Take a deep breath.. In America, we have the fantasy of government, of the people by the people and for the people…

But unfortunately, for us here in the USA, government instead, has turned into one whose primary job is to protect the corporation, to secure them from liability, if they accidentally kill hundreds of thousands of people, or destroy the environment.  And finally to make possible unlimited profits and access to cheap labor and resources, with only cosmetic regulation, as a way of manipulating public opinion.

The congress has also done a good job, of turning regulatory agencies into tools of corporate control, by which corporate policies, are turned into law, and corporate production practices are legitimized as safe, so that consumer’s can feel secure about the products the consume. This also has a way of legitimizing the corporate view of things, the one that it wishes American’s to believe in. 

The result has been devastating to millions of Americans.

Yet because those very same corporations are incompetent, there have been an ongoing series of crises that will continue, the stock market, unemployment, etc..  Now Greece, and soon Italy, Spain, Portugal., and the oil spill.

What is happening is a result, of the very practices of the corporations, themselves, their way of doing business, and the outlaw and predatory nature of their functioning, as entities free of the constraint. Something that they, themselves engineered.

What good is being above the law if you don’t engage in evil doing? And evil they have done.

You can bet, these crises will continue, and will get worse, because corporations cannot function as governments, and because the corporations themselves are the principal cause of governments not functioning. The corporations castrate government, but when something goes wrong, they finger point, and dodge responsibility. This is the bottom line for why, things will continue to get worse.
   
The have played Russian roulette with the people, and when you play Russian roulette, every so often, there’s a bullet in the chamber when you pull the trigger.

It’s only a question of time until GMO’s,  Herbicides, a nuclear accident, a software glitch, or some grey goo kills millions of us.

corr: “Finance Capitalism”.

“We must now try to sum up, to draw together the threads of what has been said above on the subject of imperialism. Imperialism emerged as the development and direct continuation of the fundamental characteristics of capitalism in general. But capitalism only became capitalist imperialism at a definite and very high stage of its development, when certain of its fundamental characteristics began to change into their opposites, when the features of the epoch of transition from capitalism to a higher social and economic system had taken shape and revealed themselves in all spheres. Economically, the main thing in this process is the displacement of capitalist free competition by capitalist monopoly. Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition, but we have seen the latter being transformed into monopoly before our eyes, creating large-scale industry and forcing out small industry, replacing large-scale by still larger-scale industry, and carrying concentration of production and capital to the point where out of it has grown and is growing monopoly: cartels, syndicates and trusts, and merging with them, the capital of a dozen or so banks, which manipulate thousands of millions. At the same time the monopolies, which have grown out of free competition, do not eliminate the latter, but exist above it and alongside it, and thereby give rise to a number of very acute, intense antagonisms, frictions and conflicts. Monopoly is the transition from capitalism to a higher system.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. Such a definition would include what is most important, for, on the one hand, finance capital is the bank capital of a few very big monopolist banks, merged with the capital of the monopolist associations of industrialists; and, on the other hand, the division of the world is the transition from a colonial policy which has extended without hindrance to territories unseized by any capitalist power, to a colonial policy of monopolist possession of the territory of the world, which has been completely divided up.

But very brief definitions, although convenient, for they sum up the main points, are nevertheless inadequate, since we have to deduce from them some especially important features of the phenomenon that has to be defined. And so, without forgetting the conditional and relative value of all definitions in general, which can never embrace all the concatenations of a phenomenon in its full development, we must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:

(1) the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; (4) the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and (5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.”

Vladimir Lenin

It’s called Faince Capitalism.

Lenin had it down cold.

All part of the ‘get rich quick’ doctrine that is now
taught at the highest schools of economics.

January 2002 oil = $19 per barrel

August 2008 oil = $147 per barrel

That was not a supply and demand event.

As oil went up in USD, USD went down in the EURO.

There was no shortage of oil at any time.

That was the collapseof USD, which led to the world wide economic collapse (except China, Cuba, and so forth).

The US Finance Capitalists had dumped an enormous amountof bad paper on the Europeans, which led to their own collapse.

