excellent source on paternalism in Philippines and used in title for this post:
Carmen N. Pedrosa (September 20, 2009). "Paternalist racism". The Philippine Star.

Plus ca change!

Modern Science and Experimentation: Liturgy that Provides Statements "Meant Much More Seriously"

"Since the time of Galileo and Newton, modern science has been based upon a detailed study of nature and upon the postulate that only such statements should be made, as have been verified or at least can be verified by experiment. The idea that one could single out some events from nature by an experiment, in order to study the details and to find out what is the constant law in the continuous change, did not occur to the Greek philosophers. Therefore, modern science has from its beginning stood upon a much more modest, but at the same time firmer, basis than ancient philosophy. Therefore, the statements of modern physics are in some way meant much more seriously than the statements of Greek philosophy."

----- Physics and Philosophy, Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

"Somebody Please Tell This Machine I'm Not a Machine"

Austerity Drone Song.

Tripod Trippin', Oracular Frenzy*(Please Read Disclaimer at End)

For him there was nothing to it--he simply masticated soapwort root, the plant dyers use--but to the onlookers this foam was something fearful from heaven.
---"Alexander the Oracle-Monger", Lucian.

1. Bipartisan solution to "Fiscal Cliff" kayfabe announced at 11th hour restoring faith in our hallowed institutions. They always compromise and cut services to poor, elderly, children, and the infirm(i.e. the defenseless) to safeguard privileged status of wealthy, war and security contractors, fossil fuel cartels, and finance(Banks, Hedge Funds, Credit Agencies).

2. Syrian conflict deepens unrest in neighboring nations of Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey. Assad survives.

3. Kurdish insurgency in Turkey and Iraq. Much worse in Iraq. US/NATO use it as means to place more troops in Iraq.

4. Previous two events serve to alienate Iran further from Syria and Iraq.

5. Tensions between China and Japan escalate.

6. US military intervention in Africa, as in 2012, increases.

7. Pfc. Bradley Manning found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. HRW and Amnesty conspicuously silent about injustice.

8. First US Drone Strikes in Mexico in Drug War.

9. Stock Market continues detached from reality until February.

10. Erskine Bowles becomes Secretary of Treasury. He'll cash in his Morgan Stanley stock and seat on board to resume Wall Street friendly policies of Geithner.

11. Yemen and Somalia greater focus in War on Terror because of increased intervention in Horn of Africa. Eritrea focal point.

12. After Chavez passes US attempts coup and fails.

13. Major Earthquake in US Midwest. Death toll in thousands.

14. Afghanistan morass deepens despite pie in the sky propaganda of Pentagon. Karzai assassinated in Kabul.

15. Increased turmoil in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Qatar also targeted.

16. China lays low(besides tensions with Japan) and busies itself with domestic issues.

17. Despite NDAA and intensified and mainstream Warrantless Wiretapping most Americans accept Pop Fascism as a necessary defense from "bad guys"(terrorists, poor people, drug dealers).

18. Meaningful Gun Control is, as always, eschewed. Pundits deem it pragmatic, "the best that can be done".

19. Hillary Clinton passes from stroke.

20. Civil War in Libya.

21. Hurricanes menace coastal New England.

22. Food shortages in Europe lead to wide scale violence in Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal.

23. UK economy crashes. Precipitated by banking crisis.

24. Morsi ousted in Egypt.

25. Poverty rate in US rises. Homeless incarcerated on vagrancy laws, a boon to private prison contractors.

26. Israel bombs Lebanon. Pretext: increasing violence in Lebanon due to Syrian intervention. IDF claims Hezbollah is cooperating with Assad.

27. Obama breaks US Port Strike.

28. US puppet regime in Yemen falls.

29. After Fiscal Cliff "deal" OWS is reinvigorated.

30. Worldwide credit crash in October.

*All predictions are Divinely inspired. Events predicted are not personally desired.

Let It Burn: The Best and Worst of 2012

A hard year's leaves burn.

