Kyiv has announced the addition of a fifth corporate logo to the Ukrainian flag following news that BlackRock will be playing a crucial role in the reconstruction of the nation. The world's largest investment management firm will join Raytheon Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and McDonald's upon the now-omnipresent blue and yellow flag.
Used to be, the folks who really ran things weren't quite so open about it.
Rather than staying in the shadows, this particular neocolonial project can best be summarized as "We are openly looting, and there is nothing you can do about it, so fuck you!"
A "society" fundamentally driven by greed and the PR/brainwashing lies to promote the model of maximal capital extraction from every disaster --- every war, hurricane, famine, or other mass misfortune, every new opportunity to further rape the planet and biosphere --- is not a true society, but rather a a grotesque theatricality. Real societies are meant to be integrated dynamical systems, where tightly integrated parts function to enable a whole greater than the sum of those parts. Anglo-American Capitalism with its course governed by investor greed, with few (if any) functioning feedback controls on that huge financialized driver doesn't come close to real integration. It's instead a fragmented fiasco, a barely believably Kabuki performance in which the ghoulish voice of huge money drowns out all other voices of human timbre.
"U.S. grain and pharma conglomerates will buy up Ukrainian farmland — some of the best in the world — for pennies on the dollar. This is the standard MO of U.S. multinational vultures coming in after the kill to pick apart the carcasses. U.S. weapons makers will look for and help provoke the next feeding frenzy, much as they materialized Ukraine barely a year after the humiliating U.S. defeat in Afghanistan derailed their last gravy train."
Instead of a proxy war, it is a corporate investment. Is this the new world order? Instead of countries, there will be global corporations ruling the world. Yikes!!!
Yes the military industrial complex has been ruling the world, at least since the fifties or early sixties. Lee Camp has reported that the reason the CIA, created in 1947, took out JFK was because he wanted to diminish if not abolish the organization which went far beyond collecting intelligence to diabolical actions around the world.
Historical techniques, like violence, will not work against so powerful an entity. Raising consciousness and calling on the power of love is our hope.
McProxy War indeed. I am really starting to wonder if those who are the most vocal about supporting this horrific mess are doing so in order to make their stock shares in Black Rock, Raytheon, Lockheed, etc., soar ever higher. It's time to burn down the stock exchanges then. It could be the only way to end the bloodshed. I say it's worth a shot at least.
Used to be, the folks who really ran things weren't quite so open about it.
Rather than staying in the shadows, this particular neocolonial project can best be summarized as "We are openly looting, and there is nothing you can do about it, so fuck you!"
A "society" fundamentally driven by greed and the PR/brainwashing lies to promote the model of maximal capital extraction from every disaster --- every war, hurricane, famine, or other mass misfortune, every new opportunity to further rape the planet and biosphere --- is not a true society, but rather a a grotesque theatricality. Real societies are meant to be integrated dynamical systems, where tightly integrated parts function to enable a whole greater than the sum of those parts. Anglo-American Capitalism with its course governed by investor greed, with few (if any) functioning feedback controls on that huge financialized driver doesn't come close to real integration. It's instead a fragmented fiasco, a barely believably Kabuki performance in which the ghoulish voice of huge money drowns out all other voices of human timbre.
The Medical Industrial Complex is not well represented. That has to be corrected.
Does anyone remember The Onion, a newspaper that was completely ironic and sarcastic? It was so funny. Caitlin could have written for them.
Peak Zelensky - good read over at CN:
"U.S. grain and pharma conglomerates will buy up Ukrainian farmland — some of the best in the world — for pennies on the dollar. This is the standard MO of U.S. multinational vultures coming in after the kill to pick apart the carcasses. U.S. weapons makers will look for and help provoke the next feeding frenzy, much as they materialized Ukraine barely a year after the humiliating U.S. defeat in Afghanistan derailed their last gravy train."
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/weve-reached-peak-zelensky-now-what/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=930aa32f-45ac-4c7a-a6cc-f4ae86927f55
I put the new flag as the cover photo of my Facebook with the comment:« My support for Ukraine »
Instead of a proxy war, it is a corporate investment. Is this the new world order? Instead of countries, there will be global corporations ruling the world. Yikes!!!
Yup - a bad movie script made into a blockbuster movie.
Who TF falls for this shite?
You left off the swastika
A honeypot for psychopathic monsters.
Didn't realize this was satire until half way through. Sigh.
Yes the military industrial complex has been ruling the world, at least since the fifties or early sixties. Lee Camp has reported that the reason the CIA, created in 1947, took out JFK was because he wanted to diminish if not abolish the organization which went far beyond collecting intelligence to diabolical actions around the world.
Historical techniques, like violence, will not work against so powerful an entity. Raising consciousness and calling on the power of love is our hope.
The poor Ukrainians are getting cornholed
Speechless.
McProxy War indeed. I am really starting to wonder if those who are the most vocal about supporting this horrific mess are doing so in order to make their stock shares in Black Rock, Raytheon, Lockheed, etc., soar ever higher. It's time to burn down the stock exchanges then. It could be the only way to end the bloodshed. I say it's worth a shot at least.
I have to dig deep in my inner resources not to vomit 🤮