Saturday rerun. Revised post from 2014-10-09
The constant state of war appears to be an uncontrollable natural force of politics on a rampage. It’s not. It’s policy. The explicit desire for constant war was spelled out in 2002 by Philip Bobbitt and adopted as the chosen course of action by the captains of the ship of state.
Corridors of Power
F. Scott Fitzgerald described the Ivy Club at Princeton University as being “breathlessly aristocratic”. That was in 1920. It was no less aristocratic in 1970 when Philip Bobbitt was its president. Bobbitt can trace his pedigree to the early southern colonies in the 1600s and names his uncle Lyndon Johnson as one of his mentors.
“Public servant” Bobbitt has served as advisor to presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barak Obama. He frequents The White House as if it was his local pub and seems to have a pass key to all the influential institutions of the government. He’s worked on the charter of the CIA, was director for Intelligence Programs for the National Security Council, etc. etc. & etc. When not whispering in the ears of power, he speaks authoritatively as a professor of international law at Harvard, Colombia, Yale, Princeton, Oxford and the University of Texas. His fan club includes Tony Blair, David Cameron, John Howard and Henry Kissinger who described him as “the* outstanding political philosopher of our time.”
(* Note that Henry says “the” and not “an”.)
You get the picture.
What is the philosophy radiating out of this “outstanding political philosopher”? His book The Shield of Achilles (2002) speaks candidly of his philosophy.
Bobbitt claims that the search for peace is “fruitless.” War is inevitable and the wise policy makers anticipate it and prepare for it so that they can shape the form it takes. Philip regards war as a strategic struggle to legitimize the formation of state authority. He uses the term epochal war to designate a greater conflict and exemplifies this with what he calls The Long War that extended from 1914 to 1990 (from the Soviet Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall). It consolidated the nation-state.
The Present Epochal War
Now that the nation-state has been established the next epochal war is under way to see who will dominate the market-state. Where the nation-state carried the promise of material welfare for its citizens, the market-state promises opportunities. (Note that I refrain from using sarcasm about the difference between material welfare and opportunities.) Bobbitt encourages leaders to create new forms for the use of force to promote and defend the market-state. Citizens should be employed as mercenaries, civil privacy should be abandoned and surveillance should be increased.
Recognize any of these policies?
But don’t be too hard on Professor Phil. When his book The Shield of Achilles came out prestigious people and reviewers calloused their fingertips writing its praises. The entire intellectual, academic and politic elite shower acclaim over this apostle of fascism. Yes, fascism. And I’m not using the word loosely.
The term market-state itself is basically a declaration of fascism. Wiktionary defines fascism as:
“a political regime ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, control of the market place, repression of criticism of opposition.”
Philip B’s market-state goes beyond a mere business-government relationship. It subordinates the political process “to the most powerful market actors.”
“… the market-state promises a ‘virtuous’ circle to those states that copy its form and obey its strictures. The privatization of state-owned firms brings immense capital gains to the state as it liquidates vast monopolies; this windfall supplements the savings from cuts in welfare programs…”
“Obey its strictures” + ”privatization of state-owned firms” + ”cut welfare programs” = austerity/shock doctrine/fascism.
In an interview in 2007 on Global Axess Bobbitt claimed the invasion of Iraq was necessary because “we couldn’t predict when Saddam Hussein could acquire nuclear weapons.”
This clearly proves that a monument of academic knowledge can produce ugly twisted reasoning. If the ultimate international crime, the initiation of war, can be justified with Bobbitt’s argument, there is no such thing as international law. Many progressive brats of America are fond of complaining about the stupidity of the “sheeple”. The majority of Americans however know more about the difference between right and wrong—and crimes of aggression—than an American professor of international law.
Prof. Phil excels in twisted reasoning. He claims that the Vietnam War was “fought to stop aggression by going to war.” And speaking of twisted logic and Vietnam, Bobbitt wrote an eulogy to former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in the NY Times (July 7, 2009). He described the man who initiated the bombing campaign that killed millions of Vietnamese as “a man of compassion”.
Many people will be surprised to learn that the intellectual elite of the empire can’t tell the difference between good and evil and worship the prospects of fascism. Naked truth has a tendency to surprise. Fascist shit doesn’t just happen. Its dark, hard values are produced by the constipated minds of the aristocrats of power.
