The Jesuit Order and Machiavellian Intellectualism

The Jesuit Order in Catholicism is proof that Machiavellian Intellectualism is a requisite if ones business is that proverbial "opiate of the masses".


The Catholic Church and it's Jesuit Machiavellis recently denounced the border fence the United States has with Mexico, decrying it's immorality. I wonder if the Hispanic majority demographic of the Catholic Church played any role in the criticism?


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Rush Limbaugh, Benito Mussolini, Fascism and the Heil Fuhrer Anticipation

Watching Rush Limbaugh in his Black Fascsita knock off, bounding up and down, clicking his heels at the podium of the 2/28/09; CPAC Republican-Conservative Bacchanalian spectacle, with his comical attempt at revising and modifying the Third Reich salute.

The historical similarities to another Black-Fascista uniform wearing, heel clicking, rocking and bouncing idiot comes to mind.

Benito Mussolini, the Italian Fascist who Rush Limbaugh the demagogue seemed to channel was another pathetic demagogue. But at least he had the Italian people and their general bigotry as motive, as he jack-boot strutted across their conscience.

What Rush Limbaugh also has is the futile bigotry of the Republican-Conservative resentment syndrome, as he matures his modified Third Reich Republican salute to its Heil Fuhrer anticipation.

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John McCain's Wet dream, The Sarah Palin Nightmare Gambit

What is the plausibility of Cindy McCain telling the family doctor of her concern for John's health. Because John McCain, her husband and Presidential loser has on occasion since his November fourth repudiation and annihilation woken up in the cold sweat of a nightmare screaming Sarah Palin! "I hate you Sarah Palin!" Or the dirty old-man wet dream murmur, "damn you're hot Palin." The Freudian dialectic of John McCain's Sarah Palin gambit.

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Mark Sanford, American Political-Economy and South Carolina's 9+ % Contradiction

Mark Sanford, Republican Governor of South Carolina, a state that is an American Political-Economy eye sore. Has recently been on most talk shows unapologetically braying his mental short-comings and ethic defecit in ridiculous attempts at defending his opposition to the Obama administrations Economic Stimulus Plan.

South Carolina has the nations third highest unemployment at 9+ %. Obama's Economic Stimulus Plan will releive South Carolina of some of that 9+ % contradiction. Yet Mark Sanford and the class he represents insist on rehabilitating it's historical narrative with it's tax-cut opiate. Not to mention that laughable argument that Govermental defecit spending is a burden on generations descendent and removed from their forebearers, being weiled as a last grasp at something once labeled "compassionate conservatism".

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Kamikaze Recklessness and the Resentment Syndrome

Those critics of the Obama Home Mortgage Rescue Plan are exhibiting the Kamikaze recklessness of those World War II Japanese Generals who advocated a strategy of National Hara Kiri or Seppuku at the prospect of imminent American invasion.

It is so crudely petulant to hear seeming conscientious and responsible citizens argue that Obama's efforts at stabilizing the housing mess, which by the way is diminishing quality of life, cultivates bad behavior.

What exactly do those idiots think the Economy is? Do they pause for a minute as they huff and puff, laboring in reaction and it's resentment syndrome to realize that every single human activity is the economy even under the hand-out dialectic they decry so naively?

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Bankruptcy, Nationalization and Marxist-Practice

These past days has presented us with the clear definition of revisionary ideological-bankruptcy.

Lindsey Graham, the former Navy Lawyer now Republican Senator form the bankrupt and welfare state of South Carolina and Alan Greenspan architect of the Sub-Prime Rate fraud and the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to name a few have been calling for the Nationalization of key U.S. banks.

this makes me wonder: when is a little bit of Marxist-Practice, American and Value Revision? Is it when the demagoguery of American Conservative, Evangelical-Christian illiteracy advocates it?

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Is Wolf Blitzer A Bigot? Profiling, Bigotry and CNN

CNN Anchor/Reporter Wolf Blitzer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Is Wolf Blitzer of CNN a Bigot? During the 2/16/09; edition of Situation Room on CNN hosted by Wolf Blitzer. He profiled the husband-suspect in a wife-beating case as a Muslim-executive.

Why would Wolf Blitzer profile the husband-suspect as a Muslim? Why did Wolf Blitzer find it necessary to interject the suspects religion as part of the news? Didn't the Nazi's and their yellow Juden patches teach us the futility of such Bigotry and doesn't the U.S. Constitution Fourteenth Amendment instruct against the Bigotry of Religious Profiling?

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Nadya Suleman, Women Rights, The Octuplet Contradiction and Sarah Palin

I have one comment to make in the case of Nadya Suleman the Octuplet mother, who is experiencing the Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life movement and it's Sarah Palin contradiction of crowing the birth of her Down Syndrome child with the reaction against the audacity of a single mother birthing Octuplets.

Women Rights is being set back-critiquing Nadya Suleman's Octuplets birth has allowed the most backwards of revisionist chauvinism another breath, albeit fetid in the sun. With the assertion, Nadya Sulman's sperm donor asked the fertility doctors not to move forward with the pregnancy.

Isn't Women's Rights a fight against having a Male decide for Women?

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"What a Farce"

Arlene Specter, Olympia Snow and Susan Collins, Republican Senators from Northern States, Pennsylvania, and Maine respectively. Voted with Senate Democrats against the wishes of their Senate Republican colleagues to pass the $789 Billion Economic Stimulus Package. Their vote however has been farcially described as a Bi-Partisanship undertaking. The truth however is their vote is for their Political survival.

In the Barack Obama Political milieu Northern Republicans are a threshold anomaly signing away to extinction. Bi-Partisan imperative? "What a Farce".

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Republicans, Rush Limbaugh and What is Government

Democrats suppose critical thinking is a natural and normal human tendency.

Republicans deny that people think at all and suppose that the Fear Operative inherent in Conservatism is humanness at it's best.

Lately Democrats starting with President Barack Obama have rightly and correctly identified Rush Limbaugh as the Ideological affirmation of the Republican Party and American Conservatism. Rush Limbaugh in his role as demagogue embodies the hollow and vacuous nature of Republicans, the Republican Party and it's platform which even lacks the simple definition and objective description of what is Government.

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Notes on the "Miracle on the Hudson"

• Why has the fact that the design of the Airbus plane enabled and allowed the "Miracle on the Hudson' to happen been ignored?
• Is the "Miracle on the Hudson" Mayor Michael Bloomburg's 9-11 and will we hereforever have to be subjected to the Gulianization of social heroics?
• Isn't "Sully" Sullenburger, the pilot of the Airbus plane involved in the "Miracle on the Hudson" participating a bit too eagerly in the mythicizing of what is his duty as a pilot?
• Has the human condition become that jaded that over stating phenomenon is now the operative of miracles? When technology and it's design objectifies it's ideal?

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John McCain and The Has Been Syndrome

John McCain's antics over Barack Obama's Economic Stimulus Plan is akin to the scorned wife needling the exposed mistress.

John McCain lost the election to Barack Obama making the same reactionary arguments and his insistence at attempting to rehash the campaign debates which he defacto lost is plain old obstructionism. John McCain's ravings are of the has been syndrome of delusionary relevance and it is quite a spectacle to experience John McCain groveling at it's alter.

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Names, Barack and Conventional Familiarity

Absentmindedly watching one of the botton-feeder interactive shows. I over heard a childs name, Nanceo and the mothers explanation that it was a made up name based on her mothers, Nancy.

