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on dKos, trying to pick a fight with Gleen Greenwald re:Libya.
Well, I have been following this a bit (Libya, not US pundits of the New Left) and according to my impression, the 3 major war criminals were, in this order per suspected number of civilan dead:
1. Gadaffi regime, in trying to suppress popular dissent,
2. Gaddafi, in giving personal order to get all N-words out on the Mediteranean, northbound. In Libyan craft, meaning they used the most unseaworthy and old they … read more
He makes complete sense,
That Doctor Professor Sinn.
It does not matter,
Whether 60%, or 70%, or 80%
Of the Greeks
Do not want a New Drachma.
We need it anyway,
That New Drachma!
At best, we get it before summer,
When last year’s harvest runs out
And this year’s is not ripe yet.
Then it can devalue,
That New Drachma.
By 60%, or 70%, or 80%.
And in the streets of Athens
The dead of hunger will rot,
τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
Just like in the streets of Buenos Aires,
Back when they devalued the Peso.
It’s also … read more
It’s not immediately obvious, but yes, they do shake hands, and no, the protesters are not bought.
Too much austerity, and you can’t even keep the cops employed. In such situations, it usually becomes a more or less invisible tug-of-war between civic forces and the military. Having read Luttwak’s Coup is a must for anyone who wants the civic side to prevail in such a situation.
going very quickly any time now.
There will, of course, always be a week or two of warning time, when you can stock up on legumes and grains. But the whole mess — call it Capitalism or The System or whatnot — is dangerously close to the edge.
It may fracture in 2012 or it may shatter in 2014.
Any case, in one year one week and a day’s time people will look back on the 13th b’ak’tun and surmise this or that. … read more
Less than skin deep.
(c) BILD
“The army would need to run border surveillance so that nobody tries to smuggle € out of [Greece]. [...] [The Greek government] would need to rule by emergency powers [...] Wire transfers would need to be outlawed [...] international air and rail traffic would need to be prevented.”
– Some German professor releasing 1000 years’ worth of stench from his undies[de:], probably Nov 6th, 2011 or a bit earlier.
People will starve. They always do.
The “fun” thing is … read more
I expect the DAX in the mean term to remain below 5600 ticks, or at least not to go freely above 6K.
Perhaps - but it used to be more likely 2 weeks ago - there will be a major crash soon. Say DAX 4-4.5K. But if so, a rebound to DAX 6Kish is almost a given.
In general I’d guess there will be a tendency to stay with high volatility and major swings, but remaining roughly in the DAX 5-5.5K corridor.
That … read more
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
I talked to a fuckload of anonymous Arabs in the last 2 months. And I can vouch for one thing: these people know perfectly well that they cannot rely on Western governments’ sweet-talk. But they simply want their dictators to go down down down, dammit and inshaAllah.
And they go and try to do that. And people die in the process.
Some of the people I chatted with, as a matter of fact, are dead now, killed by some dictator’s … read more
So, revisiting the river valley overlooked by Hill 431, where two nights before the CinC[*] and his “publisher of a major newspaper” friend went to their little outing.
While the Minister was back in Berlin getting 80% of the major media pissed off mightily (and one Mr. Wonka of the Leipziger Volkszeitung[de:] presumably shitlisted — watch 1:20 to 1:32 and 1:50 here:)
some Afghan guy who presumably will forever remain nameless had decided to take matters in his own hands — alas, … read more
Hanging tough at Hill 431 with the publisher of a major newspaper (To be ’splained below)Image by fritz13.
Dax floating free above the train wreck (but still within grund effect I presume — TINA was a capitalist whore all along after all). DJIA is so-so, definitely not off the ground. N225 remains groundbound essentially.
Them sandniggers are getting restive, and neither Sammy not Johnny (nor the Kaiser nor anyone else) can seem to hold them at bay. Too bad too that it’s … read more
I was about to write “DAX smashes 6.5K, rising and holding.” Well I presume it will try to hold, and probably manage to hold on for a few. But we’ll have to see and wait, wait how this Ireland/Portugal/Cyprus thing turns out.
