OBAMA, THE LAST EMPIRE JOKER/ EMERGING REVOLUTION

OBAMA, THE EMPIRE LAST JOKER & EMERGING REVOLUTION

Obama is the first African- American US president and glamorous media “Man of the Year”, but his slogan “the change we can” is falling short of prospect. Consensual champion of a Democrat and Republican elite in a desperate attempt to save the house in fire, his choice of collaborators from C. Powell to H. Clinton and R. Gates flatly eludes the most crucial questions: What of the rest of CIA secret jails after closing Guantanamo? Is the use of torture to be banned? Who is to be held responsible for war crimes and crime against humanity perpetrated up to date? On the domestic level his promise to tackle the “credit crunch” sounds alike a wishful thinking to pacify an electorate shaken by the specter of depression. Indeed blue and white collars should worry when those who deregulated the financial system repealing the Glass- Steagall Act (safe guard separation since the 30’s of commercial banks from investment institutions) under B. Clinton are back with a few Rubin’s protégés in the reforming team (1). Arsons who created the toxic debt with derivatives and credit swaps are the incoming firemen. The financial cast with “banksters” practices highlighted by Madoff scandal tightens its clientele network making it impossible for instance to track the money use for the bails out. US tax payers should realize nepotism is to continue under Obama delusive change.
On the same tend his foreign policy shaped by his shadow cabinet, the powerful think tank Council on Foreign Relation (2) is no breakthrough from Bush’s legacy except for the style relying on his personal charisma and minority credential. He is to go on with “War on Terror” with the same two fold benefits: organizing an all seeing surveillance of his own citizens along with justifying military aggressions of sovereign countries like Pakistan. The “surge” planned in Afghanistan with tactical withdrawal from Iraq is to thwart off the reviving Russian and to a lesser extent Chinese influence in what is considered a pivotal region, even to repeating the USSR mistake. Controlling Eurasia and its gas and oil reserves is key to US full spectrum dominance in the 21st century according to his mentor and cold war specialist, the 76 years old Brzezinski (3). In contradiction with his green plea during campaign, Obama is to consolidate the existing “Arc of Crisis” (4) from the African Horn to India through the Middle- East. The invention of modern Middle- East follows a recurrent geo- political agenda since the Balfour Declaration and subsequent creation of Israel as Western bridgehead. With Rothschild initiative Israel became in 1948 a US/ GB Imperial Trojan Horse at the junction of Europe, Africa, Asia, guardian of the Suez Canal, overlooking the development then of oil rich Persian Gulf countries. Two major entities are shaping the contemporary landscape. The American Jewish lobby AIPAC allied with the Christian Zionist movement and mad Dispentionalist doctrine (5) are unfolding a new Theo- political dimension to the problematic. Muslim populations and more specifically the Palestinians are stigmatized as enemies to the Holy Land, if not of God himself. The ideological machine well embedded at every level of power can operate a daily ethnic cleansing in the Occupied Territories and a ‘live’ massacre in Gaza with Washington green light and the silence of the International Community. Propaganda made it clear: Hamas (elected) is a terrorist organization to be annihilated with the collateral casualty of its citizens for Israel security. If destabilization, genocides and impending WW III (6) is a lucrative perspective for the mighty Military- Techno- Oil complex, can Obama make a change when engulfed in a dire economic turmoil, or is he the chosen one to enforce such logic? His “no comment” on Gaza events says it all.
However this worst- case scenario which recalls the apocalyptical last days of Hitler’s Reich (7) and ‘Final Solution’ is a long lived Darwinian vision of life for the fittest, or fascist notion of “Vital Space” in a revival of Mackinder/ haushofer thinking (8). It is not meant to take place, fanatic zealots of Armageddon having already lost on the semiotic battlefield. This small planet can no longer afford irrational predatory struggles for fossil energies, cooperation is to overtake competition. As such this crisis is of a broader significance, the system having reached its paradoxical pretense to globality (700 US bases World wide/ weaponization of space) based on a North/ South divide inherited from colonialism. Empires and civilizations are mortal when their “raison d’etre” has ceased to be, when confronted to a more complex and powerful realm. Digitally connected humanity with the first planetary generation is the emerging figure from the chaotic fall of the New World Order, leader of what we used to call western civilization. “The End of History” and precarious triumph of “democracy market place” under the greenback banner “In God we Trust” has paved the way to global human revolution. It is not a class or a mass one but cognitive and generational in the new age of information and knowledge economics. Civil unrests of youngsters (born with a debt) in Greece and elsewhere in Europe epitomize the rift between generations and the bankruptcy of their capital hope in an aging system of irresponsible consumption and wars. Global satellites network and internet interfaces have propelled the Planet to a layer of critical transparency. L’Art- Evolution Creatrice or creative revolution is an unprecedented quantum leap from individual to collective consciousness, bearing a new bio- political dimension to achieve global peace. ‘This is not a revolt sir, it is ~intelligent~ revolution’.
