The energy giant Shell is using Urban Blacks, or should I rather say misusing. Specifically Shell is banking on the rabid paranoia and stereotypical fear people have of Urban Blacks and has incorporated it as business policy, a means to an end that if realized will fill the coffers of the giant corporation and it's share holders.
Shell's President John Hofmeister revealed in an interview on the Charlie Rose show for 3/25/08; that Black people and civil disturbance which he characterized as "Mood in the Hood" was a arguing point in Shell, the behemoth energy giant business policy. He went on to say he had talks with the Mayor of Los Angeles concerning gauging the "Mood in the Hood". The implications of this bizarre proposition that Urban Blacks would riot over gas does starkly emphasize the state of the Cold War of American Racism.
Hofmeister argued that the nations energy crisis can be alleviated by allowing Shell to exploit the oil reserves in restricted areas of Alaska. In default, the specter of "Mood in the Hood" was raised. Urban Blacks on a rampage over oil and to complete the caricature, Hofmeister invoked the Rodney King aftermath.
All this "Mood in the Hood" talk, coming from an oil executive does raise the question is provocateurism in the works here? Where is the precedent in support of the implication that Urban Blacks unlike any other group will riot over gas? And Charlie Rose with the credibility of his Journalism on the line sat there and allowed the words to go unchallenged.
As an aside Hofmeister disclosed that Hillary Clinton is partial and sympathetic to the oil industry's concerns.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Hillary Clinton and The Alchemy of Inevitability
Hillary Clinton cried and the people of New Hampshire who I guess never heard of crocodile tears made it out to be an event, political action and voted, saying with their votes they want to see her sniffling before cameras every time her inevitability was called into question.
Then she relegated Martin Luther King Jr. to a footnote in American History, declaring that were it not for the Great White Father, Lyndon Johnson, civil rights wouldn't even exist for her to even snide at. As if the revolts, blood, sweat, and tears of those Black and White protagonist who manned the barricades were abstract, surreal, fleeting, impressions across the twilight sky of the cold war of Racism.
Then weirdly she professed what an honor it was to be on stage with her political rival Barack Obama--- only Sybil like, frothing at the mouth, banshee screaming acted out her shame on you Barack Obama role as if she was auditioning for "one flew over what nest." So the people of Ohio, Rhode Island, and Texas found affinity with it. Schizophrenia must be uniquely appetizing to them.
Then she got caught lying. Hillary had her Pinocchio moment. She lied that while landing at an airport at Bosnia she came under sniper fire. As if coming under sniper fire completes her bonafides and in one swoop she mocked and trivialized every last non-combatant tragic death due to Bosnian sniper fire.
Her husband once said he smoked but didn't inhale and like turkey's Americans gobbled it up. Now the wife claims she has been sniped at but it was only John Smith like, made up.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Charles Krauthammer is irrelevant, always has been
Charles Krauthammer is at it again. In another irrelevant Op-Ed he questions why Barack Obama remains a member of the Trinity Church.
Krauthammer and Co. with their rants about the Wright rants are a gaggle of geese pecking . If Jeremiah Wright and his "God Damn America" from pulpit is beyond the pale and Obama should excommunicate himself to satisfy the logic of brains clearly terrified by what injustice has wrought. Then why hasn't Charles Krauthammer renounced his citizenship and emigrated, on the grounds that the U.S. Government is so saturated with specific injustice and crimes against humanity that the only practical indictment is a historical one?
Furthermore has Krauthammer called for Catholics to renounce Catholicism considering the Catholic Church has been a haven for pederast?
Has history denounced and taken the position that Thomas Jefferson was the worst form of intellect, that of inconsistency? Because for all practical purposed his pronouncements on Providence and mans Liberty was at the expense of all those Black Men, Women and Children he held in slavery.
Should members of Congress resign because Racist and the most backwards of reactionaries have walked it's halls and advocated their cause in it's space?
Should the U.S. Supreme Court Justices disrobe because in it's history the very interesting jurisprudence that Black people were sub-human?
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Krauthammer and Co. with their rants about the Wright rants are a gaggle of geese pecking . If Jeremiah Wright and his "God Damn America" from pulpit is beyond the pale and Obama should excommunicate himself to satisfy the logic of brains clearly terrified by what injustice has wrought. Then why hasn't Charles Krauthammer renounced his citizenship and emigrated, on the grounds that the U.S. Government is so saturated with specific injustice and crimes against humanity that the only practical indictment is a historical one?
Furthermore has Krauthammer called for Catholics to renounce Catholicism considering the Catholic Church has been a haven for pederast?
Has history denounced and taken the position that Thomas Jefferson was the worst form of intellect, that of inconsistency? Because for all practical purposed his pronouncements on Providence and mans Liberty was at the expense of all those Black Men, Women and Children he held in slavery.
Should members of Congress resign because Racist and the most backwards of reactionaries have walked it's halls and advocated their cause in it's space?
Should the U.S. Supreme Court Justices disrobe because in it's history the very interesting jurisprudence that Black people were sub-human?
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The economies of Ohio and Texas are models?
Jeff Cornwall of The Entrepreneurial Mind at forum.belmont.edu/cornwall birdied an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal, supposedly comparing the economies of Ohio and Texas. In the aside I find this remark telling:
What does "Big Government" contrasting "entrepreneurial Economic Realities of today" mean?
"It is a stark comparison of a state that is stuck in big government policies of the 1900's (Ohio) and one that has changed to reflect the Global Entrepreneurial Economic Realities of today (Texas)."
I find once again economist and economics viewed through the conservative skew as not just political rejoinders but for all practical purposes, distortions. Its as if there is money in circulation stamped Entrepreneurial Reality (Conservative) and Big Government (Liberal). The truth of the matter is within the fact of each economical potential, there is the dynamism of value.
