Ramen Review

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

Usually for reasons of decency and/or because it would have been pointless.
“… after all it is not my generation that has fucked up the world economy.”
“Considering I have not laid and will not lay her, my interest in her sex life is actually rather limited.”
“Did anyone ever tell you that you smelt weird? Not bad or gross, just slightly unpleasant and utterly unusual.”
“First, I like her; second, it is plain obvious that by dissing your ex he’s only trying to … 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

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

(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

Πιθοσ της Πανδώρας NO!
Boy, what a night.
But first things first. As you doubtlessly have heard, markets rebounded pluckily (as English and other assorted weirdos would say) following the announcement that the ECB may in fact buy national bonds after all, provided they are laundered through an intermediary. Which may or may not be a good thing (the Well-Endowed One’s Pitcher has been invoked[de:]) — it did certainly shore up the Euro, but it is liable to create increased inflation in … 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

German speaks you.
Ich bitte Sie, Herr BeBeZeh-Mann. Bei allem Verständnis.

Not much more needs to be said.

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

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

The Con supreme-mayoral candidate of Cologne announced today that he’ll quit the race for re-election (elections due August).
He had been a staunch supporter of the subway project that came to almost topple a church belltower[de:], killed two, destroyed much of the documental archive of Cologne, sunk millions of euros; he had been investigated by the police more than once, had been entangled in networks of bribery, kickbackry, ill-spent funds, construction scandals and the likes. His time of office benefitted … 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

“Mientras en Davos se reúne el mundo que muere, aquí se reúne el mundo que nace”
(Hugo Rafael “El Commandante” Chávez Frías, ibid.)

Yes, it would be about time. No, not yours I hope. (There are elements that are cool, but as a whole — no!!)

Commie (as in “one of the rather few good commies”) journalist Wal Buchenberg discussed[de:] some statistical graphs on de:indymedia these days. Graphics were provided by frosch. This stuff is cc-by-sa-20
So here we go:

This is the US GDP … read more

I remember the scenery as seen on TV — after 1991, there was a time where war was CNN, and CNN was war. And there was no Web where I lived, and the nights of war were green in colour.
An arid landscape, yellow and ruddy hues. Stark sunlight. Acacias. The December 9th 1992 nighttime photo op, Navy LCAC running up on an Indian Ocean shore. I was very much into naval technology then, and took due note that for … read more

Citigroup to cut 50K more jobs. On top of the 13K that already are gone, and the 9K that remain to be done in.

“What all of us have done - and perhaps injudiciously - we’ve added a lot of people over [...] this very benign period [...]”
Citigroup chairman Win Bischoff, November 17th 2008

Maybe so. What you guys did do was to play around, as late as 2008, with investments — a lot of investments — that had “EXPIRY DATE DUE … read more

“I know the [pResident] will want to convey to President-elect Obama his sense of how to deal with some of the most important issues of the day. …”
(emphasis added)

wat

“… But exactly how he does that, I don’t know, and I don’t think anybody will know.”
(Joshua “Yosh” Brewster Bolten, White House Chief of Staff, Class of ‘80, and a Darned Good Bowler to Boot. Washington D.C., November 10th 2008)

reporting for the NYT.
This is the best information we in Western Europe have how the impact feels like.
Beware however that Iceland is an island.

The collapse came so fast it seemed unreal, impossible. One woman here compared it to being hit by a train. Another said she felt as if she were watching it through a window. Another said, “It feels like you’ve been put in a prison, and you don’t know what you did wrong.”

It is not as if Reykjavik, … read more

The right half of the fifth row from the back (facing the guys) has the highest density of ones I really like. But each and every one of them is really nice at least. En masse (there is 6 rows I’d guess, with at least 11 per row) they rule.

“What would you rather have in your drinking water — traces of uranium, or traces of urine? Or would you rather have traces of uranium in your urine?”
(”elfboi”, November 8th 2008)

I note that the DJIA enters next week with good odds to break 9K and settle there (roughly), having hysterically failed to reach 10K. The DAX is nearly at 5K and if the Asian markets don’t fuck up, it’s likely to easily go above that for starters. The N225 (having missed the last day) suggests they will.
An interesting observation is that the pattern is very finely in tune in all three indices. It is extremely stark if you check … read more