nü westworld

finally spliced a couple of notable items from recent times, offering a glimpse, if you will, into our corporocractic future.  this is not a future world where it's some swank, gone off robot game.  this future is one where it seems unlikely that the human species will progress to the point of having gone-off future world gun-slingin' yul brenner badass robot games.  the actual corporate vision of the future, hinted at below, appears decidedly less appealing.

In one, well known and widely despised monsanto wants to rule the world's food supply. government agencies, aka former and future monsanto executives and lobbyists, are entirely onboard.  they will stop at nothing to prevent much public exposure of scientific research detailing the rather grim hazards of both GM crops and the money-making roundup/roundup ready crop system in creating both human disease and deformity, and superweeds --  yeah, superfukkinweeds.  childhood cancers, genetic deformation and super goddam weeds. not to mention a doomed food monoculture. there's yer monsanto, leave us alone to rule, corporate future of the world's food supply, untethered from monitor, regulation, science, law, and reason by sticky interleaves of corporate and governmental interests.

In another spritely tale brought to us by overlordly corporate vision, another peep into their glorious, do what they want future, lies the toxic and radioactive saga of hydrofracking in the stout-hearted homeland, replete with corporate disregard for human health, or even basic livability of place. government agencies, aka former and future industry executives and lobbyists, are entirely onboard.  the corporocratic american petroleum institute helps keep it all quiet, even writing silly letters to the amp telling those dummies that the film "Gasland" should be un-nominated for best documentary -- full of lies! they said.  therefore, fiction.  naturally, the silly letter made the issue not quiet at all.  the petroleum industry is willing, able and now actively poisoning americans with befouled water and air.  though the epa knows this, overlook has been the policy of both bush and obama, while the plunge for gas blights the land, fouls the air, inflames the water, sickens the population. there's yer petroleum industry, leave us alone to rule, corporate future of america's air and water supply, untethered from monitor, regulation, science, law, and reason by sticky interleaves of corporate and governmental interests.

now, you can pretty much apply that template to any industry, arms, war makers, mining, timber, on and on.  which basically means that, if these fuckers get their wished for unfettered way, we all be deformed, sick, dying or dead. do corporate visionaries not understand that they need water too? perhaps not. perhaps the lethal fancy pantsers all think they'll just keep drinking bottled water, so, ha! no problem. alien lizard theory would explain this behaviour quite well. either that, or innate hubris, impermeable ignorance, and blinding cupidity.  shave that with the razor.

soap-on-a-koch-a-dope-rope

gobsmacking hit on unions in the nyt. just freaking stunning io.  led by none other than one of the up and coming masters of establishment blandishment, a.g.sulzberger, son of a pinch.

so there's lil' soap, slappin' down the oh-so subtle grease on the slide to blaming the unions for the woes of america, using clueless and woeful americans, who have been brow-beaten by the establishment into believing that "“everyone else needs to pinch pennies and give more money to health insurance companies and pay for their own retirement.” no, dear, not "everyone."

seriously. this is how soap chose to portray wisconsin? a brain dead zombie zone of fly-over, corporate mind-fuck america? the real place where real americans know that they "need"  to "give more money to the health insurance companies"?

of course, many americans know full well that they have no such need.  but that is not the point of the soap.  americans must acquire that need.  and other narratives, like, unions "fraying" at the seems; wrecking america.  look at the friction caused by those blasted unions! filling our great and wholesome cheese-head heartland with distemper and distress.  those unions are bad for america.

like any good dipshit agent, soap braids a small nest of discomfiture, one that exposes both the blatant fraud being enacted, and his own lack of diligent reportage, indicating the true nature of the print hit.

Across Wisconsin, residents like Mr. Hahan have fumed in recent years as tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs have vanished, and as some of the state’s best-known corporations have pressured workers to accept benefit cuts.

"thousands of manufacturing jobs have vanished."  imagine that. thousands and thousands and thousands of times again.  and "benefits cuts."  wonder how all that happened?  the collapse of the manufacturing sector of america. used to be the "factory of the world."  this is unimportant.  what is important is that worker attack worker, which, in soap's dire wisconsin, is what is happening, rather than soap pulling on the chain of dupes and tea party stooges sent there on order. the fact that america washed wall street with money; uncounted sums to jpm, goldsacks, foreign banks, swfs, saudi princes, warren buffet. this, too, is unimportant.  what is important is that unions are standing in the way of progress in america! whereby progress is regress for all but a select few.

this is the message from the son of the publisher of the new york fucking shit fuck times:  those unions are bad, "fraying" american communities, and in the way.  that's an interesting message, young soap.  you've learned well amongst your elders.

here's another:

FROM: API
TO:   AGSULZBERGER
DATE: XXXXXXXXXX
PRIORITY: HIGH

CEASE AND DESIST OTHER PEOPLE GET FUCKED STOP FUCK SELF FULL STOP

by any other name

' member when the name "barack hussein obama" was too weird for america?  still is, really.  the fact that the united states has a president who has a name that does not just merely resemble the obviously islamist phrase, "barack hussein obama," but is exactly equal to it, still blows minds.  it certainly freaked out, freaks out now, the great foxwashed, who, despite all now current and public evidence to the grossly contrary, believe president obama is a nefarious, alien agent of some anti-american --  marxist, islamist, socialist, leninist, stalinist, transgenerational kenyan tribal -- plot, when, in fact, he has done nothing but due service to all things establishment, and extra especially, the big banks -- which actually happen to be nefarious alien agents of some anti-human conspiracy no rational human being fully comprehends.  but they don't have scary names. think bank of credit  and commerce international.  BCCI. harmless.