So I reflected on conventional names and their original odd-sounding discordance. I carried the thought further to what will soon be familiar. The many variations and derivatives of the name Barack.

For starters: Baracky, Baracko, Baracka, Barackson, Barackevich and it's feminization Barackina, Barackanya soon will taste apple-pie familiar.

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The Grass root Dialectic and The Obama Operative of Political-Economy Efficiency

Where is the grass root dialectic and it's progressive narrative in seizing the definitions and polemical thrust that will enable the Obama operative of Political-Economy efficiency? Because this sham Republican criticism, where money can be defined as stimulus, only if it is a tax cut and spending if it is program and employment specific has to be unequivocally denounced.

If 90% of the Obama Stimulus Package was devoted to no bid Haliburton contracts, the Republican Caucus and it's illiteracy would be in orgasmic throes! Well the Obama operative of Political-Economy efficiency has to combat this Republican deviancy unconditionally and the "Yes We Can" grass root chorus and it's dialectic must grid it's rank and file, unfurl the banners. What is struggle?

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The Bush Adminisration and Consequences

The question of investigating the Bush Administration should conclude with opening the can of worms of Congressional malfeasance. Because both Republicans and Democrats charged with upholding the Constitution and it's separation of powers were also criminally negligent in ensuring that the business of the American people happened as if, consequences were understood.

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Whoopi Goldberg, NBC and the PETA Superbowl Ad

The Women of the daytime show, The View, led by Whoopi Goldberg on 1/28/09; ridiculed the NBC rejected PETA Superbowl Ad and it's vegetable themed erotica, that vegetarians have better sex.

Well there is an Ad running on network television that blatantly advocates paedophilia and Whoopi Goldberg and the Women of The View in their infinite wisdom haven't seen fit to castigate.

The Ad, a phone plan Ad, has a barely adolescent girl, clearly underage suggesting forlornness for her mustachioed, Mustang driving boyfriend named Derrick.

The reckless of this Derrick Ad epitomizes all that morally deviant, yet The View in it's surrogate moral cop role opportunistically ignores it to lambast the adult theme of a perfectly justified PETA Ad.





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Sarah Palin and Bugs Bunny

Jack Cafferty of CNN's Cafferty Files on 1/29/09; hammered the last and final nail into the Sarah Palin coffin. With his, Sarah Palin has as much chance of becoming President of the United States as Bugs Bunny, in reference the the news Sarah Palin has set up a Political Action Committee as precursor to a 2012 run for the Presidency of the United States.

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Bill Cosby, The Black American Experience and Peddling Jello

Bill Cosby rants diatribic Ebonics, yet it's slangz make billions, the infrastructural base of the global cultural economy.

Money gave Bill Cosby the voice to naively criticize.

Bill Cosby said the dirty laundry of the Black American Experience spills out onto urban streets at 2:30 P.M. shaking like the Jello he once made buffoon faces, Bojangles like selling.

Bill Cosby pronounces he can fiat like criticize because he puts his money where his mouth is with donations to the Black Colleges. But the question remains, upon graduation, employment is upon the goodwill whimsy of those very same faces Bill Cosby had to make faces peddling Jello to.

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Timothy Geithner, Rhodesia and the Colonial Heritage

Timothy F. Geithner, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 1999-2001 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What was Timothy Geithner thinking, what was he suggesting when he referred to Zimbabwe with it's Colonial moniker, Rhodesia during his swearing-in ceremony on 1/25/09?

Timothy Geithner's affection for the Colonial moniker, Rhodesia and I take it the attendant exploitation and misery for it's Colonial subjects meshes with and will serve him well in his new found position as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

The obvious disrespect for Barack Obama, the First Black American President and his Colonial heritage was evident because Timothy Geithner with elitist-snide eccentricity was oblivious to Obama's presence, besides him as he paid homage to his British past masters and their Rhodesian Colonial paradigm---which ironically the Obama dialectic on a level negates.

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Sky News, Cecil Rhodes and White phospherous

Where is the outrage against the recent decisions of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Sky News, not to broadcast a fundraising for occupied Palestine-Gaza Palestinians?

Denying and depriving simple humanitarian help to Palestinian human beings of Gaza, mocks whatever claim British culture through the BBC and Sky News has on humanness.
But then with the Cecil Rhodes endowment a source of British National Pride, it's source and origin unquestioned nor denounced. What is disdain for victims of white phosphorous bombing?
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The Obama Presidency and Speculative Value

The opportunity the Obama Presidency presents is a simple one. It enables the necessary environment for struggle against the Colonial-Paradigm of speculative value.

Progressives and Reformers cannot however rest on the anticipation that Obama Presidency in and of itself annihilates reaction and it's Colonial-Paradigm of speculative value. Instead there has to be a vigorous education of the working class to the antagonism of the fraudulent taxation argument, which contrary to the home mortgage scape-goat is at the root of the economic depression.

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"Freedom" and the Slave Philip Reed

Why is it surprising and incongruous that the statue-figure atop the U.S. Capitol with the name "Freedom" was compleated by a Slave named Philip Reed?

The Freedom dialectic always requires it's absence.

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Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton could have easily been the 44th President of the United States and the funding dynamics of her husband Bill Clinton's charity, The Clinton Global Initiative. Would not have been a liability. So why is it a liability for her Secretary of State position?

This debate over perceptions of conflict of interest and influence peddling with Hillary Clinton's Secretary of State position is farcially complicit and those well fed, shiny faced Senators and their salon.com fifth column, know it.

Criminal malfeasance happened during the Bush Presidency and it's newfound polemical vigor against Hillary Clinton's Secretary of State position should have been expressed against everything George W. Bush and his 8 years. Eight years that anticipates historical revision for it's validity.

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The Robbie Tolan Incident and Policing America

New Year's Eve, December 31, 2008; for Robbie Tolan went out with the literal bang and smell of gun powder of a police fired 45 caliber bullet in to his chest. (Acknowledgments to chron.com, for pic. gallery)Robbie Tolan, a 23 year old Black Man from the Bellaire section of Houston Texas was held against his will by Houston Police, tried and convicted by Houston Police and was subsequently given the summary sanction of a 45 caliber bullet into his chest by Houston Police.

During the closing weeks of December 2008; protesters in Greece torched and burned major portions of the Nation, because Greek Police had held a Greek 15 year old teenager against his will, summarily tried and convicted the youth and executed him.



Greeks and those protesting Greeks declared with their anarchic political action that the American style of policing where trained and lethally armed officers summarily assault and execute suspects under the cover of "Standard Operating Procedure" and it's attendent historical racist dynamic, where the status quo in it's rabid fear of class warfare requires the Facist dialectic wasn't welcome in Greece.

The Robbie Tolan incident requires that the American working class apply the slogan: One Word, One Response, One Solution, Accountability in Policing in America.

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Sarah Palin and "Pathetic Bloggers"

Sarah Palin blames "Pathetic Bloggers" for the expose` and scrutiny of her contradictions and intellectual short comings, for being a punch line, the Alaskan watchabout for the Tiger-Wrestling Putin's incursions and last but not least did Sarah Palin name her kid after a NASCAR track?


Kinda surprising Sarah Palin never found the racist tone of her rallies "pathetic"

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The State of Israel, The Palestinian Nation, Classic Land Seizure and the Contradiction of the Chosen People

The United State lays claim to being the greatest historical nation and the State of Israel claims chosen people as justification for existence. Yet both states have presided and been principal actors in what, if the idealistic and fearful view is taken, is simply an intractable "fact on the ground" as definition of the injustice done to the Palestinians and Palestinian Nation.

