Saturday, March 23, 2013

SILENT, BLOODLESS, THEY COME AT US WITH NUMBERS













I read the news, I watch the TV, I join the dots. I feel ill. I hope I’m wrong but Cyprus and Detroit only seem to confirm that we are in the middle of a global coup d’etat by the world’s bankers. This from Glenn Ford

“From Nicosia, Cyprus, to Detroit, Michigan, the global financial octopus is squeezing the life out of society, stripping away public and individual assets in a vain attempt to fend off its own, inevitable collapse. The bankers “troika” that effectively rules Europe prepares to reach into the individual accounts of ordinary depositors on the island nation of Cyprus to fund the bailout of their local banking brethren. Across the Atlantic, a corporate henchman makes arrangements to seize the assets and abolish the political rights of a Black metropolis. The local colorations may vary, but the crisis is the same: massed capital is devouring its social and natural environment. Either we liquidate the banksters, or Wall Street will liquidate us. Detroit and the people of Cyprus share the same enemy, a class that is beyond the reach of simple civil rights suits. The Lords of Capital on Wall Street and the City of London and the Federal Reserve in Washington and in the “troika” at Brussels confront their own existential crisis, which compels them to liquidate the public sector so that it can eventually be transferred to their own balance sheets. There are many ways to accomplish this, through privatization of existing public institutions, or by simply blowing a hole in public services and allowing privateers to fill the void, subsidized by public funds. However, nothing can save the banksters from inevitable, and increasingly imminent, collapse. Ever-increasing profit margins must be achieved, somehow, or the system implodes. Hundreds of trillions of notional dollars in derivatives must be serviced and fed by a class that makes nothing and can only survive by chicanery and coercion by governments under their control.In Cyprus, they are prepared to brazenly snatch euros directly from working and retired people’s accounts to fund a bank bailout, without even bothering to construct a convoluted pathway from the victims’ accounts to their own. They have reached the point of outright confiscation, and will not stop until they have stripped society of the potential to save itself from the ruins. We have no choice but to confiscate them – to destroy them utterly as a class.” (Click here for the rest)

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The secret word is Stealth

HEY TONY…















How close are current banking practices to RICO predicates for a criminal conspiracy? 

Friday, March 22, 2013

IN THE FUTURE THE CIA WILL KNOW EVERYTHING













Did you think no one would notice what you were doing on Facebook?

“Speaking at a technology conference in New York City Wednesday night, CIA chief technology officer Ira Hunt stated that the CIA "fundamentally [tries] to collect everything and hang on to it forever," referring to massive troves of personal data that have become increasingly accessible through online and wireless technology. Text messages, social media, online videos, and 'cloud' data storage technologies have proliferated in recent years and the CIA is hungry for more development in technology that could potentially store and organize all such information in unprecedented databases, referred to as 'Big Data'. "The value of any piece of information is only known when you can connect it with something else that arrives at a future point in time," Hunt said. "Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever." Hunt did not reveal how and through what vehicles the CIA would gain access to every piece of cyber information that citizens put out there, but he did express the agency's unrelenting desire for technology and intelligence capabilities—such as advanced storage facilities—that would allow them to do so. "It is really very nearly within our grasp to be able to compute on all human generated information," Hunt said. "You're already a walking sensor platform," he added. "You are aware of the fact that somebody can know where you are at all times, because you carry a mobile device, even if that mobile device is turned off," he said. "You know this, I hope? Yes? Well, you should." Hunts statements arrive shortly after reports surfaced earlier this week that Amazon has signed a 10-year contract with the CIA worth $600 million to develop a vast cloud storage infrastructure for the agency.”

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The secret word is Sideways

THE FROZDICK FAMILY
















Bonnie-Jo Frozdick did not want to be photographed on the back of Elvis’ motorcycle.

Monday, March 18, 2013

EGO UNCHAINED





















A few weeks ago my pal and poet the excellent Ben Graham conducted a marathon interview round here at Alexandra Villas and finally it’s posted. Just click here and it's your’s for the reading.

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The secret word is Promotion 

Sunday, March 17, 2013

SUNDAY BREAKFAST





















When our long time comrade and running buddy HCB introduced me to THE CREATURE, his purpose was unclear. I didn’t know what was expected of me. What should I do with IT on this weary St. Patrick’s Sunday morn after I had spent long hours in a recording studio with the rest of the Deviants cutting a brilliant new single? Should I deep fry IT in batter, should I feed IT to Finn the cat, or lead IT gently by tentacle to a taxi and thence to a cheap hot-sheet motel and engage in a star slippery-sucker naked-lunch congress (perhaps with live video.) What would Jim Morrison have done? I asked HCB his opinion but HBB was of absolutely no help. He merely questioned the quality of the hotel. I pointed out that the Savoy didn’t take guests with tentacles and I hung up.

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The secret word is Fhtagn 

MARILYN SEZ…




















“I’m leaving Farren with his squiddly paramour and going for a drive.”