From: Christopher Gray <rasputin-AT-teleport.com>
Date: 15 May 2008 12:21:56 UTC   (06:21:56 AM in author's locale)
To: rasputin-AT-teleport.com

Chunks of my message mysteriously were hacked away (or missed entirely by my keyboard) so I will try to re-vamp/add them… no doubt the unleashed acts of invasive/internal gremlins and external nightmares that weigh upon my eyelids….
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Fulbright Grants are given to international students so that they can be brought into the bourgeois fold through pre-packaged yet somewhat flexible "study programs". Instead of sending out Peace Corps "volunteers" that follow a pre-packaged plan of capital dispersal, the students are "brought in". Like when I tried to go back to get my Computer Science Masters/Ph.D., I found that "foreign" students had an easier time getting grants than I had with loans, such that I couldn't afford the $5000-per-term "education" whilst they got a free ride.

It's part of "Project Dumb-down the USA". If you drain it off all funds alloted for maintaining the infrastructure (more than 60% of all bridges are near-unsafe), overload the population which cannot support itself (immigration), suck funds from the future into an eternal war plan, close plants to favor cheaper offshore ones that churn out [toxic and  so-close-to-falling-apart-that-one-should-call-them-waste] products, then the scattered and scurrying people will not be able to defend (let alone supersede) their current secular and sovereign  nation-state  from a global restructuring into post-national regions (e.g., the EU, NAU, AU, and EAU). The next phase of atomistic colonization by capital will be much easier.

We, in the US are watching the end of the US — not "as empire" as many "out there" so foolishly cheer — but as it is re-subsumed into that post-national/trans-national empire run by Rockefeller (and associates) and those once ruling what was called the "British Empire", which never died but only changed appearance. The end will hit us here by the end of 2010 as per planning, when the WTO's 'Codex Alimentarius', pro-GM laws, and the final doses in-and-from privatized "public" water and air addict, zombify, and/or disease-down the population. We are being "treated" to the SPECTACLE of "who will NON-spectacularly lead us into REAL descent: Hillary, McCain, Obama, or a 5-person NAU 'council'?" We are being treated to watching ourselves crawl on television while we are being treated to like it. A :choice"? Whooppee-do!  Do I want to run, skip, or walk off the cliff?  More "I Can't Believe This is GM Popcorn Substitute" please….

You can sneak 'the big [ed: "final"] change' past many by going extremely fast or so slow no-one notices but "conspiracy theorists" and lapdog hack detractors. That is what is happening…. The whirring noise that everyone hears are the reactors running the slicing-and-dicing, human-capital capital extractors.

Why are we so losing all the time?!

One reason is that the bourgeoisie are "practicing Hegelians", in the strictest sense of being idealists, Statists, dialecticians, and elitists. They've already organified the mechanical. Now it's dialectics time. I fear that they are going to win "the final battle" of class war by robotifying the remaining slaves after cleaning house.

Today, proletarian "use" of dialectics as a methodological weapon, lacks the 'social funding' that transcends atomistic the "student" pseudo-use we see so often on email lists and in papers posted to college student web sites. Study groups and seminar teams, like dress rehearsals for work groups at the high-tech factory,  tackle it for reasons of look-but-don't-touch and armor-constricted ego. Reality and the 'act' of connecting the two is all that's missing.

The social 'treasure', who could do something with it, maintain a self divided-and-conquered by the idiot-ology of "left vs. right" authoritarianism that has abstractly carried over and been frozen as "all there is" into the unified deadlock of separate anti-"left authoritarianism" or anti-"right authoritarianism" forces. Thanks also to the purveyors of philo-cynicism and generalized dumbification (exemplified best by banal and non-transcendent toll of human hours spent text messaging, emailing, and cell phoning FOR or AGAINST one side OR the other). The fetish with alien (or better, self-alienating) technos ids like the slow-down-to-gaze phenom of a car wreck, only it's our own reflection we both see and miss.

It's ping-pong while humanity burns. A flat and circular busy-ness…. It's kind of like the noise made by a wind-up toy as it's over-wrought tenseness, its induced and enervating mania, dissipates.

The energy expended is what would have easily fired-up revolution, or at least something other than rehashed "partial" victory and recycled loss. So, unlike 1848 and 1968, I can only hope that another chance opens up in the armor, preparing so that we have more active vision than deactivating leaders, and that we last through the next planned "die-off" [or recall] of human capital.

