stream of consciousness: bang bang / the anarchists / song for nancy

[[ lyrics written to rza's (nancy sinatra) bang bang remix, vocals intended for Masta Killa ]]

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i been silent for a while observing, pub- servants, -lic servings, off my plate, dictates from, suburban high society, the projects should be rioting, their planning, the Man's in, vis'ble hands quietly, out to rob us urbans, so mindfully, i keep, the flames alight fanning, rigged games much like manning paid tonnes of bribes, hands in, crazy money maddened insaner ones, rhymes dropped liked dimes, hits ordered, sight lines, clips dusted, never rusted nickel plates, or chrome or silver polished, young homes often offed in close quarters, backs kicked, facts flipped, bucks are passed, much amassed, fuck the past, time's spent quietly as a convict's, i'm quite convinced that all their halls of justice, just involve con kings, drama queens, aced up sleeves, and some overblown courts of jesters, marcus guilty? yes, please, this and then some, monochrome thought suggesters, get hanged, bang bang, deadly melodies, as such the master's enemy, i add a touch of class from the A-2-1 felonies, the crime-iest, the shiniest designs like the Midas's, Osiris built the pyramids then lined 'em all with mines, the maddest machiavellian, might just pack a toolie then, introduce the violence in the rhyme without a reason, see weakness through the iris of the mind, unrefined, you will find that which is spit from the speakers unsweetened, awful sounds like slaughter all but drowned and coughed up like water, thick like hawked up phlegm, but thinner than my blood, thirsty hounds you'll be the feed to, pounds are lethal, bleed you, holier than thou the dirty metal rounds'll leave you, all spun around and mad see through, rotten bodies coff'ed up in the ground, bang bang, something loud nothing fancy, no frills, sample nancy, Rza's killers up the ante, christ.I.AM, shut 'em down with the skills...
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the dragon

for others who might be interested in the real world run by the men in the shadows of power, a department of defense report on china's military strength [pdf].

area terrorist sympathetic over financial troubles

veteran guantanamo inmate hamza rafiq is toning down his anti-american vitriol "until american economy recovers". notorious for his unrelenting hatred of all things western -it is rumored he could repeatedly gurgle "death to america!" underwater during enhanced interrogation techniques- rafiq announced his radical change of heart last friday.

MDF: "why are you softening your tone on jihad?"

HR: "the guards let me watch some fox news last week and i saw that credit crisis has really hurt america, even beyond my own dreams. allah be praised at first i was so happy! but i kept watching and, man, everyone on tv is, like, so stressed. i began maybe feel sorry for them. they're worried about jobs, they're worried about how pay medical bills next month, they're worried about kids' college tuition."

[shoots me a look of mild bewilderment.]

"they're so worried they vote for, how you say, hip-hop boogie-woogie american!"

MDF: "so does this mean you don't want to kill infidels anymore?"

HR: "also guards let me watch 30 rock which is abomination. i like alec the baldwin. he put liz the lemon in her place."

[adopts mocking tone]

""ooojh... i'm liz the lemon, i am soo quirky but also sexy. i make infidel jokes and inspire attractive woman be president"... but you ask good question. why i stop say "death to america"? this recession, it existential crisis for americans, look at markets... it, how you say uh, dynamic disequilibrium in english? this is fate... this is fate much worse than the death. i would not wish it on my worst enemy! not even on the greatest of satans!"

MDF: "wow. so i guess, while americans are going through a crisis of confidence, you are going through a crisis of... conscience?"

HR: "hhha. are you try make witty poignant banter for your report, mr reporter? i can make joke if you want. financial system... it crash because it like ponzi scheme. run by, how you say, the con men, so is indeed crisis of... confidence. hhha. it funny because is pun as well as true... that one kills in solitary. hhha hhha hhallalalalalallah."

[pauses to recover from islamic laughing fit]

"i kid too much. that help me pass time here... what i was saying... oh yes, i saw dow jones fall. faster than towers. mr fed paulson was on his knees even. looked like he was begging allah for mercy. i cannot kick an infidel when he is down like this. i'm sure scripture forbids it."

MDF: "interesting. so has this changed in anyway your interaction with the guards here?"

HR: "well, you know, i try understand what they go through. when i was boy in kabul there was no jobs. only fight the infidel soviets and play with goat... goat better friend than woman you know, always tight, like first time every time.... so i empathize with guards here. their home get a foreclosed. their 401k go bust. they have no goat. of course they angry. so i be nice to them. sometimes on bad day they come threat me say will shit on quran and i say "hey! it's ok... it's ok... it's gonna be ok..." and i try hug him but he punch me in face. but i look in eye and i know he appreciate it."

