Circuses Without Bread 290


The barefaced lie about Gadaffi being killed in the crossfire bodes ill for the openness, transparency and good government we can expect to see now in Libya. But today I am worrying about the effect on our society of human death as entertainment. I have never been an apologist for Gadaffi, but if his regime tortured and murdered, the remedy is not to torture and murder him – even the Nazis were given due process.

This murder is becoming the norm. It was a NATO air strike which took out Gadaffi’s escaping convoy and first wounded him. Two days ago two teenage sons of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical US/Yemeni cleric executed without trial last week, were executed by a US drone attack as they had dinner. They were aged 16 and 19. They had committed no crime I can find alleged against them. There has been no publicity.

All this killing brings triumphalist politicians smirking on our screens. We seem to have become as dehumanised as ancient Rome. Little human pity is expressed for the way Gadaffi was killed – indeed there is notably less media reflection of pity or revulsion than there was at the (at least judicial) hanging of Saddam Hussein. Is that a measure of the descent into bloodlust barbarism in our society? The complete lack of empathy towards the traveller families being torn from their homes at Dale Farm is part of the same brutalism towards “the other”. Why don’t we go the whole way and have them eaten by lions in the ring?

History shows that bloody appetite once aroused feeds upon itself. We have already had Defence Secretary Hammond on Sky News today positing NATO action now against Syria, while the current US proto-pretext for attacking Iran – the fantasy plot against the Saudi Ambassador – is as believable as Gadaffi’s death in the crossfire.

More death is on the way, to keep the circus going. Then the crowds may not notice there is no bread – no jobs, and their earnings and income eaten up by huge state enforced transfers to the bankers, whether by bailouts or “quantitive easing”.

Quantitive Easing is the best con of all for the ruling classes. In the UK, the £225 billion of printed money to date under quantitive easing has been – every single penny – given to the bankers. Good money for bad, used to buy up the junk bonds which the bankers bought in their terrible investment decision making, and for which fake assets they had awarded themselves many, many billions in personal bonuses. They are rescued from the consequences of their disastrous judgements by the Bank of England printing (in old parlance) new, good money to buy the rubbish they invested in. The result – more rounds of huge personal bonuses for celebrating bankers!! Hooray!!! For you and I, stagflation.

30 months ago, when I explained that Q.E. was another huge transfer to the bankers and predicted it would lead to stagflation, I was widely ridiculed across the web. Now we have the stagflation and everything I predicted has come to pass.

All of which you would normally expect to make people pretty unhappy at the biggest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in history.

Quick! More War! More Militarism! More Blood! More Executions! More Victory for Democracy! Keep the Peasants Happy!
Get a Move On There! Come On!! Come On!! More Blood!! More Blood, Quick, Damn You!!

UPDATE

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290 thoughts on “Circuses Without Bread

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  • Lennnart Mogre

    What can we do about it? Buy silver, as crazy as may seem, is one way to go. Go watch maxkeiser.com and learn about Crash JP Morgan, buy silver. It’s about the money and the sooner this system crashes, the better.

  • Komodo

    “Mubarak, Murdoch, now Gaddafi… one by one, Tony Blair’s friends are meeting grisly ends. If I were Cliff Richard I’d be shitting myself.”

    As someone remarked recently.

  • Mary

    I fear that it will not be long before real Gladiators will be on our screens with judges voting for death or mercy – it might even get more viewers than the dreaded X Factor which appears to be the only thing in which the average bod is interested. God help us all.

  • DM

    CBS/AP)

    MISRATA, Libya – Muammar Qaddafi’s blood-streaked body has been stashed in a commercial freezer at a shopping center as Libyans try to keep it away from crowds as they figure out where and when to bury the hated leader.

    An AP correspondent saw the body Friday at the shopping center in the coastal city of Misrata, home of the fighters who killed the ousted leader a day earlier in his hometown of Sirte.

    The body, stripped to the waist and wearing beige trousers, is laid on a bloodied mattress on the floor of a room-sized freezer where restaurants and stores in the center keep perishables. A bullet hole is visible on the left side of his head and in the center of his chest. Dried blood streaks his arms and head.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-20123711/qaddafi-body-stashed-in-shopping-center-freezer/

  • blauwal

    agree with the circus, but where is the bread? 😉

    I suppose Lybia is facing civil war for a long time and as in iraq this was the purpose from the beginning, the so called “endgame”.
    Remember:
    “divide et impera!”
    “War is peace!”

    sad really…

  • MJ

    Something that those in the US can do is move their bank accounts to Credit Unions or local, independent state banks. It’s a good time to do it because BoA is soon introducing new fees for depositors (including for the use of debit cards).

