International Peace Operations Association or, Super-Capitalist Mercenaries

"G4S Peru, is constituted by organic elements of direction and control, support and of execution, with lines of defined authority and coordination, that are able to integrate the organic-functional efforts towards the profit of the objectives of the company." -Group4Securicor
Jeremy Scahill testifies before a (phfff!) Senate hearing this week concerning The US Government selling it's Imperialist Duresse to Multinational Corporations like G4S, Wackenhut and Blackwater. There have been a number of books published starting in the 90's which saw a phenomenal growth in this type of Fascist Industry. Private Warriors, Corporate Warriors, and Scahill's book Blackwater, being some of the most recent. Not only are these so-called "Private Capitalist Militaries" profiting from the US and UK's Imperialist ambitions, they are also financially benefitting from Bush Administration legislation like the Patriot Act, in that Oregon Social Security Offices and other federally funded Social Services have been sold out and are now under Armed Occupation by Wackenhut Security Forces. Don't believe me? Try stepping into any Social Security Office in Oregon to pick up your Welfare Check and see if you are not greeted by an Armed Corporate Warrior. Also, the same Multinational is profiting from the recent Immigration legilsation passed by the Fascists in government. See howDisembowel, Privatize, Let Corporations Takeover works.

Who Will Stop the U.S. Shadow Army in Iraq?
Don't Look to the Congressional Democrats
US: Wackenhut's Free Market in Human Misery

Megacorps protected under First Amendment in a Police State

Verizon is one of the phone companies currently being sued over its alleged disclosure of customer phone records to the NSA. In a response to the court last week, the company asked for the entire consolidated case against it to be thrown out—on free speech grounds. Essentially, the argument is that turning over truthful information to the government is free speech, and the EFF and ACLU can't do anything about it. In fact, Verizon basically argues that the entire lawsuit is a giant SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) suit, and that the case is an attempt to deter the company from exercising its First Amendment right to turn over customer calling information to government security services.

"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class that’s winning." Investment tycoon, Warren Buffett

Doug Noland at Prudent Bear.com explains it like this: “We've entered a euphoric phase of financial arbitrage capitalism with extreme Ponzi overtones, a pyramid scheme of revolving credit rackets and percentage spread plays completely abstracted from any reality of fruitful activity. The reason we don't even call "money" by its former name anymore is precisely because we realize at some semi-conscious level that "liquidity" is not really money. Liquidity is a flow of hallucinated surplus wealth. As long as it flows in one direction, into financial markets, valve-keepers along the pipeline, like Goldman Sachs, Citibank, or the hedge funds, can siphon off billions of buckets of liquidity. The trouble will come when the flow stops -- or reverses! That will be the point where we will rediscover that liquidity really is different from money, and if we are really unlucky we'll discover that our money (the US dollar) is actually different from real wealth”.


Post Mortmen for the Stock Market
Housing Bubble Boondogggle
Economic Armagedddon is coming
Stocksplosion

All this makes this seem timely and suspicious:
News Corp. Makes a $5 Billion Bid for Dow Jones
...and, umphfff!
Top hedge-fund managers average $540 million in income
We all could probably learn alot from what hapened in Argentinia in 2001 and how people dealt with the deregulation downfall, capitalist looting and IMF pillaging in their country. See the excellent documentary
The Take by Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein on how some factories were expropriated by communities after the collapse.

It's that time of year again...

Let's purchase our children's affection through the dis-affection of mass produced objects. Thank you Jesus.
Resist X-Mas

Verizon Ergo Sum

Verizon and Bu$h strong-arming people's effort in Maine to make the corporate-military-state show some accountability...

And remember what this Mega-Corp. told you when it changed it 's name from At&t: "Verizon" is a coinage (in the manner of a Kenning used by the homeric poets to infuse the meaning of two words into one uber-word, now a staple of post-modern marketing techniques,) combining the latin "Veritas" meaning "The Truth", and "Horizon," signifying "...endless possibilities ahead." How orwelian can we get here? We need a new language...and new poets to create it...