I could go all into the ridiculous nuances used in defense of Israel's claim to the Palestinian Nation. Nuances that mock the claimed pre-eminence of both the United States and Israel. The fact however is Israel and it's supporters have been struggling to defend a scale of injustice that was common practice of a by gone era and historical suppositions. That classic period of land seizure and European Colonialism, from Africa, the Americas to Southern Asia. Seizure of land was a fact of the human condition.

Israel came late to the land seizure game. Therein lies the objective failure of it's anticipation.

Israel, as a Jewish State imposed on the Palestinian Nation is doomed to failure for all sorts of infinite reasons. Regardless of narrative-sophistry, the resolution of the Israeli and Palestinian question lies with the simple recognition that it has two parts. Which are religious and secondly political.

The first part requires the recognition that Judaism lays claim to a historical point on earth. Just as Vatican City does in Italy and Mecca does in Arabia. This geographical point is only defensible when viewed apolitically.

The second part is the simple question of displaced persons allowed into United Nations mandate territory, which was the state of pre-Israel, British Palestine.

Recognizing Judaisms claim to a specific geographical point comparable to the Vatican City and Mecca and a revised recognition of the Palestinian nation that now holds within it's border's displaced and persecuted Europeans is the only objective resolution of the Palestinian question without the delusionary anticipations of Armageddon and the contradiction of the chosen people.



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Reconsruction, Slavery and the Amorality of Economics

The era reconstruction in U.S. history was first and foremost a Black one. It was about the destruction of slavery and it's vestiges and laying the foundation for former Black slaves realized access as positive political and social beings. [I'm not using positive in a good or bad context, but rather in a progressive, forward moving one] so the styming and destruction of gains during reconstruction in the south was essentially the reluctance to see Black people as political and social beings in the positive sense. The Dred Scott case was a precursor.

I say nothing about economical beings because contextually economics is of neither persuasion. There is not diametrically opposed values in economics. One can argue that if one is a slave, meaning in the performance of some sort of economical duty for another without remuneration, then it has to be a negative consequence on the slave and that would be correct. But the emphasis is on consequence. Consequence conditionalizes the nature of the duty in a purely subjective way. It gives it a relative value which is either positive or negative in the political and social sense -- and it is only in the political and social sense that the consequence of economics realized. A slave creates wealth without controlling it. Why is the slave unable to control it? Because of the politics and social structures which define the valuation nature of the produced wealth. This is the amorality of economics.

A quick example. Government in the form of Police seize a drug dealers assets. Assets which as defined by government is ill-gotten. So what is done? Are the assets simply destroyed? Does government say well the money is blood money! Its destroyed many lives so lets destroy it? On the contrary, instead government uses it, government appropriates the assets, and give it a revised political and social value.

This is the crux of the debate with idealism and it's inability in recognizing the inherent amorality of economics.

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Republicans are either misanthropes or simply stupid

Republican proponents of tax cuts as Political-Economy locomotive, specifically in it's context of catalyst for job creation are either misanthropes or simply stupid.

There is another rotten Republican-thought foisted on the public as analysis. The idea that home mortgages and foreclosures are the culprits for Global Political-Economy instability. Whatever happened to the simple fact: loss of jobs, outsourcing and overvaluation of capital are to blame.

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Global Warming and the Evolution of Melanin

With all this talk about Global Warming, one aspect has been ignored. What is the implication for pale-complexioned and blue eyed people?

Does Global Warming mean, natural selection will phase out recessive genes during the evolution of melanin?

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Barack Obama, The Gay Community and Rick Warren

The Gay Community is tactically miscalculating in characterizing the Rick Warren flap as some sort of cataclysmic or seismic event with Barack Obama.

The Gay Community has been in a lot of ways idealistic in it's militancy. For whatever it is worth, those members of the Gay community who rant blue in the face over Rick Warren question have to seize the Polemical advantage the Rick Warren contradiction presents and exploit it, contrasting it's heresy with political naivete.

there isn't any sensibilities in the positioning of narratives and if the Gay community is to drag reaction squealing and clawing into the progress of the human condition it's militancy has to understand that.

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Dr Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler: Intellectualizing happiness and the antebellum critique

It is a leap to compare the nature of catching a cold with the phenomena of obesity. But an article by Alice Park in the 12/22/08; Time Magazine based on a work by Dr. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler published in the British Medical Journal does exactly that.

Analysis and critical thought or the dialectical method has always recognized the dynamic of the detail and for lack of or it's presence has in one form or the other been a cornucopia or bane of the human condition and it's Political-Economy.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler premise the supposition that if infectious pathogens are a social virial then human emotion, lets say happiness should not also be infectious but it is infectious.

This puts me in the mind of the antebellum critique' where carpet beggar Northerners were blamed for Southern Black militancy. As if the oppressed needed paternalism to objectify the condition.

Historically idealism's knock has simply been, it's intellectualism for it's sake. This labor by the aforementioned authors is victim of intellectualism's at the expense of the dialectical truth that there really is an object and subject.


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Howard Dean and "The Scream" has been Vindicated

Any talk about corporate media circumscribing political narrative has to include "The Scream". Who can forget Howard Dean's exuberance in Iowa, "The Scream" and how it was used against him by his enemies and their columns to derail Deanism.

Still Howard Dean had one last hurrah, the 2008 Presidential election and it's historical conclusion.

Barack Obama has "The Scream" to thank.

Democrats have "The Scream" to thank for the 2006 mid-term gains to Barack Obama's triumph.

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Lynn Swann Republican, Collaborator and Organic-Empiricism

On 10/22/08; Lynn Swann, the former Football player and one time Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, was trotted out on the Lou Dobbs show for the specific purpose of dismissing Colin Powell's criticism of the Republican party, John McCain and Sarah Palin during Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama.

It wasn't surprising to see Lynn Swann play that historical role of collaborator, that easy way out of embracing the status quo narrative at the expense of annihilating the suppositions of reaction.

Colin Powell's analysis and critique of Republican political practice as exemplified by the Palin-idiocy of God, Guns, Family and the backwardness of Urban, Rural antagonism's was positive. Instead of Lynn Swan invoking and resurrecting positive Republican analysis, the party of Fredrick Douglas. He perpetuated the very zeitgeist that kept him from triumph in 2006.

Is it any wonder contemporary Republican politics runs counter to the organic-empiricism of American-Political Economy?

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Bernard Madoff, The Ponzi Spin and Money Laundering

The naive are buying this Ponzi scheme spin on the Bernard Madoff swindle.

Isn't money laundering a more credible explanation? The public is being asked to accept that Bernard Madoff ran a decades long Ponzi-Pyramid scheme analog type scam which has resulted in the $50 Billion swindle of all sorts of investors.

It is just incredibly far fetched that the short term scope of the Ponzi type scheme could sustain the long lasting structure necessary to swindle $50 Billion from investors with varied imperatives.

What is realistic is Bernard Madoff was operating a money laundering scheme, rehabilitating capital and enabling its viability at a certain strata of society.

This Bernard Madoff Ponzi spin is a diversion.

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Bob Corker's Delusions, Bob Corker's detour of Political-Economy

Bob Corker's grandstanding on the question of bail out for the big 3 auto makers is down right pathetic.

Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, a former mayor of Chattanooga and construction company owner has been the rabid personification of anti-United Auto Workers Union.

The State of Tennessee has one million people receiving food stamps. The city of Chattanooga has a high unemployment rate. Both state and city exhibit the full antagonistic range of Bob Corker's delusions.

It is annoying that at this stage of the human condition and development. Polemics has to digress in combating the Bob Corker detour of Political-Economy distortions.

Southern Republican Senators Richard Shelby, Bob Corker to name a few are being counted upon to once and for all reveal and expose the naive and reactionary nature of their Political-Economy suppositions...Ha...Ha...Ha.

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The 400 Count Indictment of David Scrafano

David Scrafano, a child molester of Smith County, Virginia was sentenced to 2 years in jail, 10 years probation and a $5,000 fine, on 12/4/08.

What is unique and disturbing about the Scrafano case and indictment is David Scrafano was initially charged with 400 counts of child molestation!! But he was convicted on one count!!

So why would the Commonwealth Attorney for Smith County charge David Scrafano with 400 counts of child sex violations but convict him on only one?

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190,000 Veterans are Homeless in America

It has been reported that over 190,000 Veterans are homeless in America. Besides the hypocrisy of those whose demagoguery is "support our troops" and "country First" and their failure to respond to this blight on social polity.

Apropos, The Blog of Political-Economy and the Human Condition ask all readers to virialize this idea: turn military bases that are on the to be closed list into temporary housing for veterans who need housing.

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Clayton County, Georgia, A Slave Cemetary and Moral Revision

Notwithstanding the controversial decision by Clayton County, Georgia public officials to remove remains of Black Slaves from the present cemetery to another one, clearing way for a land-fill.

There is a primary question of responsibility to heritage. The present slave cemetery point of the Clayton County controversy has not been cared for. It is overgrown with weeds, brush and trash strewn. Headstones are weathered and uncared for. It is an extreme feat and moral revision to make the contradictory and hypocritical argument, that corrupt, corporate lackeys in Clayton County's government in the pay of the landfill company have denied the humanness of Black Slaves buried on the grounds of a proposed landfill by ruling in it's favor. When Black Heritage in Clayton County hasn't seen fit to care for and protect the slave cemetery.

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The Catholic Church, Catholicism, Abortion and Barack Obama

Besides railing against abortion, despite it being a legitimate but criticized social fact. What exactly has the Catholic Church and Catholicism actually done in advancing the human condition scientifically?

Lately reactionary comments harking to attitudes and fraudulent certainties of the infamous Spanish Inquisition has been the recourse of certain elements within the Catholic church in response to Barack Obama winning the U.S. Presidency.

Certain Catholic elements, A Cardinal, Bishop and Priests have called the election of President-Elect Barack Obama an "Apocalyptic event", "Evil" and parishioners who voted for Barack Obama must confess it as a sin because of Obama's view that abortion is a parents choice and a legal question.

I think it is a good idea that the Catholic Church is jumping into the Political-Economy arena with it's thinly veiled theocratic presumptions over the abortion question. This now allows Catholicism to experience ideological struggle specifically as progress of objective facts without the obfuscation of the theological faith basis.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Plaxico Burress Deviance and the Status Quo Narrative

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg opening the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomburg has jumped in head first into The Plaxico Burress Shooting incident. With his sanctimonious pronouncements of the full weight of the law coming down on Plaxico Burress, the New York Giants wide receiver who during the Thanksgiving weekend allegedly shot himself in the leg.

There is this amnesiac streak of the status quo narrative in American society when it concerns Black behavior and the Burress incident again exposes it's racist underbelly.

I have one response: It is time every single American life, from post puberty is subjected to microscopic scrutiny and the full weight of Bloomburgian "law" brought to bear. Because this hypocrisy of selective ire and persecution of social deviance by Black citizens at the audacious expense of white collar and corporate crime, the deviance by American Political-Economy elities and it's consequential travesty of "Governmental Bail-Outs", requires a materialist narrative.

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Oprah Winfrey interviews the Obama Quid Pro Quo

60 Minutes, Barbara Walters and Meet The Press, might have interviewed Barack Obama in his role as the First Black President-Elect of the United States.

But the plum and the coup de grace has been saved and reserved for Oprah Winfrey.

It is believed Oprah Winfrey will be the first to formerly interview the Obama's in the White House as the first Black President takes on his duties in the Spring of 2009.

Certain Republicans are critical of the Oprah interview as a contradiction of Barack Obama's anti Quid Pro Quo rhetoric. Because of Oprah Winfrey's critical help to the Obama's during the Democratic Party's primary process.

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Al Zawahiri, Barack Obama's Sister Souljah: The Al Qaeda Gambit

Much has been made of Al Zawahiri's, Al Qaeda's purported number two, recent "House Negro" snide at Barack Obama. Corporate media's take is Al Qaeda is discrediting Barack Obama as being that classic collaborator. The bane of Black resistance, a House Negro.
The fact of the matter is Al Qaeda's alleged snide at Barack Obama on the contrary, enables Obama to defacto continue the status quo narrative against Al Qaeda.
Al Zawahiri's Obama criticism, just as criticism from certain Black nationalist during candidate Barack Obama's campaign allowed Obama to have his Sister Souljah moment---serves one and only one purpose. It allows non-revolutionary politics to use revolutionary narrative at it's expense.

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Distortions, Contradictions, and Antagonisms: Political-Economy and Private Jets

Has it only taken 232 odd years of distortions, contadictions and antagonisms for the reality of revolution to be lost on the American mind?

Listening to resentment and gripes, swirling as legitimate debate surrounding the antangonistic definitions of govermental bail-outs as economic polity. The question is : is it lost on the status-quo narrarive that Revolutions are the result of distortions run amuck, contraditions unresolved and unpacified antagonisms?

This state of Political-Economy affairs is an affont , an insult, a ridiculous kowtow to mediocrity!

Unions being blamed for capital being hoarded?

Whether or not CEO's flew on private jets as points of Politica-Economy analysis?

And the audacity of Congressmen, grandstanding, criticizing the auto industry for mismanagement at the expense of their very own govermental-oversight incompetence, the default and criminal malfeasance.

229 years ago "Let them eat cake" was also an expression of distortions, contradictions and antagonisms.

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George Will, David Brooks, Intellectual-Liberalism and What is a Job

Why is there so much cynicism from the "right". The George Wills and David Brooks of Conservative Intellectual-Liberalism on the question of what is a job and the relationship of a job to the economy.

Robert Kutter Author of "Obama's Challenge" on ABC's 11/23/08; "This Week With George Stephanopoulos". Found himself on the receiving end of George Wills anecdotal deviations and the naive ravings of David Brooks, that the economy of personal relationships somehow supersedes the actuality of value as economy real.

David Brooks, to paraphrase, went as far to state a job and it's production of value was economically irrelevant.

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Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell: A Review

Whether it is an aphorism, adage or maxim, the phrase "The devil is in the details" anticipated Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers. But as such things go Malcolm Gladwell's labor in Outliers is another addition to the ubiquitous exercise of preaching to the choir.

Outliers is the classic eureka or light bulb moment made public, a nerdish reflection on the human condition as if after millennia of human empiricism, critical-thought has now matured and it's face is Malcolm Gladwell with it's expression the book Outliers.

