Finally, a sensible word from the Party of NO.
McCain did have to resort to tweeting his understandable disgust at the Military's dangerously bloated budget.
Why is everyone focusing on this manufactured Budget Crisis? Outrageous unemployment going toward an election up to 9.2% (officially)?
Red tape blocking charitable actions (Lubbock, Orlando- where Anonymous got involved) to help the needy(people layed-off by the very government that refuses to allow people to feed them)?
Italy, Switzerland and Germany saying no to nuclear power?
Perhaps the fruits of an Arab Spring?
Are we handing all of our satellites over to the Russian's space program?
The ultimate showdown between Murdoch and the Rule of Law?
Weren't we up to three wars now?
Or could it be that austerity protests have reached US soil?
(Unless you don't count our colony of Puerto Rico as American soil)
Republicans have already begun to dismantle the Social Services and the University system.
After sweeping up all the offices in our Caribbean territory the GOP already did what it is trying to do in Wisconsin and Ohio.
In 2009 they revoked the rights of collective bargaining and outlawed strikes in a region suffering the most from unemployment with rates up to 3 times higher than some US states (nearly 17%).
With the recent cuts in education and social services, the students are standing up against tuition hikes in a land where people have to leave to find employment. The students would prefer suspension and imprisonment than face tuition fee hikes no one can afford.
That's one heck of a roadmap to prosperity. Highest crime rate, highest unemployment rate - Answer: refuse to negotiate with the unions and purge 20k government employees from the rolls and into the street. But we will give you Corporate tax breaks, and our citizens are now ready for the sweatshop.
I am glad that Obama has finally taken the offensive and is courting a block of voters no one has recognized.
A log cabin full of voters that continue to win victories in more and more states. Between that and an ERA and you finally have the bare-bones of an opposing strategy.
(Forget about the wars.)
They are the game changers that will win 2012.
"The Costa Rican" Steve Robespierre-Forbes
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
A Lark-Becoming
Oil Pop and the Friendly Frak Family
Returning from my southern sojourn exploring the verdant wilderness of the Dust Bowl, I find my fervor for object creation has only grown from a subtle warmth behind my eyes into the raging grass fires belching thick victory from my nostrils.
How many have succumbed to the acrid Siren call of Middle Class aspirations? Mythical Main Street lies before us and flickers. Arlington shadows, effigial whispers - nothing more than frightful phantasms of Sorel's elegy.
I have reached into the abyss and felt up hope. Local producers, fervent organizers protesting into the walls of commerce:
"To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you...To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."(Roy)
I return refreshed and eager for the laurels of fallen empire.
When dissent is globalized and the indignant rise to spite the Rapture, I clutch that glory that is our last pillar - the central road of action. Our Momentum faces the mountebank of Sisyphus yet the paths of animal-human-becomings reach out to us. Indeed the journey of a thousand kilos begins with a single movement.
Karl Shale Caldicott
Returning from my southern sojourn exploring the verdant wilderness of the Dust Bowl, I find my fervor for object creation has only grown from a subtle warmth behind my eyes into the raging grass fires belching thick victory from my nostrils.
How many have succumbed to the acrid Siren call of Middle Class aspirations? Mythical Main Street lies before us and flickers. Arlington shadows, effigial whispers - nothing more than frightful phantasms of Sorel's elegy.
I have reached into the abyss and felt up hope. Local producers, fervent organizers protesting into the walls of commerce:
"To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you...To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."(Roy)
I return refreshed and eager for the laurels of fallen empire.
When dissent is globalized and the indignant rise to spite the Rapture, I clutch that glory that is our last pillar - the central road of action. Our Momentum faces the mountebank of Sisyphus yet the paths of animal-human-becomings reach out to us. Indeed the journey of a thousand kilos begins with a single movement.
