well thought for some 666 fun we would look at economics and conspiracy (scroll to the end), I modestly suggest it is all much worse than you can possibly imagine. This section is a taster of all the satanic conspiracy stuff in my book babylon and beyond (that will get people right across the mid west on to my blog...I can then trap them and mess with their heads).
What's that track from 'Orbital'?, why is Dan Brown suing Henry Lincoln over the book of revelations (666)...you know Karl Marx was a member of the Bavarian illuminati and Trotsky, well his mum and dad were Ukranian freemasons...have I tempted any of those of you who think Al Gore is an evil ecosocialist who is going to create one world government and mess with your gas and your guns, onto my blog yet? Climate change are you worried that your are going to be micro chipped and your emissions limited.
Please mail me so we can dialogue. You may also find the following .BBC survey informative
Dr Who 'the impossible planet' was fun...'the satan pit' next saturday should be fun. Well depressingly both Derrida and Bakhtin are dead (but are they really, were they both killed because they knew too much?) (are they on an island floating in the hollow earth?)...so you have me to comment on its literary merits. Intertextuality....it builds on some fun narratives...Alien, the Omen, etc and of course all the fun gothic horror Dr Who episodes from that classic Phillip Hinchcliffe season....The Pyramids of Mars in particular and Gabriel Wolf is the voice over for his majesty in both. These ofcourse built on recycled Hammer House of Horror..
Lets mention David Icke, his lizardness is convinced that I am part of the plot. Right that's David Icke mentioned. Now how can I work in Diane, Edward Heath, Benny Hill and the Trilateral commission,the knights templers and laundry lists...
OK lets wing on to some political economy ...with usual cast of Nazis and currency cranks, (and David Icke) the serious point is of course how much of the economic system is a system and how much is part of elite action...difficult and important question...if you want to read more click on the link and buy Babylon and Beyond...or get your library to order one(especially if you live in a State which is still voting for Blair). libraries = communism, which is why apparently Ayn Rand never ever went in one....
'We must feed...'
'The Beast is awake'
'and you must worship him'
'lets get a mortgage together' (Billie Piper)
oud....
Warm conspiracies
If you search for global justice monetary reform on the net, you may find a Canadian site with typical anti-globalisation information plus full reproduction of Billions for the Bankers, a pamphlet by an American pastor Sheldon Emry, which blames bankers from ‘Eastern Europe’ for a globalising ‘new world order’:
The "almost hidden" conspirators in politics, religion, education, entertainment, and the news media are working for the banker-owned United States, in a banker-owned World under a banker-owned World Government! This is what all the talk of a New World Order promoted by Presidents Bush and Clinton is all about. […]
America will not shake off her Banker-controlled dictatorship as long as the people are ignorant of the hidden controllers. Banking concerns, which control most of the governments of the nations, and most sources of information, seem to have us completely within their grasp. (
Emry’s sentiments although archaically worded, seem to chime with some anti-capitalists. Amory Starr, author of Naming the Enemy, argues that figures on the right and even the religious right are part of the anti-capitalist movement:
Like religious nationalism elsewhere, the Christian/Patriot movement has racist elements, and, like movements elsewhere, panicked accusations of racism are being used to delegitimise core concerns and proposals, which are democracy, populism and the rights of localities.
Both the Freeman and the militias subscribe to conspiracy theories that not only are not anti-Semitic but differ little from left-wing analyses, emphasizing the Trilateral Commission, the New World Order and GATT. (2000: 142)
In the light of Starr’s contentions, Pastor Emry’s biography makes interesting reading:
Emry was a major figure in the Christian Identity movement that argues that the White peoples are the Old Testament Israelites and, therefore, God's chosen people, Jews are Satanic in origin, and people of color are intended by God to be the servants of the Whites. Emry allied himself with the armed Identity group, the Citizens Emergency Defense System, and was frequently published in "Spotlight", the magazine of the anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby […He] accused the Jews of starting World Wars One and Two, the Vietnam War, and the assassination of President Lincoln. Emry has also written denying the Holocaust. (Lethbridge 1999)
Reviewing a book by the conspiracy theorist David Icke, the British National Party linked magazine Spearhead noted how anti-globalisation concerns could be fitted to a nationalist agenda:
Free trade, GATT, the European Union, United Nations, Club of Rome, Trilateral Commission and the sinister Bilderberg Group all come under the microscope, fitting together like pieces of a jigsaw in a global vision of a nightmare world of asset strippers, political spivs, thieves and liars of cataclysmic proportions. Readers on the idealist liberal-left will lose their rose tinted spectacles when ingesting the full horror to which world events are rapidly moving. (Noble 1996: 1)
Conspiracy theory is, of course, rarely racist and is popular on the left as well as the right. The anti-corporate vision of Korten articulates with elite conspiracy as does much of what passes for Marxism is conspiracy orientated. Greens can be valiant foes of what they perceived to be a conspiracy by American imperialism and its corporate controllers. Conspiracies are attractive because they frame the complexities of capitalism in personal terms. Instead of examining abstract concepts, they generate a personal enemy with a human face who can be challenged. Good people can tackle the bad but social causes remain invisible.
Conspiracies exist. Between their intellectual defeat by Keynesians in the 1940s and their revival in the 1980s, free market liberals built an intellectual movement and moved from academia into politics (Cockett 1995). This revolution of the right, which created ‘neo’ liberalism, while far from hidden, was planned, plotted and organised. We could call it a conspiracy. Corporate lobbyists spend billions to get their own way. The US neo-cons have manipulated public opinion, co-opted America’s religious nationalists and quite cynically used the threat of radical Islam to assert the dominance of the right over America and the authority of America over the rest of the globe (Frank 2004). Such plots are plain facts and hardly secret. The rich and powerful act to increase their power and riches as they have always done.
The pro-globalisers deny conspiracy. They argue that theirs is not an ideology but a truth based on economic axioms. However, it is amusing to find that Martin Wolf, author of perhaps the most sophisticated of the pro-neo-liberal books, has attended at least one Bilderberg meeting (Financial Times, 21 May 2003). Yet capitalism has a structural element, it is not just a plot by wicked capitalists, let alone the ‘East European’ bankers and ‘spivs’ dreamt up by the racist far right. The nicest capitalist still has to exploit labour and promote ecocidal consumerism to survive. The market has it’s own gravitational pull but this gravity is a little abstract so the cartoon of a cigar smoking plutocrat comes into play in cited propaganda.
Roy Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy, while no easy ride, provides useful insights here (1989). Bhaskar has developed a method of understanding reality that rejects ‘what you see is what you get’ positivism and the relativism of post-modernism. He argues that social reality is based on underlying and often invisible structures, capitalism being an excellent example, language another. These provide the DNA of social systems helping to explain what is going on. However, unlike structures in nature such as DNA, social structures, can, though this is often difficult, be changed by human action. They decay over time and are shaped by human meaning but they shape society. Language is a social structural but we cannot not easily talk a different language and hope to be understood. Language illustrates the observation that structures are operated and shaped by people but gain relative autonomy perhaps even absolute autonomy when internalised by human subjects. This concept of structural causation is explicit in the ecosocialist accounts of Joel Kovel and John Bellamy Foster who see capitalism as a kind of force field or matrix that it is difficult to resist. Bhaskar’s critical realism provides a sword to cut through the knotted conspiracy/concept dilemma. The conspirators construct, where they are successful new structures, but as capitalists they are themselves bearers of deeper structural imperatives to exploit labour, subjectivity and the Earth. The marketers plot but are also plotted.
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