Oligarchy Olympics

It’s only fitting the Torture President should attend the opening spectacle of the Genocide Olympics™. The Beijing “Games” promise to be an IOC-corrupted, drug-addled, hormone-twisted, gender-bent, corporate-sponsored orgy in celebration of the capitalist dictatorship’s coming out party, with little vanity-project athletes smiling for the cameras amid the deadly smog, wholesale repression, and ugliness of Han nationalism. All shoveled at us by the world’s leading companies.

Some coming out: China is successfully elbowing the US out of the way as the world’s greatest sponsor of state terror, leaving a trail of murder and destruction in Sudan, Burma, Zimbabwe, and Tibet, with Central Africa and other parts of Asia next up to the chopping block. China’s utter contempt for its own people, the vast majority of whom are being exploited by a tiny elite, nicely matches Bush II’s fathomless contempt for American democracy and the great majority of Americans. It’ll be a match made in hell. I hope he leaves his business card; come January, there will be much to be made in fixing lucrative connections between the oligarchies.

On Bush, and Helms

"His America, like that of his sponsors, is a population to be manipulated for the power to be had, for the money to be made. He is the subject of jokes and he jokes himself about his clumsiness with words, but his mispronunciations and malapropisms suggest a mind of half-learned language that is eerily compatible with his indifference to truth, his disdain for knowledge as a foundation of a democratic society." E.L. Doctorow has the criminal's number.
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I had thought Jesse Helms was long burning in hell, but it turns out the racist homophobic pig lived until the 4th of July. Well, he's being rended of his polluted fat in the fires now, isn't he? What a shit stain on the American flag, for half a century the pure cracker in service of his Bourbons (not the drink, the ruling white elite of the neo-Confederacy).