This debate begins primarily as one of methodology. Foucaults Phenomenological approach, and Chomsky's behaviorist approach. Both seem to affirm the existence of a constituted class power which dominates and represses through aparatusses of the state and it's tentacular institutions, but it seems to me that a behaviorist approach alla Chomsky misses, or takes for granted, the form of these comeplex structures by its insistence on localizable subject-positions, either within individuals as a "human nature" or within social forms as organs of the state.
It also exemplifies the contemporary disdain of French Post-Structuralist thought, or more obliquely, 'postmodernism' (and its dicontents) by american academism. Insofaras, the lack of localizable subject-positions, or the de-centered subject, is seen as a capitulation to power, there being no-place from which to resist. But Foucault responds to this by calling into question the classical behaviorist determination of a human nature over and against social forms as being 'coded' by the repressive social forms in which it finds itself. Thus I believe post-structuralist thought to be more in line with contemporary post-leftist social thought or anarchism than chomsky's crypto-marxist idea of subjectivity. Watch Foucault sort of gloat when he calls out Chomsky's implicit Maoism...and then Chomsky's like "Im an activist! I'm an activist!" hmmmm.....

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It's alright ma, it's only Bob Scheiffer the Sanctioned State Ass Sniffer

It is all the rage to make an image that is no longer an image, in other words, exactly that which strips a dimension from the real world and inaugurates the power of illusion. Today, with all the forms of the reality show and virtual reality, they want us to enter the image, the screen, the three dimensional artifact -- real-life good to go --, thus destroying any generic illusion of the image. The temporal equivalent is that of real-time, that purports at the speed of light -- which is that of information -- to install us in an absolute present, abolishing all illusion of past and future.
-Jean Baudrillard
The Tryrrany of Real Time. Wiping our collective historical memory, replacing it with an impoverished present, an artifice, an installation of un-conscioussness subsumed under a Total Screen ...the tautalogical "Repetition of the Same" at work in the industrial mode of production is at work in our very mode of perception as well.

Unpacking all of the media discourse surrounding Israel's current incursions into Lebanon, has the uncanny effect of sending one reeling inside of a proverbial Moebius strip of information/disinformation. So much of the corporate media discourse, as is typical when dealing with State Power, is following a narrative of "self-defense" vs. "suicide bomber/ Muslim terrorism" where of course the actions of the "sanctioned state" are interpreted as "retaliation" to unlawful, sic. "immoral" acts of "terror' committed by "radical Islamic fundamentalists", or to quote Moshe Ya'alon, speaking in innoculous state department racist-speak: "cancerous demographic threats." Or one better, how about UN Ambassador John Bolton making moral distinctions between civilian deaths in Lebanon and Israel last week. And of course the attendent leftist response to the acts of the State are accusations of institutionalized racism. Indeed they are. However, what I find troubling is the capitulation to the hegemonic narratives being established by corporate media. It seems to me that the narrative itself establishes an entire dialectic whereby the negation is fully recuperable apriori. The narratives meant to establish the "cause" of Israels actions, are seemingly being related now, to prisoner capture/kidnapping and release. With no mention of the Israeli gunboats opening fire on a Gaza beach on June 9th. So it is Israel who is justified in their aggresion. The narrative of kidnapped prisoners was even regurgitated by Noam Chomsky a few days ago, although he asserts that it was two Gaza civilians who were kidnapped first without citing his information as Chomsky is often wont to do. His failure, I beieve, comes from participating in a dialectic that is colonized. No more Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis. Not in the hyperreal vacuum of reversibility. Also, not a fucking word about the shelling of the beach in palestine prior to any of these events, which the Israeli State denied all responsibility for. Wiped from the collective memory through repetition in the Corporate Media, where the Military Industrial Complex controls the discourse and sets the parameters for how the issue is narrativized and contextualized, and the most the left seem to be able to do is supply the negation to the hegemonic discourse. It's time we began to take control of the discourse. Petty racist ravings from quislings in power should not be allowed to act as a master narrative for anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist struggle. But speaking of narrativizing conflict, take a look at how Bob Scheiffer of CBS NewsWhores offers up his sublimated racist shit neatly packaged in anecdotal form for SUV owners all over Amerikkka. This is not Happening. This is not Happening. This is not Happening.