Politico Fails

Too many top politicians prove useless bags of shit. Perhaps starting with a few good ideas or a great policy proposal, they then ride that nag for decades. Worse than doing little or nothing, they contribute to deceit, social deterioration, and brutality.

Often these worst disappointments have demonstrated promise.

Barack Obama - I still believe he wanted to do good. He's joined The Dark Side, to impose imperial power through the universe. Like Darth Vader, he serves a master - Greed. President Obama now predicts the commands of rich businessmen, obeying before being told. 

Nick Clegg - claims he's liberal & democratic, but now only in comparison to the many right-wing friends he chummily dines with everyday. Solidly moved the UK away from fairness - supported huge tuition fees greatly favoring wealth & power (after repeatedly pledging to abolish fees); similarly gave-up on substantive House of Lords reforms. Still young & ambitious, however - maybe he'd do something positive to gain a better post.

Fredrik Reinfeldt - is a burikko (a Japanese phrase to feign cuteness). Sweden's Prime Minister does three things: strives to impose US influence on Sweden & neighbor nations, polishes his bald head, and makes-up his eyes to max cuteness. A clever person who's visualized his next move, he could still surprise with a progressive effort, trying to win-over those he's till now overlooked.

Kind to Kinder?

Cute kids push forward to cut the queue. Rather than wait in line, ambitious families risk sending their kids to the USA as illegal immigrants.

Others follow proper procedures, waiting like schmucks...

Cute kids? Clever & calculating parents? There's now no shortage of suffering American citizen kids; many cute & Christian & homeless.

The USA has created many problems in South & Central America by supporting repressive, anti-democratic oligarchs & right-wing death squads in Honduras and elsewhere. The orphans may plan vengeance. Remember in The Godfather when Vito Andolini returns to his hometown (as Vito Corleone) and skewers his familys nemesis... Our militarists and a certain wealthy elite could be similarly threatened for their continuing crimes.

The USA can't reward weasels cutting the line. The queue jumper must get no advantage. They can't expect to ignore and destroy our systems. The beguiling beggar must be sent away empty-handed.

Reward the queue jumper, & you ream folk respecting law, order & community investment. The cheater is encouraged to cheat again. Badly-behaving South and Central Americans will not be surprised at a Schwarzenegger (Terminator) welcome: "Fuck Off, Asshole."

Messing With Old Glory

News organizations worldwide are reporting on the Brooklyn Bridge American flags mysteriously vanishing  for whitewashed replacements.

The BBC is no stranger to colonialist symbolism, but reporters provided only the facts & no hypotheses:
"Authorities in New York are investigating who raised two large white flags on the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge early on Tuesday... John Miller, deputy New York police commissioner for intelligence and counter-terrorism, told reporters: "They will be prosecuted. We don't take these things lightly or as a joke or as art, or within the realm of speech." ...The flags appeared to be American flags bleached white. Authorities removed the white flags and are now searching social media for clues."

Serious & Dangerous !

Korea's Sewol Shame

The Sewol ferry disaster (16 April) gruesomely killed hundreds of Korean young people, highlighting both private-sector corruption and government incompetence. The gravely-overloaded ship was being operated criminally, but public rescue services were badly conducted. Ultimately, we saw meaningless crocodile tears from political leaders. The shocks continue.

South Korea's "Most Wanted" fugitive since the accident has been Yoo Byung-un (유병언), a Korean religious leader & wealthy industrialist whose family business networks reportedly owned & managed the MV Sewol. Details are shady due to cross-shareholding and murky definitions of asset ownership & wealth control. Korean government frictions with Yoo's religious organization have further fueled continuing corruption allegations.

In any event, "Korea's Most Wanted Man" has been in government custody for over five weeks while Korean police scoured the globe searching for him & his family. Yoo's body was found a short walk from his vacation home in Suncheon, South Jeolla Province on 12th June, but only identified today (22 July). The cause of death has yet to be determined. This long delay is surely another black eye for Korea's President, Park Geun-hye.

New Kids at the Wok

Thousands of grubby illegal immigrant children are demanding access to dining rooms & club facilities in Beverly Hills, Manhattan, and other upmarket centers.

"All we want is a better life" said one 17-year old child, who claimed to have served American CIA interests in Honduras. "And we're not stupid - nobody wants to be bussed to Detroit."

Some lice-ridden children expect to gain entry to exclusive Yale University dining clubs. "Mi madre weep mucho to America now coming. Los chinos too much make or - Now us chancing!"

In related news, a parents rally in China's Shenzhen city (深圳) was broken up by security officials, who found 48 newly-loaded shipping containers - each already packed with hundreds of Chinese children & young adults prepared for US emmigration. "We're closer to the American Dream than 99% of Americans, who don't yet realize they're corporate-controlled. And sure we're being manipulated. But before US consensus that Charity begins at home, we suck the teat of Uncle Sam."

President Barack Obama's US$3 billion immigration emergency relief fund is now inundated with business provider requests as Americans debate if uninvited guests may be spoiled or boiled. For US-supplied Israeli forces now invading Gaza, it's all good: Busy Yankee, Minimal oversight. Suggestions the immigration crisis be funded from the much larger US aid-to-Israel budget are met with silence.

Dropping Rice

Not another post on eating sushi...!

In early April 2014, Condoleezza Rice was appointed to the board of Dropbox.

I missed that news. While that company's product always seemed suspicious and liable for abuse; it's now intolerable. I'm personally happy to discontinue infrequent usage - not as part of a boycott, but because corporate judgement at Dropbox is dangerously flawed - just like Condoleezza Rice.

Meltdown Rot

The "rescue" of the economy from the 2008 meltdown continues to poison and undermine the world.

Bad practices & rotten management were allowed to remain untouched and ulcerating -- in fact, US politicians rewarded defeated private-sector speculators with public-fund grants & interest-free loans. 'Self-regulation' championed by Alan Greenspan and slavishly supported by cronies of Bush, Cheney, Clinton &  maggot-breeding Robert Rubin proved complete failure. Politicians gave our public money to handpicked cronies - undermining any correction from capitalist competition. Creepy!

The parasites survive as the US ruling class. Look beyond them to a smaller number: active, brazen, callous, deadly predators.

Vipers patrol the nursery, while filth continues to fester ...

Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley or Congress... ?

Entitled to Kill

Preparing for the 2011 APEC meeting in Honolulu, Federal Agent Christopher Deedy had a night off. After drinking with friends, the night ended badly in the early morning hours, when perhaps over-eager Deedy executed a local man inside a Waikiki McDonalds restaurant.

Deedy is on trial for murder.

Do agents of our government have carte blanche license to kill?  Is it proper that aggressiveness or public disobedience be smothered by deadly violence? Our numerous security forces are not always welcomed cheeringly - at what stage are they entitled to kill?

The Hawaii tragedy continues ...

Numbnuts DRIP

Numbnuts PM David Cameron is forcing an extreme surveillance measure through Parliament with little chance for input and no public debate. He claims it's essential for continuing life as we know it - as captive servants to an unfit feudalistic "elite"...

Amazingly, the frightening law's called DRIP - Data Retention and Investigatory Powers bill.

It's a mistake to trust these jokers - or anyone. Our assorted valuable data is already compromised and misused. Assume the database is fully infiltrated. The Cameron government is riddled with drips, incompetents & money-grubbers no match for assorted outside specialist professionals intent on continuing to profit from the information El Dorado. The Prime Minister personally brought criminal operative Andy Coulson into the heart of government, working intimately with Coulson for over three years before denouncing him. (For previous work with Rupert Murdoch, Coulson's now been convicted of illegal wiretapping).