karlmarx, the 3 stooges and the new ice age

KARL MARX,THE 3 STOOGES AND THE COMING OF THE NEW ICE AGE OF DOOM,GLOOM, AND CHEESE

A discourse

By Nick Mancuso

HOW THE CLIMB UP THE CORPORATE LADDER OF CHEESE RESULTED IN THE CURRENT MESS

U.S. Markets Plunge, Then Stage a Rebound

By GRAHAM BOWLEY

A bad day in the stock market turned into one of the most terrifying moments in Wall Street history on Thursday with a brief 1,000-point plunge that recalled the panic of 2008.

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

With six minutes in the trading day left, visitors watched the screens on the floor of the Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan.

It lasted just 16 minutes but left Wall Street experts and ordinary investors alike struggling to come to grips with what had happened — and fearful of where the markets might go from here. Some speculators speculated that cheese stocks were the culprit. Others thought it might be work of One Big Rat.

So there’s a good reason why a lot of investors are feeling whipsawed –and maybe a little nauseous — right now. The VIX, a.k.a. “the fear index,” had jumped about 175% in the past month, while Treasuries, the dollar and gold have benefited from the “risk aversion” trade.

At least part of the sell-off appeared to be linked to trader error, perhaps an incorrect order routed through one of the nation’s exchanges. Many of those trades may be reversed so investors do not lose money on questionable transactions.

But the speed and scale of the plunge — the largest intraday decline on record — seemed to feed fears that the financial troubles gripping Europe were at last reaching across the Atlantic. Amid the rout, new signs of stress emerged in the credit markets. European banks seemed to be growing wary of lending to each other, suggesting the debt crisis was entering a more dangerous phase.

Traders and Washington policy makers struggled to keep up as the Downer Jones industrial average fell 1,000 points shortly after 2:30 p.m. and then mostly rebounded in a matter of minutes. For a moment, the sell-off seemed to overwhelm computer and human systems alike, and some traders began referring grimly to the day as “Black Cheese Day.”

But in the end, Thursday was not as black as it had seemed. After briefly sinking below 10,000, the Downer Jones ended down 347.80, or 3.2 percent, at 10,520.32. The Standard & Very Poor’s 500-stock index dropped 37.75 points, or 3.24 percent, to close at 1,128.15, and the Nasdick was down 82.65 points, or 3.44 percent, at 2,319.64.

But up and down Wall Street, and across the nation, many investors were dumbstruck. Experts groped for explanations as blue cheese-chip stocks like Procter & Gamble, Philip Morris and Accenture plunged. At one point, Accenture fell more than 90 percent to a penny. P.& G. plunged to $39.37 from more than $60 within minutes.

The crisis in Greece, high-speed computer program trading, the debate over regulatory reform in Washington, talk of errant trades — all were pointed to as possible catalysts. But most agreed the plunge would not have been as bad had the markets not already been on edge over the debt crisis in Europe.

“There is a recognition that the Greek crisis has morphed into not only a European crisis but is going global,” said . El-Morian Al-Akhim, chief executive of PimpsCo, the money manager.

On the trading floor of the New York Stock Ex-change, traders shouted insults or watched open-mouthed as the screens lighted up with plummeting prices and floating feathers and as phones rang off the hook. “It was almost like ‘The Twilight Zone.’ ” said Moe Stooge of Aronson, Johnson & Ortits, a money management firm in Philadelphia.

Wall Street managers wandered their trading floors, trying to calm their people tickling them and trying to figure out what was going on. They began to notice wild movements in stocks like P.& G. and Philip Morris. Curly of Moe,Larry Shemp had a fit on the floor of the stockmarket, frothed at the mouth and rotated in small circles. Many traders said computer program trades accelerated the slide as market indexes fell through crucial levels and all pandemonium broke out.

In Washington, Treasury officials began combing market tapes for answers.Some of the combs revealed cooties. By the evening they still had not gotten to the bottom of it, but they discovered some aberrations — market blips on cheese crumbs — in trading coming out of Chicago.

The Treasury secretary Timothy F. Geisundheit, was returning to the Treasury about 2 p.m. from the Capitol when he saw geese on his BlackBerry and that the market was down 3 percent. Sneezing,he took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes furiously and broke into a cold sweat. He called the Treasury’s market room, which constantly monitors financial exchanges and women’s bathrooms; officials there theorized that the cause was Greece’s and Europe’s feta cheese woes. Others speculated not so.

One minute later in the Treasury hallway, Mr. Gesundheit, took off his glasses looked again at his BlackBerry and saw that the market was down nearly 9 percent.He couldn’t believe it and somehow managed to kick himself in the ass by projecting the heel of his backward into his ass. He told colleagues it had to be a mistake.The odds were 1 in 3 billion. Or so his mind told him.

Mr. Gesundheit sneezed repeated and immediately called the market room and then the Federal Reserve. He held a conference call with Fed officials an ,Mary L. Schnapps, the chairwoman of the InSecurities and Exchange Commission. About 3:15, Mr. Gesunheit walked to the Oval Office to brief President Obama. When questioned by President Obama about the cause of the recent Wall St fiasco, Mr Genundheit apparently performed an odd sliding backward dance on the green carpet of the Oval Office and slapped his own face several times and stated in a high-pitched whine “ Mr President, . cheese.. Mr President.. cheese.whoob whoob whoob whoop…!”

Next Mr. Gesundheit spoke with European central bankers. After the markets closed, at 4:15 and again at 5:45, he joined conference calls with the heads of the Fed, the New York Fed, the S.I.C. and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; the calls were expected to continued into the evening.They continued into the evening and into the night. At 4 a.m. everyone ordered pizza. Mr Geundheit insisted on anchovies, plenty of cheese.Aftrwards everyone fell asleep, mouth open, drooling. It was quite disgusting, actually.

The Group of 7 industrial nations’ ministers and governors, including Mr. Gesunheiter, plan a conference call at 7:30 a.m. Friday Eastern time.During the conference call someone cut the cheese.

As of about 6 p.m., all the officials knew was that there had been what one called “a huge, anomalous, unexplained surge in selling cheese, it looks like in Chicago, at about 2:45.” The source remained unknown, but it had apparently set off algorithmic trading strategies,and strange fart noises, which in turn rippled across everything, pushing trading out of whack and feeding on itself — until it started to reverse.It was amazing, particularly to the unknown source.

Federal officials fielded rumors that the culprit was one single cheese stock,controlled by a Dr Moe Horowitz, a single institution or execution system, a $16 billion trade that should have been $16 million. But they did not know the truth. Or the difference.Between the two. Dried old pizza was then handed out to the press and everyone seemed happy.One trader danced by jumping up and down in place like a yo-yo.

What happens to the day’s market losers will depend on the nature of the cause and whether it can be identified. That is a question for the S.I.C. The Nasdick market said in the evening that it would cancel all trades in hundreds of stocks whose prices had swung wildly between 2:40 p.m. and 3 p.m.

As Wall Street reeled, anchors on CNBC, Bloomberg and the Foxy Business Network turned their attention to the Downer.

When the Downer was down more than 900 points and the CNBC anchor Erin Burnmecup observed that the P.& G. stock had dropped 25 percent Jim Kramer, the former hedges fund trader and the host of “Cheese Mad Money,” seemed to calm the conversation a bit by basically saying, “Buy, buy, buy Cheese.”

(“Mad Money” is essentially televised talk radio, replete with a screaming, self-involved host; CHEESY sound effects; and a call-in format that is not exactly visually engaging. Still, it is the top-rated program on CNBC.)

“If that stock is there, you just go and buy it,” he said of P.& G. “That is not a real price.None of it is real. Just go buy Procter & Gambling.” He was then reported to have said,”Will the lady with the lucky number come and get me my shoes please” Odd words from such a reliable source.Odder words were yet to come as the day progressed.

The day’s uncertainty pushed the euro to its lowest level against the dollar in 14 months. It slipped to $1.2529 at one point before closing at $1.2602. The dollar’s rise, and the mounting fear of a slowdown in global growth, sent commodities prices lower. Crude oil fell $2.86 to settle at $77.16 a barrel.Cheese maintained an even course. After the oil settled it hardened and became somewhat cheesy.

By the close, when calm was restored, the focus was on working out what had just happened. Larry was the first to recover and rubbed his head and ear, the one Mr. Moe had snatched him with.Mr. Curly made strange clucking sounds at the back of his throat just before he was slapped several times by Mr. Moe Horowitz of Zurich, Switzerland.His double. It was a one way mission.

“Look, you and me is from two different galaxies” Dr Moe said. A Chinese specialist was sent for before the French could get their grubby paws on it.It was starting to all make sense, dollars and cents. Nyuk, Nyuke, Nuke.

The S.E.C. and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said they were reviewing “unusual trading activity in cheese, fissionable cheese, the kind that explodes.” But already markets were turning attention back to European Cheese — whether German lawmakers would approve the Greek bailout on Friday, whether warning signals would flash brighter, whether the Euro Cheese Zone would stay together, or whether this was a precursor of more parmigiano to come is hard to say at this juncture.” How can I ignite the fire in my heart,when I’ve got your foot in my face?” Mr. Moe repeatedly repeated.

It was all starting to make sense….

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad…

The Greeks

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering, They had begun to consider the Government of the United Cheese as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today.

“They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Moe Larry Cheese!”

Curly, of The 3 Stooges

Goldman Sachs Messages Show It Thrived as Economy Fell

In late 2007 as the mortgage crisis gained momentum and many

Banks were suffering losses, Goldman Sachs executives traded

E-mail messages saying that they were making “some serious

cheddar” betting against the housing markets.

Beserkshire had a gain of $1.4 billion on derivatives and cheese compared with a loss of $3.2 billion on the holdings in the year-earlier period.

Buffett, who built Beserkshire into a $190 billion company through acquisitions and more cheese during his more than 40 years as CEO, said he’s always looking for the next deal on gorgonzola.

“We are ready to act,” Buffett, who was sporting a white napkin said at the shareholders meeting. “If I get a call on Monday on a $10 billion cheese deal and I like it, I’ll say yes.I love cheese, it makes me happy!”

“All wealth is based on crime, great wealth on great red cheese”

Karl Marx

BEGIN-ECONOMIC HEBEPHRENIA AND THE WHOLE FRAUDULUNT SHELLCHEESE GAME

Say, you have a bushel of apples, good apples and then you have a bushel of bad apples, very bad apples. Say you mix the two bushels, you still have two bushels only this time you have no idea where the bad apples are.

