Comments on: Bringing Down the New Berlin Walls http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/bringing-down-the-new-berlin-walls/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:23:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mulga Mumblebrain http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/bringing-down-the-new-berlin-walls/#comment-14984 Mulga Mumblebrain Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:03:35 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/bringing-down-the-new-berlin-walls/#comment-14984 Pilger reminds me of another great Australian journalist, Wilfred Burchett, reviled in his time by Rightwing liars and homunculi as Pilger is today. You need only mention Pilger's name, and the vast, scuttling army of neo-liberal, neo-conservative, Market Absolutist and downright nasty arthropods of agit-prop emerge from beneath their rocks to spew venom in his direction. Still, as the same vast horde of invertebrate liars showed in their grotesque regurgitations of bile this week, aimed at another hate-figure for the Murdoch Mediocritters, Fidel Castro, Pilger is in good company. You can tell a man by the character of his enemies, as surely as by the character of his friends. The long-term strategy of the global ruling class is, I feel, becoming more plain by the day. It is to eliminate most of the global 'surplus' population. By definition those on low incomes are surplus to requirement in a global economy where one's human value is commensurate with one's capacity for consumption. The West tolerated large populations of 'niggers', 'savages' and 'wogs' when their labour could be profitably exploited, during colonialism, and later in the era of neo-colonial exploitation under the 'Washington Consensus'. However, now the global parasite class has twigged to the impossibility of the despised masses ever rising very far up the consumption ladder, as that would bring ecological Armaggedon. To keep billions living in abject squalour, while the elite accumulate trillions, will be practically well nigh impossible. Look at the trouble and expense merely to rob Iraq of its oil and to make an example of the Lebanese and Palestinians for refusing to accept their God-ordained role as ' drugged cockroaches in a bottle'. Just as the walls around the Gazans were re-erected by the forces of 'Western Civilization' aided by the loathsome Quisling Egyptian dictatorship, so too are walls being erected around the Third World. Behind those walls, the 'useless eaters' will be expected to live out lives of suffering and despair. The local comprador class will be expected to keep the rabble in line, in the time-honoured manner of Pinochet, Marcos, Mobutu, Vorster , Sharon et al. Their reward will be the ability to visit the oases of the rich world, even to retire there. Third World elites, the technological and scientific elites the West doesn't much bother themselves to educate any more, will be harvested from their impoverished homelands, to the benefit of the rich and the detriment of the poor. No doubt this will be an unstable world, and the expense of expeditionary adventures like Iraq will prove daunting, hence the promise of 'pre-emptive' nuclear war, for purposes of mass culling and to inspire fear in others. Moreover I'm afraid I don't think the billions spent in the last few years on bacteriological warfare by the US, or the frantic search for 'ethnically specific' weapons has all been merely an exercise in disinterested scientific inquiry. I fully expect new diseases, prodigies of genetic manipulation, or derivations of zoonoses discovered by Pentagon financed expeditions to the global 'hot zones', to begin working their Malthusian magic in the vast global slums, to the barely disguised satisfaction of the global rulers. I believe the mentality of our overlords, and never forget this elite is self-selecting, vigorously rejecting those whose character formations and inclinations are 'not up to the task', is quite simple, really. Above all else there exists a tremendous antipathy to others. Whether expressed in racism, class hatred, misogyny or religious intolerance, it provides the parasitic elite with the psychological self-justification to enable their ruthless exploitation of others and the viciousness of the response when the untermenschen resist. Even amongst the elite itself, mutual detestation is rampant. It is evidenced in business competition, the 'win at all costs' and 'winner takes all' mentality, the identification of business rivals as enemies. There really must be a simple psychological mechanism that explains our species destructiveness and murderousness, and unspeakable tragedies like the fate of the Gazans, suffering the bestial, racially motivated barbarity of a people who should know, better than almost anyone, how vicious their behaviour is. It's not necessary for all people to be driven by intense hatred of other people. Sufficient enough that a system, Market Capitalism, that promotes and empowers the psychopaths, should dominate the world. The mundane, everyday behaviour of business bosses, their greed, ruthlessness and mendacity, let alone the behaviour of their propaganda flunkies in the media, is beneath the dignity of most people. Fortunately for capitalism, not only is there an hereditary ruling class ruthlessly indoctrinated in the prerogatives and visceral antipathies of the ubermenschen's ideology of perpetual dominance, but recruitment of the appropriately vicious members of the other ranks continues endlessly. With the apparent indifference of the parasite class to catastrophic climate change almost certainly camouflaging a desire to