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Some "internal" news for a change...
- If you were at the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 and you were arrested along with 175 other people on December 1st in Westlake Park, you are entitled to a share of one million dollars, care of the City of Seattle. You have two weeks left to claim your prize...
- A well-intentioned young anarchist from Spokane has been indicted for vandalizing two military recruiting stations. Although we are sympathetic, said anarchist went on to illustrate exactly what NOT to do following such an action, posting photos of the vandalism on his collectives' MySpace page (the camera was later seized by the Feds), mouthing off about a variety of illegal actions in his Fed-tapped house, and making unadvisable statements to the media. Strategy lesson: learn from the mistakes of others.
- C.S.A. Quote Of The Day: “When you live outside the law, you have to eliminate dishonesty.”—From The Lineup directed by Don Siegel
Oof, it's been a slow news week, so in the interest of keeping our readers entertained during the slow summer news season, we offer the following...
- U.S. Customs seized a submarine full of cocaine 300 miles off the Mexico-Guatemala border. The submarine contained 5.5 tons of pure Bolivian nose candy, with an estimated street value of $352 million.
- The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation today that will legally enshrine the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal, which will likely result in the expansion of its use.
- C.S.A. Quote Of The Day: "Lennox Lewis, I’m coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!”--Mike Tyson (Lennox Lewis’ response: “Man, it's sad. I don't even have children. The guy needs help." This exchange is reminiscent of most speeches heard at Leftist rallies.)
- A New York Times article explains the crisis in the U.S. housing market in helpful and clear terms. It also explains how shrewd institutional investors have made millions betting against housing, just in case you thought such things actually damaged capitalism. Additionally, there are indications that the U.S. economy will expand in the coming months.
- The Presidents of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico began meeting near Montreal to discuss the continued economic integration of North America. Tensions have increased as protesters, "ranging from angry anarchists to family-friendly environmental activists", have become more assertive; riot police were deployed this morning.
- C.S.A. Quote of the Day: "How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."--William Shatner
A tectonic shift has begun. Capitalism is abolishing the state. A bold statement, we know, especially in a post-9/11 world in which the state appears to be reasserting itself. But look closely. What we're actually seeing is the movement of capitalism into realms that had been monopolized by the state since the middle of the 17th Century. The functions of the state are not disappearing, but they are being executed by corporations rather than the bureaucratic apparatuses of nation-states.
The state, at its most elementary, is a monopoly on violence. We are now seeing the privatization of that coercive power, a process that has already shattered the state's monopoly. This alone is exceedingly noteworthy, and its implications will reverberate throughout the world geo-politics of the future. The questions for anarchists are many, but for the purpose of this blog, we will focus on the strategic challenges and opportunities created by this change. Obviously, such a large topic cannot be covered in a single post, so we will touch on a very small part of it now and return often in the future.
Private military firms are the primary vehicles through which coercion is being outsourced and privatized; essentially, they are corporations that offer services traditionally located within the realm of state militaries. There are the obvious examples, such as the many firms presently deploying armed troops in Iraq (where private contractors now outnumber government troops), such as Blackwater, MPRI, and Triple Canopy. They field battalion-sized armies aided by all manner of battlefield supports, technology that often exceeds that of state armies, and a wealth of tactical experience and savvy. Firms such as these are the heavyweights, and they are receiving the bulk of the attention, primarily from shrill liberals who would prefer to see the state monopoly maintained. We must be careful not frame this discussion in reformist terms. As anarchists, our concern is with the strategic implications of this shift, not with making a reactionary call for rolling it back. Our project is to dismantle authoritarianism in all its forms; private military firms are a new form, and we must adapt our fighting style accordingly. We needn't exhibit a nostalgic preference for our old enemies.
Since we here at the Center are keenly interested in the doings of private military firms, we will explain and expound upon their different aspects regularly. But for the time being, we want to highlight one particular range of services offered by private military firms, one that is less obvious but quite significant: intelligence gathering. The employees of private military firms are not just redneck cowboys who run around post-Katrina New Orleans bearing assault rifles and stun grenades. They are also former intelligence analysts and spies, people who have spent decades working for the government gathering and processing strategically valuable information. Now, their services are for hire, and they are being deployed in a multitude of ways.
