Flipping the Osama/w.Caesar Coin
Hmmm. A quick response to Charles Moore piece in the Telegraph the other day [reprinted below]: Speaking as one of the “twerp” critics Moore mentions, as far as I can tell, while Moore goes on about how the right side [ours] of this global war has to be fought and won [Spain is out [Canada [...]
No Two Term Bushes
Stunning. Just stunning. It just occurred to me that if w.Caesar doesn’t get elected next week [after being merely selected in 2000] then both Bush presidents will have been robbed of their silver-spoon birthright of a second term. That bastard Perot stole Bush 41′s second term by splitting the right vote and letting that reprobate [...]
New EU Cigarette Boxes: EEEEWWWW! [Get it? Ew?]
image from http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/scaring_smokers It’s quite exciting to see the EU develop hideous cigarette box graphics and photos of the effects of smoking. Denial is such a powerful thing. Trying to ignore what you already know–but don’t want to dwell on–is a basic human strategy for coping with distasteful things, like the true effects of how [...]
Suicide: The Province Style
The Friday, October 22, 2004 Province newspaper front page red headline reflects that paper’s continued diseased view of society. “Jumpers Snarl Second Narrow, Lions Gate Traffic.” Suicide is an issue of traffic impediment, not a human suffering issue. To their “credit” though, at least with this cold view, they are appealing to their market of [...]
Hong Kong as a Trojan Horse Capitalist Bait
Someone recently mentioned an interesting perspective on the Hong Kong turnover to China in 1997. Neo-liberal and not so neo-liberal capitalism proponents argue how great it is to use capitalism, greed, consumerism and free market forces to defeat the Chinese communist menace. It seems reasonable. Lure them with consumer goods, make them feel like consumers, [...]
Deficits: They Used to be a Left Wing Tactic, Now Let’s Watch the Right
It’s interesting to see the right-ward shift in fiscal policies of governments. Years ago, left wing Keynesian governments were often inclined to fund government with deficit financing while right wing governments stressed balanced budgets for fiscal and taxation responsibility. More recently, the agenda has both shifted to the right and flipped in a freakish fashion. [...]
MNCs and Governments: A New Cold War Proxy Relationship
There’s an interesting parallel or analogy between Cold War geopolitics and the ascendency of corporations’ relations with governments in the 21st century global trade regime. In the old days, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in proxy wars/battles in various battleground lands including the Koreas in the 1950s, Indochina in the 1950s to [...]
A Dystopic Project for a New American Century
The imperialist neo-conservative [neo-con] Project for a New American Century is a pretty terrifying doctrine, additionally so because they so boldly promote it–unashamedly. Go see the Ted Rall comic at http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/10/18/ But about on November 2nd the US presidential election will be decided. Or not. My money’s on not. The US electoral system is such [...]
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