Pacific Rimjob Party

Waaalll....y'all know...

That Yuan-thing is getting kind of interesting.

For the last five years I've been bitchin' about the Commie Menace, and I'm glad other people are noticing. I started to get worried when I started seeing the same ticket prices on manufactured articles that I'd seen in the early 70's ; given the amount of inflation since then, it's a weird boon. So you're a pinko government. So you:

1) Fuck your workers by turning them into slaves. Political prisoners are, of course, ideal fodder for "re-education through labour" camps;

2) You wait for the assholes in charge of North America to destroy their own manufacturing sector with deregulation and "free" "trade";

3) You wait for the assholes in charge of North America to destroy their Free Trade Agreement just as oil is peaking;

4) You then (i.e. "watch for it!") start or wait for a trade war with America, and when things get nasty, you put a $300% tariff on textiles and vinyl goods, destroying your own manufacturing sector (see below). A $4.50 shirt at WalMart is now a $15.50 shirt, like it was twenty years ago. People stop throwing stuff away, and remember what a needle and thread kit are for. Whoops! That needle and thread kit has a label which reads, "Made in China"! That'll be $5.50, please. You make sure prices are kept just low enough to ensure that your warehoused goods will slowly dribble into the American market, and so that the Amerikkkanskis won't be able to start up their factories again.

Actually, keep prices low enough to fuck the Koreans and Mexicans, too.

5) The Americans fire back. The resulting trade war destroys commerce in China. Except, only about 4% of China's economy is internal; most people live in the country and feed duck shit to their Bok Choi, so they'll have something to eat next month. THEY'RE fine. Remember? Mao had a PEASANT revolution, the thing Marxist-Leninism said was impossible; the "proletariat" is the INDUSTRIALISED labour class. You starve the proletariat and their capitalist-running-dog urban overlords, the new Chinese "middle class", right the fuck out of Beijing/Peking and Urumchi. Millions die of starvation and poverty-vectored disease in cities. The birds start dropping first.

China will take over the world when it figures out how to terminate 10% of its population overnight. Probably this:

a) The above;

b) A conventional war (India?) to take care of the huge surplus of sexually-frustrated, aggressive young men the state's "one family; one child" policy has wrought;

c) The hydrogen bombs stashed under the Three Gorges Dam(n);

d) Birdflu

The Renaissance happened because 1/3 to 2/3 of everyone around you back then died screaming, with black "buboes" erupting from their armpits and groins. Remember the corpse-gatherer in Holy Grail?

"Bring out yer dead!...."

But you got all the stuff that the dead guys used to own.

The New Rich of China will be lynched by their peasant brethren, who will eat their livers and prosper (it happened in the Cultural Revolution). The idle factories will be nationalised, their warehouses opened to the starving masses - mass re-industrialisation will occour in a way that is primarily geared to internal consumption...fuck the West! With a little re-collectivization here and retooling there, Chinese industry will be ready to provide 5'-wide woks for collective kitchens that no-one in the West will want to buy, nor which could be used in the average kitchen over here. Same for the tiny, little Mao costumes with the bum all in the wrong place for us. And the wee sandals. They'll have all the shit they need, and we'll have fuck all.

And when their millions die off, the survivors will be so horrified that they'll swallow the bait, hoot, line and sinker that "capitalism didn't work...look at all the disasters it brought!" in a kind of commie 9/11 that allows the state to hypnotise the masses into slavery. Watch for a second great Commie revolution to take place, coming soon to a Pacific theatre (of war) near you! The state will become the sole capitalist.

I keeps tellin y'all...Russian or Chinese, doan' matter...."THEY"'ve become a fucked up version of capitalism, and WE'RE going to become a fucked up version of communism. It's all in the plan.

The Turning of the Worms

The Media Is The Massage

I hate to be the Prophet of Doom N' Gloom (who am I kidding? I love it! I roll around in it like a dog rolling around in a dead animal's carcass!) but I was just flipping through some blog posts and news articles detailing the meteoric fall of Dubya's approval ratings. Don't get me wrong; this is a good thing, a very good thing. But the first thing I thought when I saw one of those graphs that show him at 51% approval in January and 36% approval today is : "Hey, what's different? What's happened to make his numbers plummet? What awful thing has he done in the intervening months to cause this?!?" The answer is nothing. Nothing has happened since January that didn't happen in the 3 years prior to January. In fact, it's fair to say that it's pretty astounding that he could have pulled the shit he did in those 3 years and wind up with 51% approval, and that things only started to go bad when, well, when nothing happened.

