Storm Clouds on the Horizon

“Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.”
-Channing E. Phillips
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
-Edward Abbey
"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
-Mahatma Gandhi



According to some minds, the West is going through what the Soviets did some 20 years ago- economic crisis leading to massive social upheaval and reassessing the path we are on. That's what you get when your whole system is based on perpetual growth and wealth to maintain peoples support. It wont be long until the gloves come off and blood flows in the streets of the West as it has been in the colonies for some time. The people who own all the wealth are extremely intelligent, and have always managed to pass the blame on to miscellaneous patsies in such times. Seeing as how enlistment rates are skyrocketing as more and more families turn to military service for a salary, it looks like America will do what most Empires have done when things look bleak at home... go take shit from less violent peoples. Nothing like rivers of blood and gore to help placate an unruly populace. And if all that fails, their is always the jackboot waiting for a face to stomp on. Considering how completely pussified and cowardly most Americans are, it shouldn't take much to put them in line. At least we will get a taste of what we have been dishing out to the rest of the world... unlike them however, we deserve it. History has shown that the dominant culture will only see the folly of its ways when the very survival of it comes into question. That day is rapidly approaching for us Americans. May mankind have mercy on our souls.

Most Americans seem intensely baffled by what is happening the realm of economics. This no doubt stems from our comical education system and our collective proclivity towards willful ignorance. Luckily I recently found a great little story that does a marvelous job of explaining what the government is doing with the bailout, so enjoy-

Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and
announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys
for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it! The man now announce d that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: 'Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each.' The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars.

They never saw the man or his assistant again, only
lots and lots of monkeys!

Now you have a better understanding of how the
WALL STREET BAILOUT PLAN WILL WORK !!!!

Ain't that a kick in the head

Athens- Protesters, described as mostly students, were seen smashing the glass doors of a Citibank, throwing a metal barricade at police lined up along a street and scuffling with police wearing white helmets.

Suicide bombing in Kirkuk kills scores and indicates an increase to the sectarian strife over control of the pivotal northern city.

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The commander of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet expressed doubt Friday about the wisdom of launching attacks against Somali pirates on land — a proposal the U.S. is circulating to the U.N. Security Council.

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience…we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. -Ike (1961)

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place. -Noam Chompsky (1970)

In this brave new world the companies that arm our armies actually create the conflicts in much the way Nike supports sports. A system of lucrative crises profiteering has made all form of human suffering extremely appealing to the hardcore capitalist. Lockheed Martin now has become so vertically integrated that it literally makes the bombs that blow up buildings, owns a contracting firm to rebuild them, and runs a business to staff those buildings. The contracts that are signed with the American Military-Disaster complex are frequently no bid contracts that are guarenteed a profit (a process called cost plus which means that you just show how much you spend and they give you a certain percentage more). Such companies are being openly funded through massive billion dollar contracts in which the US Treasury cuts them a blank check, without any regard to efficiency, cost or even economic logic. Everything from a hurricane, to a war, to an earthquake is an economic boom if your business needs large government handouts to keep those stock prices high. The money pledged for Tsunami relief in 2004 went almost entirely to largescale Multinational Corporations focusing on developing new Tourism resorts in the recentely cleared beaches of Thailand and Sri Lanka, and various mineral and gas reserves in Indonesia; as well as many other projects that benefited business. In certain places people openly stated that the aid wasn't helping, but in fact, hurting them. This sort of ruthless exploitation and abuse frequentely leads to armed resistance, which is rapidly becoming more and more appealing than living a life of desperation and poverty under the twin rule of corrupt or coerced governments and the omnipresent Multinationals. All over the world groups too numerous to list have sprung up in response to the economic hopelessness of their situation and injustice of the system into which they are being led.

The closing of almost half of Iraqi factories by the US in a country where the majority of men have military training seems almost too demented to fathom. Unless of course you own stock in Blackwater or KBR, both of which provide $900 dollar a day mercenaries to protect the various companies contracted to rebuild Iraq. Even though rebuilding all that we destroyed in Iraq has been made almost entirely impossible because of the violence, business in the Green Zone never missed a beat. Its a savage and violent way of life that American and her Allies project upon the masses of the world. Death and destruction are not strangers to mankind, indeed they are our perential companions. The ruthless efficacy of the modern machine that makes and profits off it is just becoming more aggressive and confident. After what they have gotten away with so far, it would be foolish from a purely profit based perspective to change course.