Hoping this is somewhat clear at 6am…. (this time for sure)
back to bed,
chris

Vikki Riley wrote:

Dear readers
There's nothing more annoying than little brainwashed girls from The
USA trying to call the shots with machine gun style stram of
consciousness claptrap humbug. Perhaps you could explain to the
readers out there what Fullbright funds are cos I certainly don't
have a clue what you are talking about or taking out loans for
education. That's another American thang and I'm happily not from your
nation.
All I know is that your lingo betrays your youth and penchant for
adventures in miltant politics .
I thought this situationist site was for people who wanted to
seriously engage in just that, however nostalgic that is in 2008, to
talk about stuff like pychogeography, Vanigem, deleuze, the Lettrists
who came before it all, etc etc.
people like Miss Zoe just reduce the whole ambit into parochial USA
centric cheap chat and silly assumptions about one's background. Yes
the world is violent, apocalyptic at present and I can't see why it's
a crime to acknowledge that at all.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:27 AM, zoe white jpiersall1031-AT-yahoo.com"><jpiersall1031-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Slaves for the picking, YOU FANTASIZE. I bet your part of the LABOR DRAFTING
CADRE or the POST - PROVISIONAL POLITBURO in this fantasy where your the
despair broker after the fall. The inner stalinist and her apocalyptic
violence fetish. Have you met the Christian conservatives from POP CULTURE.
Sorry you haven't had an orgasm in a while. Personal liberation through self
restraint…again. Some of us didn't have the benefit of Fulbright funds and
took out loans to go what school they could. So I know how much you love to
denote elitism and immaturity when decrying your theoretical deviators
during infighting sessions but unfortunately for your case it isn't
applicable. Also I doubt I'd be on a situationist discussion list if was the
MOST APOLITICAL OF ALL.

PS- Do you have an Azerbaijan runner because I have some phenomenal Fluff
-ALD-25 that I would like to send to the people of the third world on that
colony that you said I imagined seeing as your all about practical
solutions. Much More to Come…………..

Miss Zoe

—- On Sun, 5/11/08, Vikki Riley riley.vikki-AT-gmail.com"><riley.vikki-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

From: Vikki Riley riley.vikki-AT-gmail.com"><riley.vikki-AT-gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Lack of sense of Humor on the manufactured left
To: "Situationist" situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org"><situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>
Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 11:59 PM

Dear Mr Chris
No divine excuses and no need to defend the middle classes! Who are
the petty bougeoisie anyway? Some mythical fin du siecle group from
old Europe? There are some 260 million middle class Chinese at present
and I doubt that they have the time or interest in criticising Mao or
any ideologue for that matter.
Dogma is a dog of a word,
 today's mainstream culture thrives on the
belief that NO opinion is a good thing.
People who live to smell the roses like Miss Zoe are the most
apolitical of all and come the collapse of Western culture will be
slaves for the picking or simply culled like a rabbit

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Christopher Gray rasputin-AT-teleport.com"><rasputin-AT-teleport.com>
wrote:
 

What a divine excuse!
It's like saying that criticizing Trotsky, Lenin, or Stalin is only
 

done by
 

the petty-bourgeoisie
or of Mao Tse-tung by "paper tigers" or "lackeys"!

Too bad for those who do believe that crap, because in situationist theory
we call that a brain disease.

It smells of a closed system, of dogma, of ideology, where any critique is
exemplified as proof th critique is divine,
i.e. immunizing it against the critique of inverting reality where
"criticism is
 

 futile".
 

Give up! Jean has the place surrounded from within!

best,
chris

Vikki Riley wrote:

The problem with critising Noam Chomsky and Jean Baudrillard as
humourless bores is that you folk are too immersed, saturated in what
Monsieur baudrillard calls SIMULACRA, that is, simulations of reality
via the popular culture of the United States entertainment juggernaut.
As for Mike Moore he's a celebrity,end of story there, he's a
protagonist in pepetrating this faux idea of the world as a milkable
gag. Miss Zoe white seems to think there is a team or race called
"leftists" out there, perhaps we could send them to some
 

imaginary
 

island or US colony down yonder. Whatever Miss Zoe, send me some of
the drugs you are on, teleport them globally so we can all believe
your utopian middle class drivel about the
 

 world being a beautiful fun
 

place, or rather send a few bags full to the people of the third world
you silly young thang!
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 1:05 PM, zoe white jpiersall1031-AT-yahoo.com"><jpiersall1031-AT-yahoo.com>
 

wrote:
 