1. Worst term for US cleansing previously accommodating(Allies in War on Terror, Tortured "rendered" "suspects" for US) and presently unpopular Despots in MENA: "The Arab Spring".

2. Best Blog: Arthur Silber's http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/ . Passionately just outrage.

3. Victorian Novel that Best Depicts Truth of Our Time: "The Way We Live Now", Anthony Trollope.

4. Best Song for Globalized Austerity: "(If There's a Hell Below)We're All Gonna Go", Curtis Mayfield.

5. Worst Person: President Barack Obama. "Kill List", eager to cut Social Security and Medicaid, Libyan bloodbath, Syrian escalation, "full throated" support for Israel's aggression on Gaza, etc.

6. Best Person: Non-Voter in US Election.

7. Worst Marketing Campaign for Something Awful: "Stop KONY2012"

8. Best Marketing Campaign for Something Awful : R2P Aggression on Libya, Obama's Re-Election Campaign.

9.  Best Book for 2012: "The Recognitions", William Gaddis.

10. Worst Profession: Economist

11. Best Profession: Anchorite, Idler

12. Worst Nostalgia: US Constitution Worship

13. Worst Panacea: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

14. Best Panacea: General Strike

15. Worst Trend: Authoritarians who claim to be Anarchists

16. Best Trend: Contempt for Money(which maximizes poverty)

17. Worst Ideological Movements: bigoted US/NATO Humanitarianism and New Atheism

18. Best Ideological Movement: Full DEGE-ism (h/t Sushi_Goat)

19. Worst Term that Strives to be Asinine as "Reverse Racism": "Reverse Exceptionalism" (h/t Charles Davis)

20. Best Term: "Full Communism"

21. Worst Quote: "I want to do big things."--Barack Obama, on desire to needlessly cut social programs for poor, infirm, and elderly while increasing defense and security spending.

22. Best Quote: "You'd look wonderful as a corpse." Piss Wizard tweet to PM Cameron.

23. Best Thing: Capitalism failing worldwide.

24. Worst Thing: Capitalism flailing worldwide.

Is Everyone Ready to Have a Wonderful Holidays?

Being Terror

     Consequently, stupor turns into despair: if patriotism must thrust us into debasement, if there is no safeguard anywhere, at any time, to stop nations or the whole of humanity from falling into inhumanity, then why indeed should we take so much trouble to become or to remain human beings: it is the inhuman in us which is our truth. But if nothing else is true, if we must either terrorize or die of terror, why should we take the trouble to live and remain patriotic?
     These thoughts have been put into our minds by force. Obscure and false, they all flow from the same principle: mankind is inhuman. Their aim is to convince us of our impotence. They achieve this as long as we do not look them in the face. Abroad people should know: our silence is not a sign of assent; it stems from nightmares which have been deliberately caused, sustained and directed. I knew this already, but had been waiting for decisive proof of it for a long time.

             --- "A Victory", Jean-Paul Sartre, 1958.

The Dark Lie Rises

America requires a fairy tale where operatives of secretive institutions that arm and fund tomorrow's bogeymen are depicted as single minded heroines and heroes devoted to protecting the Homeland(which they failed to do so disastrously on September 11, 2001) at all cost.

After one of the greatest security failures in history those who secure and defend the Homeland merited some recognition. Their sacrifice and zeal(torture, mass murder, kidnapping and raping innocent people) was part of a noble effort to destroy the Muslim Satan(a man who was armed, funded, and trained by US intel to destabilize Afghanistan years ago). Sleep well America. The Big Bad Muslim Wolf was killed and dumped into a watery grave. Forget the past and its failures. All is well. Brave heroines and heroes protect the shining Citadel on the Hill. All the torture, mass murder, and indefinite detainment was, and is still, worth it to regain your innocence in the face of absolute evil. Your sacrifice(austerity coupled with ballooning Military and Security budgets) makes America the Baddest and Coolest Motherfucking Killer and Torturer on Earth forever. Relinquish all shame, hold your head high, right hand over cold heart, and pledge allegiance to "winning" at any cost.