Say you go to the agora, the market place as it where, were cheese is sold at great cost, good cheese, bad cheese, fine cheese,goat, sheep and cow, and you put up your bushel of apples, many bushels all mixed up and you sell them all, say for a fine rainy cheddar.

You run home with your cheese and the agora is stuck with a bunch of rotten apples.You run and you run pursued by Harpies and the ghosts of Marley,Morgan, &Frick.

Say you’ve bought one of the bushels but in order to see them you have to make sure that they are good apples. You go to the head honcho experts to whom you give some cheese and maybe some apples and he gives you triple AAA approval,knowing full well that some of the apples in fact many of them are rotten. You get drunk together order up a couple of Thai hookers. You have your way with them. Then you hand him a piece of hallucinated red cheese,hoping it wont explode eyeballs and all is well.

The agora is now in big trouble. Who do you trust? Who do you trust?The people of the Lie, and United States of Cheese, suddenly find themselves in crisis. Nothing seems to make sense anymore. Everyone is ….fondued…

The apples are sold for salt and there is no apple pie for anyone ,anymore on earth. People weep tears of blood.The economic engine grinds to a halt. People stare at walls. Nothing is revealed for the nth time.O’Jay Simpson goes on trial in a parallel universe. TheNazis win the war, as National Socialism returns like a gargoyle from hell. England flies the Swatika. New York is skewered. Cheese becomes worthless. It is the Apocalyse of St John of Patmos. The number of the Beast is revealed.It is 666.which is 9 which is 3’ 3’ees. We are reminded yet again-“the history of the world is the history of mass struggle” Mass fights mass. No one knows a thing. No-one sees the truth.The Kabahlla and the Golem play “Dead Mans Poker…” The Bible is ripped to shreds and is reconstituted magically as the Constitution of the United Cheese.Airplanes take off en masses and fly circles of light around the Cathedral at Chartre. Mont St Michel is dive bombed. Avebury is set fire to and Stonge Henge falls over like an old drunk on sterno.

Honest.

PT 2 MEN OF CHEESE

(from KarlMarx, the 3 Stooges and the New Ice Age of Doom Gloom and Cheese)

“World leaders have gone from bailing out corporations to bailing out entire countries. To some that’s no big deal. But isn’t this the natural progression of a debt laden, global financial system? Just like a drug addict, the financial system needs bigger and bigger fixes.

Initially, Greece’s bailout was slated to be around $60 billion, then increased to a $145 billion package. But that wasn’t enough; a $1 trillion dollar package for most of Europe was next. Even Germany’s chancellor Merkel admits that their only buying time”.

Simon Maierhofer

Cheese Centralization and usury are the most destructive forces known to man, more destructive than the H-bomb. More destructive than the virus of ignorance. Of what the old Yogic master, Patanjali, caLled the root of all evil. Avidya. Ignorance.Cheese.

These cosmic twins ,brought about the Neptune/Us-Anus connection are the formative glacial sheets of the New Ice Age of Cheese, the cause and the root of all our problems here on planet earth. It is in my opinion cheese avarice that is underneath it all. And rats, human and otherwise, prefer it.If the world consisted of 100 rats, 6 rats would own 59 percent of the cheese and they would all be Americans. There just simply isn’t enough cheese.

“Usury, the lending of money at an exorbitant rate”

Here is what Martin Luther had to say about the practice of money lending, the basis of Wall St.all Banks,All Credit Card companies,all of Wall St.,all cheese companies, including City National Cheese etc and the recent cheese fiasco which has affected the lives of millions,nay billions, around the world. Usury in the oldest sense, unadorned and not in the least sexy. And it stinks to high heaven,like a fine Gorgonzola.

“The heathen were able, by the light of Reason to conclude that a usurer is a double-dyed thief and murderer. We Christians, however, hold them in such honor, that we fairly worship them for the sake of their money. Whoever eats up, robs and steals the nourishment of another by eating his cheese, that man commits as great a murder as he who starves a man, or utterly undoes him..”

But then what did Father Luther know? He was a baldheaed coot and Superman’s arch-enemy.What the hell is a “double-dyed thief?”

A Man of Cheese

Canadian dollar tumbles on Cheese risk aversion, Goldman charges

TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian dollar tumbled more than a cent against the U.S. currency on Friday as global stocks plummeted on increased risk aversion of cheese, after regulators charged U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs with fraud.

They don’t have these problems with cheese protection on Alpha Centauri, or Smegam 4. Or the Moon. Blue or not. Or in the Middle Ages where the Divine Rights of Kings held sway. By whose divine rights are these new dog-kings ordained? By the Mob? By the Cheese Brigade?

“I will do things to her that will make the very denizens of hell shriek with agony…!”

Father Adam, Cheese Maker, horror/slasher film-“My Soul to Take”

Where things centralize whether in government, or Wall St. in the universe, in the fields of energy, on, in business, in art, in thought and deed and cheese, the end is nigh. A wall of ice has started to form as high as the phantom Twin towers and begins to trudge forward, a relentless tsunami of detritus and babble. What’s to be done about it? Marginalize, at all costs. Convert cheese to margarine and margarine to cheese. There is no danger of the two being confused one with the other since margarine is an oil product.Furthermore everyone knows margarine is good for the heart.Any fool knows that.Since it is good for the heart of an individual it is by definition good for the heart of a society. What is also good is centralization, labyrinthic obfuscation, invisibility, and of course more cheese.

“Please allow me to introduce myself/Am a man of Wealth and Cheese”

Mick Jigger of The Rolling Stones

“Ca va mal, ca va tres mal…” Pablo Picasso

A flood of mud cheese, New Orleans Style came crashing in and… The 3 Stooges, Moe, Larry and Curly who knew this simple truth and were born with an innate understanding had the only solution; More Cheese. A motto, now long forgotten- “Spread Out!!” And “Spread it on toast, only if its Velveeta!”

“Qui a coupe le fromage?” Ancient Gaulian Saying

U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud in Mortgage Deal

By LOUISE STORY and GRETCHEN MORGENSON

In a civil suit filed Friday, the S.E.C. accused the investment bank of securities fraud over a deal in which Goldman profited from bets against products of cheese it sold to customers.

It. Cheese Wins Yet Again.(Dec. 24, 2009)

Theirs is a world that begins with Curly’s “Nyaaa Nyaaa Humph” and ends with “Nuke, nuke, nuke,” In between a universe of frozen salted Cheese. Mozzarella of course. And plenty of toxic mortgages,designed to fail, jumping around from stooge to stooge.

“Little thieves are put in the stocks, great thieves of cheese go flaunting in gold and silk… therefore on this earth no greater enemy of man, after the devil than a “gripe cheese-money” and usurer, for he wants to be God, over all men”

Martin Luther

“ A god over all men? He can’t be talking about AIG, Goldman Sachs, Enron, Fannie Mae, Union Carbide, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, could he? etc etc What about the internal internet bubble? What about Savings and Loans? How much cheese will it take before we wake up? The greatest addiction of our epoch isn’t to drugs and alcohol- its money.The hardest addict isnt to heroin or even cigarettes, its to loot.The greatest misers aren’t the poor its the very rich.There will never be enough.

It was shortly after midnight on April 15th, 1912 when the unsinkable did the unthinkable. Built and labeled as unsinkable, the Titanic was the most advanced and largest passenger steamship of its time.

Even though the Titanic’s crew was aware that the waters were iceberg-infested, the ship was heading full-steam for a destination it would never reach.

And then again

“World leaders have gone from bailing out corporations to bailing out entire countries.”

Simon Maierhofer

Obviously something here stinks like a fineRoquefort.

Here is what one of these double dyed types had to say recently, double-dyed and double tongued. Thieves is meant of course only in the apocraphysic sense, after all is a Rat a thief for doing what it does best? A rat is a rat is a rat.A rat is not a dinosaur.A rat eats cheese, it is in his nature and there is not point pretending otherwise.The rat doesnt much care about the type of cheese it is eating, as long as its cheese.Given a choice between two types of cheese, it will choose both.

Lets all just now listen in, shall we?;

NOTES FROM A WALL ST BANKER

(circulated via email)

“We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas…

Here’s more:

“Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position.We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive.”

A man of Cheese

“Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does your cheese.” You see it’s our job to make money. Thats not your job. Our. Job.

Harsh and interesting words, indeed. Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad. Vanity saith the preacher precedes the fall, but then so the fuck what?.

“Money, dirty filthy money/It was invented by men to kill men…”

Sophocles, Athenian Playwright & Cheesmaker, Soldier

449 B.C.

“Our money was your money.” The obvious correlate of that statement is “Your money is our money…” Is this what Lex Luther and The Penguin really meant?Obviously T Rex has nothing on these boys. But then Ole T didn’ get up at 5 A.M.And work till 10 P.M.And have two brains like Ole T Rex, one in his skull, one in his tail.And the dinosaurs lived on lard, not cheese. Furthermore lets not forget “it’s our job to make money…”Let us hasten to add, from Cheese.

WARNING SIGNS IGNORED-DANGER AHEAD!

It was well known that the financial sector was engaged in all these shenanigans and should have been a warning to borrowers, to the investors who bought the mortgages and to the regulators…

THE MORTGAGE SCAM

J.STIGLITZ

a fine cheese maker,in vitro

But is it in the just conclusion of all things that Act 3 must happen before, just before the fall of the final curtain and just before the Big Bang? This seems to be what happens right around the time the Fat Lady sings and just around the corner from the Big Buck. It seems to be in the nature of the yoyo parade that will lead to only one thing- a new world order of Cheese. It begins to beat at its drums and play its violins, blowing its trumpets and swinging its tasseled heads from side to side just as licorisced clarinet players starts a squealin and the big bass drum starts a’thumpin. Line up to the trough. Free cheese for everyone! Your fired baby!

“GREED”

by Julian Edney

Sign the tab in certain Midtown eateries and your neighbors eyes slide over.Is that a 48,ooo Michel Perchin pen?Whats on your wrist ,a 300,000 Breguet watch?In Palm Springs and Bel Air,100,000 twin-turbo Porches and 225,ooo Ferraris buzz the warm streets.In New York at an exclusive Morell&Company auction last May a single Magnum of Dom Perignon champagne was sold for 5,750.And there are the paintings of course- an evening at auction two Monets sold for 43 million.Hotel rooms anyone for 10,000 a night?”

THE POOR BABY.

moe’s commentary

“Listen Paderewski, were them funny noises comin’ outta you or the piano?”

Pow Pow Pow

Thump thump thump

And Harumph!!!

SPREAD OUT WILL YA!!!