To take one interesting example, a firm consisting primarily of ex-CIA agents called Total Intelligence Solutions was recently launched, and it has formed a strategic partnership with Blackwater and Blackwater's offshore affiliate, Greystone Ltd. Translation: you can now hire a private army that can operate anywhere in world with the support of a fully functional intelligence agency, the implications of which are touched upon here (for those interested in this topic, that link is worth exploring at length.) A firm called Trident Group, consisting of ex-KGB agents, has quietly spent the last 11 years gathering intelligence on behalf of U.S. companies with investments in Russia, which highlights the fact that many of these firms' services are being employed by corporations against other corporations. Another firm, Aegis Defense Services Ltd., one of the largest private military firms in the world, has been performing intelligence services on a U.S. Army contract in Iraq for sometime now, aiding the counterinsurgency efforts of the U.S. military (the implications of this type of activity is fairly self-explanatory.) To grasp just how far the privatization of intelligence has gone, and how much power has now been placed in corporate hands, consider that 70% of the U.S. government's classified intelligence budget is now spent on private contractors (the article to which this links gives a good overall explanation of the private intelligence industry.)
So, in closing, this post is meant merely to lay the groundwork for future posts on the same topic and to begin a discussion of how we ought to incorporate an understanding of privatized coercion into our strategy. Might we see private intelligence firms deployed by corporations against anarchists (think: HLS)? How will we respond when we encounter them again at the scene of a disaster? Can we find a way to use this shift in power to our advantage?
- The recession cauldron continues to bubble: prices of food staples such as eggs, milk, and oranges, rose by as much as 19.8% in the last 12 months, the Dow dipped below 13,000 this morning before rebounding on rumors that the Federal Reserve would inject badly needed cash into the country's struggling credit system, and it was reported that sales of existing homes fell in 41 states in April-June. However, inflation appears to have slowed while manufacturing output has risen, leading some to believe that the economy is fundamentally sound. Which way will it go, recession or recovery? We will keep you updated...
- Federal and local law enforcement agencies will now have access to the country's vast network of powerful spy satellites. Additionally, a bill was signed into law Sunday broadly expands the government's authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants. Our point here is not to bemoan the loss of "civil liberties" or some such bullshit, just to give you all a heads up on potential security threats.
- The United States may soon designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, which constitutes a large portion of that country's military, a foreign terrorist organization in a hard-line diplomatic move that is certain to ratchet up the tension between the two countries...It's only been six years since the start of war in Afghanistan. Have we figured out an anti-war strategy yet?
- C.S.A. Quote of the Day: "My power is discombobulatingly devastating. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.”--Mike Tyson
- Starting this month, the government of the Chinese city of Shenzhen will begin requiring all citizens to carry residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips programmed with not just the citizen’s name and address but also work history, educational background, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical insurance status and landlord’s phone number. Additionally, at least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets, and they will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software to automatically recognize the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity.
- The credit crunch has hit the rich, making it harder for millionaires to buy extremely expensive apartments and the like. The Center For Strategic Anarchy is thus announcing its intention to squat an unsold floor-thru Upper East Side mansion flat to house our think tank and krust-punk breeding program. We aim to create a new breed of krusty that is both impervious to scabies and allergic to alcohol.
- Brooke Astor, heir through marriage to the fortune of John Jacob Astor, has died. J.J. Astor, as some of you will recall, was the Gilded Age robber baron who made his money as the slum lord of New York's immigrant ghettos, ghettos that were home to many Jewish, Italian, German, Russian, and Czech anarchists. The news of her death is sad only because no one managed to go Czolgosz on her before her natural death.
- C.S.A. Quote of the Day: "All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work"-- Steve Martin, Sgt. Bilko
The U.S. is increasingly divided into two economic zones: one "high-pressure", the other "low-pressure." What the fuck does that mean? Basically, globalization has meant the end of the U.S. manufacturing economy and the rise of a service-based international finance economy that has radically reshaped the landscape of the entire world, including the former manufacturing areas in the U.S. Former manufacturing cities and towns now comprise a huge swath of rapidly declining real estate called the "Rust Belt", a vast, non-contiguous part of the country that has been forcibly unhinged from its blue collar economic mooring and consequently has entered a phase of steady decline (e.g. Detroit loses 10,000 people a year.)