fear drummed up in a name.

now, we know the tousled few held a money-hound leader election (or whatever the hell passes for an "election" within the gop). mostly this is known because michael steele got the boot.  michael steele was once the gop response to barack obama.  that didn't work out, apparently. now? now, the ballsy election winning response is a launch against abortion, civil rights, public broadcasting, unions, the epa, other regulatory agencies.

so. what are we to make of  the name of the now chairman of the the united states republican party? do you know who this person is or, more pointedly, have you seen this freaking name?   Reince Priebus.

western jerry-rigging is badly askance, faltering.  social orders, resisted and collapsing. an establishment on the brink. somewhere, deep in the heart of the black forest, peeled out of the leaven muck like orcs, teutonic reinforcements are needed on the front lines of civilization. Reince Priebus will lead them.

freedom's just another word for arrest, beating, and incarceration

almost popped up a bit 'bout the latest police state cloverfield clamp down in Bahrain.  thought better o' that; looks like seriously awful shit.  check fdog.

no one's here for that. malformed rantin' 'bout stupid shit.  yeppurrs.

so, we gots us some good stupid shit in the arrest and slappin' around of us army vet and retired cia intel-an, Ray McGovern, whom we all know and love, and who has been a constant barb to the administration since twee ought ought en three (continuity!), which is precisely why we know and love him.

so ol' lovable ray went to a hillary speech in which she inveighed against governments arresting peaceful protesters.  can you imagine there are places like that?  horrible, surely. according to hil, they are nasty places and desperately in need of reform, if not outright invasion and occupation.  and then, right in the middle of her up at the lectern, lecternin' away, a peaceful protester, ol' sweet ol' cia grandad ray, was attacked, arrested, beaten, and hauled off to jail.  right in front of her, and right in the sweet ol', good ol' eweessuveh.  and she never stopped yakkin' 'bout freedom.  didn't even blink.

juxtapose doesn't get better than that.

now, ray's a congenial guy, if a little frantic about what he knows, and is watching happen in front him.  he is frantic because the things he knows as a cia analyst and what he sees happening in america are converging rapidly. he's been making as big a stink as he can, been arrested a few times. guess this is just the latest, though perhaps most poetically ironic, as freedom sets the stage in all it's blazin' stalinesque glory. natch.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail. She never paused speaking. When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt.

Blind-sided by security officers who pounced upon him, Mr. McGovern remarked, as he was hauled out the door, "So this is America?" Mr. McGovern is covered with bruises, lacerations and contusions inflicted in the assault.

free expression! so says the tuna queen.  'cept for you, you cantankerous old coot!  and anyone else who mocks me! it's like fukkin wonderland there. ray later said that he used to do that all the time in front of rumsfeld, never once was bothered.  democrats. spiteful little dinks when they want to be, and hilariously* hypocritical.

fortunately for ray, he's a little too well known to be turfed into gitmo.  well. at least for now.

*hops on*

whew.  quite the stink up  'bout that aaron barr dipshit.  and the chamber and the bank that hired him and claim not to know it. (hey dipshit! we've read the emails.) the beauty of outsourcing blowback all over BofA and the chamber of horrors. yeah, yeah, the corps hired some guns, big news.  the fun comes in the drill down into the ravaging of the barr. sublime and vulgar, just like we like it.

so ol' abarr decides he's going to render unto the law anonymous and other wikileaks supporters, who invariably turn out also to be opponents of the us chamber of horrors.  at the chamber's mighty request.  checkin' into peoples kids, targeting unrelated persons, generalized creepy shit smear diggin'.

New emails reveal that the private spy company investigated the families and children of the Chamber’s political opponents. The apparent spearhead of this project was Aaron Barr, an executive at HB Gary. Barr circulated numerous emails and documents detailing information about political opponents’ children, spouses, and personal lives. One of the targets was Mike Gehrke, a former staffer with Change to Win. Among the information circulated about Gehrke was the specific “Jewish church” he attended and a link to pictures of his wife and two children

ol' abarr also figured he was gonna take down anonymous with his online kungfu chops, and then "sell" the info to the fbi. bragged about it in ft.   abarr works for a "security" company that does big biz wit' d' gubmint.  apparently, such people esteem themselves far too greatly.

aaron barr's twitter page since, well, you can see the date.

no click

gotta skim at some dipshit headline while grazin' the meme, which is pretty freakin' pathetic these days. (what's top of the heap at this world shaking moment? justice thomas doesn't participate in oral argument. i know.  huge.)  anyway, this sad thing reads, "How to Think About the Tea Party."

presumably meant only for those blighted souls already condemned to thinking about the tea party.

the urgency and the ecstasy

Thetans! I'm telling ya, Thetans!!!!!

that's pretty much what i see in this joker*.   crazed scientology book salesmen**.  door to door.  he comes looking like that, screeching at you in your doorway.  go read! do the research!  don't believe meee!!!

so, we don't. for the most part. 'cept for an addled few.  million.


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* can't quite figure beck as full bore dipshit, or just showman.
** in conjunction with Goldline.  Gold, for the coming doom (pending investigation).