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“If hypocrisy were a crime we’d have to build a cage around the government”
Dartwill Aquila
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Congratulations Vladimir, you’ve become the designated enemy #1 of the American Empire. No matter what you say or what you do from this time forward, the media of the empire will paint you in the darkest, most frightening colors they can mix together on their filthy pallet.
This didn’t have to happen. You could have subjected your country and your people to the will of the empire and the demands of austerity from the international development banks and thereby harvested praise, wealth and perks from the Empire. You could have swam in luxury and pretended that your desolate and impoverished people had themselves to blame. Now, you have no choice but to prepare for a fight. Your karate and chess skills will come in handy. The incompetence of the imbeciles running the empire will also be to your advantage.
The Empire with over 700 bases in 121 countries will claim that you lust for world power. Even though they toppled the elected government of Ukraine and installed pure swastika-wearing Nazis to take over, they will claim that you destroyed Ukraine. While supplying and supporting the Zionist genocide of the Palestinians they will claim you’re a monster. Despite running their torture sites throughout the world, they will shout about your inhumanity. As the roar of their bombs rip bodies and lives from innocent people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan and Pakistan they will point to you as an aggressor. Although they allow their police to kill unarmed Blacks with immunity, they will talk about your tyranny. They will continue to throw people in private prisons to work as slaves and take the resources of struggling people to give to vulgarly wealthy banksters and corporate captains while pointing out that you are unjust. They are trying to overthrow the government of Venezuela, forcing Africans to buy seeds from Monsanto, fracking the hell out of every track of land with traces of oil, ravaging the environment with the spirit of a rabid dog and constantly pounding out the message that you are a terrible person.
I hope you are aware that many (most) people in the world regard the title Empire Enemy #1 a great honor.
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“Never believe anything that someone’s says about their enemy
before hearing what their enemy has to say about them.”
Dartwill Aquila
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All the members of the USA congress are millionaires
or close to it.
Financially, they belong to the top 2% of Americans.*
Why, in your wildest imagination, would you imagine
that their decisions should favor anyone other
than the top 2% of Americans.
Why, even with a moderate intelligence,
would you assume that they represent anyone other
than the top 2% of Americans, when
simple data shows that all money flows to these political hos
while everyone else suffers with economic woes?
Why, even with an anemic IQ,
would you believe that this is democracy?
Why, in spite of your disinformed intellect,
can’t you see that the government is stealing
from you
while surveilling you claiming to protect you
from bad guys in poor countries far away in strange places?
I don’t expect you to see that 500 billionaires
— 2% of 1% of 1% of America’s millionaires —
own the congress
and use it as their administration
to get your money into their accounts.
Sorry if I’ve disturbed your comfortable myths
but I’ve been as gentle as I can.
Theft
is the very mildest of the crimes
these well-mannered, well-titled, well-merited,
well-dressed, well-smile-practiced
homegrown enemies commit.
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*(While the figures vary somewhat, this configuration of inequality is similar in most of the countries of the world.)
“If you make a monster of your enemy
you won’t even notice him
before his fangs are in your throat.”
Dartwill Aquila
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If a woman has sex with five men in an evening for money she’s a prostitute. It’s illegal and she’s committing a crime. If a woman has sex with five men in front of a camera, it’s pornography, it’s legal and she’s a porn star.
If someone takes a bribe to do something, it’s illegal and that person is a criminal. If a politician accepts lobby money to do something, it’s legal, The person taking the money is a representative of democracy.
If someone steals a little money and get caughts, it’s a crime. That person goes to prison. If a bank steals lots of money and goes broke gambling with it, it’s a mistake and a tragedy. The people’s money is given to the bank through taxes so that the directors don’t have to lose their bonuses.
If someone kills someone they go to jail for a long time or are killed themselves. If someone orders the death of thousands of innocent people, it’s part of the struggle to protect us and the person responsible is treated with honor and respect.
I could go on, but why bother. You know all this, don’t you? Whatever the powerful do is OK. Whatever we do is suspect. That’s why they’re watching us. And listening to us. And monitering our habits. And filling us with entertainment and disinformation. Who knows, we may start thinking?