What, then, are "high-pressure" zones?" They are the parts of the country that have become nodes in the global economy, mostly large cities like New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, etc., places that host a rapidly growing population of young service workers ("service work" by our definition ranges from working at a coffeeshop to stockbrokering, since these workers create value by performing a service rather than creating a new product; also note that in both cases workers deal with products of a globalized economy.) These cities have seen exploding real estate values, the emergence of Gilded Age-style consumer economies, and rapid population booms.
The wonks here at the Center believe that this trend is going to continue for a long time to come, and we feel it is crucial that anarchists take advantage of the opportunities presented by both zones if we are to be relevant in the future. Low pressure zones offer cheap and abundant space, which can be used for squatting, urban farming, infrastructure projects, etc. There's always a space crunch with anarchist projects since they're usually underfunded, so locating space intensive projects in a low pressure zone can make a lot of sense (witness Microcosm's recent move from Portland to Bloomington, to save on building costs.) High pressure zones, as critical nodes in the global economy, present abundant opportunities to, ahem, challenge capitalism where it is most active. To be effective, this requires a lot of guts, imagination, and risk, but we feel it is too late for finesse tactics (note: we don't agree with everything in this zine, especially the misguided CrimethInc. bashing, but it contains a lot of excellent material nonetheless.)
There's an interesting element to the whole high-pressure/low-pressure situation: displacement. Think about it literally. What happens when a high-pressure zone comes up against a low-pressure zone? Well, whatever is occupying the high-pressure zone (gas particles in the case of air, people in the case of demographics) gets sucked into the low-pressure zone. This helps explain a phenomenon that can be confusing when trying to determine whether a particular area is high-pressure or low-pressure.
Portland is a good example. The industrial economy in Portland has declined a great deal, but the city is actually gentrifying. How is this happening? Well, lots of young, middle class people are leaving high-pressure cities due to rising prices and low quality of life (traffic, overcrowding, pollution, etc.) and moving to low-pressure areas that offer lower prices, higher quality of life, and lots of hip young people. Some cities are experiencing both phenomena at the same time, like Pittsburgh, where the population is in seemingly perpetual decline due to the collapse of the U.S. steel industry, but hip young people are increasingly moving there for the low home prices, among other things. Now, this phenomenon is taking on a whole new dimension as older, upper-middle class people are moving from high-pressure cities to low-pressure rural areas, which is made possible by the decentralized nature of many service jobs in the global economy (jobs that can be done via e-mail or fax, for instance.)
This isn't just nerdy trivia. Anarchists must familiarize themselves with these changes in order to create effective strategies for confronting the new global economic order. Whether that means taking on gentrification, moving a project, starting a new one, or planning for the years to come, having an understanding of the forces that are shaping the U.S. landscape is critical to our future success.
Are you a committed, fun-loving riot tourist? Well if you are, we at the Center recommend booking a flight to Italy for about a year and half from now. Some explanation...
In the midst of all the recent uncertainty about the U.S. economy, the Chinese government threatened to sink the U.S. dollar by selling off its enormous dollar reserves, which would lead to a huge devaluation of the dollar and a subsequent collapse of the U.S. economy. Sadly, this is almost definitely not going to happen. China is engaging in harmless brinksmanship and it could never afford to pursue such a policy since its own economy is entirely dependent on U.S. consumers (stick with me here, the rioting part is coming up...)
This brought up an interesting issue. If China no longer held dollars, in what currency would it put its reserves? The obvious answer is the Euro, which is stronger than it has ever been. This speculation led to a very interesting article by one of the eggheads over at the London Telegraph, who argues that the Euro's strength is actually a sign of its forthcoming collapse, since its rise is due almost entirely to the currency's purchase by foreign speculators, rather than any fundamental strength in the European economy. He goes on to very convincingly argue that the entire E.U. economy is due for a major correction in the next couple of years due to the imbalances created by the overly strong Euro. If that happens, many E.U. countries will have to ram through very unpopular, corporate-friendly legislation to lift their economies from the brink of ruin. Think wage cuts, increased employer "flexibility," and weakened social welfare systems, which will, in this guy's own words, almost certainly lead to major social unrest in most E.U. countries. Basically, this stuffy, conservative British economist is saying that there will be massive, anti-CPE-style riots across all of Europe in the next year or two.
