Open Sesame 07/18/15

A new day I never seen before nor will I ever again. Be glad in it.

—Brother Sephius

Good morning, good earth people.

And: whenever it all seems just too wrong, too retrovert, recall the lesson of your Blind Willie Johnson: You just never know.

Voyager, in case it's ever encountered by extraterrestrials, is carrying photos of life on Earth, greetings in 55 languages, and a collection of music, from Gregorian chants to Chuck Berry, including "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground," by '20s bluesman Blind Willie Johnson. Whose stepmother blinded him at seven by throwing lye in his eyes, after his father beat her for being with another man. He died penniless of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system.

Peter Noah

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Today In History
"I have been given to you by God, as a sort of gadfly attached to the state," Socrates said to the jurors in his defense on that day of his trial. "And I am not going to argue for my sake, as you may think, but for yours, that you may not sin against God by condemning me. I am his gift to you. And if you kill me, you will not easily find a successor." All his life, he informed them, he had been private audience to a personal supernatural voice whose enjoining instructions it would be sinful for him to ignore. "Men of Athens, I honor and love you, but I shall obey God rather than you."

It was too late to talk him out of this conviction that would have led to his being burned as a heretic in those enlightened Dark Ages to come, in which Plato was embraced and absorbed and Aristotle was rediscovered and acclaimed "the Philosopher" by such as Aquinas.

And it was too soon to tell him of the lunatic schoolteacher in Amsterdam with the serrated bread knife, who believed he had been commanded by God to go to Rembrandt's painting of The Nightwatch in the Rijksmuseum directly from the restaurant in which he had eaten his lunch.

"I was ordered to do it," the schoolteacher is quoted as saying. "I had to do it."

To this day, there are superstitious covens in abandoned small churches in Amsterdam convinced the vandal was the reincarnation of one of the discontented musketeers who paid one hundred guilders to be memorialized with dignity and found himself reduced to a detail in oil paint in a garish illustration that could have served as a poster for a comic operetta.

There are others who say it was Rembrandt.

In the 1920s more than seven hundred paintings were attributed to Rembrandt. By 1969 the number had fallen to four hundred. Studies from Wall Street predict that by the end of this century, there will be no Rembrandts left, and not much interest in books about the most eminent Dutch painter of the seventeeth century of whose works we have none and who, conceivably, might never have painted.

Ibid.

"I have this beetle here in one hand," Aristotle proclaimed one day, "with a single oval shell and eight jointed legs, and I have here in my other hand this second beetle of lighter hue which has twelve legs and a shell that is longer and segmented. Can you explain the differences?"

"Yes," said Plato. "There is no such thing as a beetle, in either of your hands. There is no such thing as your hand. What you think of as a beetle and a hand are merely reflections of your recognition of the idea of a beetle and a hand. There is only the idea, which existed before these specimens came into being. Otherwise, how could they come into being? And the form of the idea, of course, is always eternal and real, and never changes. What you are holding in what you think are your hands are shadows of that idea. Have you forgotten my illustration of the cave in my Republic? Read it once more. That the two beetles you have are different is clear enough proof that neither is real. It therefore follows that only the form or the idea of the form is susceptible to study, and it is something about which we will never be able to learn more than we already know. Ideas alone are worth contemplating. You are not real, my vain young Aristotle. I’m not real. Socrates himself was but an imitation of himself. All of us are merely inferior copies of the form that is us. I know you understand me."

Ibid.

Today's Economists
Newton "revolutionized" physics and the so-called natural sciences by reducing the physical universe to a linear mathematical equation. Descartes did the same thing with culture. John Locke did it with politics, and Adam Smith did it with economics. Each one of these "thinkers" took a piece of the spirituality of human existence and converted it into a code, an abstraction. They picked up where Christianity ended; they "secularized" Christian religion, as the "scholars" like to say, and in doing so they made Europe more able and ready to act as an expansionist culture. Each of these intellectual revolutions served to abstract the European mentality even further, to remove the wonderful complexity and spirituality from the universe and replace it with a logical sequence: one, two, three, Answer!

This is what has come to be termed "efficiency" in the European mind. Whatever is mechanical is perfect; whatever seems to work at the moment—that is, proves the mechanical model to be the right one—is considered correct, even when it is clearly untrue. This is why "truth" changes so fast in the European mind; the answers which result from such a process are only stop-gaps, only temporary, and must be continuously discarded in favor of new stop-gaps which support the mechanical models and keep them (the models) alive.