Karl Shale Caldicott
Friday, January 14, 2011
Answers of the HAND
Just found this in my great grandmother's "Salem County" recipe book:
Recipe for Spotted Craft Pudding
2 cups the Mercantilism of the Medieval pilgrim
2 tbsp BookMooch
1 tsp Craftivism
1/2 tsp Crafthaus
a dash of Paypal
1. Sift the Craftivism and Crafthaus.
2. Warm up the Paypal in Pinko water before combining it with the BookMooch.
3. Pour carefully in a Government Cheese wrapper and set in fridge for two quarters.
4. Whip up the Mercantilism into stiff peaks before folding in remaining ingredients.
5. Preheat rhetoric to LocknLoad.
6. Coat pan in Walnut oil and Sugar.
7. Place pan near Top of oven and bake 15 min.
8. Set oven to London Imbroglio and until peaks brown.
For inscrutable company serve with deniable disclosure.
Serves small global localities.
ENJOY!
Paula Kropotkin-Morris
Vivisection Is A-OK according to the Public
The hollow shell of the Consumer cannot resist the glorious role of Data Trash
To dispell the fears of all you cynics holding fast to the outdated concept of the body as a temple, Listen Up. The New England Journal of Medicine has figured it out for you and Scientific American makes sure you hear them.
You heard right. Our Scientists can tell you your future - probably - and it won't give you any anxiety or affect you and your lifestyle in any way!
Through the miracle of Personal Genomics we get a fairly accurate reading of what future disease you will contract should you fail to get hit by that bus.
What will this mean for your insurance or the cost of health care? Don't fret dude. Because of the study of 3600 individuals only 2037 completed the study and of those people 90% were not concerned at all. And only a few who were found guilty/positive were planning any more stress-free testing in their future.
You may ask yourself - Why would less than two-thirds of the people continue the study?
The answer is simple - Americans are genetically predisposed to be lazy and rarely finish things they start because of high rates of ADHD.
So I urge everyone with extra dough or access to a credit card to put your DNA where your mouth is.
Get out there and get tested before it's too late. Get off your keister and get into my database! You don't want to be the last in line when the pretreatments have moved from the laboratory to the marketplace. You want to get in on the ground floor while Genetic Therapy is still an American growth industry.
Bernie Watson and Francis Madoff
To dispell the fears of all you cynics holding fast to the outdated concept of the body as a temple, Listen Up. The New England Journal of Medicine has figured it out for you and Scientific American makes sure you hear them.
You heard right. Our Scientists can tell you your future - probably - and it won't give you any anxiety or affect you and your lifestyle in any way!
Through the miracle of Personal Genomics we get a fairly accurate reading of what future disease you will contract should you fail to get hit by that bus.
What will this mean for your insurance or the cost of health care? Don't fret dude. Because of the study of 3600 individuals only 2037 completed the study and of those people 90% were not concerned at all. And only a few who were found guilty/positive were planning any more stress-free testing in their future.
You may ask yourself - Why would less than two-thirds of the people continue the study?
The answer is simple - Americans are genetically predisposed to be lazy and rarely finish things they start because of high rates of ADHD.
So I urge everyone with extra dough or access to a credit card to put your DNA where your mouth is.
Get out there and get tested before it's too late. Get off your keister and get into my database! You don't want to be the last in line when the pretreatments have moved from the laboratory to the marketplace. You want to get in on the ground floor while Genetic Therapy is still an American growth industry.
Bernie Watson and Francis Madoff
Thursday, December 9, 2010
The Charleston: Creole Style
Glory be to the HAND
I have returned from the Land of Nod with the wise words of Lord Fauntleroy. "If Kim Jong Il can't figure it out neither can you."
Long story short, the Lord cannot abide the vegetal-animal hybrids almost as much as W. Indeed the Frankenfood mystery has not only been solved but has experienced the growing sentiment that it was last year's news. Holla at the Assange menage and gloat amongst the redlight broadway finagling of brass taps and headless humvee riders. As the reign of reporter terror draws to a close we shall indeed pry their lenses from cold dead hands.