This probably all sounds wildly speculative, but the econ wizards here at the Center actually think this is a fairly safe projection as these things go. Witness the recent bailout of the German credit system by that country's central bank and the tremors reverberating through many European banks and investment houses, some of whom seem to have invested heavily in the U.S. sub-prime mortgage business. While that doesn't bode well for them, it might lead to once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for savvy riot tourists.
This thing is, regardless of whether or not the situation develops as the Telegraph columnist predicts, the elementary components of this scenario are already in place. Some variation on the "economic reform leads to widespread social unrest in Europe"-theme absolutely will occur, and indeed events are already unfolding in this manner, at a more drawn out pace. From our perspective, this would seem to place a premium on cross-Atlantic relationships between anarchists, so that quick action can be taken when appropriate. If anarchists are to have any influence on the direction of the social strife in Europe, aggressive, well-planned intervention at critical junctures will be required, which necessitates the convergence of a large, cohesive, and diverse network of anarchists at crucial times and locations. Basically, keep in touch with your European friends or make some if you don't have any. You might be crashing on their floor soon.
So read the Telegraph article and decide for yourself, but we here at the Center are going to start looking into plane tickets. They're much cheaper when you buy them this far in advance...
- The fissure between virtual reality and classical reality continues to widen. Real estate no longer requires actual land to have real dollar value, as long as you're willing to overlook the fact that it doesn't really exist. Note that this article appears in the "Home & Garden" section of the Times, not the "Technology" section.
- TASER has found a way to make their stun guns fly through the air. Coming to a demo near you in 6-12 months.
- Although it is highly unlikely, how great would it be if the draft were actually instituted, as the President's new war adviser suggested yesterday? In our opinion, it's basically the only thing capable of creating serious anti-war resistance in this country.
- C.S.A. Strategy Quote Of The Day: "The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement." -Bruce Lee
During an intense storm on Wednesday, a tornado touched down in Brooklyn. Needless to say, this is a rather extraordinary event, and the implications are vast. It seems obvious that catastrophic weather resulting from climate change is a part of our present and a potentially large part of our future, whether we like it or not. While it is important to fight the causes of climate change, it is just as important that we be able to deal with its consequences effectively. Working on disaster preparedness certainly seems strategically advisable for anarchists, given that virtually everyone who would be in a position to predict such things says that catastrophic weather will be an increasingly common part of our lives in the years to come (to say nothing of the plethora of other possible sources of disaster.)
Folks from the Curious George Brigade have been doing a lot of work on this front recently. They're efforts include a good zine entitled "Insurrectionary Mutual Aid," a series of well-presented workshops on disaster response using Hurricane Katrina as the primary case-study, and now a local collective that is working to create a viable anarchist response to disaster in New York City. All of these efforts seem very wise to us here at the Center, as they incorporate a well-formulated strategic approach to climate change along with a number of creative tactics.
One tactic the Curious George folks have employed that we find especially interesting is the creation of a government-sanctioned Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a neighborhood-based citizens group that is in charge of disaster response in their area. Behold the litany of benefits:
First, it gives the people who start the CERT team access to tens of thousands of dollars in federal government money for everything from printing to training to equipment. This is a potential bonanza for cash-strapped anarchists who often need help with precisely these things. Second, the CERT team is officially responsible for responding to an emergency in their area in the first 72 hours after it occurs. That gives them a lot of influence over the course of events at a time when the state is at its weakest and property is most easily expropriated. Third, it gives the "team members" an opportunity to interact with their neighbors in a potentially useful way even if a disaster never takes place. The relationships that can come out of those interactions would certainly be useful in a disaster, but they might be just as useful when you want to turn that empty lot down the block into a community garden. And if all that wasn't enough, you also get windbreakers and clipboards. Picture you and your friends arriving at the scene of some disaster, clipboards in hand and CERT windbreakers wrapped around your shoulders, announcing to the confused crowd: "Alright folks, we're going to need food and water right away, so somebody please grab a crowbar and follow us to the Wal-Mart..."
