Once again the State uses deadly force to shut up those who still insist on dialogue in spite of all the incoherent rambling and lies they only ever get in response...
The world over, people seem to be getting tired of asking the State for reform. If they haven't yet, this kind of thing should hip them to what's really going on.
What's the point of asking questions when the answer is a gun butt to the face? What's the point of believing in your country when your country doesn't believe you ...or in you? The state, eternally authoritarian and suspicious, allied with Capital, eternally pandering and deceitful, and with the Socialists, eternally arrogant and power hungry, have once again defeated the people. "What happened in San'a today was a strong expression of the popular rejection of authorities' attempts to falsify the elections," the socialist bureaucrat-in-training Yaseen No'man said. "It's clear evidence that people rejects anyone forging their will." He doesn't realize that elections themselves are forgeries of the people's will, and that the people also reject functionaries taking credit for their actions and "explaining" them.
The Socialists are the second biggest party and used to rule in Yemen; if the vote-rigging the yemenis were protesting yesterday were to be banned, as the Socialists who 'organized' the protest want (obviously the people organize everything real for themselves, and the socialists take the credit) and the Socialists ushered back into control, the only difference would be a socialist gun butt in the face. Hopefully the people of Yemen and the world will see this brutality as just another example of why protest needs to go further than the simple demand for honest elections and arrive at the demand for a radically different society, and not just a more well-regulated and slightly less hypocritical one. When people realize they need to see an end to representation itself instead of being told they want to see more fairly chosen representation, then and only then will we have an end to the violence of the dominant politics and its loyal opposition.
Friday, November 28, 2008
bureaucrats: "This one was significant; this one got our attention,"
The age of computerized, non-feeling warfare with the press of a button run by agents of the state has its necessary corollary in viruses such as "agent.btz," which apparently has pretty badly messed up the computer systems of the department of offense. The establishment media says that though "Defense officials would not describe the extent of damage inflicted on military networks...they said that the attack struck hard at networks within U.S. Central Command, the headquarters that oversees U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and affected computers in combat zones. The attack also penetrated at least one highly protected classified network."
A ban on flash drives everywhere has been the result, as subversive programs ...or ideas... might be contained on them: not in response to actual virii, but in response to potentially viral videos, the mil has also blocked youtube and set up "trooptube," where everything gets filtered through the pent-a-gone. As the authoritarians press further into their endless war, I won't be surprised if we see more and more of these kinds of attacks. Anti war soldiers (the number is apparently steadily growing) put an end to Vietnam; with the recent rejection of the SOFA by the rebellious little toy soldiers of the iraqi puppet parliament --not that it's good enough, since they're still not ALL OUT RIGHT NOW-- and the growth of the IVAW, not to mention the increased frequency of hack-attacks and virii, the reign of the technocrats and their electronic wars is feeling the heat. Perhaps they will get the hell out of the kitchen and let the people get a chance to have something to eat.
A ban on flash drives everywhere has been the result, as subversive programs ...or ideas... might be contained on them: not in response to actual virii, but in response to potentially viral videos, the mil has also blocked youtube and set up "trooptube," where everything gets filtered through the pent-a-gone. As the authoritarians press further into their endless war, I won't be surprised if we see more and more of these kinds of attacks. Anti war soldiers (the number is apparently steadily growing) put an end to Vietnam; with the recent rejection of the SOFA by the rebellious little toy soldiers of the iraqi puppet parliament --not that it's good enough, since they're still not ALL OUT RIGHT NOW-- and the growth of the IVAW, not to mention the increased frequency of hack-attacks and virii, the reign of the technocrats and their electronic wars is feeling the heat. Perhaps they will get the hell out of the kitchen and let the people get a chance to have something to eat.
thai police chief lets his masters down, gets the boot
the protesters who have taken over two main airports in bangkok seem to be saying no one can fly in and out of this country without acknowledging the misery the government inflicts on the people...
from the establishment media:
"People's Alliance of Democracy activists have said that they are prepared for violent clashes with the police after Prime Minister Somchai declared a state of emergency at the airports. The activists, who regard Somchai as a puppet of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, are demanding that he resign. Somchai has refused to do so, saying that his democratically elected government is legitimate. Thousands of holiday makers have been stranded by the stand-off."
The "poor handling of the situation" (i.e. not massacring them all?) led to the firing of the police chief, whose job was to make sure that people could go on having their nice holiday in other people's oppression without hassles. "Gen Patcharawat Wongsuwan said Monday he was sorry that police's dispersal on protesters on October 7 resulted in deaths and injuries." Perhaps his apology made him look too soft to the dictator Somchai, who probably should have been banned from politics for 5 years like his wife, whose violation of election laws cost her her right to participate in buggering the people. The corrupt Somchai is of course no worse than Cheney, since both do plenty private business with public funds, and get contracts for their companies from the governments they run.
