May 22, 2012
The Government Lying to Us — What Else is New?
Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary • No commentsCarson: No, that moisture running down your back isn’t rain.
Carson: No, that moisture running down your back isn’t rain.
Carson: Meathead versus reality.
D’Amato: In banking, it’s dog eat dog (and the reverse).
Carson: Occupy can’t be coopted, because it already belongs to anyone who wants to use it.
Knapp: It doesn’t have to be this way.
D’Amato: “Competition” today is no more than a clash between rich, monolithic global corporate titans who would rather use the legal system to ban competitors than actually compete.
Kevin Carson: “Today, in the dying days of monopoly capitalism, the state’s role in surplus extraction is specifically to protect the rentier classes against competition from the technologies of abundance.”
Carson: They’re doing it to Julia.
Kevin Carson: Words mean things.
Knapp: Apparently “austerity” is French for “the productive class takes it in the shorts … again.”