Value, understood evenless than God

Whose analysis of political-economy is valid and what standard is it's legitimacy measured by? These past days have seen what has been spoon fed to the political-economy illiterate masses as chaos in the above ground economy. We have been told that instability in the real-estate sector of the economy is the epi-center. First of all what sort of anomaly is devaluation in something as ethereal and relative as value? Techo-cratic economists, love the spectacle of Germans pushing wheel barrow loads of inflated marks for the purpose of buying a loaf of bread at the turn of the last century as illustration of the nastiness of relative economical distortions.

What is peculiar is people expect and pursue progress and deeper understanding in all other facets of life besides paradigms of political-economy and speculation of religion that the matrix of the human condition itself is understood even less than what is God. Money is understood with as much clarity than the fact it's a piece of paper intended to reflect and be the means of transferring value which isn't even understood that it's the value of human life condition.

The human condition, since the marginalization of aristocracy and the emergency of colonialism as political-economy paradigm has accepted as divine fiat the speculation of value which was agreed upon in European drawing rooms and studys as the construct of a New World Order that yawned upon history when whole nationalities and land were reduced to Colonial company-charters.

Speculative value and it's accumulation is not an absolute static, as the paradigm of Colonialism would suggest so why isn't it questioned?

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The populace response "Its Fright!"

On the 8-15-07; Today Show Al Roker, the weather personality was doing his usual, on the Plaza, interacting with the spectator audience. He noticed a little girl with a sign proclaiming the day was her birthday. What caught my attention was this: Al Roker asked the girl where was she from, and the child's response was so cagey it spoke volumes.

Is this the meaning of prosperity, progress, civilization? Is this advancement after millenia of evolution, after the passing of tens of thousands of laws, after the imprisonment of millions, the execution of thousands. Life and the human-condition is still at an impasse where a little child cannot even speak freely of where she's from? Nonetheless in this age of Amber
alerts it's not surprising.

What I find ironic is even though people claim to be so devoutly religious that religion based conflicts, politically and socially dominate all practical facets of contemporary life. The hypocrisy and deviancy of humanness mocks such public displays of religiosity, so thoroughly that the only critique left such devoutness is that of Apocalyptic sanctimonious global destruction.

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Made in China and The Opportunism of Mollification

Made in China. Another recall and so the litany goes, as if the entire nation is a Norman Rockwell illustration come alive in indignation. There is opportunism at work here. The narrative is being done one-dimensional and that always squeal political opportunity. As if there isn't complicity and the Chinese Communist Party is a unilateral actor of dangerous and unmitigated crimes.

Whatever happened to the multinational corporations, American, British, Dutch e.t.c. who contract the cheap labor of China and all those out-sourced to places with their lax and non-existent quality standards?

Whatever happened to the stock investors of all those companies who benefit from the profit maximized cheap labor and poor quality standards of China and it's misanthropy?

These recent disclosures of Chinese made shoddy products seem to be political shell games, throw back, intended to mollify middle class America and the blue collar electorate with ire at made in China minus the complicity of the multinationals and stock investors who are the real violators and who are the primary beneficiaries of the exploitation of labor and lax quality standards in China. Lest it's forgotten capital in pursuit of cheap labor and production also requires the lowering of quality and environmental standards.

Elections are upon us and the rallying cry of indignation, Made in China, as if Made in China just some how fantastically appeared on the shelves at Walmart, Targets and all the other cathedrals is the fist shaken in the air, the subtle nudge away from the obvious: Bill Clinton perfected it with the condescension "I feel you pain" As if Crocodilian tears of empathy excused the material injustice. So why shouldn't the empathy, indignation gambit be once again played?

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AL Qaeda, Gut-Feelings and the Politics of Fear

Isn't it disingenuous for the Bush administration and it's apologist lackeys to on the one hand opportunistically exploit people's fears with hydra-like Al Qaeda sprouting all over the planet. No let me have a "gut-feeling" rather all over the universe and it's alleged summer block buster attack just in time to make up for weak Hollywood fare, or is it weak Republican inroads. Then on the other , proclaim it's tactics for the war in Iraq is bearing fruit because some rag tag wretches have purportedly run Al Qaeda aground in certain provinces and areas in Iraq.

This begs this: It behooves the imagination, that the strongest fighting force to legion like move upon human history could not run Al Qaeda aground and it had to out source as a lot of things are done these days to groups who in earlier State of the Union Addresses were referred to as thugs, murders and the killers for them to heel Al Qaeda.

It makes one wonder what was all that transformational headiness about anyway, or Al Qaeda is the doppelganger of opportunity for the Republican party that's having a hard time whipping up reactionary frenzy in a national policy that sees no economical incentive in reactionary politics.

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Giuliani, Teflon politics and The Republican

Reactionary politics whether the reform-liberal or conservative hood-wink, is always about opportunity. How any individual seizes and at times creates opportunity speaks more about their character than sense of deduction.

So what does this one after another domino effect, oops! say about Rudy Giuliani's character? The colloquial adage, If you lie with dogs you'll catch the fleas is empirical wisdom.

Scandal revolves around Giuliani, who were it not for John" The Teflon Don" Gotti, would be just another red tie blue suit wearing faceless Mr. Smith in a sea of Smith's lawyering hamster like on the social-contract tread wheel.

At least Nixon was able to conceal his character flaws till his Water-Gate over reach. Giuliani is an old dog and cannot be taught new tricks, his affinity for hypocrisy has propelled him high enough and if human consciousness is to be spared the spectacle of President Giuliani's cabinet pleading guilty to corruption charges, being indicted on cocaine charges and confessions to very serious sins, then let that wheezing Bronx cheer be Giuliani's cue that yes it took a while but as his rise was built on the backs of "Wise-Guys" so has the polity wised up to him.

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Hillary, Obama and the politics of "Bush-Cheney Lite"

This criticism being leveled at presidential hopeful Barack Obama, because of his jab at another presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, calling her "Bush-Cheney Lite" is ridiculous and it's effrontery indicates the contempt mass discourse is held by pundits who seem not to have out grown their fresh-men hazing years.

Why shouldn't contenders duke it out? Where were these critics when George Bush and Co. felt it was fair game to attack a detractors wife, to out her is a profession which in some quarters practices unspeakable brutality on outed agents.

Barack Obama responded, not merely truthfully but practically and that's the operative here, that yes he would meet tyrants and despots out in the open as opposed to the cloak room secrecy of the business as usual nuance politics.

The naivete, Hillary Clinton accuses Barack Obama of not knowing the way of the world is ludicrous. Obama is black and regardless of what sort of black he is the historical condition of blackness has been marginalization and oppression, and that is, the circumstance of tyranny.
So what nature of despotism and dictatorship is Obama naive to? The shrill of Hillary Clinton that Obama's willingness to meet despots, will diminish the stature of the Presidency, now that is naivete. The stature of the U.S. is diminished and being mocked when the world sees how cheap explosive devices in Iraq thwart the strategy of "Shock and Awe".

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