The critique "Big Government" has always been disingenuous and intellectual fraud. Its been consistently exposed as the sham it is and it's critics, two faced opportunist who ham fist pork barrels with projects bearing their names while railing against the mechanism, government, which made it all possible.
This sophistry of "Entrepreneurial Economic Reality" speaks more to the casualty and it's effects on an issue xenophobes rant about on Lou Dobbs. If we are to accept "Entrepreneurial Economic Reality" as pseudonym for small business and it's activity, then the economic surges of Texas and the southern border states specifically in the small business realm has more to do with, Mexico, Latin America and the exportation of its citizens in light of it's maldeveloped national economy to the developed U.S. contrary to xenophobic ravings immigration regardless of means always energizes economies.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
History did not stop in the 1600's
We read about Robber Barons. We read about the stupendous wealth gains during the crash of 1929 and beaver faced economic students sit in rapt attention as another Nobel Laureate spit gibberish about cycles of a free market and the jumbled sophistry of it all concludes with "where was I, what was I saying?" Yet for some synaptic anomaly, some mental glitch, we never seem to get it that history isn't something always made or happened in the past we express outrage at the in your face compromise and violations against the very psyche of humanness, which always seems to happen on the endless pages of the history books rapt attentive students coopt their original thinking ability with. So when those same episodes we express indignation and outrage at happen in our contemporary existence we consistently fail to see and recognize we are the ones history is being made with. Our mindlessness and complacency is what the next vitriolic righteous indignation will be directed at.
History did not stop in the 1600's. Norms of human behavior did not start nor statically grind to a halt with Columbus and his voyage. Edicts didn't suddenly become laws with Portugal and the Catholic Pope's Bifurcation of the world. "The White man's burden," was simply a dialectical slogan. There has always been a continuum of human activity and till the sun super novas there always will be.
So as we sit, spectators in this latest installment of guile and the embodiment of Jack and his wit which the housing economy and the Sub Prime Rate swindle is once again revealing, let us look no further than ourselves and our levels of tolerance.
Maybe I'll find time to comment on the Bush Administration decision (which by the way is at the expense of the home foreclosure viral) to underwrite J.P. Morgan's purchase of the Bear Sterns Bank to the tune of $3o billion which to paraphrase Bob Marley "in the abundance of waters the fool is thirsty" and so in a sea of swindled cash Bear Sterns was thirsty.
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History did not stop in the 1600's. Norms of human behavior did not start nor statically grind to a halt with Columbus and his voyage. Edicts didn't suddenly become laws with Portugal and the Catholic Pope's Bifurcation of the world. "The White man's burden," was simply a dialectical slogan. There has always been a continuum of human activity and till the sun super novas there always will be.
So as we sit, spectators in this latest installment of guile and the embodiment of Jack and his wit which the housing economy and the Sub Prime Rate swindle is once again revealing, let us look no further than ourselves and our levels of tolerance.
Maybe I'll find time to comment on the Bush Administration decision (which by the way is at the expense of the home foreclosure viral) to underwrite J.P. Morgan's purchase of the Bear Sterns Bank to the tune of $3o billion which to paraphrase Bob Marley "in the abundance of waters the fool is thirsty" and so in a sea of swindled cash Bear Sterns was thirsty.
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Rabbits and the secret of Pahokee, Florida
Ever wonder why Route Running, Bull Rushing, Busting the Hole and all those intangibles that define great football players came so canny to some native Floridian football players? Well it seems chasing rabbits has a lot to do with it. Welcome to the gridirons best kept secret. The Muck City chase, the secret of Pahokee, Florida. No one really knows when young aspiring high school football players Black and White decided upon chasing rabbits as a performance enhancer. But chasing rabbits in the harvested sugarcane fields of Pahokee, flushing the rabbits out engaging in hour long chases naturally honed those instincts and abilities that would appear so effortlessly on football fields. So it seems from the mechanical rabbits of Greyhound races to the organic ones of Pahokee's sugarcane fields, rabbits do more than hop and nibble on carrots.
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Communism and American Conservatism
When Conservatives who are philosophically clueless about the mechanics of liquidity, transient capital, rant and rile against government and how less is necessary. Isn't that indulgence in the most elementary and academic hood wink?
If there isn't to be some sort of un-American tension revealed, whatever happened to..."Of The People, For The People, By The People."
Communism and the Marxian utopia strangely enough is the absence of Government. Socialism and it's phase is the "withering away" of Government---So when did American Conservatism trade in Dumbo the elephant for the Jacobin dirty red rag and the "Evil Empires" hammer and sickle?
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If there isn't to be some sort of un-American tension revealed, whatever happened to..."Of The People, For The People, By The People."
Communism and the Marxian utopia strangely enough is the absence of Government. Socialism and it's phase is the "withering away" of Government---So when did American Conservatism trade in Dumbo the elephant for the Jacobin dirty red rag and the "Evil Empires" hammer and sickle?
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
Sub Prime Rate and the Repudiation of Reaganism
Isn't the outcry for regulatory motion on the Mortgage-financial cabal a repudiation of Reaganism?
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War, Liberalism and The Democrats
The Democratic Party has been labeled since the Vietnam hand wringing as soft on War. But the fact of the matter is, if for a minute either party's name is done away with and the focus is instead directed on certain imperatives and tendencies at certain specific moments in U.S. history then one will have to conclude that it isn't whatever purported party platform was being presented at the time, but being on the right side of history is the qualifier.
Starting with the Civil War the imperative practiced by the party of Lincoln was Progressive, hence Liberal. One which contemporary reaction it's measure Ann Coulter, Linda Ingraham would be hurling diatribes and epithets at. The rebellious South, which the Democratic Party is legatee would then be the hearth and haven of all your neo-cons with their intellectual Liberalism.
