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I dreamt about your fucking aphids

in the house we never lived in

you wanted me to ‘clean them up.’

  milk wrist bores 

sweeping over painted window hoaxes

with horsehair brush

   flying to the mutation house

 for a remix admonition to suck on

for example

maybe roommates in dreams are more like yourself than you think

getting your goat 

  by chiding you in that way

that only you know so well

  that you think isn’t you

        but then the aphid argument

                 burns the curtain old man

                          right?

                          Doff it till your naked combed hat

         sings a puddle lower then the wet stranger

       you mostly live alone in dreams

   your wife is a white noise machine    

     wearing the purple shoes

    the ones that bit into a letter that

        was not invited to the alphabet

                 leave the devil out of it

                            for once

                     thank you George

                          that you George E

                            there was a trap door

                          and millions of new words

                             without a future

Killing the Host (Our Cannibal Economy is so sexy, isn’t it?)

Brilliant exchange portion of interview with revolutionary thinker/activist Chris Hedges, and the worlds most independent, and brilliant economist Michael Hudson. I suggest reading the whole piece, but this extract is not overly dependent on full context of piece, but that does depend on your understanding of some essential underlying things.

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Hudson: So basically you have what the classical economists called the rentier class. The class that lives on economic rents. Landlords, monopolists charging more, and the banks. If you have a pharmaceutical company that raises the price of a drug from $12 a shot to $200 all of a sudden, their profits go up. Their increased price for the drug is counted in the national income accounts as if the economy is producing more. So all this presumed economic growth that has all been taken by the One Percent in the last ten years, and people say the economy is growing. But the economy isn’t growing …

HEDGES: Because it’s not reinvested.

HUDSON: That’s right. It’s not production, it’s not consumption. The wealth of the One Percent is obtained essentially by lending money to the 99 Percent and then charging interest on it, and recycling this interest at an exponentially growing rate.

HEDGES: And why is it important, as I think you point out in your book, that economic theory counts this rentier income as productive income? Explain why that’s important.

HUDSON: If you’re a rentier, you want to say that you earned your income by …

HEDGES: We’re talking about Goldman Sachs, by the way.

HUDSON: Yes, Goldman Sachs. The head of Goldman Sachs came out and said that Goldman Sachs workers are the most productive in the world. That’s why they’re paid what they are. The concept of productivity in America is income divided by labor. So if you’re Goldman Sachs and you pay yourself $20 million a year in salary and bonuses, you’re considered to have added $20 million to GDP, and that’s enormously productive. So we’re talking in a tautology. We’re talking with circular reasoning here.

So the issue is whether Goldman Sachs, Wall Street and predatory pharmaceutical firms, actually add “product” or whether they’re just exploiting other people. That’s why I used the word parasitism in my book’s title. People think of a parasite as simply taking money, taking blood out of a host or taking money out of the economy. But in nature it’s much more complicated. The parasite can’t simply come in and take something. First of all, it needs to numb the host. It has an enzyme so that the host doesn’t realize the parasite’s there. And then the parasites have another enzyme that takes over the host’s brain. It makes the host imagine that the parasite is part of its own body, actually part of itself and hence to be protected.

please support, and read whole article on Counter Punch Independent Political Web Site: 

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/the-great-ponzi-scheme-of-the-global-economy/

I found this balled up in a Rest Stop Spoon and Sugar Station, or not?

Shift now to our friend the smart toilet

Leaving?

Oh

It knows alright

and logs into its freelance account

making sure it’s remote employer is fully aware

of its productivity

three weeks later

smart toilet enrolls in beauty school

three weeks later

smart toilet is lobotomized

by the CST

(Council of Stupid Toilets)

Who are not really stupid

But like the name for their own reasons

Contributors to Morsel Grab with the Brightest and Darkest Futures

(Compiled by Domenic Maltempi)

W.T. Whitney Jr. is a retired pediatrician and political journalist living in Maine.

A.T. Purplenoise is a senior fellow at The Lake Gang.

P.O. Box has been empty now since the Race to Save the Polyamorous Bears.

Roger Bybee is a writer living in Wisconsin.

Matchbox 2803 is cover band pining for the years 1993, and 1994

Will and Regina Henry are probably in love.

DAVID YEARSLEY is a long-time contributor to CounterPunch and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. His recording of J. S. Bach’s organ trio sonatas is available from Musica Omnia.

Beasley Yardorv is a collector of napkin jokes, and the 250^th tallest person in the Miami Dade area.

DANIEL ESTULIN is a political commentator living in Madrid, author of four books on communication skills.

Victor Grossman writes the Berlin Bulletin, which you can subscribe to for free by sending an email to: wechsler_grossman@yahoo.de.

Umbilla Nathans shills for the dyes: Basic blue 11, Acid red 94, Mordant yellow 1, and has written a reviled history on the use of Saffron in the Scottish Highlands

Gesso Gesso is my favorite pen pal, and will most likely be released from Jail in 2023

D.C Orotund has no idea he is being followed by a Chinese Television crew, which in turn, has no idea that they are being followed by Australia Now, an anti-indigenous club for the proudly ‘Down Under’ style xenophobe.

Laura Born is infatuated with the maxims of Francois de la Rochefoucauld. Her favorite maxim from him is “There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness and use it skillfully.”

Domenic Maltempi is a writer, musician, and performance artist living in NYC. Follow him on Twitter @DMaltempi

Excerpt- Millie From the Radio

t’s 1980. I love the way the nine sits before the eight, a respected elder at a beautifully long hard wood table, every shining plate empty, every glass filled with brilliant red liquids, or iced blue deep honey liquids—–but where is everybody? The one in the year is brooding, and zero presses her face against a bright cold window. I have a little headache, but then it quits. Quitting time for my headache!

I feel nothing. I feel great. 1980 searches her basement for guests. Maybe they’re holding hands in the backyard, and not closing their eyes, and not wondering what’s coming next. In my mind I see an untouched white baseball exiting the black soft cave of an umpire’s ball bag, attached to his hip, red stiches strongly pronounced on the virginal ball as he tosses it to a pitcher for the beginning of a game. The throw produces an arc. Waiting.  Top of the 1^st. I

Baseball season is not far away!

You can see better, deeper, cleaner, through the radio. Not all voices or programs that need voices, lend themselves to this result. A radio voice is no fallopian tube. Nothing will drop through for a birth with the right timing, and cooperation of other things. I have no business bringing up fallopian tubes. Stupid, I know. I’m thinking of radios, and baseball, and tubes, and remembering a little bit of biology, or 1^st broadcasts at the end of the age of Morse code, a voice accompanied by strings, singing Silent Night to awestruck sailors on a cold boat, during a full moon Christmas Eve somewhere in the Atlantic.

Pilot World Head

The world of TV Pilots…non-stop pilots, fogging up the windows of the permanently parked cars of the sub world.

Never heard of this one, and simply can’t imagine why they hooked it after one episode:

Heil Honey I’m Home! (September 30, 1990)
British TV’s Galaxy comedy that spoofed American sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s by featuring caricatures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun who live in matrimonial bliss until they become neighbours to a Jewish couple.[6] In unseen episodes the Hitlers plot to murder their Jewish neighbours.
From

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_series_canceled_after_one_episode

Lies of the of the Wednesdays Series

I should like to write a song called ‘My von trap locks.’ I will have to reunite with my old band Ricketts Von Wolfsegg to do it. Two of the members are in an Austrian prison for lying about a lemonade formula they sold. It was huge, before the Austrian Lemonade Regulator Society swooped into their warehouse, jackbooted, and carrying fruit bombs.