tex blogging the Iraq constitution referendum. Intentional or not, it’s looking like a psyops against the Sunnis; keep them pissed off and U.S. troops can never leave Iraq. Region in turmoil, blame Iran, another “reason” to nuke Iran.
Stan Goff: the little debate that didn’t. . .
via tex, I followed that to this, The Sham Economy by Bruce Sterling:
Serbia and Montenegro isn’t a failed state like Iraq or Sudan, but a faked state. This purported country, which has had serious problems settling on an anthem and a flag, is best understood as a giant covert operation, like Iran-Contra or Enron. Nobody is less likely than a Serbian to collaborate with the ever-more-anxious overlords of intellectual property: the World Trade Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the World Customs Organization, and Nike’s own clique, the US Council for International Business. For all their treaties and trade agreements, these paper tigers might as well be waving bread sticks as billy clubs.
These organizations are right to worry. Black globalism extends well beyond easy, offhand intellectual property thefts like videotaping first-run films and burning them onto DVD. It commandeers the manufacturing, distribution, and business infrastructure in a parasitic rejection of the global order that is the engine of our collective future. The folks who made my shoes have everything it takes to make excellent footwear. Yet they choose to make counterfeits. It’s a brave, new, destructive world of manufacturing and marketing: Just fake it.
Black globalism. Oh dear, oh my. Corporate America’s promise to hypnotise an unwashed global populace into worshipping at the altar of name brands is slipping through their greedy fingers. This is a new development? It’s why war is waged, no? To ensure capitulation when Britney Spears in underwear cannot?
Update: Money for Nothing by Philip Giraldi via Stephen Carson @ Lew Rockwell.