“Every time he sees a mouse he goes crazy.” “Why?” “‘Cause his father was a rat.”
- Larry, Fred Kelsey & Moe (HORSES’ COLLARS, 1935)

THE GREAT AMERICAN BANK ROBBERY

By Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize –winning economist in his book “Free Fall”

“As the US government went about rescuing the banks, it should have thought about accountability. The bankers who got the country into this mess should have paid for their mistakes..”

Mr Stiglitz in spite of his high I.Q. and knowledge does not understand the nature of good hard Cheddar.

“Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.”

Cheese. “With 3out of 10 Americans facing poverty at some time in their lives and a quarter of low income residents not getting enough food to meet basic nutritional needs it clear that the pursuit of cheese in America has hit a major snag. But as Mr Edney points out “many Americans live in cold dank slums;many do not earn enough for shelter, many sleep outside.In American inner cities and at its lowest levels,under freeway bridges an din tubercular alleys,in stained and broken rooming houses and in torn apart schools…”

Let them eat macaroni and cheese.

In America there are now over 200 billionaires, and 5 percent of Americans are millionaires. Separation between rich and poor has not been greater since Imperial Rome.

CHEESE.

1. A food made from the milk of cows, sheep, goats and some other animals. It ranges in texture from hard to semi soft and in flavor from mildly acidic to sharp…

“It ranges in flavor from mildly acidic…”

If we examine the scenario we can clearly see that for years toxic loans have been made to people who had a zero chance of paying for them. Everyone involved in those transactions except for Moe, Larry and Curly knew that. So what’s the surprise in that?No money down, no job, no way to create wealth, and here’s a house, for you and your family and friends and please, you don’t have to work for it because, hey this is America and your an American and you’re lovin’ it and hey you deserve a break today cause baby you are the real thing…yes you do… and you don’t pay for 6 months to a year- cause lets face it –you are a cheese “star”. Your house will increase in value, forever, and hey you don’t have to work for a living.If things break down, you can always make cheese. Lots and lots of cheese, the sort of cheese the world wants to buy. American Cheddar for China and beyond from real good hormonized, pesticized, ammoniafied, dry hay fed, antibiotized, irradiated heads of heifer. Green cheese for everyone else. Blue Cheese for the aliens. The kind of product the world is yankering for. Along with fractals and string theory. And lots of talk on CNN and Fox and lots of experts talking 24/7 telling us that it works, it really works. Honey, where are my derivatives? Christ its 10pm!

“to sharp..”

“.. regrettably the Obama administration has followed the course of the Bush administration..”

“Unfortunately, economists have pushed their model of rationality beyond its appropriate domain.You learn what you like ,what gives you pleasure by repeated experiences. You try different kinds of icecream or different kinds of lettuce. But economists have tried to use that model to explain decisions over time, such as saving for retirement.It should be obvious:there is no way you can find out wether you should have saved more or less until its too late, at which point there is no way you can learn from experience.At the end of your life you might say,I wish I had saved more….”

“Leemings will follow each other over a cliff….of cheese”

J. Stiglitz

“Free Fall”

Obviously Pat Buchanan, veteran cheese maker par excellence has the answer. When in doubt eat more cheese, there is plenty for everyone.Providing you are an elite member of the cheese squad. Providing the most basic law of cheese no longer holds in this solar system.

wealth |welθ|

noun

an abundance of valuable possessions or money : he used his wealth to bribe officials or buy cheese.

• the state of being rich; material prosperity : some people buy boats and cars or cheese to display their wealth.

• plentiful supplies of a particular resource : the country’s mineral wealth or cheese.

• [in sing. ] a plentiful supply of a particular desirable thing,such as cheese : the tables and maps contain a wealth of information on cheese.

• archaic well-being; prosperity.

ORIGIN Middle English welthe, from well 1 or weal 2 , on the pattern of health and whey.

“Government has an important role to play, it should not only prevent the exploitation of individual irrationalities but also help individuals make better decisions”

JS.

THE CHEESE BRIGADE

Say you have a cheese stand, no two cheese stands on a street somewhere in Cheeseville U.S.A.

The purpose and function of these two cheese stands is to sell cheese and they are located on a corner opposite each other.Cheese stand A and Cheese stand B and these two cheese stands are in competition for the same clientele. Competition, free enterprise, laissez faire cheeseconomics.

Now there is a certain demand for cheese. If on Tuesday, hereby ordained as cheese day, everyone in Cheeseville buys cheese, and half the people buy from Cheese Stand A and the other half from Cheese Stand B.

The prices for the Cheese are the same, say X.

Say on any given Tues. Cheese stand A cuts its prices, say To X-Y, then it follows that once the word gets out, the clientele of Cheese will start buying from Cheese Stand A,if the quality of the cheese is the same and the distance travelled isnt much greater. Providing all the independent variables are the same, which of course they never are, at least not in this dimension.

Cheese Stand B, cuts its prices as well since it is losing customers and profits are falling.

Say the cost to run the two cheese stands is commensurate. As the prices drop there will be less and less profit until a limit is reached, say L.

When L is reached it will no longer be worth selling Cheese and whoever reaches L first goes out of business.

Its clear that Cheese Stand A and B will d their best to prevent L from coming into existence.

Say that Cheese Stand A and B are owned by the same Cheesemaker, say, the Big Cheese.

The Big Cheesemaker decides, the hell with this and closes one of the Cheese Stands and opens up the New Cheese Emporium.

At first he keeps the prices the same or even lower. Then he decides, the hell with it and increases his prices.

People keep buying cheese from the Big Cheese unless there is another Cheese Emporium to go to. If the prices get too high the Cheesemaker is forced to drop them.As the demand for cheese increases, prices go up, as it decreases prices go down. The greater the demand, the bigger the price. Supply and demand.

Say the price of cheese is linked to the price of Milk. As the price of milk drops, the price of cheese drops.

Only it doesnt.It stays the same. Or maybe even increases.Its up to the Big Cheese. The formula for this is X-Y=L divided by 0.

THE LAP LIARS AND THEIR MINIONS

“Liar loans, so called because individuals were not required to prove their income, were among the most peculiar of the these new (banking) products.”

“Liar loans???”

What in the name of Moe Cheese are “liar loans?” And all the endless new terms for the economic sleight of hand which is now the rule rather than the exception of common business practice. “The fish” as the old adage states “stinks from the head.” Apparently according to the reports, the books, the experts, the newspapers and the Internet, there was a lot of lying and double dealing going on. Hanky panky. This didnt happen on its own. Or did it? And the hanky panky has not stoped.Nor can it, anymore than a brakeless car can be stopped on a slippery downhill incline by using one’s foot to brake.Unless of course you are a cheesemaker, par excellence..and running on wheels of hard fromage. And your foot is made of cast iron.

“Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, the man who was supposed to be protecting the country from excessive risk taking, actually encouraged it.”

His motto; “Eat more cheese!”

J.Stiglitz

“Free Fall”

It was wonderful to watch Mr Greenspan be honored by Mr Layed and Mr Cheating of Enronica Corp, the people laying the oil pipeliness in Afghanistan, which according to Buckminister Fuller is the control centre for Spaceship Earth. Why? Oil, of course and its corollary- Cheese.The Cheese pipleline to the Indian Ocean. Perhaps this is what was meant by “manna from heaven” when the Israelites feeling the Pharaoh of Cheese fondued themselves lost in the desert for 40 years. What did they live on? Cheese of course.In the form of Manna. From heaven.Made from oil, the prehistoric remains of dinosaurs and unfathomable forests, lost and refound in the oil gushers of our time. The blood of planet earth. To run our dinky little toys. And save us all from hard work. And make life on this here planet-so much easier, so much more comfortable,and habitable. So much better thanks to better living through chemistry. Thank you Mr Ford and Mr Edison.Thank you G.E. and G.M. What would we have done without you?

Lets take a peek at some of the consequences of this greed is good mentality, shall we? As Ronald Reagan, another and perhaps the very best Cheesemaker par excellence, in our era, stated “ Its mourning in America..” Er, rather “ morning.” “Trickle down economics??” Excuse me “trickle.?” Perhaps what was meant was “trick-ler..” Mr Reagan understood the essentials of existence. Every cheesemaker par excellence does. President Nixon on other hand saw cheese confined behind a giant iron wall called Communism. He saw the communists as rats eating away at the chords of our survival. And he did everything in his power to stop the little critters from infesting our house. He was in a sense a giant Cheese Cat of a Man.And while our boys, boys barely out of their teens died in the muddy fields of Vietnam, he continued on his quest to destroy the stench of rotten Cheese that was starting to fill the air of democracy and freedom. He knew many things the others did not. He knew that Alger Hiss was a rotten Communist Cheese Spy just by the snake-like sound of his last name-Hissss. He knew that Khrushchev was a Communist by this Russian sounding name and the fact that the word Crush was in his cogonomen. He won the Presidency against a man who had the word “Harumph” in his name. And he passed legislation protecting the environment and minorities in America.

He cannot therefore be called a Man of Cheese. He was a cat and cats dont like Cheese. Cats like rats and mice.

Cats and Rats just dont get along all to well. It is the nature of things, or the Res Natura of it all.

These endless mornings of the political system and the rhetoric of hope and resurrection,of human dignity and “you’ve got your rights” of “ just say no” and “ just do it” have created a twilight of the human condition on this earth. And the trademark signatories of a double dealing system of lies and obfuscation, of selling the “sizzle” and not the “steak”, of the portrayal of corporate agenda, as an agenda of compassion and neighborly love, in effect the thievery of so-called religious and moral virtues as an agenda of the Madison Ave Lie make a fast approaching nightfall seemingly inevitable.Underneath it all is menace and fear, distrust and inbred hostility towards the other.Underneath it all the so called laws of the jungle which as portrayed by our best thinkers, so called are neither laws, or in any manner scientific.Underneath it all, hidden under the wrapped warp and woof are men who simply don’t give a rats ass. Since when did the sub-plot of life disappear?

Science shows us the Universe is a co-operative enterprise, in spite of the endlessness of destruction. That is to say it is balanced within the larger whole of destruction and creation. And it is a Mystery, as yet unresolved.

The virtues of competition in a level playing field, aren’t virtues.There are no level playing fields in the world of the real.So called Adam Smith economics as Joseph Stiglitz points out in “Free Fall” and which has been used by the so-called pundits to rationalize what is clear sociopathy is not the intellectual basis of the current approach, unless Adam Smith was himself as psychopath.The corporate sociopath, does not appear as “sick” or cowardly. And the appelate of cowardice, to describe the workings of sociopathy is a joke. The sociopath sees himself as God, divine creator of heaven and earth, as the mad emperors of ancient Rome did, from Caesar Augustus onwards to the end of the empire and yes, our modern times.