  • Canspeccy

    Re:
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    “the throne sits upon filth and quite often filth sits upon the throne” so as usual Nietzsche is misquoted.
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    Often misquotes are better than the original. I rather like UinUK’s “human order is in hands of giants that stand on the heads and shoulders of midgets and that those giants can at any time sacrifice midgets”
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    Even the meaning, though different, is better!

  • StandUp92024

    Thank you for your enlighten article. I am an American, a Christian and a mother, but first I am a HUMAN. Why have so many lost sight of our humanity? That two young men/boy’s were killed for the accused sins of their father is a crime against all humanity. That we are in the midsts of global insurrection is optimistic. As a human, that we have allowed these crimes to go on for so long is unconsciencable. I too am one of the guilty as I drive a gas fueled vehicle and live in a (formerly) multimillion dollar mcmansion. I pray it not too late for all to wake up and demand change. We cannot allow the wealthy and powerful to drive us to cruelty and war. I am grateful and ashamed that it took my own personal financial bankrupcty and possibility of loosing my home to wake me up to what is happening globally to my fellow humans. I am tortured by what I have shamefully done in my greed and willingness to create a ‘better life’ for my self at the suffering of the rest of the world . It’s so horrible that I have been indoctrinated to believe that somehow as an American I am ‘special’ and deserving of the largest helping for the least cost.

  • dolfhi

    Soon enough there is no enemy left to kill,watch out for that moment because the war machine has no choice but to come back to homeland and continue the massacre.

  • Canspeccy

    Currently, the US “giants” are intent on sacrificing the “midgets” without limit for the sake of global power.
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    As Paul Craig Roberts concludes in the article referred to by Mary:
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    In the few opening years of the 21st century, Washington has destroyed the US Constitution, the separation of powers, international law, the accountability of government, and has sacrificed every moral principle to achieving hegemony over the world. This ambitious agenda is being attempted while simultaneously Washington removed all regulation over Wall Street, the home of massive greed, permitting Wall Street’s short-term horizon to wreck the US economy, thus destroying the economic basis for Washington’s assault on the world.
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    From this descent into depravity, warns John Kozy, there is no going back:
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    History describes many nations that have become depraved. None that has has ever reformed itself.
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    So to misquote George Bush to, I hope, good effect:
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    We can fight them now while there is a remote chance of success or we can fight them later on when we will surely be totally destroyed.

  • Padawan

    Craig, just joining in from the US — no longer a nation of laws, nothing to take pride in here, move along — thanks for your analysis, and for your courage.

  • Lavengro

    A deeply disturbing day and I have been appalled at some of the MSM coverage and comment.

    Con Coughlin over at the Telegraph is particularly obnoxious, but even he is warning of portents of doom and gloom for the new Libya.

    I find the writings of John Pilger at Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27181

    and Abdel Bari Atwan in the Guardian here http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/20/libya-bloody-victory-gaddafi-beginning

    to be much better informed and more persuasive.

    Now I can add Craig’s blog to the list!

    Thanks Craig, keep up the good work.

  • Uzbek in the UK

    Angrysoba,
    .
    This is not actually direct quotation from Nietzsche but rather summary of his thoughts about realm of society and relation of power and morality. This idea is particularly underlined in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Will to Power.

  • Eddie-G

    “Isn’t the definition of stagflation high growth in inflation with a shrinking economy? We have high inflation, and because noones wages are increasing inline, the economy is not growing at the same time.”

    The fact there is effectively wage deflation confirms that we aren’t experiencing stagflation – at least not by the 70’s definition, when the term was coined.

    It’s not inconceivable that an economy can grow whilst real wages flatline, but the point today is that we have increasing unemployment, and higher-than-desired headline inflation that is not percolating through the economy (e.g. by not showing up in wage increases).

    It all points to stagdeflation, and should not be confused with the stagflation of the 70s which was a very difference beast.

  • Arsalan

    While taxes go up ad wages go down. America finds new ways of laundering money in to Israel:

    55 Israeli companies working in Iraq under assumed names

    In a dispatch posted at 6:55pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that 55 “Israeli” companies were now working in Iraq under assumed names.

    Yaqen reported that the Zionist firms operate in a variety of fields, including infrastructure and marketing. The Zionist Mossad secret police agency had established the Kurdish Lending Bank with its headquarters in as-Sulaymaniyah in the US-founded Kurdish separatist enclave in northern Iraq.

    The report indicated that the Kurdish Lending Bank had a secret mission of purchasing vast tracts of agricultural land, oil fields, and residential areas in the vicinity of the cities of al-Mawsil and Kirkuk, both oil-rich cities in northern Iraq. The massive land purchases facilitate the effort by the US-backed Kurdish separatist Peshmergah militia to expel Arab and Turkoman residents of northern Iraq so that the oil-rich area can be annexed to the Kurdish separatist state under US and Zionist hegemony.

