every late empire needs a senate

"the u s needs to elevate its response"
lindsey graham..clapped out imperial whore.

christ on a bike people...we need another war...yep...this broke ramshackle wheezing fribulating ( thanks for the image dick!) empire can't afford muffins and coffee for bureaucrats' meetings and this clown wants to consider "all option"...put the poor sod out to pasture and inject some people who can think rationally into the senate...oops...asking a bit too much aren't i...forgive me...i forgot, momentarily, about al hamilton and the fact that we're in somewhere around the fifth republic...the latest variant of what the empire has called itself since the get go...realistically, 1) pakistan is a sovereign state, 2) isi will not let go of islamic extremists...they are an asset against india and the ongoing struggle over kashmir...there's a quid pro quo there someplace...3)pakistan does have thermonuclear weapons and delivery systems...i know the arrogant imperial legions will scoff but all it take is one lucky shot and those guys have their weaknesses...all you hear about is elite troops...talk to someone who's been in the military recently...the bulk of it is a s fucked up as it always was...american exceptionalism isn't going to do anything but mislead a lot of people ( this is , of course, the point of politics, the media, and the very existence of the senate...to sell you a bill of goods that enhances the wealth of a few, coating it in some bullshit about patriotism, duty, and fucking honor...there is no honor in wars for imperial ends only comeuppance...linsey graham can kiss my ass...fuck these people.

tiny doctor tim and the new economy

"mr. geithner should listen rather than talk."
didier reynder. belgian finance minister

well..the jury is still out on the whole euro-zone thing..the chinese have been bitten once already and are in no rush to help the italians or pull the krauts' chestnuts out of the fire...obviously they have no patience for american exceptionalism and the brits are broke...europe on its own...and who can blame them? it's where they belong...they have made a fairly astute assessment of what dr. tim would have to offer in the way of advice...he has his own problems and that's probably why he took off for europe anyway...getting aw ay to reflect on problems that don't kick him in the nuts on a daily basis and enjoy the specter of an out of control swiss trader...who says economics is boring? closer to home ( in my home town actually...about a mile and a half away) a much more telling commentary on the state of the economy here at home has cropped up out on central avenue...when the fifth third bank began to experience the impact of the financial wizzardry emanating from the investment bankers on wall street feverishly working to create wealth out of nothing more than bad debt they started shuttering branches including the one here...it's been empty for better than a year but recently there have been contractor's trucks outside and noticeable activity...last week i drove by and the neon signs were glowing, banners fluttered in the late summer breeze, and a new liquor store was born...some of the safest coolers anywhere and a realistic reflection of the newly enhanced need for escapism in the american population...with the utter freak show that the next presidential election is shaping up to be i predict the re will be a significant spike in the sale of alcohol...illicit drug sales will be peaking in about a year but there is no data available besides the untrustworthy propaganda supplied by the dea...still i have no doubt we will all hanker after a bit of numbness before we finish slogging through the shit, whatever the source.

augustulus is not a mis-spelling

"in populous cities, which are the seat of commerce and manufactures, the middle rank of inhabitants, who derive their subsistence from the dexterity or labor of their hands, are commonly the most prolific, the most useful , and in that sense, the most respectable part of the community."

edward gibbons. the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire. chapter 31

ed was a contemporary of adam smith and they hailed from a day when working people were paid more than political lip service by imperial senators and bureaucratic spokespersons....an early version of the labor theory of value so sneered at by the thieving thugs on wall street and their marionette minions in the halls of congress...whores are whores and irredeemable in any sense...deep in denial and following the trajectory that that denial has set for the late empire...they squirm as plan after plan to jump-start growth prove effective at only redistributing public wealth into private hands...quantitative easing my ass..the rich gorging themselves at the public trough and unscrupulous politicians manipulating people's fears of the end of days with an evangelical subtext ( rick perry belongs on the 700 club)...the romans tried to make their debts go away by inflating their currency...introducing more and more base metal into the alloy that made up the coins until they were almost worthless and could pay off the burgeoning public debt for next to nothing..all under the leadership of desperately inept latter emperors trying to keep the barbarians ( read non-roman former clients who had some serious grudges to settle after a long period of imperial exploitation...they sensed their moment had arrived)...avitus , maximus, majoram, severus, clybrius, glycerus, nepos, authenius, and the fore-mentioned augustulus...nixon, ford, carter, reagan,bush, clinton, bush, obabma, and whomever is next on the list...something of an unknown as we slide deeper into the foul freakshow of the 2012 presidential campaign...it doesn't matter much ho wins really, but the temptation to resolve the sovereign debt crisis by hyper-inflating the dollar will be hanging over the next administration...they will preside over imperial decay and blame the people, not the system...it's always decadence, not the fundamentally flawed ponzi scheme design of empire that gets the blame...if we'd only worked harder and been more true to the virtues of the founding fathers we would still be on top of the world...fuck these people...i refuse to accept the blame for what their unbridled avarice has done.

on september 11, 1973 the chilean military with the covert assistance of the cia overthrew the legally elected government of salvador allende and instituted a military dictatorship that killed thousands of its own people...everyone has their memories

delusional thinking

"somehow we need to get back to the president we thought we elected in 2008."
bill mckibben. senior fellow at the post carbon institute.

bill's a pretty smart guy, which shows that intelligence is no proof against crack-brained thinking...doesn't anyone remember that obamaland was a senator ( from illinois , no less, remember the blago business?) , no matter for how short a time, and that he is ivy league educated...a complete insider...nothing remotely populist about this guy...he is as nearly "for the street" as pelosi is...bill...he was never on your side...he pretended to be...he is a fucking politician for christ's sake...drill it into your skull...these people do not represent you they represent wealth and privilege....the democratic forms are just a rationalization for holding power...just like "the vanguard of the revolution" or "lenin's heirs", that "we the people" stuff is just for the proles consumption...real power lies elsewhere and isn't really worried about your concerns...you're on your own...get a grip

the psychosis on wall street continues along with the utter disconnect witht he reality of people's everyday lives...they were all bummed out friday because there were no new net jobs created in august...what a shocker!! maybe these geeks should actually go to work for a living rather than designing elaborate ponzi schemes...some road construction on a georgia chain gang for iinstance...earlier in the week they were all happy because retail sales had shown some moxie in august...haven't these clowns ever heard of "back to school"? there are necessities involved in sending children off to be indoctrinated into the wonders of the consumerist utopia...part of which is generating expectations of new stuff when late summer rolls around...they will never move past avarice into any sort of understanding...manhattan is an island off the coast of the u s...disconnect it politically...exile all investment bankers, stock brokers, hedge fund operators, stock jobbers, day traders, and the rest of the foot soldiers of the economic apparatus there and let rising sea levels do their work...then, perhaps, we can work on supporting one another rather than them.