Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Disinformation



What's wrong with this picture? It depends of course on your personal preferences. O my god, hooligans have smeared slogans in our beautiful park, you might say. Bloody anarchists, they should be imprisoned/decapitated/burned at the stake somebody else might say.

My initial reaction was a smile. I like the idea of using public spaces for public communication, but something was wrong. It could have read as well: Bold people don't need hairdressers. Unless I consider this writing as purely dadaistic expression, it turns into something sinister.

The symbol suggests a statement about anarchism, yet it fails to convey anything else but public misconceptions about this way of life. Strong people don't need government. So anarchy is no good for weak people? Only the strong survive? What a lot of cow dung.

Indeed, strong people don't need government. Quite often 'strong' people govern already, or at least network sufficiently to get away with whatever nefarious scheme they came up with. I don't mind calling nepotism and corruption in politics real existing anarchy, even though it will make the expression probably even more unpopular.

A minor edit turns bullshit into a tidy slogan: People don't need government. No more neo-darwinism, no more us against them, no hierarchy of strong and weak, no implicit moral judgements. People don't need government, people need community. would even offer an answer to the panicking question about what we'd do without government.

The best way to perpetrate myths of limitations is to use unwitting helpers. Someone acted as governmental agent, and probably enjoyed the kick of doing something 'illegal'. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Who cares?



Saturday, April 11, 2009

happy easter.

Saturday, April 04, 2009

New World Order

Gordon Brown, the British Primate Master (PM), did it. 'A New World Order is emerging', claimed Brown, oblivious to the meaning of the word emergence, or rather, using manifactured Unspeak to disguise the global abolition of democracy.

Emergence seems like such a nice, natural thing in times of global emergency. Nobody will associate straight away a coup de monde, emergence rather suggest good intentions and best efforts. Bummer, we have a big problem, no clue about it last time we met, now only world government can help. Let's read this in G20 lingo:

We face the greatest challenge to the world economy in modern times; a crisis which has deepened since we last met, which affects the lives of women, men, and children in every country, and which all countries must join together to resolve. A global crisis requires a global solution.


Let's have a look at this 'greatest challenge to the world economy'. Indeed, for the last decades we faced the challenge of allowing every single human being a decent, peaceful life as our technology provided since then more than enough for everyone. By using the 'savings' of our planet (mainly oil and gas), technology advanced to a point that enabled sustainability, for all inhabitants. Now we don't need to use the sun's chemically transformed energy, and can instead harvest sun, wind, water and geo-thermal energy directly. Energy scarcity exists only locally due to the lack of technology and information transfer, modern economy forces the wheel to be invented several times to protect 'intellectual property'.

The G20 nations don't care about a system of world economy that needs ten thousands of starving children daily. They don't care that their system of global economy fosters the genocide of native people by legal hoops. They care about this very system of global economy, as it provided so much for so few with so little effort, at the expense of the world population.

We believe that the only sure foundation for sustainable globalisation and rising prosperity for all is an open world economy based on market principles, effective regulation, and strong global institutions.


I believe I can fly... well, not really, but this song came to my mind while reading this credo. We already have regulations, global institutions and market principles in place, and with those we haven't achieved sustainable globalisation and rising prosperity for all. WTO and IMF ruined quite a lot of nations before any talks about global crisis, so they seem strong even without any democratic legitimation. 'Effective regulation' and 'open economy' sound very contradictory - in a vow for more 'openness' markets have been de-regulated, mostly with the help of obviously not yet strong enough global institutions like IMF, WTO and the like.

So the simple translation of G20's credo goes like that: "We believe that more of the fairy tales that produced the problem will solve the problem." Even though the economic system never produced its desired effects, if we fiddle around some more it will do its magic. Not very convincing.

At least, some vital aspect of the problem finds its place in the G20's communique:

We have today therefore pledged to do whatever is necessary to:

* restore confidence, growth, and jobs;
* repair the financial system to restore lending;
* strengthen financial regulation to rebuild trust;
* fund and reform our international financial institutions to overcome this
crisis and prevent future ones;
* promote global trade and investment and reject protectionism, to underpin prosperity; and
* build an inclusive, green, and sustainable recovery.


The financial systems lending ability is not kaputt, you can not repair it. The actors of the financial system withdrew from their core business, lending, to blackmail governments in the non muslim world. Lending for interest constitutes the core of the problem, as money is created on the sole basis of trust. Without trust the money in your pocket and on your bank account is worth nothing, nada, nilch, niente, nix.

According to Buckminster Fuller, our accounting mechanism are inherited from the Great Pirates, designed to allow a stealthy way of accumulating wealth. It obviously still has this capacity, and 'greedy' individuals 'abused' this functionality.

If sombunall banks stop lending, it doesn't imply that the financial system needs repair. It implies the banks power to throttle entire economies as they follow their own laws. Any interest-on-credit based economy grinds to a halt without sufficient cash flow, as we currently witness.

Injecting money directly into the banking system doesn't repair the financial system, it's nothing but a ransom. The G20 communique glosses over this fact by invoking prophetic number magic.

We are undertaking an unprecedented and concerted fiscal expansion, which will save or create millions of jobs which would otherwise have been destroyed, and that will, by the end of next year, amount to $5 trillion, raise output by 4 per cent, and accelerate the transition to a green economy.


Let's do a short recall here. After the blow-up of yet another financial product banks stopped lending, and actively called for government help to get rid of their losses. Instead of taking responsibility for their irresponsible market gambling the economy was slowed down to have a mean for blackmail. Meanwhile, diverse media campaigns shifted the blame for the 'economic crisis' into random directions, far away from its origins. Instead, the perpetrators were invited as 'independent' advisors to look a solution. Not surprisingly, they negotiated immediate uncontrolled profits and power gains.

The agreements we have reached today, to treble resources available to the IMF to $750 billion, [...] and to use the additional resources from agreed IMF gold sales for concessional finance for the poorest countries, constitute an additional $1.1 trillion programme of support to restore credit, growth and jobs in the world economy.


Last month the IMF estimated that world growth in real terms would resume and rise to over 2 percent by the end of 2010. [...] We commit today to taking whatever action is necessary to secure that outcome, and we call on the IMF to assess regularly the actions taken and the global actions required.


If the 'world leaders' complain so bitterly about the abuse of prior 'stimulus packages', why do they call on the IMF to assess themselves? Wasn't this uncontrolled form of creative self-assessment one of factor to escalate the situation?

We will support, now and in the future, to candid, even-handed, and independent IMF surveillance of our economies and financial sectors, of the impact of our policies on others, and of risks facing the global economy.


Or translated: We hand the fate of this planet over to the banking system. Well done, Bilderbergers, the prisonplanet 'emerges'. Democracy got owned.

PS:
Anarchism is not

Chaos within a bloody battle for survival.
Thats what we have at the moment.

The pursuit of your selfish interest over the needs of others.
Thats what we have at the moment.

A state of total disorganisation

Thats what we have at the moment.

The triumph of the strong over the weak.
Thats what we have at the moment.

So what is it?



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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

The Group of 20 fear-mongering nations meets again. Nobody elected them. A lot of people don't want them meeting in their country. The secrecy around these talks smells like organised crime. No, it rather stinks like mafia.