Greece may stay in or Greece may leave the Euro but the reality is they are already down for the count and require nothing short of debt forgiveness to really solve their problem, which will mortally wound the global banksters, which will set off chain reactions throughout the system, which maybe will even seriously injure the middling petty bourgeois Americano even, who may even be some of us, which is why all workers of the world are being force fed austerity instead.
I don't know about you, but I am the forgiving type.
Funny thing happened last week. I am paultarding right now with fabulous effect, and the football was tossed around to go anti-Mittens on some "liberal" blogs. I mean, it's a shitshow for what passes for diaries in the blogosphere now, but that's because it is going more vlog.
Technology happens.
So anyhoo, I decided to trot over to Narajastan because I still had one brave puppet who had somehow survived the zombie genocide and they would love a good old fashion break down of Mittens.
Pinche style.
It was then I saw it. New features.
For some stupid reason Kos decided to put Views in the diary stats. This lets the user peak under the veil of utter futility.
A keen example of what I noticed can be seen by the diary, My Dad Apologized.
This has been on the "wreck list" for two days, trotting like a stallion at number one for a long time.
This is a movie about fascism. It is a movie that, from my point of view, promotes and encourages fascism.
The "story" begins in the future where starving people who live in 12 primitive outlying districts from the capital are selected to participate in a competition to the death. It's very much like the survivor TV show where people are placed on an island and left to fend for themselves. But in this case they are left in a remote area with the idea of killing each other until there is only one survivor. And that survivor is crowned and gets to live the high life in the capital with lots of French wine and fancy pastry.
I struggled with the Books of the Bible for years. Went through periods of little or no faith in them. After spending some time actually reading them I realized that it was not the actually books but the crazy sermons from those that apparently had not read them either, that caused me so much trouble.
There is nothing like a good end of times and judgment day story from one of the books. How about one told by Jesus himself. I will just post it with out comment. Those of you that have been taught to hate religion, open your minds to this lesson. It is not what you hear from the right every day.
So looking at the effects of wars-including the arms races that precede wars and the military downsizing that follows them-tells us a great deal about the effects of government spending. But are wars the only way to get at this question?
When it comes to big increases in government spending, the answer, unfortunately, is yes. Big spending programs rarely happen except in response to war or the threat thereof.
Apologies, but I'm talking in the title about the political response to economic crisis. That response to the worldwide economic crisis in the 1930s was swift, quickly empowering 'heterodox' Keynesian economists across the industrialized world. Even though orthodox economists then were convinced, just like they are today, that the heterodox economists were not just wrong but idiots. Nevertheless, elections in Europe and the U.S. threw out those who despite vicious reality still bowed to conventional and orthodox economic thinking, that there would be very bad consequences if economies were pumped up with money and public works. Instead, politicians actually competed with each other to be, and not just to be seen to be, the most dynamic and real solution oriented.
But now, nothing. Absolutely nothing even four-and-a-half years in. The Brits chose in 2011 among three -- three! -- main parties all committed to orthodoxy and various shades of austerity. The U.S. and France in 2012 are the same, both parties committed to austerity, but with different window dressing. Even in the hardest hit conventional-thinking countries, Greece and Spain, 'no alternative to austerity', rules.
I know things can change fast in politics, but I see no possibility this year of common sense, (what has been dismissively labeled) 'heterodox' economic theory, taking over any of the major Western countries. That means that we will have gone five years enduring an economic slump ruled by and mainstream media propagandized by the economic theory, neoliberalism, that caused this slump.
I'm not sure I should be doing this. I'm on sort of a different trajectory than blogging.
But I felt I needed to put word out there about where I see the trajectory ahead.
Haven't needed to say too much for a while, the Republican Party the marionette of worms and other things that crawl in corpses. Yeah, it's twitching, but it's dead.
But there is that other threat I've been squawking about, so my children will be safe.
If you missed it, too bad. But somewhere in the massless mass of blogging I've done I mentioned the taste of hell that 2012 will be, with the solar activity increasing and such.
Jason Ditz at Antiwar.com notices a possibly huge development (not for imperialism but for ending the killing) in Syria (bold added):
The continued fighting is going to have a major impact on France's UN Security Council resolution, which is expected to both condemn the Assad regime and endorse Kofi Annan's efforts at a negotiated settlement.
The second part is perhaps more significant, as efforts to condemn Assad are nothing new, but this is the first time France, or indeed any of the Western nations in the security council, has hinted at any real support for negotiation, instead of issuing demands for regime change.
Hopefully the above means even France and the U.S. recognize the stakes have gotten too high and will relent with regime change.
The six point proposal would be hard on Syria, because it requires it to ceasefire first and then Annan will "seek similar commitments from all other armed groups to cease violence, under an effective United Nations supervision mechanism." But with the rebels seemingly in disarray as an organized armed force, ousted from Syria's cities and now resorting primarily to terrorist bombing, I hope Assad will see the wisdom of conceding the 'you go first' point and testing a unilateral truce. It may be that the rebels are no longer capable of advancing and capturing significant territory as they were the last time Syria called a halt fighting.
Speaking of stakes, the same Antiwar article is headlined:
The above may be another indication that Russia and China have decided that the Syria regime change effort is the beginning of a 'big push' to Tehran. ...
(of course I didnt read this diary...I'm sure it contains disses, but wth it's spring and even retards deserve a pat on the back. Maintain, 'tard! - promoted by Laura)
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Loretta?
Socratise something.
Your audience eegerly awaits the next wave of revelation into the postmodern American psyche of convolution.
Bonus points if its unrelated to Team Numbnutz, Team Breitbart or the usual band of morons at Pffugeecamp.
[projection alert]
I'm starting to miss Fairleft...it sucks having to google for examples of fake leftist internet memes when he delivers them so reliably to my inbox...
Syrian government forces will not stop fighting or withdraw from positions unless rebel forces instantly mirror their move, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said today, underscoring continued divisions between Moscow and the West.
In other words, why is Reuters 'news' agency pretending Russia is making a ridiculous "instantly mirror" kind of proposal? Did Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov say the word "instantly" or the word "mirror"? Not according to any record. No, it's obvious from the two paragraphs that follow in the Reuters report that he asks for something fair and commonplace, a simultaneous ceasefire:
In a sane world you might hope such a Yahoo! headline would top a story on how U.S. diplomatic efforts were working behind the scenes to get the warring parties in Syria together, trying to get all sides (not one side, all sides) to lay down their arms and talk. Dialogue, compromise, the enlightened and once-honored (especially among 'liberals') way of solving conflicts. (Like Kofi Annan is attempting to do despite the pessimism of the usual suspects.)
But no, of course not, the 'stalemate' refers to the U.N. Security Council, and the Russia/China roadblock to the U.S. push to get its war on, a Libyan style regime change war in Syria.
Does Hillary Clinton get a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts?
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