Hegel and Marx were heirs to the thinking of Newton, Descartes, Locke, and Smith. Hegel finished the process of secularizing theology—and that is put in his own terms—he secularized the religious thinking through which Europe understood the universe. Then Marx put Hegel's philosophy in terms of "materialism," which is to say that Marx despiritualized Hegel's work altogether. Again, this is in Marx' own terms. And this is now seen as the future revolutionary potential of Europe. Europeans may see this as revolutionary, but American Indians see it simply as still more of that same old European conflict between being and gaining.

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain. Material gain is an indicator of false status among traditional people, while it is "proof that the system works" to Europeans. Clearly, there are two completely opposing views at issue here, and Marxism is very far over to the other side from the American Indian view.

The European materialist tradition of despiritualizing the universe is very similar to the mental process which goes into dehumanizing another person. And who seems most expert at dehumanizing other people? And why? Soldiers who have seen a lot of combat learn to do this to the enemy before going back into combat. Murderers do it before going out to commit murder. Nazi SS guards did it to concentration camp inmates. Cops do it. Corporation leaders do it to the workers they send into uranium mines and steel mills. Politicians do it to everyone in sight. And what the process has in common for each group doing the dehumanizing is that it makes it all right to kill and otherwise destroy other people. One of the Christian commandments says, "Thou shalt not kill," at least not humans, so the trick is to mentally convert the victims into nonhumans. Then you can proclaim violation of your own commandment as a virtue.

In terms of the despiritualization of the universe, the mental process works so that it becomes virtuous to destroy the planet. Terms like progress and development are used as cover words here, the way victory and freedom are used to justify butchery in the dehumanization process. For example, a real estate speculator may refer to "developing" a parcel of ground by opening a gravel quarry; development here means total, permanent destruction, with the earth itself removed. But European logic has gained a few tons of gravel with which more land can be "developed" through the construction of road beds. Ultimately, the whole universe is open—in the European view—to this sort of insanity.

Wilderness is our first home. The laboratory where human beings were created, where the human genome was hammered out over millennia. And that essence does not suddenly change in a hundred years because someone invented a car or computer. Our needs are still the same.

David Gessner

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News From The Planet Of The Apes
As of April of this year, the nation of Greece possessed 1,913 tanks. And 4,209 "armored fighting vehicles." The Greek navy roamed about in 122 war-boats, including 11 submarines. The fly-boys had what looks like more than 1000 separate pieces of aerial anathema.

Greece needs this shit like a fish needs a bicycle.

Simply put, and on its own, the Greek military has not prevailed in an armed conflict for more than 2000 years. The Greeks have not been successful military people since Alexander—and he wasn't really Greek, but Macedonian, and the first people he conquered, were Greeks.

Greece is currently besieged by Mr. Potter and his schnitzels, latter-day visigoths who want to take all the Greeks' money, and make them cry in the streets.

Seems to me the Greeks could get Mr. Potter and his awful sausages off their necks with a fire-sale of every item in the Greek military. The Greeks don't need any military hardware, and it's embarrassing they even own such stuff. They can set up a big open-air bazaar, and sell off their war-toys to whatever knuckledragging devotees of Thanatos hoot through the place. Then they can take the money they earn from selling this shit they don't need and give it to Mr. Potter and the schnitzels, who will then have to roll off and leave the Greeks be for a respiting number of years.

Presumably by the time Mr. Potter and his schnitzels would return, the rest of the world will have awakened to the fact that Mr. Potter is a relict of a nimrod, who should be taken down and put in a museum, like the Confederate flag.

Another country that has no business maintaining a military is the United States. That country is at peace with its neighbors, Canada and Mexico; therefore, it needs no military at all. It is too bad that some marines were killed in Chattanooga the other day, but if the United States didn't have any marines, those men would not be dead. Traditionally marines are waterborne appendixes who float around in ships irritating naval personnel by getting in the way, until such time as they're sent ashore for some amphibious assault somewhere. But since the United States is not going to be making any amphibious assaults on Canada or Mexico any time soon, there is no need for any marines. They can all go home to their families, and there do something useful. And not be dead. Or cause anybody else to be dead, either.

The US marines. The guy who killed them. All of them heard, and heeded, the same dark voice of command. Thanatos.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaWtWAvUb-4]

Hear Ye, Hear Ye
The people of the United States displayed to the world this week what they believe to be a sane person, when James Holmes was found to be of perfectly sound mind when he loped into a movie theater and there shot up 82 people because he thought he'd like to be a bad-ass like the movie-person The Joker.

