tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post6549748005735553293..comments2022-08-31T13:21:11.928+02:00Comments on webdiary_<i>libre</i>: more NWO ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-11826572605648969852009-04-26T10:37:00.000+02:002009-04-26T10:37:00.000+02:00the ecodomy is basically sound ...
.. and other...the ecodomy is basically sound ...<br /><br /> .. and other such deliberate lies ...<br /><br /> .. no wonder the sheople despair<br /><br />-=*=-<br /><br />(The misspelling of 'ecodomy' is the way McMahon sounded when he said it, pre-'72. It was just as much a lie then as now. Spit!)<br /><br /><I>Plus ça change,</I> and recall Howard giving rise to the utterly risible <I>"All politicians lie!"</I> Q: Why? Why is that so? Does it have to be at all? A: They lie, in (futile!) attempts at concealing their (disgusting!) perfidy. It occurred to me whilst observing the so-called 'debates' during the recent US presidential campaign, that the reason for some of the more bizarre 'arguments' was the squirming distortions they needed to make, to try to fit into the (lying, propagandistic) pushed-paradigm. What a silly, twisted and <I>immoral</I> world - the so-called 'leadership' thereof, that is!<br /><br />Moving on ...<br /><br />-=*=-<br /><br />This, from the <A HREF="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/26/2552765.htm?section=justin" REL="nofollow">AusBC/justin</A> today:<br /><br /> <I>«He says the G20 is not optimistic about a recovery in 2010, but says it is not clear when global growth will begin to pick up.»</I> <br /><br />That is outright gobbledygook. IF "he said" THEN why not put *exactly* what he said in quotes? Is that sentence an attempt at an un-attributable way of making the speaker look foolish? What are you up to, Aunty AusBC? Unfortunately, it's an habitual form of distortion practiced by the AusBC; another way they do it is to lead in item with a headline like "Opposition slams government ..." Any publicly financed journalist writing/publishing such rubbish should immediately themselves be slammed - straight into gaol. The AusBC does it all the time, recall the recent anti-Iran tirades - talk about H-speech, with Aunty often leading the charge. Note that one almost never hears (on the AusBC) about a Palestinian unless s/he's 'militant,' or a Muslim unless s/he's 'radical;' all the propagandistic etc.s. Boo! Hiss!<br /><br />Now, to more serious stuff; two quotes:<br /><br />Apr 24, 2009<br />The Treasury's moral black hole<br />By Julian Delasantellis<br /><br /> <I>«Like the old story of the boy who cried wolf one too many times, it seems that even the bureaucrats at Treasury were forced to pay a price for the sins of the foreign policy team of defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld (2001-2006) and vice president Cheney. They seem to have lied so much that, eventually, no one in the Bush administration was believed when they said much of anything about anything.»</I> <br />[<A HREF="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/KD24Dj03.html" REL="nofollow">atimes/Delasantellis</A>]<br /><br />My comment: I've said it before; one 'lethal' lie, all credibility gone. When we talk of lethal lies, we find that the lies were both *very* many and *very* lethal, recall A-bombings, (Palestine), Vietnam, School of Assassins, Afghanistan, Iraq; all the bloody etc.s and everything before, during and after - quite a lot to answer for. Who will bring the US (and Israeli) <I>regimes</I> to justice? Why are we waiting?<br /><br /> <I>«It was time for Paulson's flaming </I>[Götterdämmerung]<I>, indeed, what might be the crescendo of the entire enterprise of conservative economic philosophy in the advanced capitalist world. ... The proposal to buy assets was met with substantial criticism from academic economists, with a leading source of skepticism being faculty at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business ...»</I> <br />[ibid.]<br /><br />As usual, one should read the lot. Note: (erring!) <I>academic economists,</I> one of the true scourges of the earth.<br /><br />-=*=-<br /><br />Fazit: The incredible, <B><I>ig</I>noble lie!</B> Utter contempt.<br /> IDHolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01952349876651823852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-15812755905761833022009-04-25T12:45:00.000+02:002009-04-25T12:45:00.000+02:00There is no silver bullet ...
Sub: ... when the f...There is no silver bullet ...<br /><br />Sub: ... when the family silver is gone.<br /><br />Alt: Every silver lining has a cloud ...<br /><br />Check out this <A HREF="http://environment.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2605/26051202.jpg" REL="nofollow">handy chart</A> and consider what might happen when we've got nine years of silver left to make stuff with.orana gelarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14467188183913008276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-65170822131081958032009-04-25T09:11:00.000+02:002009-04-25T09:11:00.000+02:001, 2, 3 ...