The Digital has died. It knows it not for it fails to understand such vengeance as the mighty United Corporate America can supply. As Assange dons the thorns and ascends his final RL altar, he shall decry his monster as it falls to Capital. In the empty chamber of his conference they shall break the brittle and shuffle the coils of Anonymous, one-by-one, until it is done and the tears of Liberty stream like the Big Muddy. Government shall recoil at the loins of Virtual who hath begat iVote and iHack who begat unTwit and nonFightclub. Mad Cow, Clean Air, Green, Organic, GMOs, Life Patents and Oily Rags all handmaidens to the Institution shall plead their case, pull their hair and gnash their teeth as they clobber the Apprentice's creation. Alas and alack, they shall only splinter the visible, embolden the meek and fund the Trickster Gods who mean to undo that which they have sought. As Capital burns in Hades so it too shall rise in the multitude, until Nationalism can heal and rise to slay the monetary Horde. What, one must ask, can survive such an insurrection? What could reign in Nationalism no longer sated by the blood of greenbacks that it begins sniffing the reigns, drooling for power? The HAND must strike such discipline into the Cerberus and impart the wisdom of violence into Authoritarian Beatitude.
My brothers and sisters this is no "hand" of man riding the Winds of the Heavens, this is no contraption of mortal wit stroking the Might of Supremacy. What or who could be so bold, so drenched in the waters of Victory? This is the Glory and the Supernatural Winds that fire upon man. This is the brimstone of conceit and folly that shall temper the trials of the Serpent Gorgon, smote the flames of Sisyphus, and ride the broad back of Lady Justice into the Hall of the Great Warriors of Valhalla Inc.
I do not bring you such tidings lightly. For you see, my people, my metal soul aches at the ochre faces I have witnessed give way to the pallid glow of pods and buds. Indeed the fickle twinkles of fate cannot have brought me anywhere else.
I kneel now before my great Gospel of Fingers that has burned now into my very skull. I open my eyes and it is there. I close my eyes and it goes nowhere - staining my mind with the truths I must deliver. These are not the Commandments of the West. These are not the Tenets of the East. Nor are these the Fables of some Lost Peoples trampled by History and Progress. Yes, my fellow wanderers we are indeed lost. We need these Values of Being now more than ever . Not for ourselves, Not for our children, but for our children's' children and on into the Future Man must become! We need these Psalms of the Palm for we are in grave peril. We cannot sustain. We must not abide the injustice we fail to see! Look among us brothers and sisters, see the tears, see the suffering we maintain with each step into the void. I come to you now with the Light! Join us in this pool of Glory and bask in the Way of Salvation!
-Cassandra Ted Birch
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Butterfingers Bernanke
Speech Yesterday by Captain "Oil Fingers" McGee
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/bernanke20100609a.htm
I always enjoy listening to a little DoubleSpeak between pictures of dying birds and this one proved most fruitful.
The Rosy lenses of enlightenment shine on in the slick seas of financial ruin.
Our mantra shall be Baby Boomers and Baby Boomers it shall be!
Oh me, oh my! They shall drain our coffers and pick their gums with our children's bones.
Corporate profits shall prove promising and Huzzah! to 3.5% GDP growth!
Unemployment shall improve because it must. How you say? I ask you how can it get any higher? How can it fail to improve while we continue to dump the rolls? All the capital must retreat the real estate market to grow a bubble somewhere! Right? The Market shall provide!
Balanced budget! Tax Cuts and Zero Accountability will pave the way! Corporate taxes are pittance because they are far-outweighed by consumer taxes (as long as they remain uncounted and uncollected).
Why mention inflation numbers for food, as the "sensible man" is pure theory and finds real sustenance through durable goods?
"Healthy economic growth" requires young healthy consumers which means we must responsibly cut excessive health benefits, a.k.a. not the benefits for the elderly of Congress, but only those benefits for your parents and their parents--an irresponsible booming bunch of babies that can't take care of their own problems.
What we have here dear friends is an enemy list. A list of those who would hurt our Dollar and rob our Great Nation of the Prosperity Providence demands: the loud petulant children that are over 55, an overgrown workforce that wants a real job and affordable food, and those choice few who would have the innocent corporations pay a fair share for their use of our national resources.
Resistance is conformity.
Join me.
We will prevail.
Twitter, Facebook and Blog.
The End of our Nation is nigh.
Overblown Rhetoric must not be spared.