Holmes' sanity was declared despite the fact that since early childhood he has been bedeviled by malicious "Nail Ghosts" that hammer on his walls at night; later in life, these Ghosts followed him to his employment at a pill factory, where Holmes was occasionally compelled to down tools because the creatures were beating on the walls there too. Holmes had recurrently told friends and lovers and classmates and psychiatrists that large numbers of people needed to be killed, by him, and in the weeks before his murder-spree he had been reported to law-enforcement officials by at least one psychiatrist who had determined he was off his rocker and fucking dangerous.

However, a jury of his peers has declared Holmes sane—so sane, that next week he shall announce his candidacy for the presidency as a Republican. His first campaign appearance, it is said, will be with Donald Trump, where the two men will vow to work together to rid the land of both border-crossing disease-dripping rapists, and howling wall-rattling Nail Ghosts. That Holmes is in jail is of no moment to Trump: he figures if "The Blacks" president can go into a jail, so can—so brave—he.

Frazier Miller has meanwhile been declared by the Americans not only sane, but so sane he can act as his own defense attorney. Miller, he be the nutbar who on April 13, 2014 decided he needed to climb aboard his car and cruise through his Kansas City neighborhood killing Jews.

Like all Jew-haters, Miller is not only blindingly stupid and severely brain-damaged, but incompetent beyond measure: all three of the people he killed (69-year-old man, 14-year-old boy, 53-year-old woman) were Christians, like Miller hisself.

Miller now admits that, yeah, that was sort of a fuck-up, snuffing out a bunch of non-Jews, but vows he nonetheless had to do it—go on a Jew-hunt—because everywhere the Jews are Terminally Menacing, and anyway "collateral damage" has to be accepted in the Righteous Jew War, and, besides, if the victims were really Good and Pure, they would not have been straying so close to Known Jew Nests.

Miller spoke Friday for nearly an hour about his planned defense, explaining that the Declaration of Independence gave him the "right" to do what he did and insisting that "there is no legal way to save the white race." His rambling presentation touched on Caitlyn Jenner, AIDS, Israel, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, British wartime leader Winston Churchill, the Rev. Billy Graham and a Jewish conspiracy he alleged was behind the sitcom All in the Family.

Miller publicly denounced the judge hearing his case as an "egg-sucking mule"—and Miller should know, as he looks like a man who has sucked eggs all his life, and has rudely and recurrently violated jeebus knows how many mules—when the berobed jurist declined to allow Miller, among other things, unfettered internet access.

Miller thundered that such access was Required in order for him to plead and prove a "necessity defense"; that is, that he is legally blameless, in killing the three Christians, because in doing so he was serving the Greater Good of preventing The Jews from erasing the entirety of the planet.

The internet is today the life's-blood of those who hate: whomsoever one may be inclined to hate, there can on the net be found one, two, many tubes, devoted to hating them. Miller no doubt desperately needs, for his "necessity defense," to suckle at the barren posioned teats of the twenty-thirty-eleventy-billion-trillion tubes devoted to Jew-hatred. To take into his mewling mouth the flaccid member of such as, say, Laurent Guyenot. Featured froot-loop at such citadels of Jew-hatred as My Catbird Seat, Veterans News, Voltaire Network. Wherein Guyenot inscribes, for the edification of such melted minds as Miller's, such monstrous monuments of Jew-hate as his humungous conspiracy of Hebrews, encompassing basically every Jew who survived WWII, who gathered together to kill JFK, said hideous Hebrews ranging from LBJ ("there is little doubt that he was Jewish") to Abraham Zapruder ("how important it is for Jews to film the death of their mortal enemies").

There are those who say the likes of Guyenot himself are sane.

No.

Catpower Singin' In The Dead Of Night
Occupied Siberia is increasingly a filthfield, as the Russians sloppily suck from it the oil and gas that allow them to swagger around the globe in big-boy pants. Pipes and rigs and trucks ceaselessly spew and leak and poison and who gives a shit—certainly no one much knows—but occasionally there emerges a story that can skew towards some sort of happy.

And so it recently was, in the midst of a huge globally-unknown spill, still occurring off Neftuyugansk, threatening the seventh-largest river in the world, wherein heard a man—nobody special, just a human being, alive on this earth—from an abandoned building, a mewling.

A local resident, Anatoly Tuptey—who was working on fighting the spread of oil in floodwater from from Ob River—said he heard the plaintive cries of kittens, near a dacha hit by the pollution.

'My soul could not stand the cries," he said. "I went to see."

"I waded as far as possible in big boots and discovered a terrible sight. In the flooded house a wooden board was floating, with these two kittens clinging on for their lives with their paws. One was up to its neck in the oil.

