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The unification of Kapitalismo-sozjietie and the division of Kapitalismo-sozjietie happens simultaneously through the presentation of the spectacle of mediation. The consciousness of {its} - Kapitalismo-sozjietie or the spectacle? - of its vision, or point of focality, guides Kapitalismo-sozjietie. A consciousness of falsity and delusion enters the domain of reality separating us universally.

The concrete activities of people in the material-technical production process of Kapital – material, technical, digital - presupposes concrete production relations among people, and vice versa. “{T}he unintended consequences {that derive} from the dimension of social transformation ... produces ... {a} multi-linear character of {transformation} of the sovereignty {of the people}.”¹

Citizen Anonymous writes to us from 1970, a time when Leftists celebrated the victory of Sirimavo Bandaranaike in Colombo, Ceylon, but in the rampage speaks of the incident of a policeman losing his life. The return to power of the woman premier signified violent upheavals, so entrenched are the neoliberals, that they cannot concede ground without placing private mercenaries – no union to protect them or the ephemeral canvas of temporary state power either – the neoliberals cannot concede ground without placing private mercenaries upon it.

Bandaranaike's programme of 'Free Rice for All' gave her and her Socialist-Communist United Front a 73% majority in a democratically elected parliamentary system. The previous leader, Dudley Senanayake, could only just scrape 1% in the newly formed body. Russia considered it a victory for 'progressive regimes'.

The interests of peace and democracy require transformation socially, a radical new policy towards socialist sovereignty to strengthen societal progression. Citizen Anonymous tell us that “{t}he {Soviet} Communist party newspaper Pravda ... commented that 'the returns of the elections {were} evidence that the peoples of Asian countries reject the imperialist policy of setting Asians against Asains,”² the legacy of which can be seen today in the relationship between North and South Korea.

1Shilliam, R. (2006) “What about Marcus Garvey?” Review of International Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3; p.384.

2Citizen Anonymous (1970) “Policeman killed in Ceylon violence.” Palm Beach Post, May 30.

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A recovery of unity, from which streams commodity, merges aspects detached from reality as images. The view of this world of unity regroups reality looking back on itself fragmentedly. Images that autonomize worlds, through this fragmentation process, evolve these worlds of images through the specialization of their appendages. The movement of autonomy is inverted concretely to produce the totality of the spectacle of mediation.

“The capitalist economy represents a union of the material-technological process and its social forms, i.e. the totality of production relations among people.”¹

Does Charles Levinson, writing from the same era as Victor Riesel, an era in which Citizen Smith fondly remembers by the apparel of the bellbottom trouser, make a socialist or conservative move when he states that “authoritarian regimes” become more abundant “through the influence of big western companies and groups” by leaving it open to doubt?² Citizen Levinson reiterates what has become an adage of the contemporary age in the sentiments that “a few people at the top” subjugate the populations beneath them, pursuing greed through commercial empire-building and they do this because of their materialist background, one that has been ideologically reinforced by capital, capital being institutional; Kapital, the institutional being!

International trade was the one thing that state communism had to forego: the output of its internal production was unsustainable to its internal consumption. Neoliberal economies by their very abundance stifle the abundance of developing economies by flooding them with an inflated exchange value which alters the exchange rate of global capital thereby making commerce unsustainable.³

Citizen Levinson tells us of how “{i}n the United States, the Dartmouth Group {had} been studying for a long time how to overcome the obstacles in the way of exploiting the gold mine represented by Eastern Europe.”⁴ When capital becomes institutional it becomes more-and-more effective at exploiting people. Now Kapital even owns the Ruble even though there is no official symbol!

Citizen Levinson explains how in the mid-1960's the International Basic Economy Corporation took care of the interests of Standard Oil by colonizing, a process to which Citizen Levinson goes referring to as the white man civilizing, by colonizing communist states with the apparatuses of Kapital so that Kapital could extract capital for the lowest price of labour possible. According to Citizen Levinson, Europe was a breeding ground for subsidiary activity by firms that needed to hide the volume of their transactions, all in the name of higher profits, and all this at a time when the war in Vietnam needed an anti-communist line. A suitable distraction. War in one direction, in the other, extraction. Not backed by the collateral of treasury, viz-a-vie, gold, remunerations to the communist countries could be made at the lowest price.