“I Caesar Augustus, A God- and Son of a God”

Inscription on the Statues of the 2nd Caesar-Augustus

In order for Augustus, the adopted son of Julius Caesar to declare himself a God he had to ordain that his father, Julius was. This was done by the august fathers of the senate, with the help of few augurs and Sibelene prophecies and Augustus, no longer had need of the pageboy who holding the laurel over his head as he marched his triumphant chariot around the Appia Antica, and had the job of whispering in his ear –“you are not a god, you are not a god..”The man became jobless and moved to America, the land of opportunity.

LETS GO BACK TO THE CHEESE STAND SHALL WE?

Lets return to Cheese Stand A and B. As we know the two cheese stands have been bought up by Mr.Big Cheese, the biggest cheese in Cheeseville U.S.A. but not the only one.One day a strange looking jesterfellow comes strolling in to town, a sort of minstrel with bells and whistles. The minstrel is carrying a mandolin, a trumpet, a little keyboard and a small pocket computer with which he makes calculations. He tells the Big Cheese that there is a better way to make money on the selling of cheese and it doesn’t involve cheese, at least only peripherally. Sort of in the perihelion of things. He points out to the Big Cheese, that money doesnt really exist and is a construct of the mind of man.In Nature there is no such thing as money and deer dont exchange 100 dollar bills in the of forest. Neither do tigers or birds. They in fact have no economy, which make men, much superior to them and dolphins. Goes without saying, so there is no point in saying it.

“Around 20percent of American children are living in poverty.An estimated two million are homeless sometime during the year,including whole families who have full and part time jobs..”

Not pretty is it?

Julian Edney

“America is only as good as its cheese..!”

TV CHEESE COMMERCIAL

So where is the accountability in all this? Where is the truth and does it matter?

In a society where King Cheese rules the roost it follows.

“This is a flamboyantly optimistic and self congratulatory society and the puzzle is why it allows this suffering…the inequalities are stunning but a frequent attitude a shrug and so what..”

JE

The Jester points out to King Cheese that many people like his cheese and that many other people would like to get into the action and that they are willing to give him some money in exchange for a small cut of the cheese pie. “I dont make cheese pies..” the King rightfully replies. “No you dont.., thats true “ the Jester, whose face has a greenish tinge replies;”your right about all that but what is a cheese pie if not molecules and what are molecules if not energy, an abstraction, an idea…just like money?If in fact E =MC2, then it follows that one cheese pie could light up the planet earth..! Think about it”

“True” replies the Cheese King.

“Here’s what I suggest replies the Fool,also known as the Jester, the trickster, the clown, the actor..”Lets convert all your cheese to cheese stocks and lets just issue them on the New York Stock Exchange. Lovers of Cheese will buy biy biy and you will get rich rich rich..After all this is the United States of Cheese.”

“Indeed , I shall, replies the Big Cheese..” why..thats a brilliant idea.. but what about the real cheese..wont it go mouldy??!!”

“You let me handle that,beside who cares about “real” cheese” ?replies the Jester, whose face is now looking somewhat orange, like a fine aged cheddar…” and besides mould is good for cheese..look at blue cheese..or blue cheese dressing..aint it deelish?? What makes it deelish? Why mould of course”

So boys and girls, ladies and gentlemens as the old Rabbi,once said “If I am not for me-then WHO am I? And if not for you…WHAT am I”

But the answer is clear to anyone who hath eyes to hear and ears to see.

In a so-what and shrug world, there is at root a disconnect on the deepest ethical level. On the molecular level as it were, on the string theory level. Its only a question of time that scientists will discover that beneath the quarks, quirks, beauty, truth, positrons, epilsons of everything is an infinite ocean of bubbling boiling cheese. Enough for every pizza, that ever was, and ever will be.

Does anyone really care? If a black man gets beaten half to death in front of the world, resulting in the last Los Angeles riots and the cops are let off scott free with a jury in Simi Valley deciding that “excessive force” was not used, who you gonna believe? Your own sensibilities or he who cuts the cheese at the dinner table?

If another black man can be accused of murder and be declared innocent in the criminal trial and guilty in the civil isn’t something seriously askew in the nature of American Justice? What about the thief in Florida who tripped on a child’s toy while robbing a house and suing the family he was robbing? And winning. There seems to be a progressive “insanification of perception”, a total disconnect between people and the essential empathy that distinguishes a truly civilized society from a barbarous one.And the perceptions enhanced by media, in the form of endless tirades of screeching manic commercials and hebephrenically cheerful TV hosts and shows with endlessly and crazily happy hooting audiences tells the viewer not to trust his own feelings, his own experiences. As in imperial Rome, the games are the great distraction and the “bread and circuses” keep the people in a numbing and dumbed down darkness.

Darkness and Cheese.

Our experiences and lives have been co-opted by a fine melted cheddar. We have become in effect men of cheese.

PT 3-

HOW TO MAKE A FINE MORAL CHEESE

“Did you ever see anybody at a gambling table who cared desperately and who had to win? Did you ever see him win? Not in this universe. But this fellow who’s sitting there and he doesn’t care—if he got the money he’d take it out and throw it in a spittoon. And there that fellow sits with the dollars rolling in on him. And he’s getting a higher and higher stack of win. But then one day he gets married or something, he’s threatened to lose his job and he says, ‘I’ve always won at gambling. Now I think I’ll go back and play. I’ll make some money.’ He’s done. He goes back and he loses and loses and loses and loses and loses.

“Well, he was able to take a very grand view of all this at first. Then later on, when it became serious to him… You know, the way to get ahead in the world is work, hard and save your money and be respectful—respectful and polite and willing and very agreeable to your superiors. This is the old formula and yet it’s dismaying to go around and find the (quote) ‘captains of industry’ and find out that they’re a whole bunch of pirates and bums. They were never respectful to anybody. It’s just incredible, yet there they sit in command of large works and industries. They didn’t save their money. They don’t save their money. They are not cautious with their investments. They buy the doggonedest things. They get into the worst possible scrapes and trouble and seem to keep right on going and getting right out of them again.”

L.Ron Hubbard

So why shouldnt Alan Greenspan encourage risk taking especially when the monetocracy of America, his pals, were making so much money? Get the picture? Mr Hubbard is correct. These people “get themselves in the worst possible scrapes and keep on going and getting right out them again..”

Moe Larry and Curly worked for 25 cents an hour painting houses in Beachwood Canyon, right next to the Hollywoodland sign, in fact painting it.In order to paint this house Moe had to do a lot of slapping, Curly had a few epileptic fits and Larry had most of his hair pulled out.The house went into foreclosure when Chase Manhattan Cheese received 20 billion from the government and was sold under the feet of the owner. The owner who was told by the Cheesemakers there that all was well and that they would refinance and then stuck the now homeless ex owner with a mortgage of 125,000 dollars which he still had to pay for in spite of losing his property.

“With earning money the end all of life, there were no limits to acceptable behaviour.Like the many other banking crises that preceded this is each episode is marked by moral scruples that should make us blush,with a few egregious personalities marching off to jail (but often left with hundreds of millions of dollars left in their accounts…”

“Sometimes, the financial companies (and other corporations) say that it is not up to them to make the decisions about what is right and wrong. It is up to government..”

J.Steilglitz

And so it goes. Perhaps everything we have been taught is wrong.

When concepts of morality and ethical behaviour, which seems to in inbred in most of us, unless we are sociopaths, are dismissed as irrelevant and inapplicable there is a total disconnect between what we are taught in school and any standard concepts of religion and morality and the real world. When a demonic utilitarianism infects the breadth and length of a nation the end is nigh. Or is it?

When legalese is more important than a genuine and authentic sense of what is moral behaviour, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, the clock to extinction has been turned on.And if not extinction then bloody revolution. History bears this out. Or does it? Revolutions seems to breed monsters.Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite gave the world Robespierre and Napoleon Buonaparte. The Communist Revolution gave the Russians Stalin. A slew of monsters. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So how do things change? How do things evolve?

Corporations and monopolies, centralized systems, whether the Roman Empire, or the Ottoman eventually collapse.Twas ever thus.Why should our current times be any different? Things change. Shit happens,as the Romans used to say “Caka, Cakorum est”.

“Economics, unintentionally provided sustenance to this lack of moral responsibility”

J. Stiglitz

MUSIC UP

“Money doesnt talk it swears/Obscenity. ..Who really cares?/Propaganda/ All is Phony!”

The 19 year old Bob Dylan

ASK YOUR DOCTOR (SIDE EFFECTS MIGHT INCLUDE DIZZINESS, SWEATING,BLURRED VISIION AND DEATH)

Why would these giant minds of economic integrity abuse themselves and the American public? If a nation at war is only producing bomb, tanks, missiles, soldiers, C.I.A. operatives, cops, prisons, guns and movies and TV reality shows and endless hot air why would the economy not collapse? The real question is- why did it take this long? Why doesn’t it just all grind to a halt?Does it take a degree in the so called “rocket sciences” to understand that all economies are based on selling and buying needed products for survival? If 3 percent of the population can provide almost 1000 percent of the food necessary for our basic survival and modern technology can and does accomplish the actually work of a nation-in the form of machinery from the robotic to the domestic, what in fact is the American economy and the economy of the world really based on? Mexican labor?

Rolex watches? (Knock offs)

Savology?

Cheese?

Las Vegas?

Cheese Stocks ?

Alcohol and Drug Consumption, illegal and prescribed?

Entertainment?

Prisons and Surveillance?

Facebook?

Or is it just oil? A bubble of crude, Texas Tea.

PLANET EARTH BURSTS A VEIN IN THE BRAIN OF MR B.P.