Benjamin Noam Lafcadio
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/bernanke20100609a.htm
I always enjoy listening to a little DoubleSpeak between pictures of dying birds and this one proved most fruitful.
The Rosy lenses of enlightenment shine on in the slick seas of financial ruin.
Our mantra shall be Baby Boomers and Baby Boomers it shall be!
Oh me, oh my! They shall drain our coffers and pick their gums with our children's bones.
Corporate profits shall prove promising and Huzzah! to 3.5% GDP growth!
Unemployment shall improve because it must. How you say? I ask you how can it get any higher? How can it fail to improve while we continue to dump the rolls? All the capital must retreat the real estate market to grow a bubble somewhere! Right? The Market shall provide!
Balanced budget! Tax Cuts and Zero Accountability will pave the way! Corporate taxes are pittance because they are far-outweighed by consumer taxes (as long as they remain uncounted and uncollected).
Why mention inflation numbers for food, as the "sensible man" is pure theory and finds real sustenance through durable goods?
"Healthy economic growth" requires young healthy consumers which means we must responsibly cut excessive health benefits, a.k.a. not the benefits for the elderly of Congress, but only those benefits for your parents and their parents--an irresponsible booming bunch of babies that can't take care of their own problems.
What we have here dear friends is an enemy list. A list of those who would hurt our Dollar and rob our Great Nation of the Prosperity Providence demands: the loud petulant children that are over 55, an overgrown workforce that wants a real job and affordable food, and those choice few who would have the innocent corporations pay a fair share for their use of our national resources.
Resistance is conformity.
Join me.
We will prevail.
Twitter, Facebook and Blog.
The End of our Nation is nigh.
Overblown Rhetoric must not be spared.
Benjamin Noam Lafcadio
Friday, May 21, 2010
Ice Flows of Polar Bear Woes
(Extended Comments from the Edge of Reason, a.k.a. couldn't post in comments section - "Too Much Hot Air")
I think we are in complete agreement. The current state of the art community is unique historically, yet within the cycles of history we probably are seeing the sixties and seventies. In place of Viet Nam we have the last spasms of democracy choking on the purses of the new robberbarons - multinational corporations (the "college of corporations" from Network). We have a populace disenfranchised by the learned helplessness from the gospel of consumption that has been declared the central tenet of the American Dream (shades of such were seen upon the return from WWII when the war machine needed to manufacture fresh fodder to avoid contraction). The new reach of capital into the realms of the biological will only serve to deepen the malaise of modern man circa Georg Simmel.
Indeed. The devil is in the details. Gentrification is a perfect example of the implementation of laissez-faire capitalism to improve a neighborhood through colonization and displacement rather than the alternative of investment in community, education, and reorganizing/strengthening the present community structures. Such efforts require centralized oversight, regulations with teeth that demand balanced competition and perhaps a larger initial investment that is less focused on speculation (Adam Smith's healthy capitalism that sounds eerily like socialism).
As to whether there is an inside/outside to capitalism I can only speculate. Where does the line get drawn? The studio, the classroom, the gallery, print media, private collections or auction block? Is it an internal struggle that becomes an aspect that influences creation? I think that's an opaque realm that is guided by education, media and ideology. The same question arises when a van gogh goes for millions at auction. Should the artist (heirs) see the fruits of the labor? Or has the art object been transported to a realm of its own power? That question underlines notions of ownership that change according to cultural structures. Could such an inquiry bear fruit? Absolutely.
With the rise of infotainment in place of actual news, the relativity of expertise has arisen much to the detriment of all. An overthrow of unchecked/unwarranted authority is nothing short of necessary, yet there must be a reassessment/restructuring of authority and its checks and balances in the power vacuum. We must establish another institution in its place, risk becoming that which we despise and attempt to ensure that the same mistakes are not committed.
The "beast" has been starved and as we watch it writhe we must prepare to rebuild.
It is in this sense that I find my charge. Examine the patient on the table, look to history, tradition, innovation and reframe the cost-benefit-analysis in our terms. Commodification is simply an extension of mimicry and should be addressed as such. Focus should perhaps lie on building the community. Our lives are more networked than any other time yet simultaneously more alienated, tribes mediated by technology. It is in this light that I find my muse, to illuminate the current state of things is to look to the past, yet it is essential to the move forward.
