~ PO-TV-P-S-MC-O-PP ~ Performances Of – TV – Pundits – Sado-Masochistic Celebrations – Of – Popular Powerlessness

~ MPAA-TTVMO-WS-P-ANLF-TFOIOC-BF-SS-A-TCO-CFI-EMT-WWIEBSSIE ~ Most People Are Aware – That The Vast Majority Of – Wall Street – Profits – Are No Longer From – The Fruits Of Industry Or Commerce – But From – Sheer Speculation – And – The Creation Of – Complex Financial Instruments – Elaborate Magic Tricks – Whisking Wealth Into Existence By Simply Saying It Exists

~ W-FHRM-I-CB-G-A-FI-TET-ALALPOC-F-DAD-ID ~ What – Financialization Has Really Meant – Is – Collusion Between – Government – And – Financial Institutions – To Ensure That – A Larger And Larger Proportion Of Citizens – Fall – Deeper And Deeper – In Debt

~ WA-T-RM-DA-E-TOI-I-TBS ~ When A – True – Revolutionary Movement – Does Arise – Everyone – The Organizers Included – Is – Taken By Surprise

~ TOOI-HH-TAH-TSWCTH ~ Transformative Outbreaks Of Imagination – Have Happened – They Are Happening – They Surely Will Continue To Happen

~ OTPOAWOAIPTFTYNQSWITTS ~ Often The Power Of A Work Of Art Is Precisely The Fact That You’re Not Quite Sure What It’s Trying To Say

~ PP:TITT-OF-TAAGT-SE-TKOSIWTC ~ Prefigurative Politics: The Idea That The – Organizational Form – That An Activist Group Takes – Should Embody – The Kind Of Society It Wishes To Create

~ TT-IW-T-TW-BHB-FC-A-DAP-TT-TCHCH * ~ This Time – It Wasn’t – The – Third World – Being Hit By – Financial Crises – And – Devastating Austerity Plans – This Time – The Crisis Had Come Home

~ AAC-I-WPUD-WTDWT-TARA ~ Appointing A Committee – Is – What Politicians Usually Do – When They Don’t Want To – Take Any Real Action

~ T-1%-W-TO-CTR-FHT-PS-W-A-HTIIOBO-LB ~ The – 1 Percent – Were – The Ones – Creating The Rules – For How The – Political System – Works – And – Had Turned It Into One Based On – Legalized Bribery

~ YAWTBATGHS-YDSTNOHEDB ~ You Always Want To Be Able To Go Home Saying – You’ve Done Something That No One Has Ever Done Before

~ VW ~ Vibes Watcher

~ WDWFDR? ~ What Did We Finally Do Right?

~ WDIW? ~ Why Did It Work?

~ WFBA-BO-NI-‘FOO’-WNHTRT-P-PB-T-DT-SQ ~ When Faced By A – Band Of – Nonviolent Idealists – “Forces Of Order” – Will Not Hesitate To Resort To – Pure – Physical Brutality – To – Defend The – Status Quo

~ LC-D-TAO-PSTE-A-AT ~ Local Courts – Declared – The Application Of – Pepper Spray To Eyeballs – An – Acceptable Tactic

~ AT-BOLAAD-I-TB-TAIOAL ~ And To – Begin One’s Life As A Debtor – Is – To Be – Treated As If One Already Lost

~ DINOH-B-D ~ Debt Is Not Only Hardship – But – Degradation

~ ILL-WS-SO-C-A-SS-WGTHTBRS ~ It Looked Like – Wall Street – Spending On – Cocaine – And – Sexual Services – Was Going To Have To Be Retrenched Somewhat

~ TOWSC-PHL-WT-WFTSFOTVPWHLHTM-A-WB-HF-TD-HJBO ~ The Only Way She Could – Pay Her Loans – Was To – Work Fulfilling The Sexual Fantasies Of The Very People Who Had Loaned Her The Money – And – Whose Banks – Her Family’s – Tax Dollars – Had Just Bailed Out

~ D-A-A-SF-TPATTR-A-W-T-FC-CFTPBTR-DTWETFS-GR-B-PAM-GI-A-AAR-WEGP-A-BTWEGHTB-W-T-A-RTALO-APH ~ Debt – And – A – Stolen Future – They Played According To The Rules – And – Watched – The – Financial Class – Completely Fail To Play By The Rules – Destroy The World Economy Through Fraudulent Speculation – Get Rescued – By – Prompt And Massive – Government Intervention – And – As A Result – Wield Even Greater Power – And – Be Treated With Even Greater Honor Than Before – While – They – Are – Relegated To A Life Of – Apparently Permanent Humiliation

~ IIC ~ Infrastructure Is Crumbling

~ B-R-‘CL’ ~ Bribery – Renamed –”Corporate Lobbying”