Right now as I write this the entire Gulf Coast is spilling massive amounts of the earths oil into the water.Billions of dollars of valuable oil, destroying millions of acres of wetland with a possibility of this toxic material being picked by the currents of the Gulf Stream and shooting it into the high Atlantic and the East Coast. So far 30 percent of the fishing fleets have been shut down.The American Media is outraged. The corporate British giant B.P. seems to be incapable of stemming it down.They don’t seem to care. Every day the news gets worse. The lake or ocean of oil that is spilling is located 10,000 feet below the sea bottom and 2000 feet of concrete will have to be poured in order to plug he leak. This is the nature of the times we live in. One leak somewhere can ruin the economy of a nation. One plane can bring down a tower of steel and concrete. One bomb inside the heel of a shoe can bring down a passenger plane. Or cause millions of passengers to have to take them off at airport security from then onwards, forever. A couple of boxcutters smuggled on board an airliner can bring down two of the largest steel and glass towers in the world, killing thousands and affecting the economy for millions. A mistaken zero on an internet stockmarket transaction can cause the entire market to drop 1000 points. One bottle of poisoned Tylenol resulted in a billion dollar industry in which every edible product is sealed and double sealed in plastic. One broken car on a highway can affect thousands or tens of thousands of commuters to have to gridlock, burning gasoline for hours. Buckminister Fuller calculated that in the city of Los Angeles, the “carceral city”, if everyone just stayed home and didn’t drive, the savings from fuel loss and consumption would be enough to pay every citizen of the Polis of Quartz , 75,000 dollars a year. For doing nothing. Fuller calculated that 2 percent of the world does 98 percent of the work, the real work-the rest shuffle paper and make phonecalls.

Oh Brave New World.

One prisoner costs the state over 75,000 a year. One charge of the use of an illegal substance can result in a life being ruined. 3 counts of a crime,almost any crime, can put a man in jail for the rest of his life. “Its crazy.” Argues Moe.Karry concurs but looks stupid. Curly rubs his face repeatedly.

The war on drugs is as insane as making war on the cellular structure of the nervous system. Just say no, to any addict, who is constitutionally and genetically different from his fellows is as ridiculous as making a man taller by his willing him to be so. The societies of the world at large are for the most part run by insane and deeply ignorant men and women, and all the good intentions that they can muster makes little difference .There is an utter disconnect beween word and deed. And yet it goes on and on. Can we understand the root causes?

Why haven’t drugs been de-criminalized when they are clearly a medical and psychological problem and why has no candidate run on that platform?That one legislative action alone could kick start the economy. An addict is an addict is an addict. Legislation that criminalizes an illness will not eliminate the illness. Why isn’t it clear yet to the public that democracy and homeland security has little to do with the wars currently raging in the Middlle East..Afghanistan..Iraq..Kuwait.. and that the cause of these battles is over control of the most important resource in the world-oil.

Its obvious to anyone with basic brain function that all these dysfunctions are based on mass hallucinations.And yet the pain and suffering is very real. And production of Cheese is very high. And the Land of Oz is in major trouble. Even the wizard and the wicked witch.

THE CHEESE INDEX OF OUR ERA

“The economy was out of kilter, two thirds to ¾ of the economy was housing and cheese related…”

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When Moe, Larry and Curly asked President George W Bush about the economy in 2008 President Bush replied; Everything is just fine, no problem. Cheese production is up, the GNCI is up, (Gross National Cheese Index), things are hopping. When 750 billion was set aside to rescue the banks, why were there no conditions applied? A simple condition such as this money must be earmarked for the people, to pay their mortgages, health insurance, children education and yes food. Why would it be given to the same foxes who ate the chickens in the first place? Any of this make sense? No sense but plenty of dollar and sense for the select few immured and protected by the same laws that protect a home invader.Cheese can only make cheese, it can’t make say…pretzels but the argument presented is that money can make cheese and the pretzels can always be fondued. Such is life in America in the year anno domini 2010. Whats wonderful and uncanny about this sick scenario is how high speed computers, corporatists agenda’s for profit all all costs, the tenure of terrorist agenda’s, war, declining health at the cost of the people, big pharma, bit agribusiness, everything in fact has been sucked into a vortex in which every single cent that can be sucked out anyone’s pocket, can be done,is being done all under the banner of “quality control.” Behind it all, fear and ignorance, both of these twisted offsprings have been corralled into an agenda that at its root is creating and has created a slavery, unseen since the Middle Ages. It is a slavery of the mind and body. As Goethe wrote the greatest slaves are those men and women who have no idea that they are in slavery. If money is the only agenda and all things are turned towards it, then there can be no peace, no gratitude, and no growth.

The next time a corporation records your call for quality control and training purposes tell the asshole running the system to train on their own time and dime and if they don’t already have quality they shouldn’t be in the business of dealing with the public. Since the quality and freshness you can see and taste tastes like shit and is obviously stale and unappetizing don’t just return the cashew nuts go back and find the manager of the establishment and beat him up and after you have beat him up find his boss and do it again.

All creativity and inventions comes from an atmosphere of joyous innocence and abundance.

In the annals of history we have seen countless empires rise and fall, and always the pattern was the same-the moment a society was stripped of its moral and ethical sense, its justice denied and filed, the clock to its extinction had begun. No justice, no peace. The centre will not hold.No Greece, No Rome, No Brits, and soon..No Cheese. Unless we change course. The question is this;how?

“No one was surprised when Bush sided with Wall St and gave in to its blackmail”

J.Steiglitz

Free Fall.

Blackmail? Here is the definition of blackmail.

“the act of forcing someone to pay money by threatening to reveal shameful or incriminating facts”

One wonders what these shameful and incriminating facts might be. And if in fact we are all being blackmailed on a regular basis.

If in fact Mr. Steiglitz is right then it follows that the United States of Cheese has been severely curtailed by Wall St, and if so then its government can not claim any right to representation. Of the people and by the people etc. And it also follows that in a democracy, where its leaders are supposedly trusted servants the entire equation has been skewed. What aids and abets this constant insanity is TVland, the great distraction.Is anything on the boob tube at anything less than 100 decibels? It is a landscape of banchee like TV commentators, who have earned the art of cutting off the other fellow, derisive chatter, constant meaningless banter,put down and bullying,emotional and mental bordering on abuse. There is no dialect, only mimicry and pretense.

Who represents who? And how is the will of the people in any way manifested by its elected representatives elected b y the people and for the people. By covering everything in a good layer of cheesy sauce such issues are irrelevant.

An economic pundit explained it to me in the following manner.Loans are made on loans which are in turn made on more non-existant loans.In the movement of these loans which are based on nothing,percentages are taken by the movers and shakers which can amount and do amount to billions of dollars which are salted away.Corporate takeovers have made it possible for companies like Enron to lend to themselves, inflate the books and present a false front to investors. But in order to do this they must hold at least 4 percent in “real” money. If the real money isnt real, they in turn have to borrow. This all happens at the speed of light due to computers. Vast quantities of monies are transferred into the accounts of already very wealthy individuals who of course see no wrong, since they are simply doing what they have always been doing-making money make money, even if its only an agreed upon hallucination. That’s the whole point isn’t it?

In order for this to occur there has to be concurrence and agreement that this what in fact is happening.

Curly is ecstatic. “The victimizers felt victimized” All was well.One of the great accomplishments of our era, the corporate bum, the lunatic tramp, could disguise himself as a homeless wreck in Armani bailing water in New Orleans and weeping from his 3d eye, with his President George Bush, flying over the devastations commenting like a cross-eyed eagle a version of Alfred E Newman’s and Caligula’s –“What me worry?“ “Gee…” He says” Looks and…gee..looks kinda bad down there…”(President Bush flying over New Orleans during the flooding)The corporate bum dressed in Versace and Dolce and Gabbana could pretend that ,with Jesus on his side,everything he does was and is A ok, knowing full well it wasn’t. Sell the sizzle, not the steak. And act concerned. Act well.

But then the greatest form of brainwashing is self-generated. And as Mr Goethe pointed out the greatest form of slavery is willing slavery, and denial of the truth.

The toxic loans got triple AAA approval, outside on the cheese farm and the world and all was well in the chicken house as the foxes gobbled them up with nary a swack, and plenty of feathered snacks and nests,cooked at the speed of internet into bank accounts all over the world and “them” with big smiles on their lean lips.Wasn’t lassiez faire Capitalism just grand?Especially with hard boiled eggs and nuts. Especially with the American Govt handing out billions and billions in taxpayers dollars cause hey, they were just too way too big to fail and fall and hey just too important, just like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and Paris Hilton. And while Fox and CNN and the rest crowed their grand growing successes and the Stocked Market at 14000, they like unwhiged aristocrats of pre-revolutionary France flew about indulging as the French did in the finest wines and he finest of cheese and “les plaisirs de Venus.” Aint life grand?

Its a Wonderful life in the Cheese factory. And Moe and Larry and Curly would approve. And do. From Alphaville to Potterville, from the Land of Oz to the Land of Cheese.

The hunger for money, for its own sake, is a terrible and insatiable hunger. An unappeasable hunger. It is a Biafra of the human soul.A Bhopal of the brain and senses and there is no cure for it, just like there is no cure for the virus of human ignorance and plain old fashioned stupidity and cupidity. Life marches on.

No shit.

“Bankers acted greedily because the had incentives to do so…”

JS

“Free Fall”

“I feel good about the economic indicators here in the United States”Why didnt he say “in these here United States?”.

President Bush

Oct 17, 2007

An economic indicator in action.

AVARICE TRIUMPHS OVER PRUDENCE

JS

FREEFALL

In the meantime, the real cheese bandits on Wall St are pilfering and monkeying around he clock, working real hard, selling short, selling long, betting on this and betting on that, moving the stuff, the financial crack, shooting derivative Velveeta into their veins and stirring it all around like a fine vegetable soup mixed in with dried monkey turds and chaos theory fraudulent curds and whey, fractals of loss, and Facebook romances, layering their transactions around in such a way that not even a Chinese abacus on speed, couldn’t follow it.A super genius cant follow it.How smart do you have to be in this world? And just how smart do you think you really are?

Its not the smartest guy who wins in a Casino.Someone always wins but 99 percent lose.How different is the Stock Market and why in Gods name would the economy of a nation be tied to its machinations? Make sense to you?

“No-one ever joined Gamblers Anonymous after a winning streak in Vegas”

It’s the equivalent of letting the drunk drive you home after the party. Go ahead and hand him the keys and ; Have fun! Enjoy the ride.

Einstein couldn’t figure it out or anyone else for that matter, but the central gamble worked. They bet on the fact that like a Colossus, they were too big to fail. And hey, they were right.

Talking endlessly on the phone and whipping cream into non-existent cash transactions around the planet in nano-seconds, at the speed of light.Creating cheese,making Real money. And creating the greatest disappearing act since Houdini.

Everyone knew it. Everyone knows it.Everyone was in on it.

“in the beginning there was fitness (ordinariness)

when fitness failed there came about enlightenment

when enlightenment failed

there came about wisdom

when wisdom failed there came about compassion

when compassion failed

there came about rules, laws and obligations

when rules, laws and obligations failed

out comes

the fist”

from the Tao of Lao Tsu

We now live in a world locked between the fist and the law.Where is compassion, let alone wisdom, let alone enlightenment, let alone “fitness.?”

