Sunday, September 28, 2014

Eric Holder Takes $77 Million Job With JPMorgan Chase

Eric Holder announced his resignation as President Obama’s Attorney General on September 25, 2014.

The next day he accepted a $77 million dollar per year position with JPMorgan.

This exiting along with that ex Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano to UC California will leave Obama standing solidly alone on human rights abuse from Chemical Assault – Scorched Earth

This pattern of high public officials moving to private corporations and receiving extraordinary payoffs or plum positions reflects collusion and corporate fascism.Ronald Reagan, Albert Gore, and the Clintons have all done exceedingly well from deals with corporations after questionable public performances with catastrophic environmental and human costs.

The United States has undergone Manifest Chemical Assault – Scorched Earth since June 17, 1987.

The Salton Sea, CA has been attacked at least four times since the 2008 Presidential Elections. This is an embarrassment for technology as well as human well being.

Eric Holder has the worst human rights record since Edwin Meese of the Reagan Administration. 

David Nollmeyer

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Starting in early November, Holder will serve as JPMorgan Chase’s chief compliance officer, where his responsibilities will include lobbying Congress on the company’s behalf and ensuring it “gets the best deal possible” from any new proposed financial regulations. Holder will also fetch morning coffee and breakfast orders for CEO Jamie Dimon and board members.

For his efforts, Holder will earn an annual salary of $77 million plus bonuses for a job well done.

In a statement, Holder said taking a job at JPMorgan Chase was the logical next step in his career, given the revolving door between financial companies and the government officials who are supposed to regulate these companies.

“By joining JPMorgan Chase, I’m simply cutting out the middleman -- the U.S. Justice Department -- and going to work directly for the great Jamie Dimon,” he said. “Plus, when Jamie Dimon calls you, or one of his many secretaries calls you, you pick up the phone immediately. Seriously, that’s what we do here in Washington.”

http://dailycurrant.com/2014/09/26/eric-holder-takes-77-million-job-with-jpmorgan-chase/

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Fascism - An Emergent Structure Emerges

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This an excellent small article that describes Fascism. It is quite shocking and compelling to observe how degraded the United States and the world has become. I am writing mostly federal officials that have jurisdiction over this disaster and will be more assertive in my these confrontations over the disintegration of constitutional rights.

As an economic system, fascism is socialism with a capitalist veneer. The word derives from fasces, the Roman symbol of collectivism and power: a tied bundle of rods with a protruding ax. In its day (the 1920s and 1930s), fascism was seen as the happy medium between boom-and-bust-prone liberal capitalism, with its alleged class conflict, wasteful competition, and profit-oriented egoism, and revolutionary Marxism, with its violent and socially divisive persecution of the bourgeoisie. Fascism substituted the particularity of nationalism and racialism—“blood and soil”—for the internationalism of both classical liberalism and Marxism.

Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society’s economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the “national interest”—that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions.

Fascism is to be distinguished from interventionism, or the mixed economy. Interventionism seeks to guide the market process, not eliminate it, as fascism did. Minimum-wage and antitrust laws, though they regulate the free market, are a far cry from multiyear plans from the Ministry of Economics.

Under fascism, the state, through official cartels, controlled all aspects of manufacturing, commerce, finance, and agriculture. Planning boards set product lines, production levels, prices, wages, working conditions, and the size of firms. Licensing was ubiquitous; no economic activity could be undertaken without government permission. Levels of consumption were dictated by the state, and “excess” incomes had to be surrendered as taxes or “loans.” The consequent burdening of manufacturers gave advantages to foreign firms wishing to export. But since government policy aimed at autarky, or national self-sufficiency, protectionism was necessary: imports were barred or strictly controlled, leaving foreign conquest as the only avenue for access to resources unavailable domestically. Fascism was thus incompatible with peace and the international division of labor—hallmarks of liberalism.

Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography. In this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism, a form of socialism originating on the left. The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan. Corporatism was intended to avert unsettling divisions within the nation, such as lockouts and union strikes. The price of such forced “harmony” was the loss of the ability to bargain and move about freely.

To maintain high employment and minimize popular discontent, fascist governments also undertook massive public-works projects financed by steep taxes, borrowing, and fiat money creation. While many of these projects were domestic—roads, buildings, stadiums—the largest project of all was militarism, with huge armies and arms production.