I motion for a thinktank of the arts. Divide and conquer can no longer rule the art community if it is to survive and thrive. The division of labor cannot rule what is a holistic process of creation. The art community is larger than ever before (as much because of population growth as the GI bill) and the only way to secure such a hydra from impacting the status quo is to sow/fund division and control through ownership. The corporate model is defined by capital. That cannot align with our goal. Whether our systems/methods become absorbed by capitalism later on is to be observed and considered yet remains immaterial - the inherent tragic/comic of human endeavors (adbusters becomes viral marketing, yet similar to Kandisky's avant garde the initiator is already two steps ahead). I donot argue for the end of specialization itself because that has been taken by Art Education. What I do posit is interdisciplinary collaboration, joint efforts at outreach, but most importantly the organization of a central structural support for such endeavors, our own network of "leadership schools" and Heritage Foundations. Ideologically I find in Deleuze's schizoanalysis that perhaps there is methodology outside of/in opposition to traditional structure that can afford us the authority of difference and the insight of chaos theory. We must reframe the debate by changing the language.
The republicans know what they need to do because they have a network of expertise that has studied effectiveness of measures, formulated strategory and most importantly have founded/funded an amalgam of ideologies to justify the immediacy of their actions no matter how mundane/extreme. This wealth of war strategy would be worthless without a well-oiled media hydra of their own. They have accomplished with less people and enormous monetary effort what took the radicals of the sixties an army to establish (underground newspapers, pirate radio, phone networks, church groups, etc.).
There is an army out there untapped by the art community. They marched for immigrant rights, they reported from the scene for alternative media, they marched to protest the war before it even started, they marched every WTO summit and they ranged the gamut from wacko to concerned citizen. The republicans found the pools of disillusioned evangelicals, disgruntled libertarians, and wary extremists. Now they are branching from "party politics," funding tea parties and reaping fresh corporate coffers full of our tax money. But theirs is a losing battle because it is always uphill. Yet they understand they have to throw more than money at their "problems," they must build a close-knit community that shares a common language specifically crafted toward their goals.
What is the alternative to becoming the capitalist? I'm not sure anyone can remember a time when such a question was asked (that wasn't undermined by the rubber bullets dipped in angeldust). What I can speak to is the origins of the studio craft and arts in general as always one of many hats never able to fully sustain the artist alone. Thus in this sense the predicament is a new one. Before suffrage there was no disenfranchisement. At the same time it does remain in league with the profile of sports careers insofar as wild success or financial stability are even a remote possibility.
I have no problem with a transparent supply chain but the intrinsic anti-capitalist nature of vertical monopolies cannot be justified by anyone but a robberbaron and if the laws on the books were enforced they would not exist.
Agreed, guns don't kill people but we do require the manufacturer to add a safety.
This is fun.
Best,
Sean
Translated by Django Engels Allende
I think we are in complete agreement. The current state of the art community is unique historically, yet within the cycles of history we probably are seeing the sixties and seventies. In place of Viet Nam we have the last spasms of democracy choking on the purses of the new robberbarons - multinational corporations (the "college of corporations" from Network). We have a populace disenfranchised by the learned helplessness from the gospel of consumption that has been declared the central tenet of the American Dream (shades of such were seen upon the return from WWII when the war machine needed to manufacture fresh fodder to avoid contraction). The new reach of capital into the realms of the biological will only serve to deepen the malaise of modern man circa Georg Simmel.
Indeed. The devil is in the details. Gentrification is a perfect example of the implementation of laissez-faire capitalism to improve a neighborhood through colonization and displacement rather than the alternative of investment in community, education, and reorganizing/strengthening the present community structures. Such efforts require centralized oversight, regulations with teeth that demand balanced competition and perhaps a larger initial investment that is less focused on speculation (Adam Smith's healthy capitalism that sounds eerily like socialism).