~ LB-IMC-PNFTAA ~ Largest Banks – In Many Cases – Paying No Federal Taxes At All

~ C-T-TVP-W-VTBTO ~ Cash – To – The Very Politicians – Who – Voted To Bail Then Out

~ AGOYP-HERTF-TDEWTWSTO-ATTR-A-GWTN ~ A Generation Of Young People – Has Every Reason To Feel – They’d Done Exactly What They Were Supposed To Do – According To The Rulebook – And – Got Worse Than Nothing

~ LMTAESOE-UBUBTPO-C/P/P-A-TGWTGTC-TPTCM ~ Little More Than An Elaborate System Of Extraction – Ultimately Backed Up By The Power Of – Courts / Prison / Police – And – The Government’s Willingness To Grant To Corporations – The Power To Create Money

~ E-SA-IP-B-GST-‘F’-P-WT-EV-IT-BS-WTMIP-I-E-CTBB-MAM-O-SE-‘S’ ~ Empires – Start As – Industrial Powers – But – Gradually Shift To – “Financial” – Powers – With The – Economic Vitality – In The – Banking Sector – What This Means In Practice – Is – Empires – Come To Be Based – More And More – On – Sheer Extortion – “Seigniorage”

~ CGD – WD ~ Circulating Government Debt – War Debt

~ ‘MC’ ~ “Mafia Capitalism”

~ TFT-MP-OATT-TW-DA-FC-AA-SN-BOE-T-SSS-REMWTTR-1%-A-OTETEMPBT-FSI-IN-BAAH-TRT-TCCH-IT-HBAWO-DI ~ The Formula The – Major Powers – Once Applied To The – Third World – Declare A – Financial Crisis – Appoint A – Supposedly Neutral – Board Of Economist – To – Slash Social Services – Reallocate Even More Wealth To The Richest – 1 Percent – And – Open The Economy To Even More Pillaging By The – Financial Services Industry – Is Now – Being Applied At Home – The Response To – The Crisis Coming Home – In Turn – Has Been A Wave Of – Democratic Insurrections

~ A-RR-MAOATLO-CS ~ A – Real Revolution – Must Always Operate At The Level Of – Common Sense

~ BI-MIP-B-DOMBSOR-T-CI-IT-T-CE ~ Buying Influence – Money Is Power – Bribery – Defines Our Most Basic Sense Of Reality – To – Challenge It – Is Therefore – To – Challenge Everything

~ YKYAITPOA-CPS-WTWDI-CCTBTPN-E-A-CW-PEAO-PD ~ You Know You Are In The Presence Of A – Corrupt Political System – When – Those Who Defend It – Cannot Call Things By Their Proper Names – Euphemisms – And – Code Words – Pervade Every Aspect Of – Public Debate

~ OTWAT-W-GPM-SATIT-P-WRTA-‘B’-A-IW-I-N-SB-HBR-‘F-R’-A-B-I-‘L’ ~ Once There Was A Time – When – Giving Politicians Money – So As To Influence Their – Position – Was Referred To As –”Bribery” – And – It Was – Illegal – Now – Soliciting Bribes – Has Been Relabeled – “Fund-Raising”– And – Bribery – Itself –”Lobbying”

~ J-F-PPP ~ Justifications – For – Preconceived Political Positions

~ EETCUWS-SRF-DWWHADTD ~ Economists Exist To Come Up With Scientific-Sounding Reasons For – Doing What We Have Already Decided To Do

~ M-O-IA ~ Manufacture – Of – Intellectual Authority

~ CTTAAML ~ Cynicism Taken To An Almost Mystical Level

~ A-ES-BO-TMO-G-A-FI-W-MITIP-WITUT-MMM ~ An – Economic System – Based On – The Marriage Of – Government – And – Financial Interest – Where – Money Is Transformed Into Power – Which Is Then Used To – Make More Money

~ HHST-VIO-W/S/DP/WL-COE-IBUB-A/P/P ~ History Has Shown That – Vast Inequalities Of – Wealth / Slavery / Debt Peonage / Wage Labor – Can Only Exist – If Backed Up By – Armies / Prisons / Police

~ WRDCAF-WRAWTD-IAB-T-SOP-STST-RTDS ~ When Regimes Do Crumble And Fall – When Revolutionaries Actually Win The Day – It’s Always Because – The – Soldiers Or Police – Sent To Shoot Them – Refused To Do So

~ WT-N-FMI-HFIAAAA-ROB-IH-IF-BRF-TFASTHOOAPS ~ While The – New – Free Market Ideology – Has Framed Itself Above All As A – Rejection Of Bureaucracy – It Has – In Fact – Been Responsible For – The First Administrative System That Has Operated On A Planetary Scale

~ AFIM-OD-V-I-BAP-TIWHIHAB-TPTOTS ~ Aside From Its More – Obvious Disadvantages – Violence – Is – Boring And Predictable – This Is Why Historically It Has Always Been – The Preferred Tactic Of The Stupid