Outliers postulates, human success is a result of ones environmental situation. To quote Gladwell..."It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't" [Outliers]

Didn't Hillary Clinton premise her ideological struggle with the Phillistines of the Republican Party on "It takes a village to raise a child"? So where has Malcolm Gladwell been hasn't Materialism, dialectical historical materialism already accounted for this intellectualism Outliers presents?

It takes an extraordinary display of arrogance, a presumption of sorts that subjective discovery accounts for existential-dialectics and with Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell is at home with, I think therefore I am.

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Rick Sanchez, CNN, Twitter and Reinvention of the Wheel

Is Rick Sanchez and his Twittering nonsense on CNN's 3 p.m. slot enlightening or is it compounding and in fact enabling the dumbing and distortion inherent in American Political-Economy?

If Rick Sanchez was practical in the business of acquiring the nature of Political-Economic facts he would be establishing a threshold of already recognized and unrefuted sets of facts from which discussions proceed.

For example, listening to the nonsense spouted in Rick Sanchez's Twitters, which are amazing re-discovery's and reinventions of the wheel. One has to wonder how long American Democratic-Republicanism can tolerate and sustain this unfathomable ignorance!

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Barack Obama, Harry Reid and the Turncoat Joe Lieberman

Concerning the Turncoat and traditions Joe Lieberman , Barack Obama is being presumptuous and idealistic. He is wrong to instruct Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to let bygones be bygones.

Joe Lieberman is politically inconsistent and an opportunistic fraud. Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic caucus are correct in wanting to punish him.

The most Barack Obama should do in the Joe Lieberman question is pacify Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats by allowing the logical conclusion of the Lieberman-spectacle.

An expenditure of Obama political-capital at this juncture is impetuous.

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Neal Boortz, The United Auto Workers Union and American Political-Economy

That bowl of squirmy delusions on top of Neal Boortz shoulders caused him to proclaim the United Auto Workers Union was to blame for the manufacturing dysfunction and economic default of the auto industry.

The question isn't who is Neal Boortz instead it is the barricade hurrah of what is Neal Boortz. Neal Boortz a relic requiem, a geriatric affection of the effeminate wing of the anarchic idealism of Libertarianism.

The Neal Boortz's of American Political-Economy and it's "trickle this and trickle that" distortions thrash around in that swampy-morass of intellectual-liberalism, functionaries of facts they cowardly dare not confront.

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Obama, Southern Votes and Reaganomics

The only statement made by those pockets of Southern-Votes who came out in force against Obama, during Obama's historical triumph is: Reactionary hold outs and racist-romantics still beyond the pale, populate American economic backwoods.

The 2008 U.S. Presidential elections and Obama's win has exposed the historical charade of Republican-Conservatism as ever being progressive.

Lastly it hammered the final nail in the Reaganomics coffin and it's Evangelical-Christian legacy of Anti-Abortion and Gay-Bashing as being social-nurturing ideals.

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Whoopi Goldberg's Cat and "The View"

On 11/o6/o8; and the lighter side of things. Whoopi Goldburg's cat, Oliver Hoyt Goldburg, wrote a letter to President-Elect Barack Obama. Plugging why the Obama's should get a cat and intellectualizing why feline apathy should grace the Whitehouse hallways.

But then how different from the eccentric Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" is a cat and "The View's" cattish exchanges.

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American Political-Economy, Barack Obama and Practice

If President-Elect Barack Obama represents the new ideal of American Political-Economy then the American people must realize it's practice.

In the non-ideology ideal of American Politics and it's hodgepodge practice where resentment and intolerance is it's operative. Apathy and functional-illiteracy has been the historical medium.

For there to be practical dividends of Obama politics there has to be a redefinition of what it means to participate politically in America. There has to be a quantum-transcendence in grass-roots advocacy as it practices the substance of the engagement of the marginalized.

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Apropos, The Next Phase and Value

Apropos Readers. After 120+ post, commentary and analysis. The 2008 U.S. Presidential race has concluded with Apropos The Blog of Political-Economy doing it's share in expanding American open Political discourse. This completes a phase.

The next phase in this practice is narrowing the focus. American Political-Economy is at a mature stage. Derivative Speculation has accelerated it's dynamic on Value-Speculation and the recent Global Market Manipulations underlines it. Apropos The Blog, will focus on presenting Analysis, stressing the primary default-critique of Value inherent in the neo-colonial paradigm of value.

This is the next phrase , readers.

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Political-Illiteracy, Barbara West and Marxist Critique

What is this 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign pointing out? It is revealing and exposing an extent of Political-Illiteracy that is obscene. From the nomination primaries to the Presidential campaigns the operative has been exploiting the common, Political-Illiteracy and ignorance.

The most recent display of this is Barbara West the Anchor at WFTV of Orlando, Florida and her "from each according to their ability to each according to their needs" quote. As if a contextual skew of Marxist critique is valid indictment of The Obama-Biden Democratic Platform.

The moral of the boy who cried wolf one too many times shouldn't be lost on Barbara West because the Red banner of Marxism still drips.

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John McCain and American Slavery

John McCain (Photo credit: Image Editor)

Why did John McCain and his campaign characterize and describe the descendants of his ancestors Slave-holding ways as being the result of "Family, Love and Compassion"? Are we to suppose John McCain the Republican Presidential candidate is defending American Slavery as being Loving and Compassionate?

John McCain's Mississippi ancestors were Slaveholders, beneficiaries of American Slavery. The descendants of those Slaves, those Black McCain's are going about their own experience of the American Political-Economy.

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American Political-Economy, The Specter of fraud and the Voting Process

One would like to think that the 21st century order of business for American Political-Economy after the travesty and fiasco of the 2000 Presidential election and the specter of fraud which clouded Ohio's role in it's 2004 version, would be a commitment to the Democratic and the voting process by simplifying it.

Instead what we have is a pathetic nod to the poll tax ethos and the backwardness of 18th century thought which would limit voting rights to the White Male Gentry. With this insistence on using Voting Machines without a verifiable trail of the act.

It is not surprising that the "Progressive" states of Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are operatives in the Hoodwink and Nod game of Governmental Voter Suppression. Hold outs in upgrading their voting process to accountability.

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Law , Speculative-Order, Conceptual Justice and Criminal Deviance by Veterans

An Experiment in Law, Speculative-Order and Conceptual Justice has been running quietly in Buffalo, New York since January 2008. It is a program intended to present a dialectical recognition to the nature of criminal deviance. The program specifically focuses on criminal deviance by veterans.

I have a problem with the "Pass" being given veterans who run afoul of civil-laws. Which is at the heart of the program. The supposition is criminal deviance by veterans is mitigated by their battle-field experiences.
Isn't this one of the aspects of Fascism?

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"Angry White Men" Affirmative Action and Joe the Plumber

In the 1980's and the Voodoo Economics of Reaganomics. The sirenic slogan was "Angry White Men" as reaction to affirmative action under the guise of the intrusive Federal Government critique.

In 2008 and John McCain's flailing politics the slogan again is Joe the Plumber, another Angry White Man irate at the socialistic prospect of whatever "spread the wealth" means.

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A Barack Obama Win and American Conservatism

Why a Barack Obama win in 2008 will save the Republican Party and resuscitate The Intellectual-Liberalism of Conservatism.

A Barack Obama win will stave off the complete and total implosion of this farce, this fraudulent sophistry of American Conservatism and it's center-right reaction.

A Barack Obama win will cauterize the gangrenous rot of intolerance and the exploitative wake of speculative-value as it has Trojan-Horse like been the dupe.