The mismanagement of World War I birthed the Titanic Apocalypse of World War II which was successfully prosecuted by a Democratic Administration. The Korean Conflict another mismanaged effort was under a Republican Administration . Then Vietnam with it's iconic roof top woe came to it's ignominious finals under Republican ineptitude.
The status quo of any context fear change not for any reason than the impression of not being able to account for it's conclusion. But as soon as some form of assurance is gleaned, then the phenomenon of the reactionaries now the vanguard for change is complete. Once again the Republicans and their critique of War and the Democrats reminds us of this fact. War is not a line item to be either approved or vetoed and Iraq is it's fact.
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Starting with the Civil War the imperative practiced by the party of Lincoln was Progressive, hence Liberal. One which contemporary reaction it's measure Ann Coulter, Linda Ingraham would be hurling diatribes and epithets at. The rebellious South, which the Democratic Party is legatee would then be the hearth and haven of all your neo-cons with their intellectual Liberalism.
The mismanagement of World War I birthed the Titanic Apocalypse of World War II which was successfully prosecuted by a Democratic Administration. The Korean Conflict another mismanaged effort was under a Republican Administration . Then Vietnam with it's iconic roof top woe came to it's ignominious finals under Republican ineptitude.
The status quo of any context fear change not for any reason than the impression of not being able to account for it's conclusion. But as soon as some form of assurance is gleaned, then the phenomenon of the reactionaries now the vanguard for change is complete. Once again the Republicans and their critique of War and the Democrats reminds us of this fact. War is not a line item to be either approved or vetoed and Iraq is it's fact.
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Henry Ford his $ 5, NAFTA and International Trade
Africa's impoverishment and economic dysfunction isn't due to the lack of International Trade. As a matter of fact a primary cause of Africa's economic malaise is a type of international activity. One that exploits African resources at the expense of Africa's internal development. Add on the bribery and corruption phenomena which is a natural consequence of un-developed Political Economies and you get Africa's economy as model.
It boggles the mind to hear Lackeys and Apologist for this model of International Trade, Fareed Zakaria in his March 10, 2008 Newsweek article is one, which posits that the U.S. must serve, must continue serving the global function of National Economies, babble their idealistic gibberish that a revision of NAFTA is symbiotically catastrophic for the U.S. and the world.
Whatever happened to Nations unilaterally developing their national and internal infrastructure, building roads, schools, hospitals, bridges, railroads, putting their citizens to work. Thereby creating and first and foremost establishing an internal-national economy that will nurture and sustain a fact of national trade before attempting to interact globally. The idea and practice of external sources accrediting valuation to a nations productivity is for political-economies at a certain stage in development. This simply means trade or any honest semblance of it cannot exist between un-equal political-economies only plunder and exploitation will.
Why should Mexico rely on NAFTA to economize itself when three-fourths of the Mexican national infrastructure is non-existent? The only beneficiaries of NAFTA are multi-national speculators who indulge the vagaries of Imperialism and it's misanthropy.
How often do we snicker at the spectacle of so-called Third World Nations and the show case capital city while the towns villages and slums around it are in the stone age---and criticism is supposed to be accepted from Apologist, whose only reason is to maintain such travesty that if only more international markets were opened to the poor Kenyan farmer, Peruvian peasant or Indian street dweller their lives would improve and the laid off analog factory worker in Michigan who couldn't even find Kenya, Peru, or India on a map were their life dependent on it, will be better off!
No! What those Apologist mean is, this paradigm of Colonial Political-Economy that requires the U.S. National Economy serve as the global surrogate for non-existent national economies of the world must continue. The speculator legatee beneficiaries who do not have any reason or incentive to revise, reform and where necessary over haul this paradigm that has 6,000 + Billionaires on a planet of 6 billion+, want it to continue and the dialectics of it, again shows in an un-equal economical relationship what you have is plunder and just as the vagaries of imperialism plunder the un-developed economies of the Third World so is the world exploiting the economically anomalous relationship the U.S. holds with it at the expense of Henry Ford's $5 epiphany.
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It boggles the mind to hear Lackeys and Apologist for this model of International Trade, Fareed Zakaria in his March 10, 2008 Newsweek article is one, which posits that the U.S. must serve, must continue serving the global function of National Economies, babble their idealistic gibberish that a revision of NAFTA is symbiotically catastrophic for the U.S. and the world.
Whatever happened to Nations unilaterally developing their national and internal infrastructure, building roads, schools, hospitals, bridges, railroads, putting their citizens to work. Thereby creating and first and foremost establishing an internal-national economy that will nurture and sustain a fact of national trade before attempting to interact globally. The idea and practice of external sources accrediting valuation to a nations productivity is for political-economies at a certain stage in development. This simply means trade or any honest semblance of it cannot exist between un-equal political-economies only plunder and exploitation will.
Why should Mexico rely on NAFTA to economize itself when three-fourths of the Mexican national infrastructure is non-existent? The only beneficiaries of NAFTA are multi-national speculators who indulge the vagaries of Imperialism and it's misanthropy.
How often do we snicker at the spectacle of so-called Third World Nations and the show case capital city while the towns villages and slums around it are in the stone age---and criticism is supposed to be accepted from Apologist, whose only reason is to maintain such travesty that if only more international markets were opened to the poor Kenyan farmer, Peruvian peasant or Indian street dweller their lives would improve and the laid off analog factory worker in Michigan who couldn't even find Kenya, Peru, or India on a map were their life dependent on it, will be better off!