Soldiers keep getting blown away for no discernible reason but they don't even make single-line links on news sites anymore. And no one remembers who the fuck Saddam or Osama are. And even the British bombings were covered like a hurricane forecast that turned out to be overcast with a few showers. Okay, something did happen : Karl Rove. And when he stopped being Flavour of the Picosecond, Cindy Sheehan. What do these two have in common? The media. In the last few months, the media has smelled blood in the water and has shifted gears. Why? Because they can see the tide turning better than anyone and when the balance tips, they're front and center with poison pens ready to strike. Not because they too have suddenly understood how horribly they've been duped... they've never been duped. They just go with what works to sell newspapers. Doesn't anyone remember the extreme political correctness wave from 10 years ago? Wasn't that just the liberal equivalent of the shrieking "Save the Family" right wing crazies we hear about now? There was no end to the coverage on that crap and it wasn't Republicans pushing it.

But what does it say when 15% of the U.S. public can just change their mind for no more reason than the media is telling them to change their mind? It says this: nothing will change, ever, since such a huge chunk of the public can be made to dance so easily at the end of a string. It doesn't matter if Dubya goes down in flames, or who replaces him, Republican, Democrat, Green Party, aliens from Alpha Centauri... the Media is the puppet-master and the Great Unwashed are the stupid dopes that will believe anything they're told.

Knowing this is not really depressing, but knowing this is how it's always been and is how it will always be, is.

Have a nice day!

- g-spot -

Fifteen Years After: A critical review of World War Four

So, exactly sixty years ago, before I was writing this, there were tons of people in Nagasaki wondering, "Whatthefuck!!!" because Hiroshima had just been obliterated. By the time you are reading this, exactly sixty years earlier their faces had already been burnt into the bottoms of their breakfast rice bowls by a flash brighter than the sun. Happy August 8th. Maybe we should recognise this as the International Day of Suspense.

Maybe I'm thinking about this because I ran into two separate Japanese friends today. Sixty years ago, they were "THEY", the Yellow Horde.

Whenever one is dealing with "They", it should be borne in mind that "They" are the sneakiest fucks around, and "They" will resort to chicanery, deceit, murder and mayhem in pursuit of "Their" heinous ends. So we have to fight fire with fire. We gotta get heinous on "Their" asses before "They" do it to "Us".

Except, of course, that there is no "they" and "us" when it comes to radioactive fallout; we all have measurable decay products left in our bones from atmospheric testing, all those years ago.

This "kick they asses!" philosophy, however, was the spirit of the times six decades ago, when the newspapers proclaimed that the "Military Target" at Hiroshima had been destroyed. The same thing had happened to the "military targets" in Dresden, of course, and at the world's largest massacre, the Tokyo fire bombings in the spring of 1945, significant horrors which have become erased from the collective historical and moral consciousness under the shadow of a mushroom cloud. You don't need nukes to do very bad things. They just help a lot.

Still, it's incumbent upon the user of nukes to prove to his public that a device which can burn the skin off half a human from three miles away is actually a Force of Good. That's where the "military target" moniker comes in handy, if one is justifying the atomic slaughter of Japanese civilians. Which, as history is starting to demonstrate, was more of a means for Truman to kick-start the Cold War than a way of ending the Pacific War. Japan was fucked; they were distilling trees as fuel. After Midway, it was game over. But that's just a series of entries in Truman's war cabinet record, and not a grounds for debate (anymore), so let's move on. And "terrorism" is just the new peril, same as the old peril...so...

Kosovo. Iraq. Afghanistan. Iraq. Yes, that's Iraq twice. If you conduct a water cooler pool tomorrow, on "Nagasaki Day", you probably won't get the exact, correct response to the question:

"How, exactly, are these places like Japan in August, 1945?"

You'll probably hear, "They've all been fucked with bombs and guns and the other joys of war, courtesy of the U.S. and her allies", seeing as how Japan isn't and has never been high on the list of countries with Muslim populations. All these others are heavily Muslim, however. But that's not it.

Yes, that's right; they've all been "military targets" over the last little while. Yes, that's getting "hotter".

But noooo...that's not quite it yet. It's not just the "war" or "military target" things. Go check the levels of background radiation in these places for a little revisit to the balmy, glowing Pacific shores of yore, sixty years ago. Or, just google the phrase "depleted uranium" for over 600,000 pages of information...or...if you're into a more esoteric nightmare on the Web, google for, "Uranium Oxide" and "Battlefield", together, to get the real rap. Just in case you hadn't noticed.