    Meanwhile the Zionist state exports more than $300 million in goods to Iraq annually. In addition Zionist companies obtain contracts for construction projects in Iraq, thanks to help from USAID, the American agency that oversees the allocation of building contracts in Iraq.

    The report indicated that one of the chief beneficiaries of the Zionist presence in Iraq has been former “Israeli” Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak who also formerly served as “Israeli” Minister of Communications.

    source : http://www.uruknet.info/?p=45479

  • Anne

    Well spoken, Craig and greetings from Germany. I thought we had been well educated by you but now, unfortunately our mainstream media and politicians also have become like this.

  • NEVER GIVE UP!

    I am one of the many thousands that visits and reads and reads on this site. Keep up the good work Craig, you are not alone in all of this!

  • Roderick Russell

    Since some are referring to Nietzsche, was it not Nietzsche who said “god is dead” or something similar. I am not trying to make a religious comment, but rather perhaps to explain a reason for the lack of morality in government that we see today and that I know only too well from my own hard experience. The lack of morality in politicians that without any constraint (that religion used to provide) puts toadying to the powerful ahead of their duty to maintain rule of law and justice. The same lack of morality that rewards the powerful (bankers, elites) for their mistakes while killing innocent children because of their relatives.

  • anno

    When the water level falls, all sorts of twisted shapes are revealed below the normal waterline. The exposure of Dr Fox, who was doing exactly what all politicians have been doing for a century or more, is part of this exposure. As such this financial crisis, created by the Zio-bankers, would eventually expose even them.
    But before that time, if they have any sense, they will fill up the coffers again. Last time, a century ago, the pressure created by the Zio-bankers at the Great Depression was taken out in the form of World War and Nazism. Do the Zio-bankers care if the violence they are wreaking in Muslim countries spreads to the West? No, because they think they can move their Zion project forward like last time. And they think we’ve all forgotten. This time round, we will catch them.

  • anno

    Arsalan
    Assalamu ‘alaykum. I have been saying the same about Israeli acquisition of Iraqi land and power on this blog for over five years. Kurdistan is scheduled to expand into Turkey sometime.
    Property values there are being boosted sky high by government new-building subsidies now that Israelis have acquired the land.
    The way I see it is that in ancient times politicians gained power through knowledge of solar time. Now the ruling elites make a plan to bring down prices by war and boost them again by spending.
    Thus Politics is no more than fiddling the market and knowing the masterplan. While the people who are interested in this game, from the smallest to the largest political mind, who lie , cheat, spy and spin, are thinking they are winning, they are steadily coming closer to their doom.
    And those who live simply and honestly and believe in God and the Last Day are slowly building their future in heaven.

  • arsalan

    Anno you just touched on a point that even extreme liberals in the UK are too cowardly to touch, due to fear of being labelled.

    How much of this Banker money that was lost, was lost in Israel?

    Or wars in which no one benefits but Israel.
    It is cheaper to buy oil than it is to steal it. So How much of the deficit black whole resulted from over spend in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. In wars in which no one benefited but Israel?

  • Stephen

    Well I can think of 13 innocent people who I will mourn and worry about how their deaths brutalise mankind before moving onto Gadaffi. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15404515

    Although I daresay Assad will now become the new poster boy for those fellow travellers who have lost another valiant defender against the encroachment of Western capital.

    I’m surprised that no one has commented on how Craig’s views on QE and how it causes inflation really just accept hook line and sinker the old monetarist doctrine put forward by Milton Friedman – is the Friedman doctine now to be accepted as it is anti-imperialist??

  • mary

    Yahoo as censor
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    ‘My friend and neighbor in Petrolia, Joe Paff, wrote a response to a dreadful story about Qaddafi’s killing on Yahoo’s site, commenting “This kind of gloating is bound to come back and bite your butt. Imagine how many people in the world would like to see Netanyahu or Obama dragged from their hiding holes and tortured. It will take about six months for everyone to regret the ‘new’ Libyan ‘democrats.’”
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    Yahoo’s initial electronic response was to write to Joe, “Oops! Try again”. So he checked “post” a second time. Yahoo then rewrote his comment, complete with misspellings, stripped of any mention of Netanyahu or Obama, and “posted” it, as “This is the kind of gloating that comes back and bites you on the butt. Just imagine how many peopel in the world would like to see Americans dragged through the streets and tortured to death.”
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    As Joe wrote me, “Just another small episode in artificial intelligence and the present taboos.” ‘
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    http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/21/imperial-massacres/
    Alexander Cockburn

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