Monday, November 17, 2008
somali pirates seize saudi oil tanker
The gigantic oil tanker seized by Somali pirates today is perhaps to become the first in a line of seizures of the system's favorite, most precious commodity. Somali pirates could potentially disrupt the entire global economic system by their attacks on shipping lines; a suitable revenge for the international community's abandonment of that country in the past years because of its low saleability. An Auschwitz's worth of starved Africans every day (20,000 persons) isn't considered an economic crisis, perhaps it will now begin to have to be.
Starvation pushes people into a corner, and when they finally fight back everything's fair game. The oil cartels, speculators, and oil corporations kill and steal daily; now it seems that at least some people have had it, and are taking a radically new kind of action, interrupting the dialogue of commodities (free trade) with the clatter of pirate gunfire. In the pirate haven of Eyl, pirate money seems to be the only thing financing any infrastructure or services, since no government exists and the capitalists don't care about the people any more than the Islamic Court system does.
Contrary to anarcho-capitalist rantings, anarchic Somalia is certainly not a free country; it is a country in chaos -- but it is indeed finding non-coercive self-organization and a kind of civil self-governance through Xeer 'law', which pre-dates the arrival of 'civilization,' and keeps society functioning (to a degree) without a central government. Cooperation from what little 'government' exists in Puntland (perhaps friends of the pirates) apparently helps them sell off their bounties.
Military vessels, oil tankers, chemical ships have all been seized; but many more of them have repeatedly spilled their 'goods' into the ocean anyway, polluting it irreversibly as the commerce they were intended to be integrated into pollutes all life. It's no great loss when the captain of the ship fouls the job and spills oil across hundreds of miles of coastline, and they certainly won't take responsibility for it; will they pretend to care now? Will they negotiate with these pirates for their precious, world strangling 'product', thereby recognizing the real seizure of political power these hijackings imply? 11 ships are currently held by Somalian pirates.
Hostages don't do the trick anymore; you can't use them for bargaining, since people don't matter in the society of the spectacle -- only commodities do. Perhaps they should just give up and figure it in as an "externality;" after all, they've externalized life itself.
From the BBC (bullshitters broadcasting cliches)
"In the past week alone:
• A Russian warship in the Gulf of Aden drove off pirates who tried to capture the Saudi Arabian merchant ship Rabih
• Pirates hijacked a Japanese cargo ship off Somalia
• A Chinese fishing boat was seized off the Kenyan coast
• A Turkish ship transporting chemicals to India was hijacked off Yemen
• The UK's Royal Navy shot dead two suspected pirates attacking a Danish cargo-ship off the coast of Yemen"
Starvation pushes people into a corner, and when they finally fight back everything's fair game. The oil cartels, speculators, and oil corporations kill and steal daily; now it seems that at least some people have had it, and are taking a radically new kind of action, interrupting the dialogue of commodities (free trade) with the clatter of pirate gunfire. In the pirate haven of Eyl, pirate money seems to be the only thing financing any infrastructure or services, since no government exists and the capitalists don't care about the people any more than the Islamic Court system does.
Contrary to anarcho-capitalist rantings, anarchic Somalia is certainly not a free country; it is a country in chaos -- but it is indeed finding non-coercive self-organization and a kind of civil self-governance through Xeer 'law', which pre-dates the arrival of 'civilization,' and keeps society functioning (to a degree) without a central government. Cooperation from what little 'government' exists in Puntland (perhaps friends of the pirates) apparently helps them sell off their bounties.
Military vessels, oil tankers, chemical ships have all been seized; but many more of them have repeatedly spilled their 'goods' into the ocean anyway, polluting it irreversibly as the commerce they were intended to be integrated into pollutes all life. It's no great loss when the captain of the ship fouls the job and spills oil across hundreds of miles of coastline, and they certainly won't take responsibility for it; will they pretend to care now? Will they negotiate with these pirates for their precious, world strangling 'product', thereby recognizing the real seizure of political power these hijackings imply? 11 ships are currently held by Somalian pirates.
Hostages don't do the trick anymore; you can't use them for bargaining, since people don't matter in the society of the spectacle -- only commodities do. Perhaps they should just give up and figure it in as an "externality;" after all, they've externalized life itself.
