Excited Delirium

Stories about Excited Delirium, the Shock Economy and a little fiction here and there.

Monthly Archives: April 2008

Machine-gun Toting Guards for NYC Subway

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The other day, I was at the gym at was working out using one of the new elliptical trainers with the TV monitor. For a brief moment, I stopped to watch a little bit from an Amnesty International show to get funding for their efforts in Nicaragua.

The captions read off seemed eerily similar to that which Americans have allowed happen to themselves:

  • Denial / restrictions of basic human rights
  • Claiming of public property, usually by corrupt organizations
  • People disappearing under the guise of protecting national security
  • Armed guards on duty everywhere, watching everyone’s move
  • Dictatorial government

I’m probably not the first to identify that the US is now almost completely immersed in this state of mind.

Amusement Park Comes to Iraq

Amid the explosions, water shortages, crimes against humanity and genocide, what’s the biggest priority?

Amusement parks.

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Bush: Transforming the US Government

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Key Points:

# Bush has increased the number of federal agencies authorized to designate information as secret and exempt them from public disclosure.

# The Department of Homeland Security removed the agency’s entire classification of information process from public scrutiny. The secretaries’ of Health and Human Services and Agriculture and the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, have been granted the right to classify information “for purposes of national security and national defense.”

# The Defense Department has adopted a new policy that imposes strict limits on discussion of all its “critical research” from the “idea phase” onward.

# Bush has placed his own papers, and those of his father, the former president, “outside the public eye and empowered himself to keep Congress in the dark about intelligence matters.

# Bush has increased the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency to empower its director to block declassification of CIA information unless disclosure is authorized by the president.

# Bush has extended time that information can be kept classified from 10 to 25 years and this period may be extended even longer.

What creates cause for concern from a Canadian standpoint is the Bush admin control over Immigration and Naturalization Service. There seems to be a complete gag on proceedings related to INS hearings. Canada (with the support of the Liberals) has recently passed immigration changes that might bring us more in line with this harsh treatment of potential immigrants, a frightening prospect for anyone who fits extremely stereotypical profiles.

From the “Get Your Head Out of Your Behind” Economic Lesson Department

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Quote:

Progressive Conservative MPP Tim Hudak (Niagara West-Glanbrook) expressed concern the province is “facing a Dalton McGuinty recession” this year and urged him to cut taxes to help businesses and families.

I really shouldn’t get irritated when I read these kind of things coming from Conservatives. I mean, there’s nothing new, right? This is yet another piece of evidence that proves they know nothing about economics. I should be laughing because it paints Ontario Conservative mentality in a very negative light.

The only challenge is that this kind of comment makes front page news, while economic stability is largely ignored.

Here’s a little reminder for Mr. Hudak: the Province of Ontario does not exist in an economic vacuum. About 65-75% of our economic health is tied to the economic fortunes /fate of the US economy, something that is, in large part, completely beyond the control of any provincial administration.

And let me remind everyone (including you, Mr. Hudak) that because CONSERVATIVES in the US have destroyed beyond salvation the economy of their country by doing exactly what Mr. Hudak recommends (cut taxes), it’s likely that any other jurisdiction that is dependant on the US will be affected by this fiscal irresponsibility.

That includes Ontario. In fact, Ontario is tied to a big anchor called US Corporate Welfare. $200 billion spent to bail out financial ‘geniuses’ on Wall Street. Nearly $1.2 trillion spent on a war that should not have existed in the first place. I could go on.

Biofuel Efforts a Sham

A full and responsible description of the causes of euthanol, albeit just a little on the depressing side.

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Man Dies After Taser Use

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“This situation is so alarming, so disturbing and so troubling,” Piper said. “I don’t think the police officer ever anticipated causing any significant injury to this young man. I know Oxford police are deeply troubled.”

Mob Influence on Markets

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Quote:

The groups launder billions of dollars through U.S. financial institutions, and invest profits in publicly traded companies. They also “exploit the Internet,” by running scams on eBay, flooding in-boxes with e-mail spam and laundering money through “virtual worlds” such as Second Life, [US Attorney General Michael] Mukasey said.

Excited Delirium Book: Prelude

August 10, 2008

In most villages or towns, a shotgun blast would draw the attention of inhabitants for miles around, but not in Manhattan.

Most people in this city had grown numb to any new threats.

Besides, the blast had occurred more than a thousand feet up in the air, making the reverberation virtually inaudible to pedestrians on the street.

Within a few moments, the only sign that something awful had happened was the sharp chorus of twinkling that made it’s way to the ground. What used to be a window was now a thousand bits of glass crashing, like a cruel but brief rainstorm of pain.

That, and the body of a business man hurtling to the pavement to meet an horrific and frightening end.

(Note: "Excited Delirium" is a work of fiction. Any person, place or thing depicted in this work of fiction is also a work of fiction. Any relation of these subjects or characters to real locations, people or things are an unintentional coincidence.)

Read more with Chapter 1

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