MDF: "maybe he thinks you're playing games with him. turning the tables on his despair."

HR: "i don't have table. i eat on floor over there.... that spot is dining room. only problem is right next to toilet, that other spot on floor there. guard laugh say "saddam, don't shit where you eat!" i no understand. i have small space. have to optimize."

MDF: "so do you think things will get better for america? you have an opinion on the crisis so you must be an expert. how can we fix it? and if we do, will you return to your jihad?"

HR: "i dunno. it look pretty bad. will take long time fix. they need fatwa on certain asset security, but they afraid much regulation, yes? maybe need some kind of clearinghouse on over-counter products and too, fix incentive structure... not reward unrealized future payoff with big bonus in present. see, i think about this problems. i have two minds of this. expert on bloomberg tv say "moral hazard" bad but i say if it moral why stop it? anyway, if that make things better. then i start jihad again. maybe i blow up new clearinghouse."

MDF: "other inmates say that this is all a facade. that you've just been worn down by torture and you just don't have the will anymore. is there anything that would convince you to keep fighting?"

HR: "maybe uh, more virgin. maybe 82 or 92. and goat."

MDF: "thank you for your time mr rafiq."

iraqi politics of late

i'm no absolutist politician chanting "the surge worked"; my interpretation of reports is that the increased troop numbers definitely helped to increase security in Iraq when coupled with some serendipitous other happenings: on the Shiite side was Al-Sadr's cease-fire, on the Sunni side was the Anbar Awakening (sons of Iraq etc). the question of fragility of this particular order could potentially be raised... on one hand some are on the Americans' payroll and loyalty that is bought can be sold, on the other hand the Iraqis have probably been burnt a bit from the violent excesses of al-Qaeda. the Iraqis do seem to be stepping up; joint militia efforts are providing security in addition to that provided by increased American troop levels.

the really interesting thing to me however are the rumors of a covert assassination program using better monitoring and coordinating practices on the ground to track and kill off al-Qaeda members. this is the best thing i have heard in weeks. if you're tackling terrorist networks you must absolutely and resolutely wipe out their principals, while of course simultaneously tackling their principles through moral overtures and nation/economy building. i still don't understand why they invaded Iraq (the human costs are too high, and it just seemed like a misguided military move in the first place, with oil motives as well); targeted assassinations should have been the military approach to terrorism in general, in afghanistan, pakistan, saudi arabia and wherever else terrorist cells found safe haven. if only there was more information about this.

i am not a terrorist by the way. you can tell me what your plans are general petraeus.

connect-the-dot happenings of the week

1) mysterious network outages in middle east / asia
2) positioning of u.s. warship off lebanon
3) u.s. shooting down of a satellite in space
4) saudi warning to citizens to leave lebanon
5) george bush dancing in africa
6) israel promising a holocaust in palestine

you do the math. that timeshare in beirut is not worth what the travel agent said it was.

notice how economic trends take the shape of me smiling at some poor kids

i skimmed over hillary's and barack's blueprints on economic issues. there's a lot more political speak than economic detail in both documents. that's how it works i suppose. one thing that mildly annoyed me however was that the former document had way too many pictures of the candidate for a blueprint on economic issues. if you've got pictures describing your position on the economy it better be fucking graphs. so minus a couple points of credence from you miss photo op.

punned it commentary, if you will

you know, well actually you don't know because i haven't told you yet, but you will soon. the real problem with the alleged clash of civilizations between the crackers in the western societies and the ragheads in the couple eastern theocracies is that the honkies, panicking because their empire is going bald, are pretending to want to spread their seeds of "democracy" in an attempt to show that they are still somewhat virile amongst all the emerging nations with raging libidos.

coincidentally they would need strategic access to and control over the middle east crude oil/energy corridor: that heaven sent special offer viagra/lube combo that will help to counteract the decline of once tumescent industrial nation hegemony.

what they are in denial about though is that the cosmetic-if-not-fatuous democracy they practice is actually just lipstick on an obese plutocratic pig... and DUH! sand niggaz don't eat pig! it's not halal you dumb-asses. how the war hawks could not have seen such a simple truth while fabricating laughable stories for invasion is beyond me, though at 5 ft 6.5 in, that's not too much of a stretch.