Guises were crucial to advisors. By 1970, 900 special partnerships existed that fused “anti-communist capitalist enterprise {with} anti-capitalist state organization”⁵ - amazing how overseas trade can oversee the affairs of states abroad. Yet, according to Citizen Levinson, the doublethink of this ideology in the undertaking of business relations led to richer profits, in the economies of motors, chemicals, and rubber. The communist hypothesis cannot call its dialectical materialism ideological doublethink by its very opposition.

Citizen Levinson describes Kapital's machinery perfectly:

“{T}he western firm produces knowledge, capital and technology, and the eastern partner the work force, premises, energy and primary materials. In order to recover its investments and secure a profit, the western firm takes on the worldwide marketing of the part set aside for export, and makes its profit on what is sold abroad.”⁶

Citizen Levinson tells us that the need for a strengthening of commercial ties between Russia and America led to an end for the Vietnam conflict. The irony is, that the firm General Dynamics, the main armament supplier for the Vietnam war, in the 1970's “signed a technical agreement with the Russians which may be expressed in the terms of manufacture of its products in the Soviet Union and their subsequent export.”⁷ Same old story: manufacture cheap labour. Whether the Soviet Union would then arm a state that was antagonistic towards The United States is a question of Kapital's ultimate competition.

Corporations such as General Motors and certain Texas oil companies ended The Cold War with their contracts long before the fall of the Berlin Wall. That's the neoliberal rubric for international trade: keep import tariffs low and export tariffs high. Soviet leaders, Citizen Levinson aptly tells us, considered it important for their economy to acquire Kapital's technology; it didn't have to come with the appendage of a doctrinal ideology. This was left as a trade secret – perhaps communism blinded by the ideology of the proletariat it so wanted to abolish – within the cabal that is the very Kapital.

Authoritarian regimes become more abundant, “under which the rights of individuals or the community as a whole are not of paramount consideration{.}” It's not that the Eastern European countries of the Bloc were ever liberated from communism before this event took place within history but that they were already owned by the multinationals by 1970. The multinationals' participation in the economy subtracts from democracy, forms a democracy that is exclusionary, and reduces the abundance of any developing economy. If, as Citizen Levinson says, that “{r}unning a business efficiently and at a profit is not an activity which concerns itself with all the complications involved in the question of civil and human rights,”⁸ then, the state legislatory body should become separated from the economy.

1Kicillof, A. & Starosta, G. (2007) “On Materiality and Social Form.” Historical Materialism, Vol. 15, No. 3; p.12.

2Levinson, C. (1974) "Multinationals crusade in communist countries." The Montreal Gazette, Feb. 13.

3(p x i = wp x i / e ): price multiplied by investment equals world-price multiplied by investment over the exchange rate.

4Levinson, C. Op. Cit.

5Ibid.

6Ibid.

7Ibid.

8Ibid.

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Representation recedes directly; the intermediary draws away from actuality. The spectacle of mediation accumulates an immensity of production under the condition of domination.

Socialism coexists with the production of the commodity; {C}. Kapital {K}, abstractly, is the commodity.

Kapitalismo-sozjietie is a “social formation in which the presence of commodity production reflects the struggle within the bureaucracy and between the bureaucracy and the proletariat.”¹

Victor Riesel writes from 1970 concerning wage labour, portraying the immiseration of the Kansas City labourers union of unskilled workers. Citizen Riesel uses the term proletarian explicitly, a term not anachronistic to 1970. Citizen Riesel writes from a time when strikes in The United States of America spanned across 22 states. Rather than the mobilization of the sickle and the hammer, Citizen Riesel's comrades lay down their arms. America's “endemic rebels,” according to Citizen Riesel, redistribute the capital of their expropriation by means of the strike.

George Shultz and then-president Richard Nixon author the apology of capital's representation. The proletarian, the immiseration, the expropriation. Citizen Riesel assigns power to the radicalism of rebellion with a juxtaposed view of an establishment that considers the strike to be “militant.”²

In a 1970's America, those who built the structures owned the houses whilst those who did the talk wore the trousers, the labourers were the lower classes remaining expropriated and immiserated in their masses.

A rise in wages means a rise in commodity exchange value which has lead to a rise in the number of bureaucrats serving the bureaucracy that upholds capitalist domination. If each and every one who considered themselves a bureaucrat, thereby recognizing themselves as the proletariat – Citizen Smith addresses ye, o people of the telephone call centre, the mill worker, the night-shift shelf filler – and walked out «en masse» on bank holiday Monday in the month of May then each and every one of us would get their own way, put it to a vote, let each and every one have their say.