use ecosystem collapse to exterminate vast numbers of poor people (the hidden rationale behind grain for ethanol programs, in my mind) the dreadful apotheosis of Market Capitalism and its fanatical ideology of self-interest and indifference to the suffering of others is upon us. Pilger reminds me of another great Australian journalist, Wilfred Burchett, reviled in his time by Rightwing liars and homunculi as Pilger is today. You need only mention Pilger’s name, and the vast, scuttling army of neo-liberal, neo-conservative, Market Absolutist and downright nasty arthropods of agit-prop emerge from beneath their rocks to spew venom in his direction. Still, as the same vast horde of invertebrate liars showed in their grotesque regurgitations of bile this week, aimed at another hate-figure for the Murdoch Mediocritters, Fidel Castro, Pilger is in good company. You can tell a man by the character of his enemies, as surely as by the character of his friends.
The long-term strategy of the global ruling class is, I feel, becoming more plain by the day. It is to eliminate most of the global ’surplus’ population. By definition those on low incomes are surplus to requirement in a global economy where one’s human value is commensurate with one’s capacity for consumption. The West tolerated large populations of ‘niggers’, ’savages’ and ‘wogs’ when their labour could be profitably exploited, during colonialism, and later in the era of neo-colonial exploitation under the ‘Washington Consensus’. However, now the global parasite class has twigged to the impossibility of the despised masses ever rising very far up the consumption ladder, as that would bring ecological Armaggedon. To keep billions living in abject squalour, while the elite accumulate trillions, will be practically well nigh impossible. Look at the trouble and expense merely to rob Iraq of its oil and to make an example of the Lebanese and Palestinians for refusing to accept their God-ordained role as ‘ drugged cockroaches in a bottle’. Just as the walls around the Gazans were re-erected by the forces of ‘Western Civilization’ aided by the loathsome Quisling Egyptian dictatorship, so too are walls being erected around the Third World. Behind those walls, the ‘useless eaters’ will be expected to live out lives of suffering and despair. The local comprador class will be expected to keep the rabble in line, in the time-honoured manner of Pinochet, Marcos, Mobutu, Vorster , Sharon et al. Their reward will be the ability to visit the oases of the rich world, even to retire there. Third World elites, the technological and scientific elites the West doesn’t much bother themselves to educate any more, will be harvested from their impoverished homelands, to the benefit of the rich and the detriment of the poor.
No doubt this will be an unstable world, and the expense of expeditionary adventures like Iraq will prove daunting, hence the promise of ‘pre-emptive’ nuclear war, for purposes of mass culling and to inspire fear in others. Moreover I’m afraid I don’t think the billions spent in the last few years on bacteriological warfare by the US, or the frantic search for ‘ethnically specific’ weapons has all been merely an exercise in disinterested scientific inquiry. I fully expect new diseases, prodigies of genetic manipulation, or derivations of zoonoses discovered by Pentagon financed expeditions to the global ‘hot zones’, to begin working their Malthusian magic in the vast global slums, to the barely disguised satisfaction of the global rulers.
I believe the mentality of our overlords, and never forget this elite is self-selecting, vigorously rejecting those whose character formations and inclinations are ‘not up to the task’, is quite simple, really. Above all else there exists a tremendous antipathy to others. Whether expressed in racism, class hatred, misogyny or religious intolerance, it provides the parasitic elite with the psychological self-justification to enable their ruthless exploitation of others and the viciousness of the response when the untermenschen resist. Even amongst the elite itself, mutual detestation is rampant. It is evidenced in business competition, the ‘win at all costs’ and ‘winner takes all’ mentality, the identification of business rivals as enemies. There really must be a simple psychological mechanism that explains our species destructiveness and murderousness, and unspeakable tragedies like the fate of the Gazans, suffering the bestial, racially motivated barbarity of a people who should know, better than almost anyone, how vicious their behaviour is.
It’s not necessary for all people to be driven by intense hatred of other people. Sufficient enough that a system, Market Capitalism, that promotes and empowers the psychopaths, should dominate the world. The mundane, everyday behaviour of business bosses, their greed, ruthlessness and mendacity, let alone the behaviour of their propaganda flunkies in the media, is beneath the dignity of most people. Fortunately for capitalism, not only is there an hereditary ruling class ruthlessly indoctrinated in the prerogatives and visceral antipathies of the ubermenschen’s ideology of perpetual dominance, but recruitment of the appropriately vicious members of the other ranks continues endlessly. With the apparent indifference of the parasite class to catastrophic climate change almost certainly camouflaging a desire to use ecosystem collapse to exterminate vast numbers of poor people (the hidden rationale behind grain for ethanol programs, in my mind) the dreadful apotheosis of Market Capitalism and its fanatical ideology of self-interest and indifference to the suffering of others is upon us.