Meanwhile, having got bailouts, the US Finance Capitalists first shorted USD with Federal funds, and then went to work on the EURO.

Now they expect not only the US population but the Greeks and other Europeans to pay for the
Finance Capitalists’ blunders and frauds and theft with thirty years of debt credit slavery.

The Greeks, for one nation, will have none of it.

Unlike the Americans they are not docile sheep and they know exactly what is going on.

The Greeks lead the way. The revolution has begun.

Americans can either wake up and start fighting their own exploitation or go the way of sheep sucked dry by vampires.

US Capitalism is systematic violence against the world, the environment, and its own people.

I knew this was coming.  I read Naomi Klein’s the Shock Doctrine.

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The so called “financial crisis” in Greece sure sounds like “Shock Doctrine” at work
again. And if we here in America weren’t getting the message, Wall Street
manufactured a panic last Thursday by unleashing computer trading without the
requisite curbs. Our European leadership manages to select an inept politician
from Belgium to run the new European Community who has zero credibility. What
we have here is an accident waiting to happen. Once again average citizens end of
holding the bag while the billionaires in residence short the markets and blame
the poor civil servants in Greece. Unfettered free market capitalism has been an
absolute disaster this decade wiping out trillions of dollars of savings of who were
told the “fundamentals of our economy are strong”.

Brilliant article. If only those who have absolute
faith in free-market fundamentalism were able to see
for themselves the results of multinational
corporations and capitalism gone made in third world
countries. If we take the oil companies as a prime
example, what has happened in the Gulf of Mexico is
chicken feed compared with what happens in countries
like Nigeria where oil companies not only have
governments on their side (as they do here), but are
not required by Congress to clean up after
themselves. And who cares? Certainly not the majority
of American citizens (that is until some
disillusioned man from a developing country tries to
commit some terrorist act).

So far as I can tell, there should be no surprise that Greece is bankrupt.

Two years ago at tis time I was there for several weeks visiting an old friend who explained how the Greek currency went from being traded at a fixed rate when Greece converted to the Euro to a runaway devaluation from night to morning, leaving the dracma worth nothing.

That should have been a clue that Greece had nothing to back up its claims of solvency.

Just while I was there I watched the unfolding of several major corruption scandals, and the president (or prime minister?) went on t.v. and told the enraged citizens that everything was going to be okay soon—that probably within a year Hugo Chavez would come for a visit and make deals and Greece would be saved!

Really?  Greece has something Venezuela wants?  Sure was news to me, as well as a clear indicator of the level of foolishness that passes for government planning in the so-called “Euro Zone”.

While I was there the government was also running a scam to manipulate the unemployment stats—putting young folks with bachelors and masters degrees into a “training and internship program” where for a month they attended workshops on the use of computers thatwere designed for primary school children and then placed in “internships” for another month with a company thathad no jobs but let the “interns” hang around their offices and drink coffee.

For that bogus program the young folks were paid 30 euros a day.  I am not sure how much the companies that agreed tolet them drink coffee were paid.

I have lived for many years in Mexico, and I have seen this kind of Third World fatuosity at close range here—which is why I told my friend:  Greece is a banana republic which, unfortunately, even imports its bananas from Ecuador.

“Greece” is not profligate.

Worthless presumption, worthless article.

The Greek government and other governments have followed policies that make them vulnerable to pressure. Unwilling or unable to tax the rich, governments borrowed to pay for their operations in good times. Having run budget deficits in good times, these authorities are in a poor position to add more debt when it is most needed—in the current recession in particular.

As if American capitalists were not guilty enough for dominating Middle Eastern countries by force and violence for the sake of oil.  Along with that, they dominate European financial systems, tax free. A despicable system that must be controlled before it destroys the human race.

Let’s here it once again for the failed ethos that was Reaganomics!

Wait, did anybody tell that dumb son of a bitch Obama that it doesn’t work?

Oh well, we are circling the drain anyway. Just keep de-regulating and lowering taxes, that’ll do the trick. After all, those prosperous businesses will surely share the wealth with the labor that produced it.

Right?