From the BBC (bullshitters broadcasting cliches)
"In the past week alone:
• A Russian warship in the Gulf of Aden drove off pirates who tried to capture the Saudi Arabian merchant ship Rabih
• Pirates hijacked a Japanese cargo ship off Somalia
• A Chinese fishing boat was seized off the Kenyan coast
• A Turkish ship transporting chemicals to India was hijacked off Yemen
• The UK's Royal Navy shot dead two suspected pirates attacking a Danish cargo-ship off the coast of Yemen"
G20 accomplishes nothing but a lot more money spent and pollution caused
The Argentine delegation arrived late, prompting another delegate to remark, "see, this is why we can't have a G20" since obviously all those third world bureaucrats are only a third as punctual as the rest in arriving at the necessary conclusions or fantastically decorated destinations; the short duration of this spectacular show of hands approving of their master's voice (bush: "more deregulation") guaranteed that nothing would be done, but that the carbon footprint of the event would be huge... financial times remarks "perhaps they were trying to demonstrate their superpower status by traveling in their huge planes with a superpower-sized entourage. They'd already proven how good they are at wasting everyone's time and money, and now they've proven how good they are at wasting gas.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Air France strikes follow Alitalia wildcat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7729586.stm
Today the pilots of Air France struck for four days to protest a retirement age change of five years passed in parliament, while Alitalia came to the fifth day of their wildcat, creating what appears to be an uptick in momentum for the working class in the airline industry. Their industry has been taking a series of hard hits lately, and now the workers, in protest not only against the company, but against the state, have seen the class enemy weaken and advanced against it. After all, the ruling class is still on the offense: "'The economy is in tough shape,...'What you want to do is to be able to manage down your capacity so you don’t have to lower your prices,'" said Delta President Ed Bastian.
In times of crisis, the proletariat must hit hard against the weakened bourgeoisie, and, like these workers, punish the State for its attempts to ease the financial blowback from the frenzied loaning and invented money that started the corporations. The State, in this case apparently colluding with the money-desperate owners of Air France and other airlines to squeeze another few years of wage-slavery from their pilots, always makes the workers into a cushion for the moneyed class to fall back onto when it trips on the piles of loans it scatters everywhere to decorate its world.
The company's chairman wrote an open letter to the workers, telling them the strike was dangerous because it might destroy the company financially and end up "damaging their careers." But whether workers voicing their legitimate demands through strike action, one of the few weak weapons allowed them, will end up causing them to lose their jobs because of the economic collapse of the industry as a whole is of course an absurd question, since the capitalist system is in fact destroying itself, and always blames it on the workers. Proletarians can only rid themselves of the blame and guilt complexes educated into them by speaking out and revolting, since in their silence only the patronizing, other-blaming voice of the system is heard.
Today the pilots of Air France struck for four days to protest a retirement age change of five years passed in parliament, while Alitalia came to the fifth day of their wildcat, creating what appears to be an uptick in momentum for the working class in the airline industry. Their industry has been taking a series of hard hits lately, and now the workers, in protest not only against the company, but against the state, have seen the class enemy weaken and advanced against it. After all, the ruling class is still on the offense: "'The economy is in tough shape,...'What you want to do is to be able to manage down your capacity so you don’t have to lower your prices,'" said Delta President Ed Bastian.
In times of crisis, the proletariat must hit hard against the weakened bourgeoisie, and, like these workers, punish the State for its attempts to ease the financial blowback from the frenzied loaning and invented money that started the corporations. The State, in this case apparently colluding with the money-desperate owners of Air France and other airlines to squeeze another few years of wage-slavery from their pilots, always makes the workers into a cushion for the moneyed class to fall back onto when it trips on the piles of loans it scatters everywhere to decorate its world.
The company's chairman wrote an open letter to the workers, telling them the strike was dangerous because it might destroy the company financially and end up "damaging their careers." But whether workers voicing their legitimate demands through strike action, one of the few weak weapons allowed them, will end up causing them to lose their jobs because of the economic collapse of the industry as a whole is of course an absurd question, since the capitalist system is in fact destroying itself, and always blames it on the workers. Proletarians can only rid themselves of the blame and guilt complexes educated into them by speaking out and revolting, since in their silence only the patronizing, other-blaming voice of the system is heard.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Bush: "free market principles have delivered prosperity and hope to people around the world"
Today Bush had mental diarrhea and we got to catch a whiff of some of his finest defecations yet. What prosperity and hope has been given to the people of the world by the princes of the world with their principles of free trade? None; the people of the world have given prosperity and hope to the free traders with their principled submission and slavish work-ethic.
Bush is quite concerned that even though you can fix most everything by just saying "mistakes were made," you can't go on doing that forever, and for some reason he acted as if it were important that people realize that the answer is "not to try to reinvent the system".
Perhaps he's feeling the heat; perhaps he is sensing that the political system is irrelevant and outdated, like a fundamentally authoritarian system feeling for some reason the need to hold 'elections' to justify itself to the ruled, but one way or another, today Bush felt the need to inform us that even though capitalism is "not perfect", it is nonetheless "by far the most efficient and just way of structuring an economy". But without capitalism, what is left of economy?