]]> By: hp http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/bringing-down-the-new-berlin-walls/#comment-14810 hp Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:17:24 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/bringing-down-the-new-berlin-walls/#comment-14810 Shocking! The Zionist/Jews playing both sides just as they did with the Nazis. The so-called innocent unknowing Israeli 'citizens' are innocent and unknowing because they choose to be. Shocking! The Zionist/Jews playing both sides just as they did with the Nazis.
The so-called innocent unknowing Israeli ‘citizens’ are innocent and unknowing because they choose to be.

]]> By: Wingnut http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/bringing-down-the-new-berlin-walls/#comment-14653 Wingnut Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:42:52 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/bringing-down-the-new-berlin-walls/#comment-14653 Well said and well thought, John. Sad, but, very accurate. I am an allegiance-unpledged American, and I was VERY disappointed to see the democratically-elected Hamas party... get shoved out-of office by American-led pressures and embargos. So much for promoting democracy, eh? With a giant felony pyramid scheme of servitude going, like capitalism, the upper 1/3 of the rat-racing pyramid is "head in the clouds". And just like the childhood farmyard pyramids, the people on the bottom are GETTING HURT AND KILLED from the weight of the world's knees in their backs. This is called an "imperialism" as you likely know... and it is due to those upper pyramid-o-servitude "heads in the clouds"... that the rulers/controllers cannot see the pile of dead bodies near the exhaust pipe of their gruesome harvesting machine. Commun'ism and socialism works GREAT in the U.S. military supply system (survival system) and it works great for the USA Public Library System. Ii think we all had better bust the giant pyramid scheme and get back to church playground-grade equality and enforcement thereof. No more working FOR others, only WITH others. And to take it all the way, and since we all see the AmWay (American Way) pyramid scheme symbol on the back of the USA one dollar bill, why not just eliminate economies worldwide? Economies just cause pyramiding, and they are a cancerous growth. Why cheer for cancer growth? WE should eliminate economies, (pricetags, bills, timecards, money, ownership, ranking), minimize the production of luxuries, put all supplies (and luxuries) in moneyless and ownerless repositories ruled by 'custodians', and live better (more fair) lives. Do it JUST LIKE the military supply system, where all of mankind and Earthkind are on the same team... and we're on our way to a pyramid scheme-less, tug-o-war-less, better way of life. Too many USA parents' traditions, as well as force from free-marketeer pricetags blocking survival goods, are forcing the 18 yr old kids to join the church-o-competing (capitalism) and thus forsaking the church-o-cooperating (Christianity/socialism). I personally prefer communism/community over capitalizing/capitalism. I'm a Christian socialist, and proud of it. Nice article, JP! Keep up the excellent work! Larry "Wingnut" Wendlandt MaStars - Mothers Against Stuff That Ain't Right (anti-capitalism-ists) Bessemer MI USA Well said and well thought, John. Sad, but, very accurate. I am an allegiance-unpledged American, and I was VERY disappointed to see the democratically-elected Hamas party… get shoved out-of office by American-led pressures and embargos. So much for promoting democracy, eh?

With a giant felony pyramid scheme of servitude going, like capitalism, the upper 1/3 of the rat-racing pyramid is “head in the clouds”. And just like the childhood farmyard pyramids, the people on the bottom are GETTING HURT AND KILLED from the weight of the world’s knees in their backs. This is called an “imperialism” as you likely know… and it is due to those upper pyramid-o-servitude “heads in the clouds”… that the rulers/controllers cannot see the pile of dead bodies near the exhaust pipe of their gruesome harvesting machine. Commun’ism and socialism works GREAT in the U.S. military supply system (survival system) and it works great for the USA Public Library System. Ii think we all had better bust the giant pyramid scheme and get back to church playground-grade equality and enforcement thereof. No more working FOR others, only WITH others. And to take it all the way, and since we all see the AmWay (American Way) pyramid scheme symbol on the back of the USA one dollar bill, why not just eliminate economies worldwide? Economies just cause pyramiding, and they are a cancerous growth. Why cheer for cancer growth? WE should eliminate economies, (pricetags, bills, timecards, money, ownership, ranking), minimize the production of luxuries, put all supplies (and luxuries) in moneyless and ownerless repositories ruled by ‘custodians’, and live better (more fair) lives. Do it JUST LIKE the military supply system, where all of mankind and Earthkind are on the same team… and we’re on our way to a pyramid scheme-less, tug-o-war-less, better way of life. Too many USA parents’ traditions, as well as force from free-marketeer pricetags blocking survival goods, are forcing the 18 yr old kids to join the church-o-competing (capitalism) and thus forsaking the church-o-cooperating (Christianity/socialism). I personally prefer communism/community over capitalizing/capitalism. I’m a Christian socialist, and proud of it.

Nice article, JP! Keep up the excellent work!

Larry “Wingnut” Wendlandt
MaStars - Mothers Against Stuff That Ain’t Right
(anti-capitalism-ists)
Bessemer MI USA

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