The (American) Idiot's Guide to Brexit
Submitted by mimi on Sat, 06/25/2016 - 12:28pm
well the title says it all. Enjoy. Americans wrote it. Just saying...
The (American) Idiot’s Guide to Brexit
Well, idiots seem to grow like weed. It can make you high and take over the vegetable beds. I don't know if I like the article, but then I read all sorts of things and get happily ever more idiotically dumb. Sigh.
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Hi, mimi!
I have discovered (not novel) that compost piles grow flies and potatoes. I have yet to reinvent the wheel, although I understand the concept and its utility.
So they are assholes. Sigh.
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This says it all:
If these people were for it, only idiots need wonder why the majority was against it.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
What is Good for Business is Good for Peace, because
the only thing better for Business than interlocking trade deals is War, which crushes the little people to fine powder even faster than austerity.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
What is Good for Peace is Good for Business
In the long run.
So it's the other way around, in my view.
Putting what's good for business first always points us towards chaos and makes peace impossible. Eventually.
Sometimes peace is another word for surrender
The globalists and supporters of the status quo definitely are upset that 52 percent of Britains chose not to surrender.
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Those framing things and trying to create the narrative of 'how awful those in Britain who voted to leave the EU are' are just as bad as the people over at KOS who despise and insult Sanders supporters.
The hypocrisy exhibited by these people shouldn't be surprising, but it is definitely amusing.
Indeed. "Appeal to Authority" FAIL
I will say this. Back in the late 1990s, I was in favor of the euro. I didn't look into the details, and I didn't really process what a monetary union without a fiscal union would mean. I accepted the rhetoric of international cooperation bandied about, and I thought it would be neat, if on vacation in Europe, to not have to change currencies all the time.
I regarded the UK refusal of the euro as a retrograde, ethnocentric, irrational clinging to crown and country, etc. And if one did a poll at the time, it could well be that the British refusal of the euro was, in large measure, due to those nationalistic factors and not due to sober economic analysis.
I understand that the EU and the euro are not exactly the same debate, but like many here, I have come to have a great deal of skepticism towards (neoliberal) economic centralization. If centralization led to greater democracy, greater justice, more shared prosperity, then we would all be for it.
Downing a Guiness in a Dublin bar in 2003,
I got into a chat with a local attorney and asked him how the Euro was working out.
He shrugged and said, "Everything just got more expensive."
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Last time I was in Dublin
A Guinness cost me something like the equivalent of 8 dollars.
I was trying to be faithful to my Irish ancestors and drink to excess, but you can't do that in such circumstances....
Monetary Theory is all well and good...
in the abstract,
but the consequences of poor policy become suddenly very real when they hit you square in the ancestry.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Okay, I am not going to pretend I know much about
the EU or Brexit and all the ramifications for Britain or for anywhere. What this article boiled down from me is that at some point 28 countries decided that they should create a benevolent despot because they were too stupid not to go to war with their neighbors.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
How the US influenced the Brexit
I thought this fellows analysis was insightful. It is about 12 min.
Published on Jun 24, 2016
Michael Hudson argues that military interventions in the Middle East created refugee streams to Europe that were in turn used by the anti-immigrant right to stir up xenophobia
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-MraD1Ys3Q]
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
great video, Chris Hedges quoted Michael Hudson as well
in yesterday's article: 2008 All Over Again
There you go. Helps a lot to listen and read Hudson.
Thanks.
I thought the NATO issue ...
was interesting, and the fact that many see the US as pushing the EU into a neoliberal procorporate entity.
Thanks for Hedges article!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I wonder.
Is part of the problem that the US pushed the EU very hard to absorb Eastern European nations before they were politically and economically ready to join so that we could poke our thumb in Russia's eye and keep Cold War 2.0 rolling along?
and the survey says ...
I think you could say that, yes.
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an excellent summary is
at Naked Capitalism
with this great interview w Mark Blyth
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwK0jeJ8wxg width:560 height:315]
Don't believe everything you think.
"As I like to say
To my hedge fund friends, the Hamptons are an indefensible position. Eventually the people will come after you."
Glenn Greenwald's new article on Brexit today
Is chock full of things to think about.
Got to love that "while leaving democracy formally intact." Awfully kind of them, yes?
It's a long article, please go read it. Plenty in it that applies over here, too.
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How ignorant:
"There's been no world war since the eu". No, there's been no world war since NATO (& the UN, but somehow I see it as less effective).