No! What those Apologist mean is, this paradigm of Colonial Political-Economy that requires the U.S. National Economy serve as the global surrogate for non-existent national economies of the world must continue. The speculator legatee beneficiaries who do not have any reason or incentive to revise, reform and where necessary over haul this paradigm that has 6,000 + Billionaires on a planet of 6 billion+, want it to continue and the dialectics of it, again shows in an un-equal economical relationship what you have is plunder and just as the vagaries of imperialism plunder the un-developed economies of the Third World so is the world exploiting the economically anomalous relationship the U.S. holds with it at the expense of Henry Ford's $5 epiphany.
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Friday, March 21, 2008
Jealousy, the 60's and Justice Samuel Alito
During Samuel Alito's confirmation process for a perch on the U.S. Supreme Court, he expressed a notion which correctly frames him as culturally vindictive and jealous.
Alito expressed the conclusion that, during the movements of the 60's he viewed privileged kids in Ivy League Colleges behaving in manners he felt was an affront to their privilege. Alito must have felt he was in the presence of kindred spirits. Hunched over behind the table, able to finally be under the lights of here is my critique of an epoch which Alito's disdain aside, for whatever it's worth actuated the lives of an entire historical group of citizens---because without having the courage to overtly say it, he threw his lot in with Strum Thurmond and Trent Lott who are firmly on record with their feelings for those day's 60's and pre.
Has any one read any of Alito's opinions since he garnered a seat on the Supreme Court, which as the office of the Presidency was essential brokered? Not only is Alito mocking his strict constructionist mantle, but he is actually contemptuous of his dissenting colleagues, sparing no intellectual courtesy.
Isn't disdain the offspring of jealousy and bigotry?
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Alito expressed the conclusion that, during the movements of the 60's he viewed privileged kids in Ivy League Colleges behaving in manners he felt was an affront to their privilege. Alito must have felt he was in the presence of kindred spirits. Hunched over behind the table, able to finally be under the lights of here is my critique of an epoch which Alito's disdain aside, for whatever it's worth actuated the lives of an entire historical group of citizens---because without having the courage to overtly say it, he threw his lot in with Strum Thurmond and Trent Lott who are firmly on record with their feelings for those day's 60's and pre.
Has any one read any of Alito's opinions since he garnered a seat on the Supreme Court, which as the office of the Presidency was essential brokered? Not only is Alito mocking his strict constructionist mantle, but he is actually contemptuous of his dissenting colleagues, sparing no intellectual courtesy.
Isn't disdain the offspring of jealousy and bigotry?
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Voting Rights
Kentucky's Governor Steve Beshear has unveiled a plan allowing Ex Prisoners to regain their voting rights . His premise was simple, imprisonment is intended to rehabilitate, upon its completion, the right to vote should naturally be restored.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
All Universe! Don't Hate!
HAKEEM OLAJUWON
MOSES MALONE
LARRY BIRD
MAGIC JOHNSON
ISIAH THOMAS
Hakeem will put the rock on the floor and take 'em! Bring 'em on Bill R., Wilt, Bill W., Kareem.
Who Patrick, Shaq? Get real!
Big Mo', Moses was the proto power center morph straight outta high school, with what it took to win and ain't that what it's all about?
Larry
Magic and
Zeke
'nuff said.
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MOSES MALONE
LARRY BIRD
MAGIC JOHNSON
ISIAH THOMAS
Hakeem will put the rock on the floor and take 'em! Bring 'em on Bill R., Wilt, Bill W., Kareem.
Who Patrick, Shaq? Get real!
Big Mo', Moses was the proto power center morph straight outta high school, with what it took to win and ain't that what it's all about?
Larry
Magic and
Zeke
'nuff said.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
The candy bar was a gun
The man hunt was intense, the voices shrill. Their faces flushed with the excitement of the chase. Within their hearts lay the deceit of concern wearing the mask of a 6-o-clock evening news anchor.
Who is to be feared
The pathetic soul who at the baying of the hounds trembled to the core of his misery crawling on hands and knees seeking safety in a swampy fetid infestation that even those slithering, slimy corruptions of children's nightmares dared traverse.
Or
The shiny alloyed badge on straining chest, shooting first and then having the gall to rationalize that the candy bar in the hands of the 9 year old Black boy was a gun.
A rationalization which says it loud and clear to those ears not defended by the syrupy drip of "just a cop doing his job," that in the eyes of the White police officer the 9 year old Black boy was just another one less.
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Who is to be feared
The pathetic soul who at the baying of the hounds trembled to the core of his misery crawling on hands and knees seeking safety in a swampy fetid infestation that even those slithering, slimy corruptions of children's nightmares dared traverse.
Or
The shiny alloyed badge on straining chest, shooting first and then having the gall to rationalize that the candy bar in the hands of the 9 year old Black boy was a gun.
A rationalization which says it loud and clear to those ears not defended by the syrupy drip of "just a cop doing his job," that in the eyes of the White police officer the 9 year old Black boy was just another one less.
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
Bush sneaks in, Ahmadinejad gets the Red Carpet
This whole proposition that Al Qaeda in Iraq warrants U.S. presence in Iraq is seriously disingenuous.
The main beneficiary of all the trillions being pumped into Iraq by the U.S. is Iran, because when the last time George Bush got the Red Carpet treatment in Iraq? So why did Ahmadinejad go to Iraq on the weekend of 3/1/08; and get it? George W. Bush the embodiment of all upstaged and out maneuvered has to sneak into Iraq yet Iranian Ahmadinejad swoops in broad daylight, gets the Red Carpet treatment plausibly funded by some of the U.S. trillions and a Honor detail probably American trained.
The central proposition of John McCain's Iraq thought is if the U.S. pulls out, Al Qaeda will trumpet it defeated the U.S. (As if just the fact the world's Super-Power taking on Al Qaeda on Al Qadian terms doesn't already imply that.) So how does McCain address this spectacle of Iran with it's deeds telling the world that it out sourced it's Iraq question to the U.S. and the U.S. with it's Johnny Come Lately presumptions obliged in the most comical way.
