Rambling Rows: MAGA = Militarism AssassiNation Gibberish Acrimony

The Market Bull in a China Shop: Everlasting youth vs. everlasting endurance?


The gyrating market, the Market as King, and yet ...

The US stock market has never been so high, and yet ...

US GDP is growing at a snail's pace despite enormous amount of stimulation, in all forms, from interest-free loans to Corponations, unwarranted increases in both Defense and Deficit spending, increases in Credit Card Spending, yet another QE (US Treasuries are monetized so Goldman Saks can puff up their balance sheet), and other sleight of hand means are used to goose the numbers to make growth look larger than it actually is, while simultaneously, the debt burden, the real extent of which has the opposite trajectory in both its growth and the pains gone through to hide the enormity of that growth, all occurring at at time when the economy is supposedly booming. The economic methamphetamine epidemic epicenter is, after all, the Fed.

 It's like the anti-abortionists celebrating their victories and declaring how their "saving" babies by forcing unwanted fetuses to be carried to term even as simultaneously, infant mortality rates shoot up in the exact states where anti-abortion laws are the strictest. Living, born infants are allowed to perish while all the resources of the States are funneled into "saving" a petri-dish-sized accumulation of cells so that it can come to term only to be left to languish and die while Right-to-Lifers celebrate their own "morality" that caused the spike in infant mortality: as a result, the more infants that die prove how effective their campaign is to save the unborn. Gutting Obamacare so that all the mothers who wanted abortions because they have no access to health care for their newborns is just their extra little gift of anguish to sate the religious right's religious right to inflict cruelty on those hapless enough to get pregnant while poor. Punishing any woman who dares to have sexual relations, their next target being birth control of any kind. Their motto seems to be, "We 're Worse than the Ayatollah", as they cheer their chubby tubby hero's murder of Muslims anywhere. "Faster Pussy-grabber, Kill Kill!"

Much the same logic seems to be at  play in the entire global economy as the richest Nations in the world grow their debt as though they were third world "emerging" economies and have not the least inkling that growing their debt at double-digit rates while both their actual growth and projected growth emphasizes their continued inability to generate the revenues necessary to ever pay that debt, yet simultaneously promising to reduce their carbon footprint (ie decrease their growth rate even more), while Yellow-Green-vested protesters demonstrate how any Green vested interests are doomed to go bankrupt.

What has society to say to you? ...  He told me how his wife's father was a clever but unlucky artisan. No joy had lighted up his laborious days. He had been force to join the growing coterie of workers who were laid off, thrown off health insurance, and died at fifty, having panted all the years of his life under the thumb of bosses whose rapacity exacted form him the price of the very water he drank from acid rainclouds, while defiling the air he breathed with black diesel soot and industrial plastics fumes. Not enough to pay him in minimum quantities of cash, they taxed the sweat of his brow and claimed the blood of his sons for their wars. No protection, no guidance: What had society to say to him? No plastic straws! Be submissive and be honest, dishonesty is only for the upper crust, whose crumbs you may sweep into your rusty lunchpail. If you rebel, I will kill you, if you steal, I'll Jean Valjean you. And when you suffer, and you will, I'll have nothing for you - nothing except perhaps a beggarly dole of bread - but no consolation for your troubles, no respect for your manhood, no pity for the sorrows of your Les miserable life.

How else can the Furor refuse foodstamps to the unemployed and school lunches to the poor while pouring billions of dollars in subsidies into the Midwest programs that churn food production into heavily-subsidized fuel production in the world's #1 producer of energy from fossil fuels. Yet have you ever heard a whisper from MSM pundits linking these two phenomena? Have you heard a single soul asking why we are larding the bottom lines of mega-corporations with tax dollars while refusing the Right to Life to millions? Yes, I know it's hard to swallow, but food is life (unlike water. Although many protest that it is, because "Water is Life" is such a catchy eco-phrase, but it's not: water's necessary for life, but it isn't life ... food however, IS (otherwise it's not food)). In order for corn to become fuel, the life must be crushed, burned, and otherwise squeezed out of it ... you can't do that to water; even after pissing in it, defecating in it, flushing it through filthy, bacteria-laden pipes to a treatment facility, it can then be re-used for human consumption precisely because it isn't life. But the living tissues in crops of corn that the Great, Rich and Powerful USA! scythes down and feeds to the insatiable maw of fuel consumption is packed with Life, and could provide the only method we know of to sustain animal existence: subsuming other living things. Pouring billions in dollars into Squandering that precious commodity by burning tons of fossil fuel to simply create an additive with which to adulterate even more fossil fuels, isn't just a boondoggle, it's immoral, uneconomic, and vicious mendacity.

