"The Problem With Hitler Was That He Was Not Violent Enough"
Slavoj Žižek continues: "Nazism was not radical enough, it did not dare to disturb the basic structure of the modern capitalist social space (which is why it had to focus on destroying an invented enemy, Jews)... Hitler did not "have the courage" to really change things; he did not really act, all his actions were fundamentally reactions, that is he acted so that nothing would really change, he staged a great spectacle of Revolution so that the capitalist order could survive."
And such spectacular Revolutions would include the recent pseudo-uprisings of capitalism - orange, cedar, rose, velvet etc - "... in which violence is deprived of the "divine" dimension and thus reduced to a strategic intervention serving precise and limited goals."
Žižek represents one of the different Real Revolutions currently on the table. His "In Defense of Lost Causes" may be offset by an In Defence of Causes that were Never Given a Chance in the First Place.
Robespierre: "If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is, at the same time, virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal, terror, without which virtue is impotent."
Alain Badiou: "What do those who want neither Virtue nor Terror want?... They want corruption."
There's an App for that...
Portsmouth FC To Change Name To Pini Pairoj Ponzi Pattaya Hydra FC, Scudamore Stays Silent
Richard Scudamore recently slithered: "Fans should know who owns their club."
Of course, Mr Scudamore is lucky to still be in his post at the Premier League Ignorarium, so he is.
Nicely hidden outside of the season proper, the shenanigans continue at Portsmouth.
The Real owner Arkadi Gaydamak is not a fit-and-proper person and he should not be allowed to currently own the club. Despite all the proof in the Israeli media, Our Great Leader remained aloof from this hyperreality of his own making.
Last week a meeting took place regarding the selling of Pompey to another group of individuals of various hues of unfit-and-improper personry.
The meeting was attended by third party agreement specialist and super agent, Pini Zahavi.
Also at the table was Pairoj Piempongsant, who happens to be Thaksin Shinawatra's right hand man and senior adviser.
The potential new owner, Sulaiman Al Fahim, was also involved in the takeover of Manchester City by Abu Dhabi United, but there is an even more disturbing side to the man.
His company, Hydra Properties, is, to all intents and purposes, a Ponzi scheme. For full details of the financial chicanery, you need to check out the several hundred people who have put together a Facebook site targeting the shoddy business practices of Al Fahim.
It is reasonably difficult to get more organisationally dodgy than this - an unfit-and-improper person who ran the club illegally, is in the process of selling the club to two other unfit-and-improper persons, one of whom already has an honorary position at Man City, against the League rules in that such things matter at all, utilising an agent who is directly involved in all the illegal third party stuff that continues to slosh around the feet of Our Great Leader.
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Al Fahim was asked if he had had any contact from Scudamore over the takeover, he replied not.
In safe hands...
He is definitely worth his £1.3 million per year (above the table) is Mr Scudamore.
Bookmakers Admit That Gambling Is Simply An Issue Of Voluntary Taxation
British bookmakers are still refusing to payout on the Conference matches between Weymouth and Rushden and Diamonds (which ended 0-9) and the end of season 'agreed result' between Grays Athletic and Forest Green.
Why?
Because they claim that they were not privy to the inside information prior to the matches occurring.
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Are they similarly refusing to accept their own winnings from mug punters on these events where it is the bookmaker that possesses absolute market knowledge and control?
And at much greater liquidity...
And who is it that is looking at the betting patterns on OUR behalf?
The Premier League, the government, the FA and the media circus have no desire to disclose the rampant corruption in the Premier League and the FA Cup as it will both dampen the brands and stop these very representatives from dipping their fingers into the flow of fake money on a fake sport.
Green Shoots Of Recovery Spotted On Brownfield Site
Having spoken with friends at two different firms of architects, one would have to severely question those who are suggesting that the worst of the British housing crisis is over.
Both contacts say that the situation has NEVER been this bad and that both commercial and domestic work has completely dried up.
Meanwhile, the systemic disguise of the state of the banks continues unabated. No data is organisation-specific, so it is impossible to truly determine the health of the banks as they have closed up together in a repository of cartelised marketeering of economic well-being.
Which, of course, is utter tish!
A few things worthy of consideration while we reside in this capitalist scheme to redefine the meaning of words...
* The Economist, having laid the blame for the Irrational Protuberance at the door of creative accounting, continues: "The argument that shares are dirt cheap is starting to look threadbare."