Of course the CERT thing is just one idea, and if ever there was something that needed to be tailored to its specific locale, it would be disaster organizing. Innovative, locally-minded organizing for disaster response seems like an exciting and fruitful direction for anarchists take, so we at the Center will return to this theme in the future. Even just making a plan with some friends would seem to be a step in the right direction, but tactics such as those employed by the Curious George Brigade seem to offer even more potential.
For some really good insight into the potential created by disasters, Harbringer 5, besides being one of the very best pieces of CrimethInc. writing, is all about disasters and what they can mean for anarchists. We recommend it wholeheartedly, even for those without any interest in disaster organizing.
We here at the Center are sort of geeks for economic news. We think that economic conditions—particularly where we stand within the never-ending boom/bust cycle of capitalism—powerfully influence the context in which we, as seekers of capitalism's destruction, operate. Differing economic conditions create different needs, opportunities, frustrations, and challenges, and they alter the significance, purpose, and viability of different modes of resistance. Essentially, economics should play a big role in our strategy, and we plan on covering economic news thoroughly here.
If you've been reading the mainstream press, you're probably aware that the U.S. economy has rather suddenly entered somewhat shaky terrain. The market for housing, fueled by cheap credit and lax mortgage standards, developed what's known as a "bubble"—artificial, rapid growth in a particular sector (e.g. housing, dot-com stocks, etc.) that results in prices that far exceed the real value of the product. The housing bubble has begun bursting because lots of people have stopped paying back their mortgages—largely people who didn't demonstrate any real ability to pay back those home loans in the first place and so received adjustable rate home loans called "sub-prime" mortgages (about one in five sub-prime loans are currently overdue or in foreclosure.) Even more recently, increasing numbers of so-called "prime" mortgages—home loans given to people who demonstrated financial soundness at the time the loan was made—have been coming in late or not at all, which not only spells trouble for people in the mortgage business and related industries, but may in fact indicate that deeper economic problems lay at the root of all the defaults, a much more ominous situation. What really worries market observers is this: all of those adjustable rate sub-prime mortgages, which are already looking so bad, are all scheduled for an upward adjustment on their interest rates in the coming months, meaning they'll be even more expensive for the borrowers. That will almost certainly lead to even more defaults and foreclosures, which, if things continue in the direction they're presently headed, will add a lot of momentum to the downturn at the worst possible moment.
One point is obvious, and is repeated ad nauseam elsewhere in the economic news: lenders got greedy, even greedier than usual. There's always some culprit in these things, and this time it's them. When credit was cheap (and it still is, sort of), lenders wanted to get theirs while the getting was good, and so they handed out mortgages like free condoms at Freshman Orientation. Speculation drove the market in a big way, so now tons of jerks have mortgages on luxury condos in Miami that they never had any intention of paying off, never mind living in, and everybody from banks in Chicago to loan corporations in New York are feeling the hurt. So there's going to be lots of chatter about how irresponsible they were and calls for more regulation, yadda yadda yadda, but the point is that this kind of thing happens every ten years or so, it's part of the way things work in capitalism, and it ain't going to stop happening as long as capitalism is around.
Here's one aspect of the economic story no one is talking about: economies are often drained by wars (at least wars like the ones in which the U.S. is currently involved), which function a lot like pyramid schemes as far the economy is concerned. Wars create demand for things that are then destroyed and have to be replaced, but growth is only possible if more and more things are made and then destroyed. Since capitalism relies on perpetual growth to sustain itself, that scenario only benefits a few capitalists in the short term (weapons makers, etc.), and since it doesn't create any new consumers (unlike most capitalist development, which moves people into capitalism, rather than pushing them out of it) but does consume a lot of capital, it ultimately only creates a bubble, rather than the sustained growth created by the expansion of capital into new spaces and spheres (spaces=physical areas previously outside or largely outside of capital's reach, such as new mineral extraction sites or the forced proletarianization of subsistence communities; spheres=elements of our lives that used to be non-capitalist or less capital intensive, such as long distance communication before telephones or entertainment before television.) That smallish bubble can temporarily smooth over serious economic problems, but it makes the inevitable correction even worse. Witness the U.S. economy following the end of the Vietnam War. Our point is this: the U.S. economy must be experiencing some strain from the last eight years or so of short-sighted economic management and that is bound to rise to the surface soon enough. If that happens to coincide with the burst of the housing bubble, a legitimate, multi-year recession could ensue.