While we tilt at windmills, their manufacture dumps tons of carbon into the air, since their propellers are constructed of mostly fiber glass, their stanchions of thousands of pounds of concrete, and their necessarily long transmission lines swallowing up energy just to move it, creating resistive heat all along its burgeoning length and in the process igniting tinderbox forests ablaze, yet these behemoths' lifespans are proving to be half of the 30-year estimates they advertised. Unrestrained, nay goosed-to-the-n'th-degree, consumption of energy products grows ever faster, the jackdaws sucking the last remnants of a once oil-rich mantle dry as ever more oil pumps proliferate like mushrooms on a dank forest floor.

When one is using the last dregs of a precious irreplaceable resource, the technology that sucks out the rest of it would, in a world ruled by reasonable men, be deployed to build such windfarms and solar arrays in order to best transition our societies into ones with less energy-intensive paradigms. But quite the opposite is occurring instead. The last gasp is being used to spur consumption, as ever more of the last precious drops are siphoned into SUV's, are slathered over the globe to bring movies and entertainment streaming into the living rooms of the well-heeled, with less and less going into actual profitable production. The overarching trend in new technology of the last two generations, having been designed and "spun off" into the "private" realm of, (since we are always at War, and the economy is a veritable Wehrmacht), War privateers, it has gone unnoticed that it is all aimed at catering to the "needs" of the leisure classes, the parasites of the global economy living off the fumes of their predecessors and sneering at the rest of humanity when it tries to collect social security, calling them The Entitled, while the actual EnTitled use their inherited position of ascendancy to build an infrastructure of AI-enabled bots and the IoT internet of things to shut out the rest of their fellow humans from the possibility of a role, relegating them to drug addiction, alcoholism and despair for which they offer no help; just prisons, punishment, humiliation, and early death while the Autocrats funnel research into enabling themselves to live forever.

Its so easy to do. Just extract a trillion dollars a year or so and call it "defense" and the plebes'll pay through the nose to furnish the Pentagon with the money their children will then have to do without. Then, as the Wall makes so crystal clear, take those funds for whatever you want, giving it the flimsiest of covers with some pseudo-defense sounding acronym (or create a "Space Force" perhaps?) and, presto, once again yet another scheme to hand over an ever larger portion of the GDP to the EnTitled is effectuated. No questions asked as to how many billions will be allocated, nor what the parameters for success are. Nor does it seem to matter that a Space Force by its very nature requires highly trained technical personnel and scientists: the very people the administration insists are either liars or incompetent hacks via his assertion that climate change, which every one of them knows is a direct function of how much CO2 is in the atmosphere, is a hoax.

And yet the crowds cheer them on. H. L. Mencken and  Reinhold Niebuhr were all too right, it seems.

MAGA: MicrosoftAmazonGoogleApple: the four richest US Corporations, none of which would  even exist if it weren't for seed money to provide the dragon's teeth planted by the DOD. As always everywhere, the Market Forces always dance to the tune of Armed Forces.

And so, we labor, we suffer, and we die earlier than citizens in any other industrial State. We die, not in a hospital, those sterile mausoleums being beyond our wallets, we die at home, in back allies, in the streets run down by Tesla-driving frat-brats patting themselves on the back for going "Green", like swamp slime, toilet scum, food mold. Rank Parasitic Pestilence: lessors flourishing, thanks to the evil machinations of the Fed enabling them to live off the productivity of the unFed, as their lessees seen as their "lessers", succumb to diseases once eradicated and now thriving again as life expectancy decreases. 

As Amazon flies packages to well-heeled lay-abouts, Green aficionados remain blissfully ignorant of how, at its inception, it was hailed by none other than TIME magazine as being the initial salvo of a green revolution, illogically claiming that people would no longer have to drive to the market to pick up a book, but could save themselves a trip and the gas involved to have it (miraculously, apparently, as though the post office made its deliveries on a flying carpet powered by wishful thinking) brought to their door, perhaps never dreaming that it would become the face of an industry bundling everything from birdseed to electronics in layers of unrecyclable plastic, cushioned by fossil-fuel-derived popcorn and laying waste to entire forests to construct single-use shipping cartons.