Only the economy of human dialogue and self-management, where a supply of ideas and energy balances harmoniously with a demand for abundance and prosperity... but is that anywhere near Bush's conception of 'economy?' of course not. When Bush thinks 'economy,' he's thinking of everything that exists, everything that's 'structured.' The world is reduced to economics in Bush's brain just like it is in the brain of a typical communist bureaucrat, but the former likes things as they are, whereas the latter wants to turn them downside up... which of course is still off kilter, and of course never simply smashed. Are any of these magical characters worth listening to?
According to the news, Bush's message was: "while financial markets do need some new regulation and more transparency, free trade should not be restricted." According to the bureaucratic false opposition: "while the economy does need some new managers and more bureaucratically managed welfare systems, hierarchy should not be restricted." According to the subversion-minded: "while capitalism and all its 'economy' do need to be completely abolished, all hierarchies done away with and religions given up, freedom should not be restricted."
Bush is quite concerned that even though you can fix most everything by just saying "mistakes were made," you can't go on doing that forever, and for some reason he acted as if it were important that people realize that the answer is "not to try to reinvent the system".
Perhaps he's feeling the heat; perhaps he is sensing that the political system is irrelevant and outdated, like a fundamentally authoritarian system feeling for some reason the need to hold 'elections' to justify itself to the ruled, but one way or another, today Bush felt the need to inform us that even though capitalism is "not perfect", it is nonetheless "by far the most efficient and just way of structuring an economy". But without capitalism, what is left of economy?
Only the economy of human dialogue and self-management, where a supply of ideas and energy balances harmoniously with a demand for abundance and prosperity... but is that anywhere near Bush's conception of 'economy?' of course not. When Bush thinks 'economy,' he's thinking of everything that exists, everything that's 'structured.' The world is reduced to economics in Bush's brain just like it is in the brain of a typical communist bureaucrat, but the former likes things as they are, whereas the latter wants to turn them downside up... which of course is still off kilter, and of course never simply smashed. Are any of these magical characters worth listening to?
According to the news, Bush's message was: "while financial markets do need some new regulation and more transparency, free trade should not be restricted." According to the bureaucratic false opposition: "while the economy does need some new managers and more bureaucratically managed welfare systems, hierarchy should not be restricted." According to the subversion-minded: "while capitalism and all its 'economy' do need to be completely abolished, all hierarchies done away with and religions given up, freedom should not be restricted."
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Obama inherits imperial slaughterhouse
Every time you pull the voting-lever, press the touch-screen, or pop out a chad, a flag covers another coffin.
I won't vote to indicate my preference for one or the other of the puppet bureaucrats in the farce.
I won't dip my hands in the blood.
Now that Obama has inherited the war machine's controls (or at least a seat in front of The Button), all one can really do is laugh to think that so many people believe in politicians and, emotionally invested in their fate, cry with joy to see them gain power.
All the electoral confidence-brokers (politicians on the ballot) are essentially gaming for the same kind of power over people and 'honors' as 'heroes,' for a license to dictate morality and force. Plus, though we attach ourselves to a given candidate, it's never really them we're putting in power by fabricating their authority with votes; we're putting in all his favorite lobbyists and clients, his whole stock portfolio, and all his business and political colluders.
I hope the new ownership doesn't let down all the people that believe so much in the Obama campaign (political drug-party), but I doubt any politician could come up to such messianic expectations.
No one can save the country from the morass that Bush and a dying capitalism have plunged it into except the people themselves, and with such star-studded, superficial, prejudice-laden, spectacular elections, where a VP candidate can be picked only for her "gender" and a big deal can be made of one of the candidates because he's "black" (though indeed he appeared quite orange on TV), it's obvious that our interest in the whole system is waning if not gone.
I won't vote to indicate my preference for one or the other of the puppet bureaucrats in the farce.
I won't dip my hands in the blood.
Now that Obama has inherited the war machine's controls (or at least a seat in front of The Button), all one can really do is laugh to think that so many people believe in politicians and, emotionally invested in their fate, cry with joy to see them gain power.
All the electoral confidence-brokers (politicians on the ballot) are essentially gaming for the same kind of power over people and 'honors' as 'heroes,' for a license to dictate morality and force. Plus, though we attach ourselves to a given candidate, it's never really them we're putting in power by fabricating their authority with votes; we're putting in all his favorite lobbyists and clients, his whole stock portfolio, and all his business and political colluders.
I hope the new ownership doesn't let down all the people that believe so much in the Obama campaign (political drug-party), but I doubt any politician could come up to such messianic expectations.
No one can save the country from the morass that Bush and a dying capitalism have plunged it into except the people themselves, and with such star-studded, superficial, prejudice-laden, spectacular elections, where a VP candidate can be picked only for her "gender" and a big deal can be made of one of the candidates because he's "black" (though indeed he appeared quite orange on TV), it's obvious that our interest in the whole system is waning if not gone.
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