I like the comment on the humorlessness on the Left. The ones on the
front line aren't don't posess or incite any socially allowable
 

joy in their
 

text or events. Seriously what the fuck! It's like life doesn't
 

register
 

with leftists, how ironic that the people who think their means will
 

create
 

the most humane and free world yet haven't the slightest capability of
generating human dialogue or living without deriving personal liberation
through personal self restraint; [ie codified law] Of course when you try
to NOT be ironic just a random comment meant to galvanize some short term
connection in person, In the swamp knee deep in your
 

 own feces and its
hard
 

to come up for a laugh! Alex Jones is still a pretty serious motherfucker
too though! True, we don't need more critics, we need people to show
 

the
 

world that the world after our current state of institutors is a
 

beautiful,
 

fun and vibrant place. And none of 'em really do that.
—- On Tue, 5/6/08, Christopher Gray rasputin-AT-teleport.com"><rasputin-AT-teleport.com> wrote:
From: Christopher Gray rasputin-AT-teleport.com"><rasputin-AT-teleport.com>
Subject: Re: Chomsky?
To: "Situationist" situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org"><situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>
Cc: "Christopher Gray" rasputin-AT-teleport.com"><rasputin-AT-teleport.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 10:27 PM
In my understanding of a reality not reduced to ten-thousand book titles
with rearranged data, Alex Jones has far more credibility and verve than
Noam "Smile-free" Chomp-sky.
I'm currently creating a huge section of critiques of Michael
 

 Moore,
Noam
 

Chomsky, and Jean Baudrillard - the three most deified [by the capitalist
"left"] ideologists whose job it is to make sure that any of the
 

"truth is
 

out there" that may be exposed is lost in self-loathing, and boring
cynicizing drivel - respectively.
I've been aware of Noam since the 1974(?) Anarchist Conference at
 

Lewis &
 

Clark College in Portland, Oregon. His "followers" are swappable
 

with those
 

of LaRouche in their characterologicality, irritatingly all devoid of
humour, a sense of wonder, and undankified vision…. I know the answer to
the Bill Nelson song lyrical question "do you dream in colour"
 

with respect
 

to these two self-bloats. No. They recharge like Borg at best.
Keep posted and I'll have them all up on point-of-departure.org by the
 

end
 

of Thursday….
best,
chris
zoe white wrote:

 

 I understand the fact that he stops short of any serious discussion of
what
 

occured on 9/11/01 , but the evidence to indict an already illegitimate
class is damning enough without demonstrating an irrevocable connection.
 

Is
 

it plausible? yes. Is it likely that the Bush admin deliberately allowed
the event to happen to MANUFACTURE the CONSENT for an indefinite war? That
was proven when Condi Hemmings Stonewalled the Clarke hearings. Let's
 

not
 

forget that his researching skills are first rate, one of the few authors
that can prove what thousands of others do using conventional media, which
takes time and patience, something I don't have the luxury to have. I
 

know
 

the guy lives in a nice community in Lexington MA, which is just the kind
 

of
 

comfort he would lose along with his tenure at MIT if he said anything
regarding any inside job theory, no matter
 

 how evidence based. I suppose
in
 

that respect he is quite controlled [as we all are with it or externally
driven to pursue it]. But I don't see how that diminishes any of his
 

earlier
 

work, particularly Failed States, Manufacturing Consent, or anything else
 

he
 

researched. Don't get me wrong He gets a few grains of salt, but
 

still a
 

couple fewer then Alex Jones.
—- On Thu, 4/24/08, Christopher Gray rasputin-AT-teleport.com"><rasputin-AT-teleport.com> wrote:
From: Christopher Gray rasputin-AT-teleport.com"><rasputin-AT-teleport.com>
Subject: Re: the left jab preceding the right jab: not dress-rehearsal,
 

but
 

last act
To: "Situationist" situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org"><situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>
Cc: "Christopher Gray" rasputin-AT-teleport.com"><rasputin-AT-teleport.com>,
 

"SMIRK"
 

smirkers_of_the_world-AT-yahoogroups.com"><smirkers_of_the_world-AT-yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008, 9:36 PM
What a crock! I started the thread! I didn't
 

 realize you were in
control of
 

whether discussions continued or not, whether they are groovy or not,
whether they're politically correct or not?! I will decide what I
 

choose to
 

speak about, by myself and in conjunction with trusted associates. You I
wouldn't trust while you are religious, ever!.
An idea to share: start your own thread about how religion is more than
 

just
 

a multi-level marketing scheme that steals its best foot forward from the
leg of the poor by hacking it off in some ritual…. And then stop it when
it closes in on the fact that you have nothing to say towards that topic
except excuses and diversionary double-talk…. At least you can feel
pseudo-self-power while threatening nothing in your characterological
kneeling. That's Islamo-postmodernism for you: the spectacle of
 

change. The
 

sleight of hand is that all that changes is
 

 masters.
 

However, not wanting to upset aspiring liar-to-self types (and the
 

condition
 

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