“Govern a large country as you would fry a small fish”

Ronald Reagan, quoting from the Tao of Lao Tsu

What did he mean by that? Did he know? Did he understand the implication of extreme caution?If the oil is too hot the fish will fall apart.

In meeting after meeting in Davos Switzerland and for over 5 years Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winning economist and author of “Globalization and its Discontents predicted the recent crash and burn. No-body listened.Why would you listen to a Nobel prize winning economist? We would much rather listen to Mr George Bush, who flunked high school algebra.

Except of course for the 3 stooges. But they weren’t invited to the White House. Except for Moe, who was invited to attend but was too busy painting houses and hitting his brothers over the head with a mallet and a ladder.

It seemed like the dance of cheese, it would go on forever and just about every economic pundit on CNN and Fox kept telling us and screaming at us that this would last forever, that the system was self-regulating, that Jesus wanted it that way, since he too had a Swiss bank account and that everything was not only fine but as it should be. A Perfect piece of financial cheese, with no end in sight.Is it a coincidence that Switzerland, the land of fine cheese, is also the Land of the Bank. Why have economic indicators not been attached to “fromage”? Am I only the only one to see the correlation?

On it goes.

Everyone knew everyone else was doing it everyone knew huge quantities of money was being made by those privileged individuals with Chicago school of economics diplomas hanging from their red gold and silk suspenders and the Armani ties and everyone was looking the otherway. All at the same time.Giant accounting firms played along with Enron.When Enron caused rolling blackouts in California everyone applauded. When the price of gasoline doubled,during a glut of oil production, thanks to Enrons handling and splitting into 20 parts the march to the comsumer, (love that word) and taking a cut at each intersection everyone applauded yet again. This was Capitalism at its finest.The beauty of the corporatist mindset is simple, no one is responsible, no one is accountable, especially the guys that get paid to be accountable.As long as the company makes profit. The recent uproar against the British oil giant B.P. over its oil spill, presented as it by the media as “unfeeling” makes for great humor. B.P.is the most successful oil company in the Universe. Whats an ink blot, a stain on the world map? Another hilarity, much better than the 3 Stooges. I hope you are laughing.

No one stirs the boat when the drug dealers in town.

These corporate giants were the new movie stars and throughout the 90’s the word “creative” started being used for what used to be a bunch of stuffy old bankers and myopic accountants. Number crunchers became the new sex symbols, because there is nothing sexier than power and money.- Overnight they gained the appellate-“creative”.You know like Picasso, and Nicola Tesla and Albert Einstein. And while they accomplished this thanks to Mr. Reagan and the wonderful “trickle down economics” that began in the 80’ with deregulation and the non-enforcement of anti-trust laws, kept trickling, like the Colorado River,until it disappeared.

What is the answer? Ask Moe, he knows.

“Spread out!” is the answer to it folks.Make space. De-centralize. Really. A Zen koan loan sprayed in cheese on a street corner. The 3 stooges knew this. Why don’t we? Why cant we?

SPREAD OUT FELLAS!

De-centralize. Or else. The current economic mess is the simple cause and effect result 3 principal causes 1) thuggish takeovers and overbearing hostile buyouts in which the big cheese swallow up the little ones, like giant sperm whales flossing millions of tiny shrimp into their gigantic computerized Teflon-flossed teeth. 2) Density of heart, soul and mind in which the ratio of mass to velocity is in inverse proportion, i.e. the heavier things get the greater the inertia and 3) just gettin’ plain getting fat and dense and centralized and stupid and greedy. And not giving a shit about the other guy.

This is the Moe, Larry and Curly of it all. If three blind mice knew it, why don’t we?

The so-called Capitalist forces behind this move to perdition justify their actions on the basis of laissez faire economic growth. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. The same rational used to exploit child labor in Dickensian England by the Capitalists of the era is being touted here. Meant to be this way, its how things work. kinda of like the Divine Right of Dinks. Did it work? Does it work?

Beaurocratization in all its forms style over content, sizzle over steak, quantity over quality, and routine over flexibility.

Quantity over quality. And as Mark Twain wrote; “There are liars, damn liars and statisticians” And the over-gross national index of growth.

“But the progress of capitalist production not only creates a world of delights; it lays open in the form of speculation, a thousand sources of sudden enrichment.. the capitalist gets rich (read speculator, read derivative trader) at the same rate as he squeezes out labor power from others…and compels the worker to renounce all the enjoyments of life”

Karl Marx, Das Capital

And while the unemployment rate continues to rise, and people lose their homes and their jobs, with fewer and fewer jobs of quality and the means of production control centralize and fall into fewer and fewer hands. 98 percent of the Wealth of America in now in the hands of 2 percent with half of that money in the hands of 5 men. Look it up, or ask Moe, he’s the brains of the group.

And, while gold lined pockets rise sharply year after year, with more billionaires than in the history of the planet the rest of us of throw epileptic fits and spin in circles. Everything folks, is getting scarcest-And as the population continues to rise at an almost exponential rate, the unfortunate Malthusian model, and food production at an arithmetic rate, unemployment, quality of jobs, health care, quality of food, traffic, noise, political unrest, pollution, environment etc.-increase.

Moe Larry and Curly who were real dyed in the wool, capitalists and men of enterprise and skill (witness their painting and furniture moving skills) never kept their hands in their pockets, or anyone else’s for that matter. They were always moving. They were too busy working. They needed their hands to slap each other around, and their feet to kick each other in the butt. Moe was the slapper. Curly was he-who-gets-slapped, or the slappee par excellence and Larry; he-whose-hair- was pulled got nailed for just being there and witnessing the whole thing. A perfect system.

In their interaction was a blueprint for our times. But Moe had the answer and it was better than Karl Marx’ or Sigmund Freud’s. Spread out, give us all a little breathing room a little “lebensraum” as Herr Hitler might have said whom as Neville Chamberlain assured us would bring “peace in our time..” It’s been peaceful ever since; as history has shown us, and the air to perdition is sweet to the senses and kind and gentle to the soul like wildflower springtime at the Lair of Eagles.

In order to move, to flow, to circulate it’s necessary to spread out. Spread the wealth folks. Or there wont be any left because like a dwarf star sucking up matter, the gravity/density ratio will soon be so high that the “black hole” dwarfism of mind and heart which has spread like an H1N1, Avian/Swine/SARS cocktail of venal self interest will chock us all, gills and all.

And great walls of Ice and Gloom and of course, Cheese, will enseal us forever in Na Na Land, for which there is way out.

Its basic Grade 3 math, math even the dumbest of the stooges can understand and its based on one basic mathematical truth-You cant print money forever,you cant spend forever, and you cant keep it forever and you cant take it with you.

If you are one of the 140 new billionaires being created at this point in time, every year you don’t know that and –here is what I suggest. I have a solution to your problems,which are multi-farious.

Take a billion or so of your money and pump it anonymously into 100,000 or so random bank accounts. Do it in such as way that no one knows where the money is coming from. Then lie back and watch the sparks fly as tens of thousands of people can suddenly pay their mortgages, their car payments, their children health bills, their food and rent, their car payments, their cell phones. Lie back and watch as the entire economic machine kicks and sputters into action like a drowning man getting resuscitation. Think of it as economic electroshock therapy or one of those cardiac arrest fibrillators you see in airports.It’ll be fun,a lot more fun than flying from capital city to capital city, staying in 10 star hotels and ordering up 10 hookers. Better than buying that 10’th testa rosa.

Make sure, Moe, Larry and Curly are told and get it first. Make sure they know-use passwords and wink if you have too. In fact after you’ve done it walk around the streets of New York or Moscow or Dubai and just wink at people. Offer them cheese, which you should always keep in your pant pockets, for emergencies.

Then give it all a name.

Call it the Lazarus Effect.

Tell the papers anonymously, and then watch as America and the rest of the world of suddenly springs into action and the Ice and Cheese starts to melt in a bubbling fondue of wonder and amazement.

But do it anonymously. Do it randomly. Just make sure Moe is informed, he’s the brains in the group. Don’t tell anyone else. Don’t bring attention to yourself. Read the papers, you’ll have a blast!

Be very careful, and keep some Roquefort on hand for yourself, in case you need it.

And then lie back and watch the TV and the Evening News. And while you’re at it buy a TV network or two and play the 3 Stooges 24/7, free of advertising. Buy a cheese factory or two as well.

If you want to have even more fun target an emerging nation like Romania or Belarus’ or an African nation. Anywhere there is need. The other thing you might consider and Moe asked me to tell you this is –is this. Buy a billion dollars worth of food, mostly cheese, refrigerators, stoves, TVs, Computers, cell phones, Playboy bunny magazines, DVD’s video camera’s, antibiotics, medicines, herbs, seed, water etc and more cheese and pepper spray the stuff all over the Middle East. Again night flights in formation at 45,000 feet. Do it every now and then, in an untoward fashion. Lie back and have fun!! And don’t forget the cheese!

And while you’re at it keep playing golf and lambasting the world with sports and entertainment and porno. We all know and are very grateful when the wall of the Iron Curtain collapsed, because without it those Russian strippers and brides to be would have been stuck over there marrying KGB agents. Now they have access to rich capitalist swine. Cheese Eaters. Plenty of cheese to go around and thank god for the Internet.

And right up there in Times Square right next to the electronic ticker machine which shows at blinding speed the cost of the various wars mounting in the trillions put up another electronic ticker board showing the population of the planet increasing at an exponential rate. Don’t forget the Cheese Index.

Put next to that cost it will cost feed, clothe, provide medical care to the 6 billion that will enter our sad earth in the next 30 years or less. More cheese for us.

And next to that in high bass relief, the faces of Moe, Curly and Larry in the Cathedral of the Stooges. It should of course be made entirely of Parmesan and Edam.

As people start buying stuff, mostly cheese, more stuff (mostly cheese) will have to be made, more and more stuff and loe and behold since you own the means of production you will end up making your money back and then some, with a huge margin of profit. It’ll be swell, and you’ll have to do it all over again. Cheese begets cheese. You might even become Cheese King of World, or the Queen of New York, or the Emperor of Berlin.

Don’t wait for governments to do it, with their endless beaurocracies do it yourself from your home computer, in the name of the Big Cheese. Do it. Just do it. And stop being so self-less, do what Ayn Rand suggest- do it for yourself!