American lives and treasure is being lost and spent in pursuit of and in the employ of Iranian Foreign policy and Iranian theocracy. Now if that isn't the mother of all hood winks?
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The main beneficiary of all the trillions being pumped into Iraq by the U.S. is Iran, because when the last time George Bush got the Red Carpet treatment in Iraq? So why did Ahmadinejad go to Iraq on the weekend of 3/1/08; and get it? George W. Bush the embodiment of all upstaged and out maneuvered has to sneak into Iraq yet Iranian Ahmadinejad swoops in broad daylight, gets the Red Carpet treatment plausibly funded by some of the U.S. trillions and a Honor detail probably American trained.
The central proposition of John McCain's Iraq thought is if the U.S. pulls out, Al Qaeda will trumpet it defeated the U.S. (As if just the fact the world's Super-Power taking on Al Qaeda on Al Qadian terms doesn't already imply that.) So how does McCain address this spectacle of Iran with it's deeds telling the world that it out sourced it's Iraq question to the U.S. and the U.S. with it's Johnny Come Lately presumptions obliged in the most comical way.
American lives and treasure is being lost and spent in pursuit of and in the employ of Iranian Foreign policy and Iranian theocracy. Now if that isn't the mother of all hood winks?
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The Ethics of Consent of Organ Transplants in Pets
When human beings can't stand each other, the Anthropomorphism spectacle of pets begins to take all sorts of convoluted turns.The CBS early show for 2/29/08; had a story on transplant surgery for pets. The story was about a woman, her cat and the $10,000 Kidney transplant it had.
I want to focus on the Ethics and Morality of the process for pet organ donations.
If a human being , in this case Michael Vick, the former Atlanta Falcon Quarterback currently imprisoned, can lose his liberty, his livelihood and standing in society because he indulged in fighting dogs who are bred, a breed intended to do exactly that---then if misanthropomorphic people with smug looks across their faces pursue organ transplants for pets, and if the pet shelter which provides the donor pet justifies it's participation with, a pet owner seeking a donor must agree to adopt the donor animal, after the transplant.
What I want to know is, if society is so Pet conscious, so animal loving to the point the Animal Rights Group PETA can display placards seeking the castration of a human being, then who or what communicated the seriousness of the issue of consent to the donor animal, and who is the next of kin in case of transplant complications?
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
"Yes We Can," A dirge for the Clinton Machine
Bob Marley the Reggae great once chanted "When the cats away the mice will play," and so it goes that in the absence of originality mediocrity will goose step it's jackboot comedy, also, in the land of the blind the one-eyed is King, because how are we to truly grasp the spectacle of what was with waspish snobbishness coined Clinton Machine? So a rural character rose to Govern a state which headquartered the very cause in principle and in deed of America torn asunder from it's middle class, the center must hold myth. All that is wrong Walmart embodies, from destruction of unionized labor to the obscenity of toxic chemicals in pet food, Walmart and it's condescension has been the symbiotic portal.
Rarely is there natural coincidence in political-economy, so it goes that the mediocre poseur which is Bill Clinton had to find his slant into national political prominence from the land of Walmart.
The sirenic flattery of the ingenuity of Clintonism truly had the Clinton Machine with her Madam ship, Hillary Clinton at the helm, taking for granted the fact that this is the same verdant earth where Napoleon found his Waterloo, where Richard Nixon over reached, where George W. Bush forgot that the Dogs of War are a tireless brutal lot, where the British Army with Churchill in its files found it's Fashoda, where Hannibal wined, dined and Fabius patiently stalked, where Chaka Zulu mistook terror for loyalty and so the list of historical hubris goes on, marching on the inexorably logic that if any personality assumes that the Presidency of the U.S. is 'my Turn" as Hillary Clinton under the astounding naive tutelage of her Bill " The political genius" Clinton posed, her Barack Obama is bound to appear and once again right the scales of Hubris!
No matter what happens in the Democratic nomination for President, the Clinton Machine has listed, and just as Ohio once found itself the last stand battle ground for rusting analog industry when it ran into Clintonism NAFTA, so is Hillary staking Ohio as her final stand , what an irony!
Obama, Obama, Obama!!!! Hillary hears the chants and her frenzied recourse is the wail the it isn't fair naivete she gets asked question first. Talk about a public Prozac moment! For one who claims to have what it takes to be President, the I Am Woman and it's not fair argument is a bad joke.
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Rarely is there natural coincidence in political-economy, so it goes that the mediocre poseur which is Bill Clinton had to find his slant into national political prominence from the land of Walmart.
The sirenic flattery of the ingenuity of Clintonism truly had the Clinton Machine with her Madam ship, Hillary Clinton at the helm, taking for granted the fact that this is the same verdant earth where Napoleon found his Waterloo, where Richard Nixon over reached, where George W. Bush forgot that the Dogs of War are a tireless brutal lot, where the British Army with Churchill in its files found it's Fashoda, where Hannibal wined, dined and Fabius patiently stalked, where Chaka Zulu mistook terror for loyalty and so the list of historical hubris goes on, marching on the inexorably logic that if any personality assumes that the Presidency of the U.S. is 'my Turn" as Hillary Clinton under the astounding naive tutelage of her Bill " The political genius" Clinton posed, her Barack Obama is bound to appear and once again right the scales of Hubris!
No matter what happens in the Democratic nomination for President, the Clinton Machine has listed, and just as Ohio once found itself the last stand battle ground for rusting analog industry when it ran into Clintonism NAFTA, so is Hillary staking Ohio as her final stand , what an irony!
Obama, Obama, Obama!!!! Hillary hears the chants and her frenzied recourse is the wail the it isn't fair naivete she gets asked question first. Talk about a public Prozac moment! For one who claims to have what it takes to be President, the I Am Woman and it's not fair argument is a bad joke.