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“Sometimes I can convince myself that I don’t care.”
Dartwill Aquila
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“You have to straighten your back
to see beyond the imposed limitations
and show the world
your beauty.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Hi, I’m a Wadj and my name is Kulkulius. A Wadj, pronounced ”wadge” like in badge, is the result of 180 million years of human evolution. We first survived through a narrow evolutionary passage when almost all of humanity died out.
Nanotechnology was still new when scientists were able to create a protein complex that adapted the heme group of hemoglobin to accept, instead of iron, a magnesium atom as in chlorophyl . The new protein was grafted to a hair gene allowing strands of hair to utilize energy directly from the sun. The energy accumulated by the first pale green hairs was negligible. Not so for the debate about and the resistance to the new technology which was explosive and sometimes deadly. By the time of the ”Long Summer” (years of heat, drought and short violent storms resulting from global warming) green hair had become more efficient in harvesting energy. Although no where near its potential, when provided with the sun of the Long Summer it made enough of a difference when food sources became catastrophically scarce, to permit the people with green hair to survive where those lacking this adaptation died out.
Our world lies beyond your power of imagination. You, for example, couldn’t explain light bulbs to someone from the 18th century, much less ”smart” phones. That was a few hundred years ago. Trying to talk to you over the span of 180 million years is too big a gap. But here are two main facts.
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Your world contains worms with copper teeth. (Many species of the Glycera genus.) Instead of copper teeth, try to contemplate copper, and silver, nerve extensions forming the circuitry for nano-sized computers. Although far different from your naive visions of cyborgs, each Wadj is internally wired with more computing power than your entire world contains, and it’s driven directly by the energy of the sun. We all have access to everyone on earth and can see and hear what they are seeing and hearing with near perfect fidelity.
See, I told you that the gap was too big.
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I lied. Humanity never got through the evolutionary passage. Humans died out because they abandoned their humanity. They couldn’t liberate themselves from their nationality, ethnicity, race, religion or group identity. They couldn’t unite on the basis of their humanity. It was instead another biological form that adapted vegetive, chlorophyl enhanced, energizing abilities that eventually became Wadjes.
I was advised not to tell you this, but I thought, why not? It doesn’t matter anyway. If they can’t unite on their humanity, it doesn’t matter what anyone or anything says to them.
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“In less than 10,000 years after the last human
not a trace of human arrogance
will be seen on the surface of the earth.”
Dartwill Aquila
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At the bottom of all the mountains
in a great range of mountains
were stones the size of hope
if hope was as big or as little
as a tennis ball.
Inside the heart of each stone
was a universe
with a great heart of mystery
radiating planets of illuminated secrets
toward the darkness.
Each planet contained
a great range of mountains
with stones of hope
containing a universe of wonder
in their hearts.
“He forever hunted the beast of infinity in the jungle of eternity.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Why is anti-Semitism growing?
According to Sacks, the former chief rabbi of Britain, “An ancient hatred has been reborn.”
Rabbi Miller, on the other side of the pond in Michigan, chimes in, “The rise of anti-Semitism is … the continuation of the same Jewish hatred that has raised its ugly head for centuries.”
This meme among the Jews also appears as “The awakening of the sleeping giant of anti-Semitism.”
This ancient hatred, we are told, has deep and historical roots.
What historical roots? Where do they come from? What started it?
Don’t expect any answers. We are speaking of hatred. Where is this hatred that keeps being reborn, regularly awakens and perpetually raises its head? It can’t be a natural phenomena like an earthquake, volcano or luna eclipse. Hatred is an emotion. It must reside in people. Many Jews believe that anti-Semitism is a genetic trait of the Gentiles who they call Goyim. These Jews are, in other words, as anti-Goyimistic as they believe the Goyim to be anti-Semitic. What proportion of Jews embrace this belief? I don’t know, but as about 50% of American Jews marry Goyim, it can’t be too great outside of Israel.
The rabbis mentioned above offer no clue concerning why anti-Semitism grows, awakens and lifts in head sometimes but not at others, but these intellectual Lilliputzes (sic) deny explicitly that Israeli policy has anything to do with the current growth. If stupidity were oil, the USA would invade these people.
