re-posting from the [reclaim-spaces] list, originally in Black Agenda Report

Tear Down the Ghetto: The Price is Wrong
http://www.nathanielturner.com/teardownghettopriceiswrong.htm

What the misanthropic Jenkins calls a "small mental adjustment" is
actually a government-
subsidized economy of destruction -rather than production- divorced
totally from human needs but instead dictated by the demands of those
who deal in "moneyness."

Great to see the heads of mega banks fulminating against fiction and innuendo as a 'careless talk costs banks' ethos is pounded into their employees and rivals are threatened with retaliation for daring to speculate (ahem) on their illiquidity... a bit like the last season of The Wire, which is looking mighty prophetic in its articulation of the relations between lies, non-reproduction and the (more or less open) collapse of once 'great' institutions.

While bird flu panic made a return to the UK mainland last autumn, the promised pandemic failed to materialise. What does continue to evolve, however, are repressive forms of population management sustained by hypothetical threats of megadeath – writes C. L-Stavrides

Reposting this from the back of the FT somewhere:

'JULY 1ST - ENGLAND GOES LIQUIDITY FREE'

So reads the campaign slogan of shadowy activist (shareholder) group Benson & Hedgefunds. Is it possible to induce a financial crisis by demoralising corporate smokers? These agent provocateurs have taken a pledge to try.

Urban analyst Mike Davis’ bleak prognosis for the future of the city in his article Planet of the Slums has catalysed much discussion and helped spark this issue of Mute. Here, Iain Boal reviews Davis’ book-length study of the same name

Two consecutive posts from Spiked is a guaranteed never-to-be-repeated anomaly, but in this case chief ideologue Frank Furedi's oft-expounded 'politics of fear' line leads to an important point about the Malthusian basis of ecology's millennial crusade.  (It's a point that's made all too rarely; for a more theoretically-informed version see the Iain Boal interview posted a few months back on this site.)  'Terrorism' serves as a sort of template for other official universal enemies: 'global warming', pandemics, 'overpopulation', etc.  (And, coming full-circle, military Malthusians now explicitly cite terrorism alongside resource-shortage as a noxious consequence of profligate working class reproduction.)  Furedi doesn't quite put it this way, but 'terror' is a useful starting point for perpetual emergency-management because the negligible real effect of the phenomenon and the total indeterminacy of the concept mean other fear-triggers can simultaneously be made to seem 'even' more dangerous (by comparison) and always already everywhere (by analogy).  So that unlimited ad-hoc emergency powers become all the more 'necessary' and inevitable.   

'I've got squirting glue out of my hands that gets people. I've got lines the come out of my eyes
special eyes that lines come out of and poke people and make a blast.......' short fiction by Matt Fuller