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Actually, it’s a folk myth[de:].
The crazyshitness quota is quite high[de:] these days, as you have heard. If they will talk of the 21st century world revolution afterwards, we’re already in it. It is quite unlikely that this can be stomped out anytime soon. Particularly since the hottest years of this decade are yet to come (remember the temperature curve lags about one year after the radiation curve).
As a side note, 2013 is the year of the scheduled Federal elex. However, … read more
Watch:
Guy looks like he was from inland the Horn. Sudan, Eritrea. Perhaps Ethiopia, Somalia, Chad, northern Kenya. Djibouti of course. Probably not Jemen, but might even be Saudi.
Peace to those who brought us this video.
Also peace to those who documented events in Zhaiqiao Village, Puqi Town, Yueqing City (People’s Republic of China) on Dec. 25th, 2010. This is what happened.
Picture is not that much related.
So… by now it should be clear theat the Greek Situation is dead serious.
No Flachs[de:]
The SocDems are doing perhaps the first major thing since long that looks like it might actually work, instead of making you think “ho hum, again? Prions or brain flukes, I wonder…”.
Which is to say they abstained when the Greece bailout bill was put on vote today[de:]. The Socialists went for an all-out Nay, as was expected. The Greens were … read more
It will be pretty interesting to see how Capitalism will digest that Greece thingy. And to see how many of the PIIIGGS will go down before this is over.
In any case, those that had already deadsaid Teh Kryzys[en:/pl:] stand corrected.
Big things do need a lot of time to proceed after all. And it is not like we could not have told that this’ll take some time, ね?
As regards the funny things in life, Jane Buergermeister’s[*] lil old click-grabbing … read more
All this is severely shocking for das deutsche Volk of course, given that it has been less than one week since the dead of not-at-all-Good Friday were buried. But that’s life in Afghanistan for you, and it is not like the locals would be given much of a respite by any party in this disgusting war splendid little thing that colloquially might be called “war” by some either. And if you think: “at least it has been going for a … read more
German speaks you.
Ich bitte Sie, Herr BeBeZeh-Mann. Bei allem Verständnis.
Not much more needs to be said.
Last Saturday’s mass protests in Germany were not like this:
T. rex vs. Big Bad Bank Building
I was in Bankfurt, where around 20k ppl gathered, take a few thou, give a few thou; the official figures ran mostly between 15k and 30k. More — closer to around 30k, perhaps as much as 35k protested in Berlin.
The demonstrations were generally peaceful, to the point of being boring. In Berlin there was some aggro at the very end, when police charged into some … read more
Indices cavorted all over the place, settling in for a solidly red week, though today — as did the DJIA a few days ago — the N225 manages to make a near spot landing with plusminus zeroish change. The last 3 weeks’ bumpy bounce, tumbling down a broken and rough slope, shaved some 12.5% off the DJIA, while the N225’s losses could well (for a while at least) be limited to just below another 10%. The DAX, in spite of … read more
Bank runs! And I was almost missing them…
On Antigua and in Caracas, to be precise. Which has a delicious irony — one of the world’s top laundromats for smelly credit, and a bunch of coupist lovers. The latter find something in the realm of US$ 2.5mrd[de:] melting away like South American mountain snow in the 21st century climate.
Now tell me guys:
Ain’t Capitalism Grand?
On Antigua, PM Spencer calls upon the populace to maintain calm. Most of his native citizenry … read more
Whatever.
As it seems, Arnie is having a bit of a hard time. The Handelsblatt at least says so[de:], and they are usually pretty nonpartisan for the exuberant mouthpiece of Capitalism that they are. But I think we had this coming, with the State practically bankrupt for the last 4-6 months or so.
“The Terminator is an end-of-line model, little more fit for reality than Detroit’s Big Three.”
(Rüdiger Scheidges, loc. cit., 17th February 2009)
If you understand German, the article gives you … read more
Some mixed odds’n’ends…
“No police officers will be prosecuted over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, Crown prosecutors Service say.”(BBC, February 13th 2009)
Those were strange days, back in 2005. For a conspi take that is at the same time kooky and rather interesting in an unJonesian way, try 7/7: The Ripple Effect. It seems certain from the weight of evidence that some MetPol honchos were investigating rumours of an upcoming attack on some Israeli interest, although the question of whether … read more
Al-Arabiya.
Who’d have thunk? Nice.
See also this Onion spoof act of clairvoyance.
“… the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq.”
(George W. Bush, December 1st, 2008)
No.
The biggest regret — the only regret — is that Barbara Pierce Bush did not, shortly after V-J Day, speak the magic words:
“George Herbert Walker, pull out before you cum.”
At the 2009 EU parliamentary elections, you may well be able to vote for a CIA enterprise.
D. J. Ganley. Made a killing with Slavic crudes and Pentagon comm equipment. Image from Albanian Canadian League Information Service.
The June 12th, 2008 plebiscite about the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of [the Republic of] Ireland Bill yielded a resounding No. One very happy miltech entrepreneur was Declan James Ganley of Watford, Hertfordshire (England), who got himself a big gift when about 28-28.5% of … read more
Back for picking up some pieces.
Icelandic krónur, somewhat worse for the wear, definitely qualify as "filthy lucre" these days.
The IS króna is being re-floated; trade in that currency was essentially suspended since mid-October to prevent hyperinflation. As is to be expected, “float” is fairly misleading here. The official term is “managed refloat” anyway, which basically is the fiscal equivalent to dropping a fat chunk of volcanic rock overboard somewhere in the GIUK Gap, with a safety line tied to it … read more
“[... Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant will be operational by 2009 ...]”
Spokesman Mohsen Delavizi, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. November 18th 2008
n-tv gives some details[de:] IRNA lacks; I have no idea where they got it from. Al-Jazeera does not carry the news yet. Neither does CNN. In any case, the Germans claim that they’re doing final outfitting in Bushehr as of now and adds a “we hope” before the quote above.
I observe: there is not a cratered landscape littered with debris … read more
David Hawkins wraps up the Bali bombing for al-J.:
There are a lot of things one can say about that, but essentially it’s all either ignorant colonialist shit or remains to be seen. I hope Indonesia makes it through relatively unharmed. Totally fucked up state, but they are really trying sincerely for the most part. At least since that CIA-backed asshole of a dictator and his goons got ousted in the Reformasi (think “rreformahcy”), courtesy of D. P. M. S. Soekarnoputri. … read more
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