The Jews who believe in an ancient and continuing hatred, believe themselves to be faultless. Anti-semitism is 100% a gentile defect. They can’t explain why the “defective gentiles” become antagonistic at times at not at others, but they are certain that they themselves have absolutely nothing to do with it.
Alan Hart often quotes Y. Harkabi, former Director of Israeli Military Intelligence, saying, “The biggest real threat to Israel is its self-righteousness.”
Synonyms of self-righteousness: self-centered, egotistical, arrogant, conceited, superior, smug, complacent, holier-than-thou, hypocritical, immodest, snobbish, stuck-up, high and mighty, goody-goody, vainglorious, sanctimonious, think-their-shit-doesn’t-stink, etc.
Could self-righteousness be a factor stimulating anti-Semitism (besides the Israeli Nazi-grade treatment of Palestinians?) No one likes an egotistical, arrogant holier-than-thouer.
At least 19 countries house Holocaust museums and some of them have two or more. The Netherlands has 4, Germany 8 and the USA 24. Twenty-four Holocaust museums! The Jews comprise less than 2% of the American population. The Afro-Americans make up more than 12% of the population and have lost more than three times as many lives in the slave trade as Jews in the Holocaust. Those who survived got the honor of living as slaves. How many slave museums are there in the USA? How many millions of Hispanic Americans (17% of the population) can speak of relatives and friends tortured, imprisoned, disappeared and murdered by vicious regimes, death squads and assorted corporate goons? Many people in the nations with Holocaust museums carry scars and wounds of suppression, mass murders and atrocities. They have no museums.
The remember-our-suffering Jews seem to have no memory or sympathy for other people’s suffering and are oblivious to how their cries of being a chosen victim irritate the sorrows of other people.
The Jews tell us that they’ve been persecuted for the past 2000 years. They fail to see that all minorities have been persecuted during the past 2000 years. Minorityism characterizes the plight of the Jews rather than anti-Semitism. All fractional groups, sects and cults suffered persecution regardless of their customs and beliefs when tolerance was knocked over by violent circumstances. This ‘we’ have been persecuted claim, diverts attention from general intolerance and persecutions. The slaughter of Native Americans, Cathars, Huguenots, Sicilians, Mennonites, Irish, Armenians and other peoples have left bloody pools along the roads of history. But the Jews blast away at highest volume about their suffering! Remember the Holocaust!
If the Jews were serious about their history of persecution, they should be the foremost champions in the struggle for tolerance, justice and equality. They should be the leading figures against racism, prejudice and discrimination in all its forms. But instead, the chosen people grab the spotlight as the chosen victims and seem indifferent to the sufferings of others.
This type of self-righteousness, this arrogance, threatens the Jews more than any so called ancient and mysterious anti-Semitism. Besides the arrogance and the crimes of Israel, we can also add stupidity* to the ingredients in the stew of anti-Semitism. Many Jews don’t seem to know the difference between religion and politics (Judaism and Zionism) or the difference between fiction and reality (the Bible and history).
In view of the arrogance, the stupidity and the genocide committed by a state that claims to represent the Jews, we shouldn’t ask why anti-Semitism is growing, but why it hasn’t grown stronger?
*(See Stupid Jews and Intellectuals)
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“2000 years of persecution!
Isn’t it time to thank God
for having been his favorite people
and ask him to give someone else a chance.”
Dartwill Aquila
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“In the ancient empire
they threw gladiator slaves and Christian pacifists
into the circus of death.
In today’s empire
they throw the circus of entertainment
at the minds of the citizen slaves
pacifying them to death.”
Dartwill Aquila
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Modern austerity politics is sofisticated financial theft on a national level.
It is easily recognized because, as with all theft, the victim is left without money.
Nothing less than banks as big as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank can pull off this type of robbery.
Where the Mafia calls its extortion protection, the banksters call theirs development.
Bribes to the political elite are called loans (for development) on the condition that properties, savings, services and resources are taken (stolen) from the citizens and sold cheaply (given) to the banksters and their owners.
Unlike Mafia theft, bankster theft is legal. It’s standard procedure under the prevailing imperial order where corporate tyranny crowns itself with legitimacy.
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“I’d trade a ton of their promises for one gram of nourishment.”
Dartwill Aquila
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System Humanity 