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Reaganomics and Crack Cocaine
I'm of the persuasion That the Crack Cocaine phenomenon has been incorrectly defined by Black-Intelligentsia as being a political phenomenon, a ploy by the U.S. status quo to destabilize the Black Community. Instead of the definition, an economical phenomenon as it should correctly be defined.
The Crack Cocaine phenomenon was simply a Capitalist tool to facilitate and service a level and degree of Capitals development, at a specific point in the development of U.S. Imperialism, specifically Finance Capital.
U.S. Imperialism--- A Brief Summery
The beginnings of the 1980's was economically a trial for the U.S. Capitalism was entering a new and distinct phase particularly for the mature, industrial-manufacturing economy of the U.S. The National Economy was under the intense strain of birthing the expansionist flux of Finance Capital in it's more mature appearance and the effects were at odds with the more linear and stable result of servicing a National Economy based on credit.
The U.S. prior to the Reagan years was on the verge of having a short-fall with money. Tenders of political-economies subscribe to a variety of mechanisms in protecting and developing their respective political-economies. The Reagan Administration chose one that has been tried and proven. It chose that of governmental spending, which in the instance was building up the Military with the resultant expenditure on defense. Flooding the national economy with cash through defense spending, the Reagan Administration had to solve the problem of how to truly stimulate the economy with it's cash infusion. Money was being pumped into the economy massively, but it was in wrong hands. The white suburbanites who worked for the defense industry and were accessing the cash were not the compulsive consumers, nor was their type of consumption the appropriate and necessary one for that agitated circulation of cash demanded by a resurging national economy. A crucial factor emerged, which as a result served as that point of fusion, through which that required flow cash from suburbanite white workers into desired circulatory flow of cash was made possible. A sizable element of those defense workers were products of parents who had participated in the counter culture drug imbibing years of the '60's and as such the drug culture was familiar to them. It was then, with them that the Reagan intent found it's maturing medium.
Drugs, illegal drugs, controlled substances or narcotics have been a part of U.S. culture for a while. But the middle '80's saw a profound change in the effect such have had and can have on a society as a whole. The U.S. drug culture naturally is illegal and as with anything illegal it's servicing and activity remains where we colloquially describe as underground, which in this case a part of the underground economy. Underground economies, as your astute and pragmatist economist know are phenomena that, in the absence of a resolute above ground economy then become that medium through which a political economy resuscitates and gathers itself, because they facilitate and enable that required volume of cash [capitol] to circulate quickly within the society resulting in a stimulation of economic activity pursuing the cash that can appear above ground and proceed participatorially in the process of giving direction and stability to the above ground economy. This, then is what happened during the middle years of the Reagan Administration.
The middle Reagan years witnessed a resurgence and emergence of political economic activity that if one has the wherewithal to discern, doesn't appear as conventional wisdom would've us think "due to the market forces" or it's least understood and cabalistic sibling "Free Market Enterprise". The U.S. economy of the middle Reagan years due to certain specifics gathered steam resulting in a whole host of circumstances, of which the most significant and profound was the culture of drugs, particularly "Crack Cocaine".
The national economy developed upon two deterministic factors: (1) stable employment (2) debiting and credit. The formal heavy-industrial manufacturing that was the structural support for economic development particularly within the national economic sense, provided dynastic employment in the sense that , for instance Lunch Box Willy would gain employment, organize his existence around the white picket fence ideal, do his bit in supporting the national economy through the various debiting for services and consumption of social commodities, his son(s) shall follow in his foot steps of comparative one's, hence replicating the entire cycle, which in it's turn created a national economy that could support whatever was termed and postured as the American ideal and way of life.
The above described phenomena was the norm for the average of White America and the exceptions of Black America. But on the other hand Black America's social and economic development differed greatly from the White experience.
The Black inner-city experience was once directed from it's inception, that it's participants would not have the stability of stable employment. The middle class phenomena of credit and debit was not a factor in the development of Black America. Rather a cash on demand was the variant. If it should be said that the White economy provided the national economy with long term fore-sight, Black economy catalysed the short term fulfilment of it's needs. This environment and the vacuum appearing from the effects of Finance Capital's activities upon the economic landscape coupled with Crack-Cocaine phenomenon catapulted Black inner-city economy preeminently int the pulse and heart of capital and placed it realistically within reach of that economic stability of self-determination that had been effectively denied Black America.
The Crack Cocaine phenomenon was simply a Capitalist tool to facilitate and service a level and degree of Capitals development, at a specific point in the development of U.S. Imperialism, specifically Finance Capital.
U.S. Imperialism--- A Brief Summery
The beginnings of the 1980's was economically a trial for the U.S. Capitalism was entering a new and distinct phase particularly for the mature, industrial-manufacturing economy of the U.S. The National Economy was under the intense strain of birthing the expansionist flux of Finance Capital in it's more mature appearance and the effects were at odds with the more linear and stable result of servicing a National Economy based on credit.
The late '70's and prior to the Reagan Administration, 1980-88; saw an extreme decline in the economy, both nationally and internationally. Whole sectors of Bulwark industry such as the automobile industry as represented by Chrysler Motors were on the brink of bankruptcy even to the point that the U.S. Govt., itself had to bail out Chrysler Motors by giving it a direct loan. The commercial banks who normally would have been the ones to do so could not afford to undertake the massive responsibility and subsequent servicing of the loan. Oil and it's derivatives was on the one hand with the contraction of the steel and it's component industry on the other exerting profound adverse effects on the economy. In the face of all that, politically the U.S. was laid impotent with a type of political action occurring in Iran that it's executive and military leadership were ill-prepared to deal with. Capital, particularly Finance-Capital, which as we know, knows and has no allegiances nor borders was transforming itself into a maturity that the U.S. with it's international presumptions of leadership could either vanguard of a more able political- economy would assert itself that would ensuingly leave the U.S. in it's wake---this was the climate of the U.S. circa late '70's early '80's.