This, by the way, will give you an indication of the sheer size of it all. When did you first hear about the “Celtic Tiger”’s problems? Some time ago, you may distantly remember.
Well, that’s how long it took. Gauges … read more
(My Portuguese may suck; I apologize. I am barely able to grasp the basic rules, and have been forced to do so by necessity alone.)
There is a lot of talk these days about admigration. Google knoweth not that word, yet Germany does[*]. We do not know, or have, “immigration”, except in the negative: Germany is not, and will never be, a country of immigration. Or so it has been said.
The following quotes are, à votre plaisir, rendered into English trying … read more
So, on May 20th, 2010, I said in a private conversation (that was duly noted down) regarding the economy:
the significant index values of the coming ?weeks:
dax 6500 and rising
djia 10000 and falling
Meaning that until one of these marks is breached, and robustly so, the global economy will remain in limbo, and other matters of concern may be leisurely regarded as utterly more important.
Almost 3.5 months later, I have no reason whatsoever to change my opinion on this issue.
The last week … read more
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
“Gutti“’s conception of things military must have been heavily influenced by his clan’s ancestor worship of his great-great-uncle. After all, Karl Ludwig was the Good Nazi[de:] of the von und zu Guttenbergs, and many of us Germans did not have even remotely good Nazi ((great-)grand)fathers at all. Mine were both moderately to fairly serious assholes for example. Not involved in exceptional brutality, but definitely eager cogs in the machine til the end, and that is about average. But Karl Ludwig … 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
Actually, no[de:].
They had been long Arified through and through, and as far as I can think of, entirely voluntarily. Certainly, not a single dirty smelly money-grabbing Jew had any major say about it even before the Nazis, and by 1945 it had itself completely whored[de:] out to the highest bidder.
They flaunt their Jew heritage, possibly because after haShoah, things Jewish have the attractiveness of things taboo in Germany. But I presume they were Catholic[de:] in “modern” times — if anything … read more
German speaks you.
Ich bitte Sie, Herr BeBeZeh-Mann. Bei allem Verständnis.
Not much more needs to be said.
The People had enough at last.
They had been fed up for just too long. Despite all this grand populist BS from their exalted leadership — the undynamic duo at which half the world poked fun — about lowering some tax or another or shit, the economy was a mess, the exports had plummeted, major domestic banks were avoided on the financial markets like the plague, unemployment remained high and if anything rising, wages remained low, and without all those soup … read more
(Too pissed off of the universe to add links right now, also need to run some PCR 2mo’. Maybe l8r.)
A month as uneventful as it was full of summer heat and monochrome karma.
Kim the Lesser’s guys have assembled some more rockets in NKorea and are showing off. Everybody is pissed, except the NKoreans, who are partly elated and partly… … I don’t expect it to matter to their daily lives too much.
Peace in Sri Lanka? I fear not — though … read more
We didn’t go to the demonstration 2day, but I went to where they had their final speeches and cultural programme. Met w/a few ppl I know, though I’d hoped I’d meet some other folks who weren’t there. One guy is a local activist, in whose case his non-presence represents quite epic FAIL. Or I have not understood his methods and he’s in a weird tree-hugging magickal cult that hopes to bring civilization as we know it crashing to its knees … read more
I missed Lafo’s speech, but I could hear the boos’ and cat-calls’ echo:
ACHTUNG, FOREIGN WORKERS!Feeding not permitted!
FAU anarcho-syndicalist union in front of the HeLaBa HQ.The Hessische Landesbank is another example for why "socialize the banks!" cannot much resolve this mess.
He is not very popular with many of the less populist leftists over here, because of his anti-immigrant stance. True, it was some years ago, in the beginnings of his new pet party project. But he has not clarified his views … read more
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
N225 chickened out Monday morning as closing time approached, lost 4.5%; indices are bleeding like a butchered pig today. DAX struggled w/4k, lost. Tomorrow’s gonna be interesting; the bears, though, seem to have lost this round, though the N225 in Mon-Tue night recovers some.
Still, they know that they can make some sort of “recovery” — make some money, sort of. Which is all the collective hive-mind of the buck marketeers would want at such a time: swap some derivatives or … read more
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