A Barack Obama win in 2008 provides the cover for the repackaging of intolerance as it has been under it's myriad guises in American Political-Economy.

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Jefferson's Virginia and Voter Turnout

Isn't it surprising that the 90% projected turn out of Virginia voters for the 2008 elections is posing a logistical headache for Virginia's Election Commission?

This presents this: Why is Jefferson's Virginia having a hard time accommodating 90% voter turnout, doesn't this mock Jeffersonian Democracy and Voting?

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Colin Powell's endorsement and Joe The Plumber's Anarchism

More than anything , Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama creates a window for a vigorous debate on the dialectical substance of American Political-Economy.


It opens up and engages the definitive debate of what is "spreading the wealth" and Joe The Plumber's anarchism.


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Republicans and Women and Cowardly Attacks

What is with Republicans and Women? George Bush and his neo-con cabal in the matter of Valerie Plame cowardly broke the taboo of attacking a Woman in place of the Husband.

Again during the 10/15/08; Presidential debate, John McCain used Senator Hillary Clinton, a Woman, as gambit to open a line of attack. John McCain cowardly said and I'm paraphrasing...
"I don't care about a washed up terrorist, but as Senator Clinton has said we need to know more about Bill Ayers".

This is offensive and sown right cowardly. If John McCain wanted to attack Barack Obama, why couldn't he simply do it without the Woman qualifier as gambit?

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Donald Trump, Marie Antoinette and Robespierre's France

Guess what a drop in the Dow Jones does? It compels Donald Trump to repudiate the Iraq war and in no uncertain terms call for impeaching the hapless and harried George "was born with a silver foot in his mouth" W. Bush.

Would we ever had the spectacle of Donald Trump in the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on 10/15/08; giving George Bush a F-? Were it not for the obvious, that Donald trump is on the losing end of the Stock-Market's roller coaster manipulation.

Take heart Donald. This isn't 1789 and Marie Antoinette and Robespierre's France, not yet anyway.

"Let them eat cake".

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The Great Schlep, Sarah Silverman and the Freedom Riders

Diasporas have a way of expressing dialectical facts and The Great Schlep, a movement to have a sizable amount of Jewish-Geriatrics in Florida vote their political-economic interest has bubbled to the surface of American Political-Economy.

Sarah Silverman, a comedienne has organized an organic and fresh movement specifically for the purpose of having Jewish elderly vote for Barack Obama.


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

The Great Schlep Movement has historical antecedent. The Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement. The Freedom riders were northern youth braving antebellum Jim Crow futility and it's "Southern Trees Bear Strange Fruit" Cold War of American Racism.

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The Bush Doctrine and Phone Sex

Surprising? It's not. Investigative reporter James Bamford has documented abuses and flat out sophomoric glee and it's jackesque mischief in his book "Shadow Factory", a chronicle of the National Security Agency exploits in the age of the Bush Doctrine.

Is any one surprised that the National Security Agency is using it's surveillance wizardry for the purpose of voyeuristically sampling the originality of phone sex?

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Steve Fosset's Wreckage and Symmetry

On 10/2/08; Steve Fosset's wreckage was found.

Who are these people kidding, approximately a year after the much publicized disappearance of Steve Fosset, the oodlellionaire-adventurist, the wreckage of his plane is discovered.

Why did we need symmetry, the coincidence. What is the message?

Secondly isn't it Hollywood weird a hiker found Steve Fosset's identification---what script is this?

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Senator Mel Martinez and $13 Million

Instead of mocking and deriding Barack Obama's campaign efforts in the state of Florida. Republican Senator Mel Martinez ought to applaud it.

Barack Obama has to date valued Florida's political-economy to the tune of $13 million. Which by the way is expenditure for advertising and other miscellaneous services in Florida.

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Mortgage Default and Imperialism

Mortgage Default is being blamed for the activities, the decisions of Ivy League MBA graduates.

I don't want to oversimplify certain factors, but and I do want to emphasize but, for political-economy purposes, Mortgage Default is the result of certain specifics of imperialism.

If manufacturing standards are applied and enforced in the global market universally, that specific of imperialism, cheap labor would relatively relinquish it's contradictory dynamic.

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The Oprah Show and Drug Addiction: A Study in Black and White

Has Oprah Winfrey and surrogates ever featured and brought focus on the despair of Black families caught up in drug addiction as the 9/29/08; Oprah Show demanded the nation sympathize and empathize with the Heroin addiction situation of Richland County, Ohio and it's White drug addicts?

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Speculative-Value Economics and Nihilism

When the Soviet Union restructured itself politically, Naive critics, foot soldiers in the employ of speculative-value economics crowed about the bankruptcy of Soviet politics and it's Marxist worldview.

But the news these past days, finally drowning out the gibberish of Jets sold on E-Bay and lipstick on pigs has once again proven the correctness of Marxist economic critique.

Bear Sterns, Freddie and Fannie, Lehman Brothers, AIG to name a few are objective facts, proof of nihilism as operative in speculative-value.

If the measure of literacy in a society is it's comprehension of Political-economy, then what exactly is being said when it is openly stated that Wall Street, the global financial hub dabbles in incomprehensible instruments of value-expressed.

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Cindy McCain, Drunk Driving and Russia

I am not ignoring Cindy McCain's philanthropy. But I am questioning the sincerity of it's implied empathy-motive.

Cindy McCain heads an Anheuser Bush distributorship. She peddles alcohol and it has garnered her millions of dollars.

Considering her politicization of empathy as wife of the Republican Presidential candidate.. For example the role she played in the adventure, the spectacle of Russia in Georgia.

What is Cindy McCain's response to teenage alcohol abuse and drunk driving? What sort of help has Cindy McCain given MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)? Mothers of sons and Daughters killed by drunk driving.

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Wolf Blitzer, Finance Capital, The Cockroach and American Political-Economy

During a 9/16/08; at 4:16 pm Wolf Blitzer in the Situation Room interview with Governor David Paterson of New York, on the consequence of finance-capital and Republican corruption as shown by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the instability of A.I.G a cockroach scurried across the monitor-prop of the Situation Room.

The question is when a cockroach scurries across the Situation decor during a Wolf Blitzer interview on the collapse of American Political-Economy, symbolism isn't lost. The mythical cockroach and it's plague-like legend encapsulates the Apocalypse and it's political-economy default harbinger.

But there is another answer. Wolf Blitzer and CNN evidently feeling the economic squeeze are unable to afford the services of an exterminator and that effectively sums up finance-capital in American Political-Economy.

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Reagan Democrats, Blue Collar Workers and Lehman Brothers

Did anyone think anything positive would come as the result of the infamous Macomb County, Reagan Democrats phenomena?

When Blue Collar workers, legatees of Eugene Debs mocked their history and lapped out of the Reaganomics doggy bowl at the historical feet of Wall Street.

When Blue Collar workers ignore the reality of "right to work".

When Blue Collar workers allow historical Wall Street to define"what is a Labor Union".

Then a Lehman Brothers and it's $640 Billion contradiction reminds everyone what was so very wrong about the Reagan Democrats obscenity.

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John McCain's Judgement and Swiftboat Politics

John McCain's explanation and defense of his swiftboat politics and campaign against his Democratic rival Barack Obama is : Because Obama hasn't done Town Hall Meetings with him.