What you'll find is some real grist for the chatter mill of that water cooler in the period between Nagasaki Day and September second, the day Japan actually formally surrendered. I suggest we call it "Nuclear Month", out of nostalgia. Here's the gist: the United States and her allies has found that "Depleted" Uranium is the primo tool for the omnicidal clearing of political, economic and military "hotspots". Like Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. And "hot" they are, to use an expression that's fallen out of use for the effects of radioactive decay.

Uranium, as we learned from CNN back in the good ol' First Gulf War, makes great, heavy-duty tank shielding, and as it turns out, it's a groovy death substance when used in missile warheads and other toys of mayhem. In Kosovo 34 tons of Uranium-238 munitions were used, as admitted by the U.S.; in 1991 in the Gulf War, between 325 to 900 tons (depending on whether you're listening to the Pentagon or not, respectively); and, in Gulf War Part II, an estimated 2200 tons of U-238. Afghanistan is another recent beneficiary of this improved Nuclear Age.The sources for this highly flaky, conspiritorially-minded data, should anyone ask you, comes from the 2003 reports by the U.N. Environmental Program on Yugoslavia and similar NGO publications over the last ten years or so. Kill your T.V. and mainline Google, instead. Anyway....

That's four nuclear wars that have gone completely unnoticed in the international media. In 1990 the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) estimated that if 50 tonnes of DU were to be used in the Gulf it would cause an extra 500,000 cancer deaths. Using this UKAEA estimate in conjunction with the supposed amounts of U-238 released into the biosphere by military actions, as per the figures above, it can be estimated that around 25,250,000 deaths should result. That's around the population of Iraq. The test group for this Peak Oil depopulation programme was the legion of 700,000 American soldiers (and their allies) in Gulf War One who fought for mere weeks, but amongst whom more than 240,000 are on permanent medical disability. Over 11,000 are dead. That's a matter of public record. And, that's the tip of the iceberg: the grisly catalogue of birth defects, cancers, et al can be found, yet again, with a little intelligent googling.

Have you noticed in the mainstream media this week that "everyone" is unhappy with "They", over in Iran and North Korea, because "They" want to develop nuclear power for ostensibly peaceful purposes? "They" are lying, we're told, and should probably be "pre-emptively" nuked with small yield tactical hardware. U-238 provides options. That's one of the charms of DU, isn't it? As neither a fission nor fusion atomic armament, it slips through the cracks of definition, and blurs the line between 'conventional' and 'nuclear' warfare. You don't need a towering mushroom cloud to apply WMD diplomacy anymore; you just need to spray a curtain of ceramic uranium oxide death from a few A-10s. Political power proceeds from the glowing of a barrel of nuclear waste...apologies to Mao Tse-Tung.

Maybe we should have International Nuclear Hypocrisy Month, instead.

The Turning of the Worms

You say "Osama", I say "Goldstein", Let's call the whole thing off!

There is no Osama bin Laden. There, I said it. Oh, I'm not saying he's not / was / is a real person... his existence is as well documented as, let's say, Jesus Christ's (which isn't exactly encyclopedic in detail but sufficient enough to suggest that he actually walked the planet at some point in some form or another). But seriously: the guy popped up after 9/11 and took the heat for the whole thing (or sort of kind of seemed to... I don't recall hearing any details mentioning the pilots by name or anything), and since then, he's resurfaced *once*! The day before Dubya's wholesale theft of a second American presidential election, he comes out of nowhere to threaten The Great Unwashed with death and destruction. Hmm, if I wanted to stop Bush and I had even the most rudimentary understanding of the Redneck American psyche, it's kind of the last thing I'd do at that particular moment, don't you think?

So in 4 years, he's made the news, what, a million times, but only appeared in some kind of verifiable form, twice. For all we know, he's got himself a villa in the south of France paid for by Haliburton or the House of Saud or whomever, and every once in awhile, somebody from head office asks he'd mind standing in front of a camera to demonize the West for a few minutes. Nice work if you can get it.

But maybe (just maybe, mind you), 99.9999% of Osama's press has been fabricated from the ground up by people you're traditionally led to believe are on "our side". Hmmm... In Orwell's "1984", there is a face that pops up on everyone's t.v. screen every 5 minutes (sort of like the NBC peacock), which is the face of "Goldstein". He's the "enemy", although you never really find out why. Okay, so imagine Orwell's 8 ft. telescreen is your 17" computer monitor, and that "Goldstein" is pronounced "Osama" and everything falls into place, yes?

C'mon, people, what's more transparent than "transparent"?

- g-spot -