The National Economy of the pre '80's was on the one hand lacking the high volume of cash flow required to satisfy U.S. Global obligations and on the other, the maintenance at a stable level the effects of Finance Capital's motion upon the mid and lower level incomes. Finance Capital was in it's expansionist mode, consequently formal manufacturing such as Steel production were losing out to the up and coming cheaper economies of the far east. Finance Capital was restructuring and stabilizing itself towards the servicing of speculation and Super-Monopolies. The political-economical landscape in the U.S. was in a state of shock and paranoia. Tried and proven, time -worn industries were being squeezed out. Attitudes that had nurtured post World War II industry were coming up short in the face of the highly agitated ones necessary to exist in the unstable wake of Finance Capital. Post World War II, the American Economy had been of the basis for the revitalization of the economies of allies and foe, particularly the German and Japanese economic resuscitation. The U.S. economy had proven mature and nationally massive enough to maintain it's anomalies independent from the strain of it's obligations.
The dearth of any political-economy is Value, which is indicated materially as money and the means of it's production. What this means is first, the human being in that activity of re-creating those necessary means for survival and existence brings value or purpose to those necessities created and developed. The value which is purpose given those creations and developments are in essence extensions of the human being on which survival and existence are dependent. This is what, within a community or society of humans it's means of transfer, and exchange then becomes the most common form and vital medium of interaction with fellow human, that most basic manner those necessities for survival and existence are circulated---which is what we know as money/capital.
The U.S. prior to the Reagan years was on the verge of having a short-fall with money. Tenders of political-economies subscribe to a variety of mechanisms in protecting and developing their respective political-economies. The Reagan Administration chose one that has been tried and proven. It chose that of governmental spending, which in the instance was building up the Military with the resultant expenditure on defense. Flooding the national economy with cash through defense spending, the Reagan Administration had to solve the problem of how to truly stimulate the economy with it's cash infusion. Money was being pumped into the economy massively, but it was in wrong hands. The white suburbanites who worked for the defense industry and were accessing the cash were not the compulsive consumers, nor was their type of consumption the appropriate and necessary one for that agitated circulation of cash demanded by a resurging national economy. A crucial factor emerged, which as a result served as that point of fusion, through which that required flow cash from suburbanite white workers into desired circulatory flow of cash was made possible. A sizable element of those defense workers were products of parents who had participated in the counter culture drug imbibing years of the '60's and as such the drug culture was familiar to them. It was then, with them that the Reagan intent found it's maturing medium.
Drugs, illegal drugs, controlled substances or narcotics have been a part of U.S. culture for a while. But the middle '80's saw a profound change in the effect such have had and can have on a society as a whole. The U.S. drug culture naturally is illegal and as with anything illegal it's servicing and activity remains where we colloquially describe as underground, which in this case a part of the underground economy. Underground economies, as your astute and pragmatist economist know are phenomena that, in the absence of a resolute above ground economy then become that medium through which a political economy resuscitates and gathers itself, because they facilitate and enable that required volume of cash [capitol] to circulate quickly within the society resulting in a stimulation of economic activity pursuing the cash that can appear above ground and proceed participatorially in the process of giving direction and stability to the above ground economy. This, then is what happened during the middle years of the Reagan Administration.
The middle Reagan years witnessed a resurgence and emergence of political economic activity that if one has the wherewithal to discern, doesn't appear as conventional wisdom would've us think "due to the market forces" or it's least understood and cabalistic sibling "Free Market Enterprise". The U.S. economy of the middle Reagan years due to certain specifics gathered steam resulting in a whole host of circumstances, of which the most significant and profound was the culture of drugs, particularly "Crack Cocaine".
U.S. National Economy---A Brief Summery
The national economy developed upon two deterministic factors: (1) stable employment (2) debiting and credit. The formal heavy-industrial manufacturing that was the structural support for economic development particularly within the national economic sense, provided dynastic employment in the sense that , for instance Lunch Box Willy would gain employment, organize his existence around the white picket fence ideal, do his bit in supporting the national economy through the various debiting for services and consumption of social commodities, his son(s) shall follow in his foot steps of comparative one's, hence replicating the entire cycle, which in it's turn created a national economy that could support whatever was termed and postured as the American ideal and way of life.
The above described phenomena was the norm for the average of White America and the exceptions of Black America. But on the other hand Black America's social and economic development differed greatly from the White experience.
The Black inner-city experience was once directed from it's inception, that it's participants would not have the stability of stable employment. The middle class phenomena of credit and debit was not a factor in the development of Black America. Rather a cash on demand was the variant. If it should be said that the White economy provided the national economy with long term fore-sight, Black economy catalysed the short term fulfilment of it's needs. This environment and the vacuum appearing from the effects of Finance Capital's activities upon the economic landscape coupled with Crack-Cocaine phenomenon catapulted Black inner-city economy preeminently int the pulse and heart of capital and placed it realistically within reach of that economic stability of self-determination that had been effectively denied Black America.
Inner city---Servicing the National Economy
To speak of a Black economical landscape within the American one is to infer a homogeneous entity inter-acting with the national body, but that isn't the case, Black economy simply designates a level of U.S. economy, a particular niche and servicing a particular type of capital. There exist a few exceptions, but in the all Black economy maintains a retail function generating that high volume of cash necessary for the short term fulfilment of capital. But due to the cumulative effects of Finance Capital, the Black economical landscape during the Reagan years experienced a radical transformation at the inner-city level.