Now if you have any questions just ask Dr Moe, the brains of the group. He’s the one who gave me the “idear” in the first place. He studied to be a rocket scientist but chose vaudeville instead.And finally opened up a cheddar cheese factory in Youngstown New York, which is unfortunately shut down.

2.

“The shame of want makes want a shame to bear”

Plutarch, Moralia

DEUX PARTES

From the book “Voltaire’s Bastards” by John Ralston Saul

“ Widespread confusion between the freedoms proper to a democracy and those proper to Capitalism further confirms that business leaders no longer understand their own ideology”

No kidding.

This is exactly what Moe told me; “Hey people it’s a Republic, look it up. It has nothing to do with democracy. In a Republic, everyone has protected rights-even the minority. And there is always a minority. Plato himself said it “the highest form of government is a benevolent tyranny, the 2nd highest a benevolent oligarchy (republic), then comes a democracy, dead last.” End quote.

This confusion of the freedoms proper to a man of of cheese in our Age was well understood by bowl blackhair cutted Prof Moe, the man with the constant smurf, the greasy nose, the iron sharp distrustful eyes. He told me himself how right he was.

Otherwise known as Moses Horwitz, Moe made it his life’s work to slap his two other brothers into senseless submission. It was his life’s mission and he did his duty diligently.

He was a wise guy, the leader of the troupe and without him nothing was ever done. No cheese was ever spread. His constant admonition to these two idiots was-Spread the wealth!!! Spread the gravy! Get movin!! Spread the cheese!Ya…morons!!! Did they listen, no way Hose..!

“…the worker does indeed expend labor-power, he does work..but his labor is no longer necessary..and he creates no value for himself..he creates surplus value which for the Capitalist has all the charms of something created out of nothing… “..a nation can be richer..when its products fall in value”

”

Karl Marx “Das Capital”

Wub bub bub bub…ah..dub..bub..bub Moe Larry Cheese!!

Money like, cheese and gravity, which presageth doom and gloom and a new Ice Age of the Human Heart, worships at the fiery brass feet of the Great Demon God, Moloch and compacts everything into tighter and smaller spaces until its sucks everything up into this terminal, into an “event horizon” of extinction. No cheese anywhere. The big wink out. The one we never get to see coming. The dinosaurs didn’t see it either but then they had two brains, one in their heads and one in their tails. When that fiery cheesball dropped from the night skies boy where they surprised, both brains.

Asteroid Cheese-Moloch is not a good guy. What was applied to Leviathan can be applied to Mr. Moe-lock.What was dished out to the Dinosaurs could be doled out to the Derivative traders and the ensuing winter of a 100 years could create glaciers of cheese as high as the Empire State Building, which isnt all that high anymore.In fact its number 37, on the global scale and might be a better indicator of America’s real wealth than all the other indices which seem to measure wealth only for the wealthy.

After all what they have to do with the pennies the rest of the World is counting? Does holding a deadly weapon make you rich? It does if its aimed in the right direction..

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook? Or snare his tongue with a line…? Well, can you? Remember the battle.. Never do it again…any hope of overcoming him is false…” So saith the Bible.

Book of Job

Nyuk. Nyuk. Nuke.

Money sucks, it always has. It always will. Period. What is so difficult to understand about that? War sucks, it always does. It always will. What is so difficult about that? Cheese is tasty, especially Camembert. Or cream cheese for that matter. Its all in the perspective, it all relative,its all just a speculation,and it all depends on which side your toxic toast s buttered on, so saith Levianthan, dweller of the deep. Devourer of men.

And feeding hysterical squawking chickens to the same foxes who ate em in the first place will not assuage the eternal hunger of Mr. Moloch and Co.Mr Moloch don’t give a rats ass. Neither does Leviathan. Neither does the president of Union Carbide or AIG or GoldmanSachs.Niether does Newt or Sarah or George or Ronnie or any one them. Honest. If you were covered in sores and dragging your carcass across the road, honest, they’d walk by you. Or tell you to get up and get a job.

Now if you don’t believe me, just look into Moe’s beady little eyes. Remind you of someone? He will tell you in no uncertain terms- the end is nigh. The curtains coming down. The Fat Lady is warming up her vocal chords. The cheese pots are boiling, fondue and all. The Huns are doing pushups and stretching calisthenically. Alaric and the boys. Genghis and his minions. The Spartans are humming. It will be a nightmare. Awake and Sing!!! Oh my joyous soul for end is night and you know what that means don’t cha?? Well dontcha?? It means more cheese for us. Moe, Larry Cheese! Moe Larry cheese!! Cheese it, the cops….

And measurements, economic and otherwise that measure only the increasing abundance of the Super Rich, leaving 99 percent of everyone else behind, coming from the blaring trumpet and drums of blasting bought and re-bought Media celebration and back-slapping aint gonna gonna turn the trick. Stop it, boys. Hey Moe!! Hey Larry! Hey Curly! Where you going with that cheese in your hands?? Nyaaaaa…angaahhhh..yaaaahhh. woob woob woob wooob…

In the interaction of those 3 saps there was always a hidden message. The world is nuts. We kids knew it, but were too busy laughing. Witness the maniac who flew his Cessna into an IRS office building in Texas, killing himself and a few innocents’ slave-workers. Witness the even greater maniacs running Wall Street and Washington. The 3 stooges were indeed right. Its time for cheese, lots of it. Roquefort, Edam, Cheddar but Make it blue. Blue is good. Blue guffaws,

The 3 stooges knew everything and tried to warn us. But no-body would listen. It was the 60’s after all, the Age of the Rocket, the Bomb, the Iron Curtain, the Moonwalk. We were just kids, growing our hair long.

After all who were these idiot-stooges?

Us.

Who were they to dictate to us? Instead we listened to the experts, the geniuses. The sophisticated “sophists.” The rocket scientists of financial wizadry, people like Bernie Mad-hoff and Kcheating. Mathematicians without any sense of math. Engineers building ghost bridges over non-existent rivers.

But then they weren’t derivatives traders (what would we do without Chaos Theory?) or IRS accountants, or acquisition lawyers with 3 degrees and had trouble with basic addition. But they were pretty darn good at slapping punching kicking and threatening each other, especially Moe that demented fun mirror grotesque version of Adolph Hitler, sans moustache. Sans intelligence. Sans knowledge, it seems. Wub, bub-bub!

It was in fact tough to determine who was who.and who did what.But we knew the why of it, pretty well. Put their photos side by side. Its the same guy I tells ya. Moonlighting.

After all they were brothers.

Who was charading whom? Moe was much better than Charlie Chaplin in the “The Great Dictator” and more “methody” Moe was Adolph, I tells yas. Pithier, yes but much closer to the essence of the man as the Brits might say.

The world as George Bernard Shaw pointed out rightly is a lunatic asylum and run by demons.

Moe the Man, it seems had a perpetual tooth ache, not unlike our derivatives traders, investment bankers, engineers of commerce and high finance broke brokers. A toothache akin to an infected wisdom tooth but lacking all wisdom and restraint. And a constant headache, like the constant headache of the closing and opening bells on Wall St and the drone of the endless business reports around the world 24/7 which report, after all- nothing. The rattle of a door opening and closing on infinity. Infinite money it seems is the only answer.

Yell at em and ask them if they know what they are reporting and what they are talking about and if they start frothing at the mouth and scream “Moe. Larry, Cheese!” know that the fix is in. Cause it is in and always has been in. Gong back to Sumerian times, when the Age of Money was born.

Just think of all the financial experts of yesteryear and their barrage of bullshit about how great the economy was doing. Were we buying it? As long as we could afford our houses, groceries, education and health care we were. And few of cared. At least Napoleon bought bread for the inhabitants of Paris.

In “Globalization and its Discontents” Prof Steiglitz, as one of the founders and architects of Free Trade and Globalization points it that it was and remains a huge mistake.A mistake. That globalization took the average worker wage on planet earth from dollars a day to 90 cents. That the economic meltdown of the current crisis and all future crises (and there will be many more) will continue unabated. He points out the same thing in his new book “Free Fall.”

America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy

“The current crisis has uncovered fundamental flaws in the capitalist system….it is not just a matter of flawed individuals or specific mistakes, nor is it a matter of fixing a few minor problems or tweaking a few policies.”

And.

“The only surprise about the economic crisis..is that is came a surprise…”

“Spread out and spread the wealth, why don’t ya!” Says Moe Lehman/Before Curly Goldman throws a shitfit. Its just a question of time he does and don’t let the recent lull of fool fools gold flitter fool you, the economy is not improving. Honest…Now before you go all squirrelly on this one, ask yourself this –“Are you better off than you were 10 years ago?” What about 100? What about 1000? Tell me the last car, radio, TV set,dining room set,mattress, soapdish,toybox and trumpet America built and mass produced?

Oh yeah? Says Curly Egg “ Prove it!”

What part of the word read my Lips don’t you get? Well, there you go again, licking the trickle from the bone of contention. No new taxes, and if I’m not mistaken Reagan had promised to balance the budget and left office with a 5fold increase of debt.

Well, did he raise taxes?

“What was this different about this crisis, from the multitude that had preceded it,during the past quarter century was that this crisis bore a “Made in the U.S.A. label.”

Joseph Stiglitz

So you see America is now exporting something besides soldiers,movies, and war to the world.

“And in those days Caesar Augustus decreed that all the subjects of the Empire should be counted (for tax purpose) and that they should register at the place they were born and Joseph and Mary etc etc..)

Spread out!!!

Does it take a degree in rocket science to get to the real picture of what’s going on? Or a Nobel Prize?

“The richest country in the world was living beyond its means…Americans..had in a sense been living in a dream..”

J. Stiglitz

The Big Bank, like the Big Buck, presageth wisdom and an Armageddon of doom and gloom. And Cheese. But of course no one wants to hear this because hey what can I do about it? It is a topic in the region of throwing ones hands up in despair. Or slapping ones own face repeatedly, frothing at the mouth and throwing a seizure consisting of going round and round in circles.Or wubb-bubbing Moe!

If only our collective dog bark of a conscience had an influence on the great powers that be, but it doesn’t. We must peep between the gargantuan legs of Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, Corporatism, Nazism, Fascism but always an eternal Ism as i.e. knowing that the reign of Capital, which as Shakespeare, the unknown Stooge, said; bestrides the world like a Colossus and runs frantically around up and down stairs knocking things over with the leaping mortar of progress. We deserve and we want our “tsouris” otherwise it wouldn’t be happening. How can we have troubles when it only takes 2 percent of the population to fee over 1000 percent of the people. And doesn’t. And why not?

And the bullshit of Progress handed down like recyclable rubbish.Beleive me, Facebook and Twitter is not progress. There is no progress in the affairs of men.