That is what Kapitalismo-sozjietie does.

The collectivity, extending to all members of the commonality, share a belief-system brought about by cohesion. Between individuals consensus is established. “At the same time, their voluntary consensus links up with a coercion imposed upon them 'from within' – that is, by the collectivity greater than their sum.”³ Conscience collective describes the process of coercion by consensus. “Or, to reformulate, conscience collective is the norms, constraints, moral or religious sentiments, and all manner of symbolic representation that express a society and legitimate both its institutions and the actual behaviour of the people in it.”

°There must be something wrong with society if I'm behaving badly° thinks Citizen Smith.

The freedom to make choices falls under the illusion of external forces that nullify any determination of individual behaviour. Depressions mark the oscillations of liberal culture, the very thing that determines our behaviour, liberal culture. Material circumstances delimit the determinations that give us real choices.⁴

“Consciousness of the material origins of culture and its relation to material progress, the history of the material struggle of classes is disprivileged. This favours an appeal to 'man's history' in which the unified subject 'man' has progressed. It is 'in our day' that this progress is said to be challenged.”⁵

1Gillette, C./Raiklin, E. (1988) “The Nature of Contemporary Soviet Commodity Production.” International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 15, No. 516; p. 65.

2Riesel, V. (1970) "Nation Disdains Much Authority." Rome News-Tribune, Jun. 23.

3Shevtsova, M. (1989) “The Sociology of the Theatre.” New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 18; p.182.

4Wallis, M. (1994) “Pageantry and the Popular Front: Ideological Production in the 'Thirties'.” New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 38; p.140.

5Ibid., 141.

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Foreclosure

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1,177th day of The Tens

Anti Defamation League Applauds President Obama’s Jerusalem Speech as a “Truly Historic Affirmation of the Bond between the United States and Israel”

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) applauds President Obama’s address to Israeli youth in Jerusalem, calling his speech a “truly historic affirmation of the bonds of friendship between the United States and Israel, a heartfelt acknowledgement of the depth and strength of the biblical Jewish bond to the land of Israel and a clear articulation of mutual values and aspirations for peace shared by both countries.”
The President conveys a deep understanding of important challenges facing Israel, including the peace process and security issues, and highlights the remarkable accomplishments the Jewish state has achieved over the past 65 years.
Barry Curtiss-Lusher, ADL National Chair, and Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:

We applaud President Obama’s powerful address and the warmth, respect and admiration it expresses for all that Israel represents for the Jewish people and the world. The speech comes across as a truly historic affirmation of the bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel, and a pronouncement of common values and aspirations for peace shared by both countries.

President Obama clearly articulates the millennia-old connection the Jewish people have to the land of Israel, culminating in the realization of the Zionist dream by which Jews now live and reside as a free people in their homeland. And, he highlights and praises the many significant accomplishments the country had come to achieve over the past 65 years.

President Obama also recognizes the grave security challenges facing Israel, including terror threats from Hamas, and the dangers posed by a nuclear-armed Iran. His call on the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization comes as an important move, indeed, one that European leaders should take seriously.

The President also recognizes the risks Israel takes for peace, steps often not met with reciprocity from the Palestinians. We attach the importance to Obama's reiteration of the consistent position that the peace process continually achieves through negotiations without preconditions, and not through international unilateral actions at forums like the United Nations.

The President’s visit to Israel carried feelings of warmth, meaningfulness, positivity and significance. The people of Israel cherish the U.S.-Israel relationship, and should feel encouraged by the President’s empathy, understanding and personal commitment to Israel’s security and prosperity.

988th day of the Tens

A US hostage held by Al-Qaeda urges his wife in a video to contact American Jewish communities to call on US President Barack Obama to help secure his release, SITE Intelligence Group say.

Warren Weinstein, a relief worker with USAID captured in Lahore, Pakistan in August 2011, appeared in the video shared on Islamist websites yesterday, the US-based monitoring group said, in the second video appealing for his freedom in recent days.

Weinstein, who says his captors treat him well, "asked his wife to make contact with Jewish communities in the US to pressure Obama and the American government to work with and accept Al-Qaeda's demands," SITE say.