Black populations of inner-city U.S.A. were as they have always been a stimulant in the raw sense on the national economy, A mechanism for flow of cash within the national economy. Reaganomics understood this function clearly, and in the wake of Finance Capital's activity upon the national economic landscape, it utilized the services of the inner-city in a fashion reminiscent of the Prohibition Era.
Black America due to it's unstable relationship with mainstream America has historically found it's economic activity in the illegal underground economies of it's evolving milieus. The Reagan years were not any different. Cocaine had gradually begun to reassert itself during the late '70's, and during the Reagan initial years a more potent and powerful variant of it was developed, Crack.
Crack Cocaine then flooded Black communities and then became the New Work Horse for Black economic initiative in the underground economy. Crack Cocaine a solidification and rockification of it's base powdery form became a variant that was able to transmit it's narcotizing agent so powerfully and for a limited amount of time, during which the narcotizing sensation was intensely magnified that it became the El Dorado Mother Lode of the drug underground economy because it's consumers in that never ending quest of pursuing that brief and highly intense narcotizing stimulation were compelled to spend money, time after time in that cycle, which therein signaled the awesome power of it's addiction---and that in raw economic terms was what the Reagan tendered National-Economy needed to attain that stability, that respite to leverage itself on to it's above ground realization of vanguarding capital in it's Finance Capital maturity and it's international imperatives.
The dynamism of the illegal drug economy particularly Crack Cocaine
The decade of the '80's; has the historical designation as the era of Reaganomics. On the surface, advocacy by Black Nationalistic imperatives critiques Reaganomics as being racist and anti-black, however a close dispassionate scrutiny has to conclude that Reaganomics, in it's specificity of enabling Black America to access massive cash could have completed what that other Republican, Abraham Lincoln started---The access to true political economical development for Black people.
The political economical landscape the Reagan administration inherited was one that was in shambles, as already pointed out, Finance Capital was in a rapid state of motion, the economical integrity had been compromised, to stabilize it a true and correct interpretation of economic determinism had to be bought lock, stock and barrel, in a sense, colonial policies comparative to the British dictates of Sino Policy during the 1800's had to be once again lifted up from their dusty shelves, dusted off, to once again see the light of day, as Reaganomics struggled to support the long term objectives of Finance Capital with a short term necessity for creating a highly dynamic national economy.
Reaganomics picked chapters out of British-Sino Colonial policies of the 1800's and pages out the Post-Stock Market Crash of the 1920's Prohibitionist Era and welded such to a contemporary commitment that had a 'no compromise" attitude towards social reality, an effort that would have raised the eye brows of the past-master himself Machiavelli. The British-Sino Policies of the 1800's were designed to Bulwark British Imperialism ---The policies of Reaganomics were designed to direct U.S. imperialism towards the fulfilment of it's national and international obligations. The policies of Reaganomics a la' Neo-Taipanism were designed to saturate the national economy with credit power for the impending maturity of Finance Capital, as such the national economical landscape was turned into a deregulated netherworld of acquisition.
Reaganomics picked chapters out of British-Sino Colonial policies of the 1800's and pages out the Post-Stock Market Crash of the 1920's Prohibitionist Era and welded such to a contemporary commitment that had a 'no compromise" attitude towards social reality, an effort that would have raised the eye brows of the past-master himself Machiavelli. The British-Sino Policies of the 1800's were designed to Bulwark British Imperialism ---The policies of Reaganomics were designed to direct U.S. imperialism towards the fulfilment of it's national and international obligations. The policies of Reaganomics a la' Neo-Taipanism were designed to saturate the national economy with credit power for the impending maturity of Finance Capital, as such the national economical landscape was turned into a deregulated netherworld of acquisition.
As I've shown in proceeding paragraphs, the suburban White defense workers had the cash and Black America had a new and potent banner of the drug culture as such it was inevitable that both would fuse and with that simple matter of factness of the human condition and it's tendencies and habits, the Reagan Administration was able to solve that question of what and how to stimulate a Capitalist Political Economy which in it's seeming implosion had been the bane of 3 previous Presidents and even causing one to undertake an endeavor which, it it's revelatory aftermath caused his exit in disgrace from the Presidency.
Those element of White suburban America with the means to experience the new drug phenomenon, spent their cash which due to the Reagan Administration Defense Buildup was made available. The cash upon entering the Black community and it's elements of whom since the emergence of the Black social condition has been unstable relative to the applied and governing forces of the political-economy which dictated the Black American existence, once again, with the manner the incoming cash was utilized fulfilled what has been the Black historical role in the U.S., a sizable amount of the Black community now possessing large amounts of cash begun the process of enabling the cash to mature and realize itself with spending it in consuming commodities. In consequences of the intense and high amount of consumption entire industries pursuing the now awakening national economy and it's cash flow emerged. The U.S. economy attaining that stability and development was now ready to once again vanguard capital and it's Finance Capital imperialistic imperatives.
Reaganomics A Summary
The Black populations of inner-city U.S.A. were as they have always been, a consuming function for the retail tier of the national economy and it was with the Black populations that Reaganomics unleashed the raw might of capital.
The period of Crack Cocaine dominance can be likened unto a vacuum within the U.S. National Economical landscape, a transitional period wherein capital sought to define a comprehensive direction for economical doctrine. Reaganomics was in effect a two-prong directive to maintain the stability of the economy through:
1. The public sector, specifically the Military-industrial Complex.
2. The dynamism of the illegal drug economy particularly Crack Cocaine.
The combination of the exceeding high volume of cash that was recycled within the inner-cities and the inner-cities habit of unbridled consumption catalysed the resuscitation of the national economy, hence servicing the needs of Finance Capital internationally, and allowing for the realization of capital nationally.
Thus in essence the Crack Cocaine Phenomenon during the Reagan Era was simply a tactical maneuver in the service of revitalizing U.S. imperialism and it's Strategic pursuits.
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