The US imposed their global dominance after the British colonial decline on the burning ashes of WW II. 1944 Bretten Wood agreement helped settling this supremacy with two powerful financial tools created had hoc to serve this purpose: IMF and World Bank with their non democratic or accountable governance (choice of directors and US right to veto). Along the line was set the fixed relationship of the dollar to gold. 1971 is another determining date to understand the current fallout. Nixon decided to detached dollar from gold. Dollar had turned into a self referential currency "as good as gold" forcing other nations to use it for trade and their own reserve triggering the actual systemic crisis. In violation to the US constitution creation of money is discretionary to the Federal Reserve, a private institution manipulating at its convenience eras of abundant or scarce credit, privatizing profit while nationalizing debt as blatantly happening (9). In 1973 was an other twist with Yom Kippur war and the 400% rise in OPEC oil prices which started the reign of petrodollar ruining a little bit more third world countries unable to finance their own oil import. The prototype of the actual Ponzi Scheme at work can be found in France post Louis XIV when the Scottish banker Law turned the national debt unto stock options in his "Cie des Indes", creating the first inflationary bubble in history, the Mississippi bubble. Eventually the system Law collapsed when people panicked by the rumor that the French owned Louisiana would not yield the wealth forecast tried to cash their paper shares for gold all at the same time. Anyhow the genius crook had set an idea in which he believed that would permit the financing of Industrial Revolution, a time of prosperity for some: the mounting bourgeoisie.
Marx was the theorist and clear critic of this mechanism, understanding the distortion between use value and surplus value in regard to labor value. Exploitation is the discrepancy between a self increasing capital (by ever expanding exchange value) and labor at a fixed rate. Now days the "credit crunch" indicates a paradigm shift in the notion of value. Since Nixon’s decision the index dollar is no longer related (in Pierce meaning) to its material counter part gold, merchandise (10). We therefore deal with an I- materialized value where M0, M1, M2, M3 and undergoing speculative operations rest on thin air. More explicitly credit relies on the system credibility (creed = credit) of it fiduciary (fidus is Latin root for faith) value, an ironic tautology that probably led to the act of faith: In God We Trust as the Federal Reserve could see no limit to the printing miracle. In 21st century digital technology trading has become virtual with credit card, electronic wiring and sale on the net. Post- industrial society is information and communication based and I- mediate (instant). In emerging knowledge economics the relation labor/ capital has changed. The value of labor tends to zero (1 sample or million of them takes one click), and as a consequence copy, real time diffusion and down load tend to gratuity (its opposite capital is cumulative). Reproduction ad infinitum erases the capitalistic corner stone value/ scarcity while eroding the cost of production. P2P fatal subversion to the means of production ownership is criminalized by vain reaction. At last intellectual copyright is the central question when with intangible invention/ creation (music/ visual/ software) one can not distinguish the original from its clone. Sharing culture in a free flux is the innovative state of the art. As a whole we attend to the total I- materialization or abstract of the trade system leading to economics of gratuity (11). Merchandise is no longer merchandise but knowledge about merchandise, data
Classical economics have failed for two main reasons:
1/ Limitedness of resources was never part of the equation and anyway unconceivable by founding father A. Smith and famous "The wealth of Nations".
2/ Negative externalities of production and impact of pollution on environment was only understood in early 70’s by G. Roegen (12) forcing a rethink beyond supply and demand through the thermodynamic term of entropy (irreversible degradation of energy).