There are two peculiarities about this example of John McCain's judgement

• The fawning and insidious corporate media hasn't pointed out the petulant absurdity of the judgement.
• That John McCain has disavowed his April 2008; pledge to run a honorable campaign minus the Willie Horton gambit of Bush family politics.

Barack Obama and the Democratic Party seem to naively ignore the maxim that politics and it's activity is that of contrast and antagonisms.

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Lynn Forester de Rothschild and Apostasy

With her face stretched and shiny from too much Gin and Vodka look, Lynn Forester de Rothschild took to the stage on 9/17/08; and committed apostasy.

Democrat Lynn Forester de Rothschild. A Hillary Clinton supporter, fund raiser and Democratic Party Platform committee member declared she was a Trojan Horse ala' Joseph Lieberman and not only did she support reactionaries McCain and Palin but she said she held them in reverence.

Now this apostasy has to be seen in it's true opportunistic context. Lynn Forester de Rothschild is terrified of the Barack Obama Presidency. Because of the issue of taxes and it's settling of accounts. Obama promises to increase taxation on the wealthy.

Lynn Forester de Rothschild has obviously been imperiled by the economic developments of late, the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy for one. Considering the reactionaries McCain and Palin intend to continue the Bush tax cuts on the rich, she apostatized herself.

The scurry of rats abandoning ship.

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Nuclear War

This image was selected as a picture of the week on the Malay Wikipedia for the 44th week, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There is one and only one political question regarding a resurging Russia and it is simply: is the United States , Great Britain and France ready to go to War, a Nuclear War with Russia?





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Ron Paul, Ralph Nader and Third Party Politics

There is this glaring problem with third party politics at the Presidential Level. It is A Quixotic enterprise and it's delusionary practice as articulated by Ron Paul and Ralph Nader is seriously diversionary.

If Ron Paul and Ralph Nader have a problem with the two party monopoly on American Politics and it's voting consequence. Then whatever happened to taking to task the insanity of voters who consistently undermine their economic foundation while indulging in the fraudulent political action of social resentment, guns, religion and family.

Who among the denizens resurrects Thomas Paine?
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Sarah Palin, Sexism and Swinging Pompoms

When John McCain made the pimp move by choosing Sarah Palin as his Republican Vice-Presidential runner. He got the Stereo-typical cheerleader with one omission, Sarah Palin is a Brunette.

Because Sarah Palin on the stump is all gimme a J, gimme a Mc. Now that is sexism at it's unconscionable worst. this condescension, this relegation of a female Vice-Presidential nominee to swinging pompoms and touting the biography of proverbial masculine supremacy.

So whats with the Sarah Palin line of putting the Governor's jet on e-bay? Are we to suppose that Sarah Palin proposes putting the Air Force One Fleet on e-Bay as correction to a $10 trillion deficit?



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Sarah Palin, Evangelical Christianity and Political Gullibility

Sarah Palin has not energized those who now express affinity for a John McCain Presidency. Instead Sarah Palin has simply been the excuse, the legitimizing justification for reaction and it's backwardness.

Evangelical Christianity and it's resentment expression requires misery and it's sham moral critique. In other words the Evangelical Christian expression needs the political gullibility medium to satisfy it's neurotic pinings and that is why Republicans have found success and it hasn't just been at the expense of Democratic hypocrisy.

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A Pit Bull with Lip Stick, Sarah Palin and the Politics of Being A Bitch

What sort of woman compares herself to an animal, a pit bull with lipstick, a dog. So assuming the dog must be female and a female dog is a Bitch. It then means Sarah Palin prides on being the Bitch practicing it's politics.

If Sarah Palin is to be Vice-President of the United States an achievement of American femininity. Then it's down right reckless and repulsive to all Mothers, wives, Sisters and Daughters that a self -described Bitch Pit Bull is exploiting Hillary's eighteen million cracks.




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The Civil War Narrative, Base Politics and John McCain Pimping Paris Hilton

Why hasn't the Daughters of the Confederacy and all those groups, historical societies and intelligentsia who are the gate keepers of the Civil War narrative come out in opposition to the applied blasphemy and derision of this political season, Presidential politics and it's mockery of the relative sacrifices exerted to realize a perfected union.

Reaction, Radical Politics, Base Politics and the Scranton, Pennsylvania gambit not surprisingly is the opportunity of the moment.

Observing Barack Obama, the Embody of the Black Experience walk the tight rope and it's restraint and demands of the better man taking the higher ground with the contrast of the presumptuous John McCain pimping Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears, Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin as means to the Presidency. Mocking the Hallowed earth of Gettysburg and the desperation of Harper's Ferry.

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Flint, Michigan and David Dicks "Immoral Self-Expression"

Flint, Michigan is an industrial wasteland. A graveyard slotted with exclamatory tombstones and headstones proclaiming the demise of analog, steel and fire industry. to talk about Flint, Michigan is to note a dreg of 19th century industry, a footnote in Proletarian paradox.

In light of all this, certain brains and minds have found the space and margins to focus on legislating attire in Flint. So with the dead-end reality of it's denizens a stark violent fact. David Dicks, Flint Michigan Police Chief is chomping at something his newt brain has slithered upon "Immoral self-expression". Which as usually is the case, a diversion at the expense of the real immorality, an economy totally unable to function and provide it's citizens political economic direction.

Mothers with babies is diapers run risk of 93 days to a year in a Flint jail and fines up to $500 because if underwear is seen in Flint, Michigan the dress code goose steppers will declare it "Immoral self-expression".

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The Black Experience and the Barack Obama Candidacy

Whose critique and analysis of the Black Experience and condition is credible hence legitimate to coalesce the dynamo of action? That general acceptance of an analysis for it's most basic points to trickle down to the rudimentary comprehension and acceptance of it's members---Whose?

Is it the metaphysical mumblings of the millennialist zealot?

Is it the faddist radical?

Has the Barack Obama candidacy satisfied this?

I find that once again as such is always the case with life attempting an exponent of potential. We stand again at the crossroads. Being buffeted into immobility by the cross winds of reaction.

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The Independent Vote and the Latent Racism of Reagan Democrats

What is the mechanism for accountability in the Independent Vote abstraction within Presidential Politics?

Without ideology and political unity the Independent Vote is crass infantile antic, a naive gimmick as therapeutic vent for the latent racism of Reagan Democrats.

Democrats and Republicans are incentive challenged to respond to the inherent contradiction of the Independent Vote as an objective mechanism of accountability.

Instead contrary to the fraudulent advocacy by Lou Dobbs the Independent Vote reinforces conservatism as mere reactionary wedge.

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Human Political Economy and Criminal Deviancy

If the panoramic development of human political economy is stimulated by strategic factors of what in principle , in deed and with all regard is criminal and morally deviant, then why shouldn't instances of crime in it's petty mundane expression as it is experienced at the national-social level also stimulate the progress of political economy?

Propaganda of social behavior repetitiously detonates the fiat, that economical crime is destructive upon society. Charts are presented showing how deviancy deprives society of "X" amounts of wealth.

But the fact of the matter is the destructiveness of deviancy has an economical impact on society that is positive in it's stimulation and accentuation of progressive development. Deviancy during times of peace is like unto the economic quickening of War in the times of strife.

Take for instance the United States, deviance quantumly and qualitatively has enhanced and tremendously developed it's political economy. From the crimes against humanity of slavery and the moral crimes of it's Colonizer pioneer-settlers upon the Native Americans, to the relative contemporary lawlessness of it's deprived and marginalized elements. The U.S. and it's manifest destiny has clearly reaped the rewards of it's incipient and inherent criminality a million times over.

