Right-wing economics

http://www.counter-currents.com/2012/01/money-for-nothing/

Too long to quote here. Read it twice.

I often read about evil right-wing economics at sites like Naked Capitalism and similar. Apparently, the right-wing wants to grind workers into the ground for the benefit of the elite and MNC’s.

The truth is, unsurprisingly, more complicated. Individuals I would consider right-wing (here I should be using the term populist, but no matter) have at the center of activity a working man and his family.

Neo-liberalism and the rest of mainstream economics – be it supposedly right or left – is nothing more than an elaborate defense of usury.

Banks should not create money. Period. Debt-as-money enriches the usurers and impoverishes the rest.

How many usurers have been arrested?

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-mew-occupy-oakland-20120130,0,2890529.story

OAKLAND—

Dozens of police maintained a late-night guard around City Hall in Oakland, California, following daylong protests that resulted in 300 arrests. Earlier, Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke into the historic building and burned a U.S. flag, and officers earlier fired tear gas to disperse people throwing rocks and tearing down fencing at a convention center.

Saturday’s protests — the most turbulent since Oakland police forcefully dismantled an Occupy encampment in November — came just days after the group said it planned to use a vacant building as a social center and political hub and threatened to try to shut down the port, occupy the airport and take over City Hall.

These protesters do not know what they are protesting or what has gone wrong. Never mind them. Let us focus on the behavior of the state. Not a single usurer has been punished for causing the financial crash. The “economists” who benefited usury at the expense of workers (Summers, Rubin et al) are still in positions of power.

LadyGaga’istan for all!

From 2002:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2002/09/12/Netanyahu-US-should-attack-Iran-with-TV/UPI-63711031863825/

Israeli prime minister Thursday called upon the United States to effect regime change in both Iraq and Iran, prescribing a military invasion to topple the government in Baghdad and the transmission of ribald television programming via satellite into Persia, where he said the influx of pop culture would prove “subversive” to the conservative Islamic regime.

Citing the hundreds of thousands of satellite television dishes in Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu told the House Government Reform Committee that the United States could incite a revolution against the conservative Iranian clergy through the use of such Fox Broadcasting staples as “Melrose Place” and “Beverly Hills 90210″ — both of which feature beautiful young people in varying states of undress, living, glamorous, materialistic lives and engaging in promiscuous sex.

“This is pretty subversive stuff,” Netanyahu told the committee. “The kids of Iran would want the nice clothes they see on those shows. They would want the swimming pools and fancy lifestyles.”

Why do they hate us?

Madeleine Albright: The deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it for Iraq’s non existent WMD’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

 

Modern Society

http://understandinglifeanddebt.blogspot.com/2012/01/protest-at-protesters.html

Peter Maurin (1877-1949), co-founder of the Catholic Worker, wrote:

Modern society has made the bank account the standard of values.

When this happens, the banker has the power.

When the banker has the power, the technician has to supervise the making of profits.

When the banker has the power, the politician has to assure law and order in the profit-making system.

When the banker has the power, the clergyman is expected to bless the profit-making system or join the unemployed.

When the banker has the power, the Sermon on the Mount is declared impractical.

When the banker has the power, we have an acquisitive, not a functional, society

The more things change

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/01/25/avoiding-a-dumb-war-with-iran/

We are seeing a replay of the “Iraq WMD threat.” As Philip Zelikow, Executive Secretary of the 9/11 Commission said, “The ‘real threat’ from Iraq was not a threat to the United States. The unstated threat was the threat against Israel.”

An honest elite would have mentioned this prior to going to war.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-weve-been-here-before–and-it-suits-israel-that-we-never-forget-nuclear-iran-6294111.html

Let’s take the Israeli version which, despite constant proof that Israel’s intelligence services are about as efficient as Syria’s, goes on being trumpeted by its friends in the West, none more subservient than Western journalists. The Israeli President warns us now that Iran is on the cusp of producing a nuclear weapon. Heaven preserve us. Yet we reporters do not mention that Shimon Peres, as Israeli Prime Minister, said exactly the same thing in 1996. That was 16 years ago. And we do not recall that the current Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in 1992 that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1999. That would be 13 years ago. Same old story.

In fact, we don’t know that Iran really is building a nuclear weapon. And after Iraq, it’s amazing that the old weapons of mass destruction details are popping with the same frequency as all the poppycock about Saddam’s titanic arsenal.

For Palestinians in the West Bank, Israel is the brutal, colonising, occupying power. But the moment Iran is mentioned, this colonial power turns into a tiny, vulnerable, peaceful state under imminent threat of extinction. Ahmadinejad – here again, I quote Netanyahu – is more dangerous than Hitler. Israel’s own nuclear warheads – all too real and now numbering almost 300 – disappear from the story. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are helping the Syrian regime destroy its opponents; they might like to – but there is no proof of this.

There is no evidence that Iran is building a nuclear weapon. Zero.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-08/iran-nuclear-weapons/52451620/1

Panetta’s remarks on CBS’ Face the Nation, which were taped Friday and aired Sunday, reflect the long-held view of the Obama administration that Iran is not yet committed to building a nuclear arsenal, only to creating the industrial and scientific capacity to allow one if its leaders to decide to take that final step.

Adrian Blomfield:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9045484/Iran-moving-closer-to-stage-where-it-will-be-too-late-to-destroy-nuclear-facilities-Israel-warns.html

Reviving Western concerns that his government is still contemplating unilateral military action against Iran, Ehud Barak gave one of the clearest signs yet that Israel’s support for new US and EU sanctions remains strictly limited.

“We are determined to prevent Iran from turning nuclear,” he told the World Economic Forum in Davos. “And even the American president and opinion leaders have said that no option should be removed from the table.

“It seems to us to be urgent, because the Iranians are deliberately drifting into what we call an immunity zone where practically no surgical operation could block them.”

Although Israeli intelligence and military officials have privately spoken of Iran’s nuclear programme entering a “framework of immunity”, it is the first time that a senior figure in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has done so in public.

Israel’s fears that it might soon be too late to launch military action were bolstered earlier this month when Iran announced that it had begun to enrich uranium at its Fordow plant, which is buried so deep within a mountain it may be impossible for Israeli warplanes or missiles to destroy.

I don’t believe it and neither should anybody else.

I do wish the real-right (or alt-right or paleo-right or whatever-right) in the West would spend more time focusing on these wars.

Some interviews:

http://www.alternativeright.com/altright-radio/iran-israel-and-the-bomb/

http://antiwar.com/radio/2012/01/19/gareth-porter-141/

http://antiwar.com/radio/2012/01/21/philip-giraldi-58/

Porter (second interview) makes the argument that Israel’s goal with the assignations of scientists is to push the Iranians into retaliation against the United States and pull it into a war that the American military establishment (and Obama administration) doesn’t much want. This behavior is deceptive, manipulative and not consistent with a state that is our ally.

 

 

The cycle of usury

Hilaire Belloc:

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10089642/Usury—A-Catholic-Essay-by-Hilaire-Belloc

The third reason why Usury has not yet worked out its full ill effect is that it has long been automatically checked by repeated breakdowns which wiped out usurious claims. Capital unproductively lent failed to receive its tribute and had to be written off. It is true that Usury on such capital is commonly the last thing to be written off; ³ but written off it is continually, and this intermittent pruning of the unearned tribute has prevented the real character of that tribute from appearing in its full force.

Consider the above quote in the context of two factors: 1) it is not possible to discharge student debt and 2) the EU faux-crisis, where banks – who created the new money to lend to sovereign nations – demand that the nations grind their people into dust to repay the debts.