Vicious Times

Consumption/Production, a vicious labyrinth.

"Good Old Days"

Begin to understand pitiless middle class boomers.

Wonderful Banksy Christmas Card

Slaughter Fatigue: A Nation Shrugs as Indiscriminate Mass Murder is Codified, Secretly, into Law

Our Commander in Chief, flanked not only by Flags, but also Phoebus Apollo's inescapable light, leans back, exhibits heroic sangfroid, and suggests further measures as his Star Chamber, in deep thought, awaits.

Eagerness to kill people indiscriminately test power's principle and will?

To preside over a policy of indiscriminate mass murder is the willful abandonment of principle, a total failure.

Willful abandonment of principle towards human life is now law.

Who is tested?

Certainly not the killers.

The Ruling Class

"He's having supper with the upper management of a new regime."

Behold! A "Progressive" Heroine Who Loves Aggressive War/Intervention in Africa and the Middle East

“I think he has proved that Iraq has these weapons and is hiding them, and I don’t think many informed people doubted that.” (NPR, Feb. 6, 2003) 

“We need to be ready for the possibility that the attack against the U.S. could come in some form against the homeland, not necessarily on the battlefield against our forces. And I think there, too, is an area where the American people need to be better prepared by our leadership. … It’s clear that Iraq poses a major threat. It’s clear that its weapons of mass destruction need to be dealt with forcefully, and that’s the path we’re on. I think the question becomes whether we can keep the diplomatic balls in the air and not drop any, even as we move forward, as we must, on the military side.” (NPR, Dec. 20, 2002) 

“I think the United States government has been clear since the first Bush administration about the threat that Iraq and Saddam Hussein poses. The United States policy has been regime change for many, many years, going well back into the Clinton administration. So it’s a question of timing and tactics. … We do not necessarily need a further Council resolution before we can enforce this and previous resolutions." (NPR, Nov. 11, 2002)

h/t  http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021895778

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Lately she's been a stalwart defender of Israel's apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism(occupation, blockade, routine bombings of Gaza)  as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She was also sponsor of the R2P Resolution passed by UNSC which turned an internal sectarian dispute fueled by Al Qaeda in Libya into a US/NATO led carpet bombing that slaughtered thousands. The recent attack in Benghazi was blowback for not only the drone killing of Al-Libi in Pakistan, but also the detainment of Al Qaeda fighters at a CIA black site near the consulate. 

She learned mass murder's always "worth it" as a protege of Madeleine Albright.

(Material in quotes Susan Rice's public statements on Iraq before "Shock and Awe" commenced.)

Everything

Never crossed my mind.

Israel's Bombing of Gaza, an Open Air Prison, is Indefensible Genocide(Just Like the Blockade)

President Obama states Israel has "a right to defend itself" after it initiated hostilities when its soldiers murdered a child playing soccer and then followed that by assassinating a Hamas leader on the cusp of signing a peace accord. Aggression is not defense. Israel does not want peace. The mendacity of President Obama and the State Department's "full-throated support" of Israel's genocide is vile but not surprising from a President who boasts about "Kill Lists" and proliferates drone strike assassinations that result in the wholesale slaughter of civilians in several Muslim nations. He casually erases this mass murder through stretching the definition of "militant" to meaninglessness. Palestinians have a right to defend themselves from aggression. Will anyone else step up to defend them? Certainly not a cowardly enabler of genocide like President Obama. 

"If You Had a Vineyard..."

"What more could I have done in it that I did not do in it?"

"Buckle Yourself in for the Fiscal Cliff Show! Win or Lose You're Gonna Get a Grand Bargain!"

Every show has a purpose.

The Fascist Push

I executed a human being sans Due Process! Vote for me, the proud killer.

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.

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"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.

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