Thursday, July 22, 2010

Its Hour Come Round at Last

From the jaws of Hell has come the Manifesto. Some sniffy little Brit by the name of David Cameron has taken psychopathic materialism, the commodification of everything, and total class war and dressed them up in the sackcloth of

"localization"
"communitization" (as opposed to COMMUNISM)
"co-ops, mutuals and private charities"
"people activism"

and the biggest class war lie of them all: "the entrepreneurial spirit"

What's new? The very same con-words we've been hearing since the birth of the Thatcher/Reagan Big Dark, the same con-words used to justify the attempt to dismantle every human and egalitarian achievement since the days of Robespierre.

What's new is the context.

Last month, the G20 Masters of the Universe announced policies to basically eliminate the welfare state, in order to re-establish the competitiveness of the classical capitalist powers by reducing middle- and working-class standards to the level of impoverished competitors in emerging economies such as China and India, to "equalize" the living standards of workers across the world by shoving them down as far as possible.

Greece: in the face of massive and violent popular protest, the "social democratic" government has shoved through -- with the World Bank/IMF/ECB/EU guns pointed at its head -- a series of Dickensian "austerity" measures.

Britain: the smiler-with-a-knife coalition headed by David Cameron is installed in May. Massive reduction in social protections are immediately announced.

Ireland: cuts in public workers, public salaries, social investment projects, social welfare protection, child benefit payments.

Australia: a Labor Party coup leaves Julia Gillard in charge, who immediately announces her own slash-and-burn "austerity" assault.

Spain and Portugal: two more "social democratic" governments forced at gunpoint to inflict wave after wave of social cuts, wage cuts and layoffs.

Japan: genuine populist Yukio Hatoyama is forced to resign, replaced by Zaibatsu waterboy Naoto Kan. The waterboy's first proposals? Cutting corporate tax rates from 40% to 25%, while doubling the sales tax from 5% to 10%.

Germany: billions of dollars in social and education cuts are imposed, despite having the healthiest economy in the world.

France: across-the-board reductions in local government spending and a 10% cut in guaranteed worker pensions.

The United States: the demonization of the unemployed as the chump Obama government prepares for the eventual elimination of all long-term unemployment benefits, the abandonment of all funding to bankrupt states, the creation of a "bi-partisan" commission to smooth the way for the ending of what little remains of the New Deal/New Frontier/Great Society social safety net.

Speaking of "societies": in what must be the most horrifying use yet of Orwell-Speak, the Eton/Oxford/Descendant of King William IV shitbag known as David Cameron has entitled his call for turning the earth into a cesspool dominated only by fixers, liars, conspirators, racists, tweed-covered garbage, militarists, baby-killers, sanctions-supporters, media scum, sex-haters, oil junkies, gangsters, fascist intelligence agents, drug executioners & political whores:

The Big Society

Clearly, in the wake of the biggest financial crime in human history -- a transfer of tens-of-trillions of dollars worldwide from the public sphere to the private in order to avoid a manufactured and phony "crisis of the world financial system" -- and in the wake of ten years of massive increases in police state and national security state powers justified by the equally fraudulent "war on terror" -- the vampires now feel they can get away with everything.

Because that is what they want: EVERYTHING