As to whether there is an inside/outside to capitalism I can only speculate. Where does the line get drawn? The studio, the classroom, the gallery, print media, private collections or auction block? Is it an internal struggle that becomes an aspect that influences creation? I think that's an opaque realm that is guided by education, media and ideology. The same question arises when a van gogh goes for millions at auction. Should the artist (heirs) see the fruits of the labor? Or has the art object been transported to a realm of its own power? That question underlines notions of ownership that change according to cultural structures. Could such an inquiry bear fruit? Absolutely.
With the rise of infotainment in place of actual news, the relativity of expertise has arisen much to the detriment of all. An overthrow of unchecked/unwarranted authority is nothing short of necessary, yet there must be a reassessment/restructuring of authority and its checks and balances in the power vacuum. We must establish another institution in its place, risk becoming that which we despise and attempt to ensure that the same mistakes are not committed.
The "beast" has been starved and as we watch it writhe we must prepare to rebuild.
It is in this sense that I find my charge. Examine the patient on the table, look to history, tradition, innovation and reframe the cost-benefit-analysis in our terms. Commodification is simply an extension of mimicry and should be addressed as such. Focus should perhaps lie on building the community. Our lives are more networked than any other time yet simultaneously more alienated, tribes mediated by technology. It is in this light that I find my muse, to illuminate the current state of things is to look to the past, yet it is essential to the move forward.
I motion for a thinktank of the arts. Divide and conquer can no longer rule the art community if it is to survive and thrive. The division of labor cannot rule what is a holistic process of creation. The art community is larger than ever before (as much because of population growth as the GI bill) and the only way to secure such a hydra from impacting the status quo is to sow/fund division and control through ownership. The corporate model is defined by capital. That cannot align with our goal. Whether our systems/methods become absorbed by capitalism later on is to be observed and considered yet remains immaterial - the inherent tragic/comic of human endeavors (adbusters becomes viral marketing, yet similar to Kandisky's avant garde the initiator is already two steps ahead). I donot argue for the end of specialization itself because that has been taken by Art Education. What I do posit is interdisciplinary collaboration, joint efforts at outreach, but most importantly the organization of a central structural support for such endeavors, our own network of "leadership schools" and Heritage Foundations. Ideologically I find in Deleuze's schizoanalysis that perhaps there is methodology outside of/in opposition to traditional structure that can afford us the authority of difference and the insight of chaos theory. We must reframe the debate by changing the language.
The republicans know what they need to do because they have a network of expertise that has studied effectiveness of measures, formulated strategory and most importantly have founded/funded an amalgam of ideologies to justify the immediacy of their actions no matter how mundane/extreme. This wealth of war strategy would be worthless without a well-oiled media hydra of their own. They have accomplished with less people and enormous monetary effort what took the radicals of the sixties an army to establish (underground newspapers, pirate radio, phone networks, church groups, etc.).
There is an army out there untapped by the art community. They marched for immigrant rights, they reported from the scene for alternative media, they marched to protest the war before it even started, they marched every WTO summit and they ranged the gamut from wacko to concerned citizen. The republicans found the pools of disillusioned evangelicals, disgruntled libertarians, and wary extremists. Now they are branching from "party politics," funding tea parties and reaping fresh corporate coffers full of our tax money. But theirs is a losing battle because it is always uphill. Yet they understand they have to throw more than money at their "problems," they must build a close-knit community that shares a common language specifically crafted toward their goals.
What is the alternative to becoming the capitalist? I'm not sure anyone can remember a time when such a question was asked (that wasn't undermined by the rubber bullets dipped in angeldust). What I can speak to is the origins of the studio craft and arts in general as always one of many hats never able to fully sustain the artist alone. Thus in this sense the predicament is a new one. Before suffrage there was no disenfranchisement. At the same time it does remain in league with the profile of sports careers insofar as wild success or financial stability are even a remote possibility.
I have no problem with a transparent supply chain but the intrinsic anti-capitalist nature of vertical monopolies cannot be justified by anyone but a robberbaron and if the laws on the books were enforced they would not exist.
Agreed, guns don't kill people but we do require the manufacturer to add a safety.
This is fun.
Best,
Sean
Translated by Django Engels Allende
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