So what does all this mean for those of us in the business of destroying business? The economy is vulnerable and likely to slow down or recede on its own in the near future (think one to two years; a downturn in the stock market usually precedes an actual economic downturn by at least a few months.) I believe we can usefully intervene in this situation in a variety of ways.
First, we should keep doing what many of us do already: stealing, especially from large corporations. (Doubt that a small group of inventive individuals can steal enough to make a difference? Read here.) Despite what the naysayers claim, losses from stealing are significant, and if consumer spending takes a dive, as it always does during a recession, anything that eats into earnings will hurt at the worst time possible time. So, our recommendation: take it to 11. Trying working in teams, do something daring, test the no-chase policy, etc...
Second, if unemployment rises, there will be a greater need for basic social services. Many anarchists are expert harvesters of capitalism's excess. Our challenge is to find a meaningful use for that excess, a use that advances our own aims while simultaneously providing a service to our friends and neighbors. Personally, I think we need to almost start from scratch in this department. Most anarchist efforts to distribute excess is just charity with a punk veneer (cough, Food Not Bombs, cough.) In our experience, these projects are most successful when they are well-suited to their immediate context, as opposed to the cookie-cutter approach we see all too often. Certainly Food Not Bombs and Really Really Free Markets make a great deal of sense in some places, but nothing works well everywhere, so give yourself the opportunity to be creative and try something new. The excess ain't going anywhere, but the demand for it may increase, so let's try some new, experimental forms of insurrectionary mutual aid, as it were.
Third, the burst of the housing bubble means lots of foreclosures, and if a recession follows, there will be a lot of vacant housing sitting around. Given the way the housing bubble developed—sub-prime mortgages and real estate speculation—there's going to be an interesting mix of available property, probably lots of lower end suburban homes and high end urban condos. Welcome to the next frontier in squatting. We say, to hell with abandoned houses that are crumbling off of their foundations. We want to see a herd of two thousand traveling crusties descend on all the vacant luxury condominiums in Miami. So get off our fucking couch and head to the Sunshine State, you dirty fleabags.
Well, that wraps up this installment of our on-going analysis of the economy. We plan to write regular, shorter updates of the deteriorating economic situation, along with links to articles of note on the same subject, so check back often.
This blog exists to bring matters of note to the attention of those seeking the destruction of hierarchy and the institutionalized perpetuation of misery, along with germane commentary and suitable analysis. Most of these items will be drawn from readily available mainstream news sources, which are chock-full of valuable information since our enemies can afford to make their strategies public—such is their hegemony and/or stupidity, depending on the enemy. There will also be some items drawn from the anarchist/radical press, when they detail matters of particular interest, but our goal is to provide a service not available elsewhere rather than to duplicate the anarchist media, so expect only occasional, relevant posts on "internal" news.
This blog itself is essentially an "internal" memo, which is awkward since it is a public blog. Any attempt at a secret internal blog would necessarily have a too-limited readership and would almost certainly be breached anyway. Can we afford to make our strategy public, in the manner of our enemies? Probably not, since it will also serve as a road map to effective repression, but it is a risk we are willing to take. The current state of affairs is so intolerable and we are so irrelevant to it (only a very deluded person would call us a threat), that we feel our continued obsolescence poses a greater problem than repression.
It is our hope that the Center's efforts will help make strategic thinking the norm, a reflexive part of planning and formulating our projects, a way of thinking that posits us as players in an international geo-political struggle—rather than as idealists, beautiful idiots, or true believers who refuse to light a candle in the darkness because of a romantic insistence that faith alone will guide us. We at the Center say, "Fuck faith, we will light the way by burning everything in our path if need be." We hope you will come to agree.
The commonly accepted definition of "strategy":
strategy |ˈstratəjē| noun ( pl. -gies) a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim : time to develop a coherent economic strategy | shifts in marketing strategy. • the art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements in a war or battle. Often contrasted with tactics (see tactic ). • a plan for such military operations and movements : nonprovocative defense strategies. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French stratégie, from Greek stratēgia ‘generalship,’ from stratēgos (see stratagem ).
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