Even while Australia's wildfires promise to keep burning right through the long hot summer, its tourist industry is assuring visitors that there's nothing to worry about here, ignore the gargantuan increase in your carbon footprint that intercontinental flying adds to it, and come on downunder the ground and visit a wombat in its lair, while enjoying that fresh-cooked-meat-smell-filled atmosphere from the delicious aroma of 1.25 billions animals charbroiled in our conflagrations, the global-warmed heat of which You can then pat yourself on the back for increasing. Mmmm, nothing like the downhome smell of roasted koala to make your vacation a once-in-a-lifetime experience ...

But perhaps you're too concerned about how the accidental killing of one contract worker rains down death from the sky in the form of yet another chemical weapon, while the murder of 167 or so is just shrugged off as an accident, the Fog of War, a fog machine we have deliberately stoked as though we were trying to recreate the London of the 50's when it was choking itself to death on its own effluvia.

Hard to say.

What's easier to say is that, although even Robert Fisk accepts the now official explanation that the Republican Guard shot down that plane, it is not too hard to imagine the cyberspace manipulation of data on that guard's radar screen . Remember Stuxnet, anyone? If you can control centrifuges such that they go haywire, deliberately killing Iranian scientists, how do you expect me to believe that either Israel or its client State, the USA, the two parties responsible for the murder of those scientists and which both have agents with boots on the ground at the end of the day, would hesitate to introduce blips, as they did on 9/11, onto the screens of the air traffic controllers in Iran, much like they did on FAA radar screens on that fateful day in New York?:

Vigilant Guardian: " ... various agencies including the FAA, NORAD, the DIA and the Canadian Air Force, were conducting as many as five war-game drills, involving deliberately inserting blips onto FAA and military radar screens, which were still present during at least the first attack; drills during which "live-fly" exercises with actual aircraft were simulating the behavior of hijacked airlines in real life."

9/11 Commission:

"As you know through previous testimony from Gen. Eberhart to Congress, we were in the middle of a NORAD exercise at that particular time. Which means, that basically our entire staff was focused on being able to do the air operations center mission, which was our job to do. We had just come out of a video teleconference with the NORAD staff and with our folks at that particular time when I was handed note that we had a possible hijacking in Boston Center. And it had come from the Northeast Air Defense Commander Col. Bob Meyer (phonetic) who is commander up there and he had requested that I call him immediately. And I was upstairs in our facility. I immediately went downstairs and picked up the phone, asking on the way to my staff, is this part of the exercise? Because quite honestly and frankly, we do do hijacking scenarios as we go through these exercises from time-to-time. But I realized that it was not – that this was real-life."

Yet even so, there was not enough time to halt the airplanes, how much time do you think the Republican Guard had to make his split-second decision? (The answer's in the question). The question one must ask now is would the Iranian military and civil authorities be better served or further undermined were they to release the data that would prove this? Assuming any existed. Would you? As the Supreme Leader, or a member of his "tech-savvy" cyberforce, would you let it become common knowledge that the Furor has such power over your own military's actions? Would you divulge the fact that your War Games are so vulnerable to cheating? Or that those under your command can be so easily fooled by the Great Satan into shooting passenger airliners out of the sky? (all of which begs the question as to WHY planes are flying at the same time missiles are?).

Perhaps we'll never know. But one thing is sure, we are being habitually lied to, so why we believe any official story is somewhat of a mystery.

Churchill quipped that, "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

Well, thanks to our rogue state of Perpetual War (that ultimate expression of Terrorism), this is wartime. But far from being precious, truth is castigated as Fake News, treated like a harlot, stripped of its proofs, and tarted about as though, like a reality show Star, it's pretending it's real when it is in fact scripted; so it's not so much attended by as held captive by the body of lies it's immersed in; lies purposely promulgated to provide the dry ice for the Fog of War.

How else to explain how a man the entire world knows is guilty of the War Crime of first degree murder is on "trial" instead for rigging yet another election?