“England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire.”
William S. Burroughs, The Western Lands
“Economic relations with our East Asian satellites have, for example, hollowed out our domestic manufacturing industries and led us into a reliance on finance capitalism, whose appearance has in the past been a sign of a hitherto healthy economy entering decline...
In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows. Although people usually know what they have sown, our national experience of blowback is seldom imagined in such terms because so much of what the managers of the American empire have sown has been kept secret.”
Chalmers Johnson, Blowback
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them."
Arundhati Roy, War Talk
Stocks hit the 50% retracement from the recent steep decline.
Stock market option expiration for May tomorrow.
The dollar strengthened while gold and silver declined.
A cartel of Banks led by Citi were fined $1.2 Billion for manipulating the foreign exchange market.
Over the past twenty years, a cartel of traders manipulating almost every market have been exposed, one by one.
These are serial felons, career criminals. That we tolerate their drain upon society is a remarkable testament to the corrupting power of big money on the government regulators and the professional class which crafts the narratives being presented to both move and pacify the public.
Have a pleasant evening.