.. classics!
1. Listen closely, ...1, 2, 3 ...<br /> <br /> .. classics!<br /> <br />1. Listen closely, I plan to say this only once.<br /> <br />2. Caveat: I'm no-one's financial advisor, excepting my own perhaps, but IF ... THEN; only in conference.<br /> <br />3. War - ning; separated, so that it doesn't google (and for a bit of a giggle); bad things may be 'coming down the pike' (detested Ameri-speak; spit!)<br /> <br />-=*=-<br /> <br />There's an odd article in the (<A HREF="http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/how-do-we-get-through-tough-times-spend-spend-spend-20090423-agr0.html?page=-1" REL="nofollow">virtual</A>) newspaper this morning, from Arthur or Martha (Colebatch or Davidson) is not at all clear.<br /> <br />It's all classics - in the Keynesian sense. Some may recall "savings = investment" and "deficit spending" - all such stuff derided into history - or so the neo-liberals attempted.<br /> <br />Nooo, Keynes is roaring back - a bit like an express-train, similar to, if not exactly that same one as, the one that skittled the so-called 'masters of the financial universe.'<br /> <br />One hears it every day, the idiotic-sounding 'pumping' of money into the economy; everyone and his dog trying to 'jump-start' spending.<br /> <br />All the time, most of the sheople have the s**ts and have stopped spending, and those who don't yet have the s**ts probably are either just too thick to 'get it' - or, they may be incurable optimists; what do I know?<br /> <br />Well, this: if savings *don't*, *can't* equal investments (because the s**ts-sheople insist on paying off their debts, say), then Q: Where will the money come from? A: The p-word - look in the article.<br /> <br />Now, as in my headline, there are 'down-sides' (more detested Ameri-speak; more spit!) - to the p-word, namely the i-word.<br /> <br />Well ta ra! Both the p-word and the i-word are in that article, the 1st as a possible (perhaps the only) way out, and the i-word is said to be <I>'not a problem.'</I> <br /> <br />This tells me that that may be *exactly* what's being planned. Hence my war - ning, any 'spare' cash might be better off being converted into some hardy, *non-depreciable* store of value. (As the <A HREF="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/others/mogambo.html" REL="nofollow">The Mogambo Guru</A> keeps suggesting, but Q: What does s/he know? A: Probably a bit more than me, but a good-better-best source may Liu, same website.)<br /> <br />-=*=-<br /> <br />One more thing to add. This is another classic ploy; recall my above Q: Why not aim for 0%? A: Because inflation is deliberately caused - by the US, say, since that's another of their so-called 'free-lunch' strategies; they borrow money (from innocent sheople any and everywhere, say) - then allow inflation to reduce the cost of paying off the debt.<br /> <br />In other words, *yet another* (filthy!) rip-off.<br /> IDHolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01952349876651823852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-11188855253330523672009-04-25T07:43:00.000+02:002009-04-25T07:43:00.000+02:00It's been pointed out to me that there are at leas...It's been pointed out to me that there are at least *three* legs to the current financial crash - and it's true; in addition to the collapse in demand (the poor driven into penury, etc.), the financial finagling (derivatives, etc.), there is the utterly irresponsible over-profligate $-printing. Well, the last is emphasised in the headline article, but certainly needs to be included in any quick summary. Greenspan has openly admitted some error - but as usual and in any case "Sorry doesn't help much."IDHolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01952349876651823852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-75332209416605956622009-04-24T16:55:00.000+02:002009-04-24T16:55:00.000+02:00Recall "IF - THEN ..."