The fascist leaders’ antagonism to communism has been misinterpreted as an affinity for capitalism. In fact, fascists’ anticommunism was motivated by a belief that in the collectivist milieu of early-twentieth-century Europe, communism was its closest rival for people’s allegiance. As with communism, under fascism, every citizen was regarded as an employee and tenant of the totalitarian, party-dominated state. Consequently, it was the state’s prerogative to use force, or the threat of it, to suppress even peaceful opposition.

If a formal architect of fascism can be identified, it is Benito Mussolini, the onetime Marxist editor who, caught up in nationalist fervor, broke with the left as World War I approached and became Italy’s leader in 1922. Mussolini distinguished fascism from liberal capitalism in his 1928 autobiography:

The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity. The Fascist State with its corporative conception puts men and their possibilities into productive work and interprets for them the duties they have to fulfill. (p. 280)

Before his foray into imperialism in 1935, Mussolini was often praised by prominent Americans and Britons, including Winston Churchill, for his economic program.

Similarly, Adolf Hitler, whose National Socialist (Nazi) Party adapted fascism to Germany beginning in 1933, said:

The state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property. (Barkai 1990, pp. 26–27)

Both nations exhibited elaborate planning schemes for their economies in order to carry out the state’s objectives. Mussolini’s corporate state “consider[ed] private initiative in production the most effective instrument to protect national interests” (Basch 1937, p. 97). But the meaning of “initiative” differed significantly from its meaning in a market economy. Labor and management were organized into twenty-two industry and trade “corporations,” each with Fascist Party members as senior participants. The corporations were consolidated into a National Council of Corporations; however, the real decisions were made by state agencies such as the Instituto per la Ricosstruzione Industriale, which held shares in industrial, agricultural, and real estate enterprises, and the Instituto Mobiliare, which controlled the nation’s credit.

Hitler’s regime eliminated small corporations and made membership in cartels mandatory.1 The Reich Economic Chamber was at the top of a complicated bureaucracy comprising nearly two hundred organizations organized along industry, commercial, and craft lines, as well as several national councils. The Labor Front, an extension of the Nazi Party, directed all labor matters, including wages and assignment of workers to particular jobs. Labor conscription was inaugurated in 1938. Two years earlier, Hitler had imposed a four-year plan to shift the nation’s economy to a war footing. In Europe during this era, Spain, Portugal, and Greece also instituted fascist economies.

In the United States, beginning in 1933, the constellation of government interventions known as the New Deal had features suggestive of the corporate state. The National Industrial Recovery Act created code authorities and codes of practice that governed all aspects of manufacturing and commerce. The National Labor Relations Act made the federal government the final arbiter in labor issues. The Agricultural Adjustment Act introduced central planning to farming. The object was to reduce competition and output in order to keep prices and incomes of particular groups from falling during the Great Depression.

It is a matter of controversy whether President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was directly influenced by fascist economic policies. Mussolini praised the New Deal as “boldly . . . interventionist in the field of economics,” and Roosevelt complimented Mussolini for his “honest purpose of restoring Italy” and acknowledged that he kept “in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.” Also, Hugh Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration, was known to carry a copy of Raffaello Viglione’s pro-Mussolini book, The Corporate State, with him, presented a copy to Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, and, on retirement, paid tribute to the Italian dictator.

Sheldon Richman. "Fascism." The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. 2008. Library of Economics and Liberty. Retrieved March 4, 2009 from the World Wide Web:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html

Friday, April 25, 2014

Human Resources and Obsolescence

As sanitization and corruption development the workplace more than competence, more rigorous employee testing is prima facie. The world zeitgeist has degraded under Irrationalism since June, 1987.

Espionage is the primary and war by proxy are the modus operandi of Superpowers.

The hedonistic and narcissistic cultural that permeates decline was the result of social engineering read Undermining. Hence the low credit boom bust cycle was orchestrated to lead civilization to where it is at the present.

Robots and automation are poised to displace the informant-criminal for hire whom wishes to work for the police.

The Wizard of Oz was a foil to expose the quid pro quo versus merit based promotion system worldwide.

The corporations that survive under the current system will develop fascism. The lower skilled displaced workers will be placed or forced to live on state programs.