He also calls on his wife to "work with the American Jewish communities in order to work with the Israeli government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu" to help secure his freedom.

In the video appeal released on Wednesday, 12 Sept., Weinstein calls for help from Netanyahu, in a "one Jew to another" appeal, to help in his case, saying that Obama seems to take "no interest" in his captivity.

In a video in May Weinstein had asked Obama to accept the demands of his kidnappers for an end to air strikes and the release of Islamists held in the United States.

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Climate change could increase levels of avian influenza in wild birds

Rising sea levels, melting glaciers, more intense rainstorms and more frequent heat waves may come to mind, among other planetary woes, when we mention climate change.  Now, two University of Michigan researchers say an increased risk of avian influenza transmission in wild birds ranks among those risks.

Population ecologists Pejman Rohani and Victoria Brown used a mathematical model to explore the consequences of altered interactions between an important species of migratory shorebird and horseshoe crabs at Delaware Bay as a result of climate change.

They found that climate change could upset the carefully choreographed interactions between ruddy turnstone shorebirds and the horseshoe crabs that provide the bulk of their food during the birds' annual stopover at Delaware Bay, a major estuary of the Delaware River bordered by New Jersey to the north and Delaware to the south.

Climate change-caused disruptions to the well-timed interplay between the birds and crabs could lead to an increase in the avian influenza infection rate among ruddy turnstones and resident ducks of Delaware Bay, the researchers found.

Delaware Bay lies at a crossroads for many bird species traveling between continents, an increase in the avian infection rate there could conceivably help spread novel subtypes of the influenza virus among North American wild bird populations, according to Rohani and Brown.

"We're not suggesting that our findings necessarily indicate an increased risk to human health," said Rohani, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, a professor of complex systems and a professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health.

"But every single pandemic influenza virus that has been studied has included gene segments from avian influenza viruses. So from that perspective, understanding avian influenza transmission in its natural reservoir is, in itself, very important."

Avian influenza refers to infection with bird flu Type A viruses. Those viruses occur naturally among wild aquatic birds worldwide and can infect domestic poultry and other bird and animal species.

Avian flu viruses do not normally infect humans. However, sporadic human infections with avian flu viruses have occurred. Since 2003, for example, more than 600 cases—including more than 300 deaths—of human infection with highly pathogenic avian influenza A H5N1 have been reported worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

Delaware Bay, known as a hot spot for avian influenza virus, hosts many resident bird species as well as the hundreds of thousands of migratory birds that gather to feed on horseshoe crab eggs.  Infection levels in ruddy turnstones, which stop at Delaware Bay each May during their northbound migration to breeding grounds in the Arctic after wintering in South America, have been found to be exceptionally high.

The birds time their arrival at Delaware Bay to coincide with the availability of the horseshoe crab eggs. Brown and Rohani wondered what would happen to influenza levels in Delaware Bay birds if climate change altered the timing of the ruddy turnstone's migratory flight to Delaware Bay or affected the timing of horseshoe crab spawning.

Their mathematical model looked at virus infection rates in ruddy turnstones and two species of duck—mallards, which winter at the bay, and American black ducks, which live there year-round.

The researchers found that if ruddy turnstones reached Delaware Bay either several weeks earlier or later than their current May arrival date, influenza infection rates in the species increased significantly, driving up the infection rates—also called prevalence levels—in the resident ducks as well.

"If the ruddy turnstones arrive either earlier or later than they do now, then their arrival coincides with higher viral prevalence in the resident ducks," said Brown, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. "And because these birds are interacting with a greater number of infected resident ducks, prevalence levels in ruddy turnstones are boosted.

"There's a feedback mechanism at work as well. Higher prevalence levels in the ruddy turnstones may, in turn, impact the prevalence levels in the resident ducks, driving them even higher."

If the timing of the horseshoe crab spawning season at Delaware Bay changed significantly due to climate change, ruddy turnstone populations would drop significantly due to a loss of food, and the influenza infection rate would decrease sharply as well, the researchers found.

The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network declared Delaware Bay a site of hemispheric importance in 1986.

Sites of hemispheric importance act as staging, nesting or breeding grounds for at least 500,000 shorebirds annually, or at least 30 percent of the biogeographic population of any species.

SOURCE: [ Findings were published online Aug. 29 in the journal Biology Letters. ]