Thanks for the ...Recall "IF - THEN ..."<br /> <br />Thanks for the illustration of the allegory.<br /> <br />We could posit the sheople as having been partly lured into a cave called 'TV-induced coma,' but as well as partly lured, they actually sought such a place out.<br /> <br />As for any explanation lacking a language, they (the sheople) were told "It's too complicated," (alternatively "It is not simple," but in a friendly way); so "You can (safely!) leave it to us," and finally "Just enjoy yourselves!"<br /> <br />There are, of course, complicated things, some deliberately hidden things, and others that sheople both want and do not want to hear.<br /> <br />The place that we have arrived at (not the sheople's cave, but the current, crashing reality) - here a charmer: by "more arse than class," was foreseen/forecast by some, poo-poo-ed by many - the inevitability was pretty-well built in; the beneficiaries thinking that they were on a 'hot one,' and the devil take the hindmost. As Ern would possibly say, those doing the taking, those hitching a ride on the take, and even some evil/idle commentators possibly not actually taking any active part of the scams would likely have said "I'm inboard" or "Pull the ladder up!"<br /> <br />Q: Why "more arse than class?" A: The masters of the financial universe never dreamed that they were in for such a fall, obviously either never saw the train that skittled their little party - or, if they saw it coming, couldn't, didn't know how, to get out of its way.<br /> <br />In the "It is not simple" frame, I think there're at least two main things going wrong, as in the headline; a) the collapsing demand and separately b) the crashing 'derivatives' mess.<br /> <br />The demand appears to have switched itself quite suddenly off - and may be capable of being revived; they're certainly working on that ("The ecodomy [sic] is basically sound!") If the derivatives mess is under concerted, *constructive* attack, it too, may be cleaned up. Some may know more; we too - in time<br /> <br />As for Wallerstein's bifurcating way out, I think he's possibly a bit too optimistic in suggesting that a 'good & proper' solution (i.e. <I>«relatively democratic and relatively egalitarian»</I>) is possible - given the apparently deeply corrupt 'managers' actually running the show - no c-theory needed, wanted or suggested; there certainly are some people, somehow organised (even if just birds-of-a-feather) but whoever and however, to be so depraved, for so long, would suggest that they'll be extremely hard to shift...IDHolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01952349876651823852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-21158827565216355342009-04-24T15:27:00.000+02:002009-04-24T15:27:00.000+02:003 in a row ...
Wallerstein saying something to co...3 in a row ...<br /><br /><A HREF="http://www.theory-talks.org/2008/08/theory-talk-13.html" REL="nofollow">Wallerstein saying something to consider</A>:<br /><br /><I>"My analysis of the modern world-system argues that we are in a structural crisis, that the system is in fact unable to survive, and that the world is in a chaotic situation, which we will be in for twenty to forty years to come. This crisis has to do with the lack of sufficient surplus-value available and thus with the possible profit one can make. The system is bifurcating – referring to a situation in which there are two alternative ways of getting out of the present crisis in order to create a new, stable, world-system. <br /><br />The most important current struggle is that between the two hypothetical alternative routes the world will actually choose. It’s very difficult to define very narrowly these two directions, but basically there will be people trying to create a new world-system which will replicate certain basic features of the existing system but not be a capitalist system. It would still be hierarchical and exploitative. The other direction would be to create an alternative system that is relatively democratic and relatively egalitarian. These are all very vague terms because one can’t define in advance the structural details of such a future world-system. But obviously one solution would be from my point of view a better world-system, and the other would be at least as bad as or perhaps worse than the world-system we presently have. So it’s a real political struggle.</I>orana gelarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14467188183913008276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-37896168289580756152009-04-24T15:16:00.000+02:002009-04-24T15:16:00.000+02:00I'm not certain as yet, but sense it might be usef...I'm not certain as yet, but sense it might be useful to look closer at Immanuel Wallerstein's writings on a world-systems analysis/approach.orana gelarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14467188183913008276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-61964005389191098002009-04-24T15:04:00.000+02:002009-04-24T15:04:00.000+02:00In a nutshell: Plato's Allegory of the Cave sugges...In a nutshell: Plato's Allegory of the Cave suggests that the deep truths of life (the "why" to all things) cannot be explained through mutual communication. <br /><br />One who gets outside the dark cave can go back in and speak 'the truth' (i.e. report what is seen outside the cave) to those still shackled within it, but they cannot ever comprehend what is said for they have no concepts with which to get their head around what's communicated to them.<br /><br />In other (your) words: In a nutshell, The Enlightenment may well have not happened.orana gelarhttp://www.inapertwa.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7723595150423976130.post-53670020179521843552009-04-24T13:00:00.000+02:002009-04-24T13:00:00.000+02:00Wow! For now just this: Thank you. Thank you, IDH ...Wow! For now just this: Thank you. Thank you, IDH for taking the time to write this article.<br /><br />I'll comment again later, after I've ruminated on what you've written for our benefit. <br /><br />Thanks, mate.orana gelarhttp://www.inapertwa.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com