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.

Seamless Transition of "Humility, Resolve, and Compassion"

Revision is Empire's ultimate duty.

YOLO, SWAG, and the Sovereign Individual: The Meek Shall Inherit Commodity Fetishism's Golgotha

The Skull-Pandaemonium was once home to a Temple of Aphrodite. Appropriate landfill mounds now display the mystery of discarded commodities' resurrection inspired by the meek's love.

Bay of Straw

Blades of grass faintly glimmer
dagger tips in the distance.


Sand stretches a soft blanket
kindly for the cutting host.


The quartered moon sets high
scales of the condemned.

Mindful victims touch bottom
in this Bay of Straw.

Occupy Boston Strong, A Resounding Success

A security failure by authorities led to the imposition of Martial Law on an entire metropolitan area in the United States. An army of 9,000 authorities, with military vehicles, well armed in battle gear, descended on a city. An awe struck media served as a loyal claque for these forces to viewers all over the world.

All of this for a manhunt to capture TWO SUSPECTS.

The occupation of a city by militarized police ended when a near dead kid was found and taken into custody. Crowds burst out on the street and cheered "We got him!". Reminiscent of the gleeful crowds rushing to the streets after Osama Bin Laden was assassinated. Columns of militarized police vehicles, SWAT Teams, and regular police vehicles were cheered by thankful citizens.

The same authorities who failed to detect bombs in two sweeps of The Boston Marathon before the event and one just an hour before the explosions were now heroes.

Authorities have learned from New Orleans(after Katrina, a devastated city with no media coverage, police and military forces killed civilians), and now Boston, that most Americans are fine with Martial Law as long as some "bad guys" are captured or killed. Expect more manhunts, more National Guard flooding into shut down cities to assist in manhunts, for the protection of Americans.

In a Statement to the Nation President Obama kept in tune by claiming these two suspects were "terrorists", as head of Executive Branch of Gov't he asserted their guilt before charges were filed(as he did with Pfc. Bradley Manning), and the authorities did their jobs admirably to protect citizens. He capped off honoring the militarized police by closing his statement with the last line of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Media alchemy helped authorities turn their security failure and overzealous response into a resounding success. They cheered the shut down and occupation of a city. Cooperated wholeheartedly in a real time "Cops: City Occupation and Manhunt" episode. Were regularly spoon fed reports from FBI, etc, often false, but nobody cared then or now...One bad guy was killed, and the other was captured near death!(bring out the flags!)



Occupy Wall Street was never granted such friendly and helpful coverage. Media was too busy ignoring it or justifying and excusing the brutality of the same guys they helped make protective heroes this time.

They support the abuses of authorities and ignore or deride the legitimate protest of citizens.

"Through the window, in my 16 hole boots"

Shameful Creation

Therefore Promethean Poets with the coles
Of their most geniale, more-then-humane soules
In living verse, created men like these,
With shapes of Centaurs, Harpies, Lapithes,
That they in prime of erudition,
When almost savage vulgar men were growne,
Seeing them selves in those Pieran founts,
Might mend their mindes, asham'd of such accounts.

  ---George Chapman, Hymnus in Noctem, lns. 131-8.

Usefulness

"I like shade," replied M. de Renal, with a touch of the hauteur appropriate to speaking to a surgeon who was a member of the Legion of Honour; "I like shade, I have caused my trees to be pruned to give shade, and I cannot imagine that a tree is made for anything else, when, unlike the useful walnut, it doesn't bring in any money."
               ---Stendhal, The Red and the Black, Bk. 1, Ch. 2.  

Wandering Tramps

"As for the dispersion of the members...of detestable doctrines..., whose influence and authority are far greater now..."
        --- reworded(in every sense and one tense) from Eugene Sue's, Le Juif errant, Epilogue.
                                       

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.

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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.