I'm busy 

relax animals xmas never happened

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soSx-dU1z98

Howl

Diamanda Galas - Artémis

where does what go

beauty queen nefertiti up the nial gueen,
and the Icenordic viking warior,
resolute to her side
 a golden claf slughtered, naked
 amonst the war lords
 of another day

she came to be in a bluesky dream
with the cotton colouds white so clean
pillows lost aloft
amongst
the kansa fileds of
golden honey wheat, hat fileds goldne crust honey sun bucket
 laughing under a blue linolium horizon
and she smiles and teh whole sky line is whited with shiny white love
sounds liek a high laugh in love
 sings along with teh nigh sky fashin gin her brainy box eyes
 out foxing the farm boy
 who chasing her

The United what of America?

It has been frequently noted that many corporations exceed nation states in GDP. It has been less frequently noted that some also exceed them in population (employees).
But it is odd that the comparison hasn't been taken further. Since so many live in the state of the corporation, let us take the comparison seriously and ask the following question. What kind of states are giant corporations?
In comparing countries, after the easy observations of population size and GDP, it is usual to compare the system of government, the major power groupings and the civic freedoms available to their populations.
The corporation as a nation state has the following properties:

• Suffrage (the right to vote) does not exist except for land holders ("share holders") and even there voting power is in proportion to land ownership.
• All executive power flows from a central committee. Female representation is almost unknown.
• There is no division of powers. There is no forth estate. There are no juries and innocence is not presumed.
• Failure to submit to any order can result in instant exile.
• There is no freedom of speech. There is no right of association. Love is forbidden without state approval.
• The economy is centrally planned.
• There is pervasive surveillance of movement and electronic communication.
• The society is heavily regulated and this regulation is enforced, to the degree many employees are told when, where and how many times a day they can goto the toilet.
• There is almost no transparency and something like the FOIA is unimaginable.
• The state has one party. Opposition groups (unions) are banned, surveilled or marginalized whenever and wherever possible.

These large multinationals, despite having a GDP and population comparable to Belgium, Denmark or New Zealand have nothing like their quality of civic freedoms. Internally they mirror the most pernicious aspects of the 1960s Soviet. This even more striking when the civilising laws of region the company operates in are weak (e.g West Pupua or South Korea). There one can see the behavior of these new states clearly, unobscured by their surroundings.
If small business and non-profits are eliminated from the US, then what's left? Some kind of federation of Communist states.
A United Soviet of America.

from:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/#TheUnitedwhatofAmerica?

After Thought

naturalselection.org.nz/archive/3/3.6_Dan_Arps.pdf