And the Gods knowing this, laugh uproariously.

Twas ever thus and essentially nothing has changed in 5000 years.The 3 Stooges knew this and tried to tell us. But we would not listen and now scream out like Curly..”Moe, Larry.. Cheese!!”

Trying desperately not to let the bullshit get the better of us we let the bullcheese baiters,the flippers, the flappers, the daylighters,the gamblers, the speculators, get the better of us. We continue to pay the bills of Goods and the Bills of Ladling and the Bill of Loans and the bills of Credit debt.While the average American lives in Dickensian times, tabulating at the kitchen table the price of his daily cheese, the Wall Streeters and Big Goverment, along With the Big Boys living in Corp Inc. living on fractals and chaos theory. We have been handed by the “greed is gooders” a double bill for our living and our dying and we let it all, slip through our fingers. Passing on economic servitude forward into the wizened hands of Young Oliver Twists who have the gall to ask for more, such as a human standard of living, working and dying. Life,liberty and human happiness.

For Yes, indeed greed is good is for the greedy. For them. It works. It really truly does work. As it has worked, in the past for the lords and highpriests of the Middle and Dark ages.

For them, it is great and as the separation gap between the super super rich and the super super poor widens to Grand Canyon proportions we are asked to become Evil Knievel and rev our motorbikes and hurl ourselves into a chasm of debt and loss not seen greater since the Middle Ages. Hence the battle cry; “Moe, Larry.. Cheese! And make it Swiss!!”

Yes. It has already worked. It always has. As Power and Money corrption have always worked. Like War.

For Power that can’t exist without money is no power at all. cant exist without its closet cousin, Money.

And Money can’t exist without War. Money is everything. it is the Law of Gravity and Inertia all rolled up into one. Money is the great Centralizer and the Great Decider, and the great Provider of Loss, Sorrow and Suffering for 99.9999 percent of everyone on Planet Prison. There is a great French film called Largent that says it all; a hardworking Truck driver is knowingly slipped a counterfeit bill. Not knowing it is counterfeit he tried to use it to pay in a restaurant and is accused of forgery, spends 10 years in jail, comes out and murders the woman who had slipped him the money. In the meantime, while in prison he has lost everything, his reputation, his job, his wife and his family. He then proceeds on a murderous rampage.

“Money, dirty money,

It is the root of all evil, cause

Of all Shame, It was

Invented by Men/to kill Men”

Sophocles, 2450 years go

“Antigone”

“Moe Larry Cheese!!! Moe Larry Cheese!!

The 3 Stooges, American

1950’s 6o years ago

TV Playwright. Performers

“The 3 Stooges”

Much can happen in 60 years. Or 6000.

Why then is no one panicking? Why aren’t we all on the ground rotating in circles frothing at the mouth, screaming “Mole, Larry Cheese!!”

We are told it all works. This money thing. We are told we can escape slavery if we have enough of it; even Death can be bought off. That is the unspoken implication of great wealth. Immortality. And Cheese. And Gold. Perhaps even gold covered leaf.

Who does the covering up? Why The Media of course, the Sophist-Experts, Statisticians, the Movies. The Happy Ending always finishes with a big bank account. It is implied.

Like it or not. There is no happy ending in life or the moodies without money. With money, like is a constant round of jokes and laughter and without…a tragedy where disease, old age and death are implied.

Moe and Larry like the proper eternal moronic co-dependent in denial nod approval not having clue what is happening. He’s too busy getting what little hair he has pulled out by the roots.

Where centralization is in force, the centre cannot hold, not for long. Our common experience shows this to be true. All tyrannies are centralists and cannot hold for very long, whether in the tyranny of fascism or the corporatist control of markets and banks. And if indeed the Aquinian or Augustinian definition of God, is in fact a circle whose centre is no-where and its periphery Everywhere, or some such it follows that if something has a centre in this, its not God, which is precisely why we are told to trust him on the dollar bill.

We have been warned, dummy.

God is center less because there is no centre to his centers and no there, there, and there.

The world is very much centered in the ego. The I of our times rules and rocks. We are proud of our “I “as Moe is proud of his idiocy. Shall we say that he is in deep denial and “He-who-gets-slapped” i.e. Curly, who is bald and curless and takes the blow for his idiocy and determination to succeed is in fact much much much closer to the centre than Moe will ever be.

I wonder whatever happened to them..? The 3 stooges.

As a child I watched in gleeful anticipation of the horrors come. And Curly’s yell yelp and frustration made us kids in the neighborhood laugh out loud and frequently with the theme of 3 blind mice blasting in our ears, right after school, it acted as a perfect bromide to the indigestible that passed for an education.

The principles in a Democracy are based on probability mathematics. In the toss of coin. In all probability, a just conclusion will be reached if enough people come to jst conclusions and possess enough correct judgement together to vote in the right people. At least that is the dominant idea, you can fool some of the people some of the time but hey you cant fool them all of the time. I guess.

Why not? Take a look at the 3 stooges. There is great wisdom there. They got fooled all the time. And what great wisdom there is. If in the United States alone there are over 300 million cars and if each car represent an average of the power of 250 horses and if each horse is on the average 10 times stronger than an average man then the strength and force of energy from all these cars would 2500 times 300 million or the strength of 6 billion men and that in a population representing less than 15 percent of the worlds population.

And if all those abstract horses where to shit 10 to 20 lbs of manure every day there would enough horse manure to reach to the moon and back and it would produce enough methane gas to set permanent fire to planet earth. Say 10 Himalayan mountain ranges of horse shit.

And as Buckminster Fuller calculated because of the extraordinary inefficiency of the spontaneous combustion engine, if every one in the city of Los Angeles stopped using their cars, the savings on the wasted resource of gas would be enough to pay everyone a salary of 75,000 dollars a year. By doing nothing except saying spread out will ya.

Crazy, insane place, this planet earth Anno Domini 2010!

The 3 stooges are a metaphor for Democracy in its encounter with the forces of Tyranny. That’s what makes us laugh. In the slapping, kicking, biting, screaming, falling and endless confusion of their skits brought about by constant misunderstanding and stupidity, the dominant themes of our sick age, a kernel of reality is revealed.

Their common wisdom will increase the chances of a just conclusion. But is that the case? Look at history.

From the Pox Arcana Romana to the American New World order of right now, the just conclusion. Our machines are killing us and our medicines make us sick and our money makes us poor.

Thoughts come. Thoughts vanish. Ideas come to fruition. Civilizations fall like ripe fruit, fall and rot and are replaced. The 3 stooges rattle about my head, Moe-the brains, a moron if ever there was one, mop headed dour, an Adolph Hitler of comedy, the idiot brother Larry and then the real problem child of the family filled with manic obsessions and phobias of a million varieties Curly, a balded headed fatty as manic as a rabid dog- my hero. People are born and die. As I write millions are dying, millions being born, millions more. The hospitals are packed to the gills, flu’s, cancers, chronic ailments from diabetes to lyme disease, sars, west nile, h1 n1 on and on it goes and the pharmaceuticals increase exponentially as profits rise from disease and discontent. Not health. There is no money in health as there is no wealth in contentment and human happiness. All wealth is based on the discontent.

It’s not that funny. As write this reborn Christians prepare for the Armageddon and the coming of the Rapture. As there is no money to be made in health, happiness and peace. Only in destruction and war. Only in unhappiness does money grow like a rancid fungus on a rotten corpse.

Even the 3 stooges knew that. They did, we don’t. We in fact know too much-of nothing.

The population of the planet grows and grows filling it up, this piece of real estate shooting though space at 80,000 miles an hour piece of an even larger piece of real estate flying on a wheel of light at even greater speeds. And so it goes these wheels within wheels traveling for how long. Eternity? Infinity? Forever?

Words fail us as words always fail us. Hope springs eternal, like a lambasted run over jackrabbit. The speeches of our politicians filled with, filled with sharp purpose and resolve rust on the fields of human endeavor like old cars. Like frozen mummified saints. The icebergs in the new age of doom and gloom continue to grow, rise, mover, and crush-even as the greenhouse effect makes for interesting conversation.

The words of the great teachers, the great saints, fall like rainwater in the Sahara. The Messiahs of humanity dissolve and disappear, as they always do. Why doesn’t anything change? What remains to be said that hasn’t already be said? What new laws that haven’t bee around from the beginning of time?

As i write this a gigantic cloud of volcanic ass has spread over Iceland and the North Atlantic grounding almost all flights coming from Europe. The fine particles of dust and ash at 35,000 feet interfere with the working of a jet engine and can bring a plane down hurtling it into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic. Out of 27,000 daily flights on 5000 or so are moving. Everything is cancelled, passengers are stranded, many sleeping airports.

Its interesting and horrific that a little volcanic dust can bring down a jumbo jet. It is the nature of our times. A small shift in one company on a tiny ave in New York can tumble the world economy casuing 9 million americans to lose their homes and their jobs and almost 20 million in China. The action of one lunatic with a bomb in his show causes millions around the world at airports to have to remove theirs. One lunatic can affect the lives of millions, indeed billions.

Interesting times interesting system.

I recently visited the Richard M Nixon Library in Whittier California. Richard Nixon was president of the United States when I was a young man in the 60’s. ours and my generation despised him because of the war in Vietnam. Thousands of young people, families and chidren were dying because of the American presence in a tiny country half way around the world.

Nixon, a product of his era was doing what he thought was right. Protecting his people, America and indeed the world from the menace of Communism.

50 years later I stood in front of his tiny grave where he buried with his wife Pat, looking for the little gravesite of little Checkers, his dog. It wasn’t there. Across from the gravesite covered in roses and wildflowers the small house he was born in stood, charming, sweet, and a reminder of an America that no longer was. I said a prayer or two and thought of the grand irony that I would have looked back to that time, as an age of enlightened leadership, when a man from humble roots could rise and become President of the most powerful nation on earth.

The man who had said “ I am not a crook” was in fact not a crook. Misguided yes, but a decent man, a good man who was trying to do good. Mr Obama is a decent man, highly intelligent and from humble roots as well and he is black.And he too, like Nixon is in an untenable situation. Can he reverse this crisis. Only time will tell but it does not look likely unless as Mr Stigliz has argues major changes are made and implemented in the banking systems, the credit systems, the insurance sytems and on on Wall St.

At the time of Nixons inauguration America was torn in two between the black and the whites, the rich and the poor. Riots happened. Kent State happened. Vietnam. Manson. Insanity.

50 years later the insanity continues…when will it ever end?