It is somehow quite amazing to witness the hard liners of free trade and self regulated market (Smith’s invisible hand) followers of neo- liberal school of Hayek and Friedman turning unto frantic interventionists trying to stop their own financial Golem. The Monetarist School is sinking in an ocean of worthless value. This crisis demonstrates that something new is emerging (with emergency). The rise of disaster capitalism as tagged by N. Klein (13) has hit its exponential climax. Literally perishable sun with not enough fuel reserve to burn in a near future (14), it is on the black hole threshold accentuated by psychological factors, collective anxiety and public awareness of the environmental challenges to be undertaken. "Creative destruction" doctrine has led us to the 6th extinctions of species since life begun clearly due to anthropic activities. At last corporate planet Inc is attempting to privatizing life with copyright of human, animal and plant genomics, alienating for ever our right to live as free human beings. Overwhelming Marx’s worst nightmare we have become reified ("thingified") with a price tag like any other commodity. Australia is already granting license to clone human embryo since September 2008. Indian farmers are committing suicide en masse as they are ruined by transnational gen. tech. corporations providing sterile seeds (15). The global financial crisis we are in is not of a Kondratieff type with following recession and restart with some "New Deal policy". It is the crisis of the so- called cognitive capitalism itself in its ability to provide a coherent answer to a new interactive and holistic reality fashioned by the value of value: ethics
Few months ago I gave a conference at the Nation Research Institute in Asmara, Eritrea on the theme: "Information revolution, from Africa to Africa back to the beginning in global culture", predicting in front of a stunned audience the structural financial down turn of what B. Marley accurately called Babylon. The ancient Babylon is well known to have made its wealth on slavery. Same is for the one of modern history and famous “ebony triangle” of human trafficking with in addition the continuous exploitation of the South, sparking conflicts and corporate looting not to mention the outrageous bondage of debt.
Knowledge economics is no longer about matter and energy but organizational information. It is a transsubstantation process from a quantitative era of production to a qualitative age of self- organization, from Homo Faber to Homo autopoieticus. Semantic information (16) revolutionizes the time arrow by formulating the beginnings: life, species, humanity, Universe. It is negentropic (17), cognitive and recapitulative in Brown sense of microgenesis (18) relying on the holographic principle (19).
To the question that was still a puzzle to Greek philosophers a 7 years old boy could answer me: what came first the chicken or the egg? Dinosaurs he exclaimed mischievous. In the same way with advancement in phylogenetics our common African origin is becoming an actual reality. This retroactive understanding sets a practical base for global peace.
Regardless Obama’s next gesture and sense of responsibility the financial system has lived closing the history of capitalism based on “Divide and Conquer” or in its post- modern version “Terrorize and Manipulate” . It stimulated our growth and has been “a necessary evil” when the world view was a short- sighted selfish interest as ground for a hypothetical common good. At global momentum when humanity is one interactive body a living organism in Whitehead terminology, its pyramidal hierarchy is doomed to disappear. The next step is then the conscious human revolution from Africa to Africa encompassing the full spectrum of culture in space- time to the very limit of the Big Bang. Free economics of knowledge is the legitimate outcome of this crisis (crisis is decision in Greek root). It is the cultural evolution of our collective genius: an open source for all, the only one sustainable. The living constitution of humanity in New Jerusalem (African Rift) is the safe havens of democracy and final dot to war, famine and criminal injustice.

(1) Who are the Architects of Economical Collapse? www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10860
(2) FutureStorm: Obama's Cabinet Full Of CFR, Trilateral Commission ...
futurestorm.blogspot.com/2008/12/obamas-cabinet-full-of-cfr-trilateral.html
(3) "The grand chess board" 1997. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski
(4) Arc of Crisis. whatreallyhappened.com/content/creating-arc-crisis-destabilization-middle-east-and-central-asia
(5) Dispentionalist doctrine: The Revolutionary Vanguard. www.bradford.ac.uk/hub/studentnews/zionism.doc
(6) WWW III www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/
(7) Internet Archive: Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler. A. Sutton www.archive.org/details/WallStreetAndTheRiseOfHitler_848
(8) Journal of Historical Geography. linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0305748883902475
(9) "Secrets of the Temple: how the Federal Reserve runs the country" 1987.
www.thenation.com/directory/bios/william_greider
(10) Peirce’s semiotic triangle.
(11) Economics do not need to be linked to money but to the law (nomos) of the
house (eco), in this case planet earth.
(12) "The entropic law and economic process" G. Roegen 1971.
(13) "The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism" 2007.
www.naomieklein.org/shock-doctrine/reviews/profiting-disaster-capitalism
(14) We have passed the Hubert pick and are running out of oil in a limited
amount of time.
(15) www.seedsofdeception.com/
(16) I don’t refer here to quantitative information of Shannon, Kolmogoroff- Chaitin
type (compression, transmission, complexity/ randomness) but to Semantic
Information Field as defined by Nalimov in relation to consciousness in Quantum
Mechanic. www.springerlink.com/index/2MWYOL5M3Q1GHMOB.pdf
(17) Negentropy was coined by Brillouin after the negative entropy concept
introduced by Shrodinger in his book "What is life?" The cognitive reversion of the
time arrow is the link between thermodynamic and semantic information.
(18) Brown Microgenesis. www.medsport.pl/acta/15/germine.pdf
(19) Holographic Principle and the Evolution of Consciousness.
www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2007/holomind.htm
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