Netanyahu says Iran 'exploiting crisis'
what the hell has netanyahu think his government has been doing all these years? while the US is embroiled in 2 major overseas clusterfucks in its war on terror, the israeli government has used the fears of US sheep to steamroller the palestinians with its settlements regime and the rest of its programme of occupation and destruction of the indigenous peoples. now that reform mania is sweeping the flanks of american empire, to which israel is inextricably tied, the erstwhile butcher of tel aviv is now feeling a bit twitchy.
the iranians are exploiting the situation in egypt to run a couple of its ships through the suez -- who can blame them for that? -- and the new egyptian regime is reluctant to show its true colors as the enemies of real reform. so they're prevaricating and looking for a graceful exit. there ain't one, guys.
if the iranian navy wants to sail to syria, who are the israelis to be telling the egyptian dipshits what's kosher?
if there was ever a CIA-backed "revolution", this is one. it has US meddling written all over it. while the obasm administration and hillary clinton posture about their support for democracy and freedom, they're working all the levers in private to bolster their client regimes around the globe. it just ain't a good time for their version of "democracy".
so why to throw a little anti-china agitation into the mix? they'd do anything to keep the autocrats in beijing twitching a bit themselves, but these mysterious tweets and other inducements to gather are just the US government using people power to advance their own cynical games. they care nothing at all about the average chinese worker, who as a powerless and underpaid chump keeps the global corporations flush with cash, and sales at wal-mart humming along.
the australian newspaper put the astroturf nature of the protests succinctly: "no angry crowds or placards visible in Beijing and only a three-man scuffle breaking out in Shanghai." there is no stomach for a revolution in china -- not yet. they're on the escalator that's still going up. there's not sufficient reason for widespread disaffection with the regime.
a different story in the US, however, with rising prices and the agitation of the corporatocracy against its clones in the government appears to be accelerating the collapse of the american social contract that underpins allegiance to the state.
After House passage of GOP budget cuts, lawmakers head home to hear from voters
i fully expect the coming budget battles, as well as the fight over the debt ceiling, to go nuclear and lead to a shutdown of the government. this, in turn, will rattle worldwide financial markets in a way that will be deeply destructive to US prestige, and a total drag on the dollar. it will prove to the rest of the world that our financial system is a plaything of political elites with no adult supervision.
what washington, the banks and giant corporations have in common is complete disdain for the lives and concerns of ordinary people. when lawmakers go home to hear from voters, it goes in one ear and comes out the other. the only interests that get a hearing are the ones who speak with a checkbook, and most of them have given up on the country and are increasingly looking abroad for new opportunities for rapine and plunder.
tim geithner was at the G20, again imploring the chinese to raise the value of the yuan. this is so transparent as to be laughable, as the US tries to export its inflation to china through the fed's super-low interest rates. as worthless dollars flood the world economy, competitor nations are doing all they can to stifle the US plans to do to their economies what our banks did here.
in the process, we're about to get a taste of poverty here in the USA, as paul craig roberts recently wrote. i see no way around the increasing likelihood of spiraling commodities prices in the months ahead.
then the politicians will finally really start to hear from voters. they'll probably all go into hiding.
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