* On the day of the biggest industrial bankruptcy in history, the S&P500 gained 2.58% - this is grave-faced crazy trading.
* Only 4.5% of institutional investors believe that the Irrational Protuberance is Real, whereas fully 60% believe we are simply watching a dead cat bouncing.
* Standard and Poor's outlook for British debt has moved from stable to negative and it is rumoured that only Fed pressure is preventing a similar adjustment for the US.
* John Taylor of Stanford University reckons that the American government "is now the most serious source of systemic risk."
* And, most disturbingly of all, in that the ONLY positive data is based on Chinese official figures, two recent studies raise serious questions about the credibility of China's corporate earnings. Chinese companies have received an artificial boost in the form of subsidised financing by the state banks. Those taking advantage of the allegedly lower price/earnings ratios are on the wrong side of the threshold between idiocy and sense.
Having Contracted An Unemployed Deity, A Mad Fat Man, A London Mafiosi And A Media Messiah, Minimum Wage Tsar Seen Hovering Around Oil Installations Seeking Sugar Sheikh
Mike Ashley in the Middle East.
Now where are those suicide bombers when they are Really needed?
A Babbling Brook Of Bullshit
In 2004, the Power Inquiry was established to address the patent lack of democracy in Britain.
Helena Kennedy QC reported in 2006 that it was “vital to re-engage the British people with formal democracy” if the following were to be avoided:
the weakening of the mandate and legitimacy for elected governments – whichever party is in power – because of plummeting turnout
the further weakening of political equality because whole sections of the community feel estranged from politics
the weakening of effective dialogue between governed and governors
the weakening of effective recruitment into politics
the rise of undemocratic political forces
the rise of a “quiet authoritarianism” within government.
Bringing us up to speed on our deep state-based oligopoly, John Pilger enlightens us thus: "The theft of public money by members of parliament, including government ministers, has given Britons a rare glimpse inside the tent of power and privilege. It is rare because not one political reporter or commentator, those who fill tombstones of column inches and dominate broadcast journalism, revealed a shred of this scandal. It was left to a public relations man to sell the "leak". Why?
"...Since Margaret Thatcher, British parliamentary democracy has been progressively destroyed as the two main parties have converged into a single-ideology business state, each with almost identical social, economic and foreign policies. This "project" was completed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, inspired by the political monoculture of the United States. That so many Labour and Tory politicians are now revealed as personally crooked is no more than a metaphor for the anti-democratic system they have forged together."
Ah! Our state-based economic systems...
A great vaulted agglomeration of tossers...
As The Economist kindly shares with us: "On the whole, Wall Street sees a welcome disconnect between the Obama administration's rhetoric and its actions."
Or how about Alan Nairn: "Obama could stop backing foreign forces that torture, but he has chosen not to do so." Obama did not shut down the practice of torture but has "merely repositioned it".
Ah! Our terroristic corporatist states...
Willie McKay Spotted Above Ground With A Suitcase Of Bungs
The City of London police have been busy this week.
Harry Redknapp was called in to answer further questions over the bungs affair and money laundering and all.
Meanwhile, the police dropped all charges against Willie McKay and, to boot, managed to avoid putting seven bullets into the man's head while doing so.
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Below is a verbatim recording of a conversation I thoroughly enjoyed with John Colquhoun, an agent with Key Sports.
"We were drinking vodka all night. We'd each get a glass and the waiter would take the remainder away. When we wanted another drink, a new bottle was brought. The bill at the end of the night was £1500. In the morning, he [McKay] wanted to get down to business. He produced a suitcase and said it contained £40,000 and that we [John and his colleague, Colin Gordon] could have the suitcase, no questions asked, if we were willing to drop our interest in ############## (a Spanish defender) who was interesting #########. We declined his offer, but for different reasons..."
That sounds like a bung to me.
Colquhoun finished this 'proof' of his upright nature by declaring "you only need to shag one sheep to be a sheepshagger."
One must assume that the woollyback temptation evolves with the passage of time...
Scrappage Scheme Introduced For Premier League Players
If you produce your crappy lower level sportsmen at the Premier League offices before June 30th, you will receive £2,000 per week to cover the wages of a replacement for such players, so long as they have been with your club for at least a decade.
Being the Premier League, of course, this guarantee only exists for those individuals secured by third party agreements or those who were originally purchased using illicit bungs.
As these two sieve-like provisos allow through most Premier League players, Our Great Leader does not envisage any problems.
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