If the standard of living of a society and it's foundational prosperity equals it's realized economic potential. Meaning the accumulative potential, and it's realizational means, then any factor which induces and stimulates it's progressive development, has to be of benefit and for the greater good of society as a whole.

Crime, deviance and the entire relative structure it effects supports in extension the formative and substantial existence of human political economy in it's particular and general sense.

This post and it's position it defends is not to be construed as an apology for malaise of Crime and Deviancy. This position is simply a rigor in contra with those hypocritical opportunistic-ravings purportedly in defense of human innocence.

A rigorous and stern critique' of human society and culture will reveal that deviancy in it's complexities and the raw sophistication of crime is an unmistakable fact of the more developed and advanced political economics of the World and that is not an inexplicable anomaly but simply the derived symbiosis of the political economy in question.

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The Mediocre Snob Lev Grossman and THE NET

What is wrong with the comment-phenomena on THE NET? Well to the mediocre snob Lev Grossman it is a negative on the economy of speech on THE NET.

In a July 21, 2008; Time essay Lev Grossman was once again channeling quintessential vacuity. The argument that the canaille on THE NET are some how to blame or should be indicted for coarsening it's speech is laughable as Lev Grossman and his writings.

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The Democracy Dialectic, China and Value Speculation

The Communist Party of China in it's Deng Xiaoping revisionist milieu does have a contribution to the Democracy dialectic.

Mao Zedong once declared let a 1000 flowers bloom which is Mao Zedong thought speak for diversity of speech, thought and dialectical synthesis with caveat that it is philosophically materialist. Deng Xiaoping's revision once postulated, opening the window to let in air also lets in flies as parameter of democracy dialectic.


This question of China Democracy and the "Human Rights" polemics as it is raised in the Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, The Global War on Terror and the Iraq War contradiction tableau---should be easy for the Deng Xiaoping revisionist practice to respond to and it is simple. Whatever speech practiced should not be that opiate indulgence of reinventing the wheel, value speculation employs as it's classic diversionary tactic.

Reinventing the wheel philosphically is simple. It is that ubiquitous practice of resurrecting discredited and idealistic thought as a coping mechanism, a distortion of the economy of humanness. Which is commonly touted as free speech in the value speculation dialectic.

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Political-Economy, Accountability and "Creative Capitalism"

There is this idea being pushed by Billionaires and Millionaires, " Creative Capitalism".

Political Economy polemics has been strange in a way whether it's materialist dialectical critique or the business as usual of relative speculative-value. Because without an objective mechanism for accountability that is divorced from the class and privilege exemption what does Political-Economy as conceptual structure mean.

Secondly. If social recognizable facts through the governmental medium acknowledges the need for philanthropic and charitable services by religious based entities. Why then isn't it appropriate for government which if we are to take American Political-Economy on it's conceptual value means "We the People..." to take on those functions?

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Dr. Carnell Cooper and The Violence Intervention Program !!!

Few outside the immediate Baltimore area have heard of The Violence Intervention Program(V.I.P.).

Not many people outside the medical community especially Trauma-Surgery have heard of

Dr. Carnell Cooper. A Black, Baltimore, Maryland Surgeon. Who after 19 years as a Trauma-Surgeon, saving violently injured young Black people realized his Trauma-Surgery expertise was being used at the end result and consequences of certain negative colliding determinants.

Dr.Carnell Cooper started The Violence Intervention Program which specifically focuses of the issue of how to merge and fuse young Black people with Jobs because Dr. Cooper correctly understands that the question of Black violence is a Political-Economic one.

It has been historically expedient and insidious to critique Black social an criminal deviancy simply on the social-value construct at the expense of a political-economic base that enables the progressive evolution of social-values to even come into existence.

Dr Carnell Cooper's Violence Intervention Program and it's focus on Jobs attempts to correct that.

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Rap and Classical Music

To the critics of Hip Hop and Rap Music, it's form and art: how do we explain those historical occurrences of epic proportions that have simply numbed the human psyche in it's scale and dimension of violence that were nurtured on the symphonic refrains of Classical Music.





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American Political-Economy

The Rock Bottom Foundation............

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CNN, Essence Magazine, The Black Experience and the Solution of If

On 7/19/o8; CNN aired a quasi symposia or discussion organized by it's media group sister publication Essence Magazine. It was titled "Reclaiming The Dream", a reference to Martin Luther King Jr.

It was hosted by CNN's Soledad O'brien and the panel was an attempt at cross sampling Black Intelligentsia. Cornel West, Professor at Princeton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, actor cum Aids activist, T.D. Jakes, Preacher, Julianne Malveaux, President Bennet College, Tom Joyner, Radio Personality, Ed Gordon, Journalist, Hill Harper, Actor cum Writer, Roland Fryer, Economist Harvard, and Jabali Sawicki, Principal Excellence Charter School.

The subject matter was the Black Experience. An attempt was made to focus and isolate solutions to questions on Gender Relations and Marriage, Intermediate Education and the Aids Disease as a social and health issue.

All sorts of words filled the ninety minuets of the show airing, of course minus commercial time and not once was job creation discussed.

But the question is and will always be Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and more Jobs.

If every single Black Child graduated from College, If every single Black Man and Woman married and affiliated their self with religion. If every Black Man, Women and Child seeked employment and for the children summer job's---can American Political-Economy provide universal employment?

If the question of job creation isn't seen as the fundamental motive it should be---If there is always this fraudulent exercise of intellect.

If rote-education, religion and marriage are the cure-all then why hasn't the millions of Black university graduates, the millions of Black religious adherents and the millions of married Black couples been able to stabilize, nurture and lead Black Political-Economy in that viable direction where social and criminal deviancy is nothing more than an irrelevant anomaly?

But despite the millions of educated, religious and married Black people when that marginalized reality of the Black Experience sneezes the Black community as a whole catches a cold and CNN makes more money selling commercial time, hosting another panel of the well-fed who naively ignore the Political-Economy dearth causality, as they labor propping up If as reality.

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Dissidents, Informants, Traitors and Politics

With Daily revelations out of Eastern Europe and Russia, of former dissidents who played central roles in the much claimed transition from state capitalism to private speculation. Being state informants of the various Communist Parties and State Security apparatus.

It then frames the question how much of the so-called dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and Eastern European politics has been merely tactical?

What does it then mean for informants and traitors to assume leadership roles in pluralistic parliamentary politics and its political-economy?

For example the Former Polish leader Lech Walesa is claimed by the recent book, "The Security Service and Lech Walesa", to have been an informant for Poland's Communist Party during it's rule in the 1970's and 1980's. Yet he was the face of The Solidarity Movement and it's dissident politics and subsequently became Poland's President. Lech Walesa has long since denied these claims.

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Mitt Romney on Crime: 27,000 Black Males killed in Past Five Years, It's a Parental Issue

Mitt Romney, the Republican loser and Mormon. A so-called business genius who couldn't even manage his own political campaign for the Republican nomination for President. Making one bad Judgement after another, sinking money and more money when it was clear S.S. Mitt had run a ground.



Has once again shown that prejudice distorts and clouds his grasp of social reality. In response to a question on the disproportionate killings of young Black Males and crime within the Black community. Mitt Romney flippantly remarked, the 27,000 young Black Males who have been killed across the nation in the past five years was a parental issue.


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