When postal employees are caught throwing mail out of their car and hiding mail this is a signal that the robots are coming.

If I were a 25 year old construction worker, a truck driver, or a cubicle worker running WYSIWYG programs with a family I would reconsider if my job will still be there in 25 years.

These three jobs will not.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Satya Nadella

Is Satya Nadella The Right Man For The Job?
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Sattya means goodness. The new CEO will have to navigate Microsoft through an age of censorship and sanitization. Ex CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have not left any credible achievements on the Attack Against Singularity. The academic Ivory Tower, The Whitehouse, boardroom, and tenured professorship  will be a harder niche to hide within as damage escalates

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The five-month long search for a new CEO ended with the appointment of Satya Nadella – an electrical engineer and a 22-year Microsoft veteran. A careful analysis of the profiles of other contenders such as Alan Mulally indicates that the management selected the best candidate for the job, considering the company wants to strengthen its footprint in cloud services and the mobile vertical.

Nadella has extensive experience working with cloud technologies compared to some of the other candidates who were from different industries. Satya Nadella is not only a company insider but also helped grow Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise Group — which accounted for $20.3 billion in revenue and $8.2 billion in operating income last fiscal year (ended June 2013). As the chief of CEG, Nadella oversaw Microsoft’s server software for corporate customers. He was also in charge of several consumer cloud products such as Office 365, as well as the Bing search engine, Xbox Live and Skype. Over the course of his tenure, he was instrumental in transforming the company’s technology culture from client services to cloud infrastructure and services.

While Nadella faces stiff challenges heading the 100,000+ employees, we believe he can successfully integrate different company divisions backed by his extensive experience at Microsoft. We expect Nadella to gradually disclose his growth strategy for Microsoft in the upcoming events. However, it remains to be seen whether Nadella’s engineering background, along with Bill Gates’ close involvement in product decisions, will help the company turn over a new leaf in the growing cloud domain. We note that Gates appeared to be delighted that Nadella requested his higher level of involvement. Reports indicate, moreover, that Nadella is to view the full board as his boss. Considering that Ballmer and Gates are on the board, along with Chairman John Thompson, this is no surprise.

Microsoft named Satya Nadella, former head of the cloud and enterprise division, as its new CEO. Furthermore, the company founder Bill Gates has stepped down from his role as chairman for a new role as technology adviser to CEO. Board member John Thompson, former CEO of Symantec SYMC +2.05%, will serve as Microsoft MSFT +1.05%’s new chairman.

The software giant announced on Tuesday that Nadella will replace Steve Ballmer, who in August said that he would step down as CEO of Microsoft within 12 months. While it is too early to speculate on the strategy the company might adopt going forward, this appointment signals Microsoft’s strong commitment to business growth through its cloud offering, which registered over 100% growth last fiscal.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/02/06/microsoft-names-satya-nadella-as-its-new-ceo/

Monday, January 6, 2014

What is Neo-Fascism?

What is Neo-Fascism?

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Hello ALL

Here are some interesting points to consider in arriving at what is neo-fascist. This related to the use of electronic surveillance and totalitarianism which you may have had direct experience.

Bottom line, are the neo-cons driving this agenda neo-fascist? Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, published research on fascism [18] in which he examined the fascist regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each fascist State:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarceration of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists; terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military are glamorized.

5. Rampant sexism - The government of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

7. Obsession with National security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are intertwined - Government in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation are often the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated, or are severely restricted.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassinations of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

Benito Mussolini - who knew something about fascism - had a more straightforward definition: “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

Abraham Lincoln stated, “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.”

The small, but ruthless, group of men, the “money power” described by Lincoln, has stolen democracy from the American people. An ever-growing number of informed Americans, however, are fighting a brave, but desperate rear-guard action to retrieve that democracy. Will we give them our total support now, or simply sit back and watch as the entire planet is taken back to the dark ages? “The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.”

Jim Macgregor is a 57 year old retired doctor. For many years he was a family practitioner and visiting Medical Officer to Glenochil Prison, one of Scotland's high security prisons. Through his prison work, he developed a special interest in miscarriages of justice and is a member of the Miscarriage of Justice Organization. MOJO (Scotland).

You can contact Jim at gairmoj@aol.com


This article was first published at www.surfaceonline.org