"I went after them. I was up to my waist in the oil. The ground was giving way, my wading boots were full of water mixed with oil. I was rushing to save the kittens. I picked them up, hugged them, and carried them to the shore, where I wrapped them in a T-shirt to warm them up.

"A few days earlier I rescued people and equipment when a boat overturned. This day it was kittens."

And at least until the lumbering Russians succeed in completely covering occupied Siberia with the filth of their oil and their gas, said place is also a place of big cats.

Recently a Siberian tiger—of which there are less than 500 in all this world—wandered out onto a road in front of a motoring idjit who was blaring from his vehicle something called "Ass Up."

The "Ass Up" human tried to get the tiger to bugger off. The tiger instructed the human to bugger his own self off. "Ass Up," and all.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TvpZREV6wM]

One of my favorite Siberian activists is Artyom Loskutov. A performance artist, he is today completely against the law in Russia. His very person is a violation.

Because, beginning in 2004, he inaugurated, in the occupied-Siberian city of Novosibirsk, a May Day "Monstration," to mock in absurdist terms the clinically insane May Day parades of Thanatos weaponry through Moscow's Red Square.

Because everyone knows these government parades are both stupid and insane, Loskutov's annual Novosibirik Monstrations have each year attracted ever-more adherents.

But then Luskotov moved to the big no-no. Suggesting—politely, absurdly—that the Russians should get their occupying asses, the hell and gone, out of Siberia.

Loskutov has in the years since been eternally recurring in and out of various Russian pokeys. He is a man who awakes, every day, not knowing if this is the day that the occupiers will, again, take him away. For uttering such perfectly reasonable and sane remarks as, in the wake of Russia's reabsorption of Crimea, "[t]hey decided to tell us how great it is when some republic moves for self-determination. Okay, well let's apply this to other regions. Can Siberia allow itself this same rhetoric? It turns out it can't."

He has also faced the big house for selling Pussy Riot t-shirts, and tenderly placing icons of these imprisoned musicians out and about. Said icons, which lovingly equated the Pussy Rioters with the Virgin Mary, foamingly condemned by the 10th Century Orthodox Church longbeards who have brutally fucked their way into every orifice of the Russian government, as "desecrating venerated symbols."

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs7X3Jk5KOc]

Loskutov's planned August 2014 Monstration, which was intended to, again, publicly raise the smoke-signal of a Siberian Republic, was not only disallowed, but Russian authorities threatened to kick the BBC right out of the country, if it reported on it. The Russian government then further told the BBC to bung down the memory hole an interview with Loskutov. While meanwhile heaving into the hoosegow domestic Russian journalists who had spoken to Loskutov.

The Russian propaganda portal Sputnik News was in this melee deployed to try to subsume the BBC crisis, claiming Luskotov had emitted to the BBC words "which contained extremist views and calls for mass riots."

This was simply a lie. But then the nature and purpose of Sputnik, is to lie. Sputnik is run by the babbling 12th Century baboon Dmitry Kiselyov. Who believes gay people who die in car accidents should have their hearts and other internal organs burned or buried, so as not to be inadvertently transplanted into The Normal People; that in the libertine homo-overrun Sweden "at age 12 there is already child impotency"; and that a 22 year-old murdered Russian, in coming out as gay, "provoked" his own slaying.

Knowing all this, and more, Vladmir Putin in December 2013 nonetheless personally appointed Kiselyov to head the 2300-person news agency Rossiya Segodnya, which includes Sputnik.

Yeehaw.

Loskutov is these days meanwhile still regularly revolving in and out of the prisons. He was last in the cooler in May 2015. His crime then was "an estimated 5,000 monstrators chanting nonsensical slogans and wearing bizarre brightly coloured costumes."

Loskutov is, in his place, in his time, so complete, so powerful, so right, that "[i]n 2013, Loskutov was informed by Russian authorities that he is no longer allowed to practice art and to perform as an individual artist."

No longer allowed to practice art and to perform as an individual artist.

He is that scary.

No longer allowed to practice art and to perform as an individual artist

He is what everyone, everyone on this site, everyone everywhere, who "wants to do something," should strive, all day, every day, to be.

No longer allowed to practice art and to perform as an individual artist.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGURVK9bMbw]

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I can't read your diary and when I try to understand what you are saying my mind drifts off. I am going through grief, though it's hard to know what I grief about, see my sig., but it's all my conscience can handle and all what is in my mind.
I think your thoughts expressed in your writing are essential. I hope one day I will be able to grasp them in a first read. Til then I salute you and may the Gods just be with you and keep you with us.

Thank you for writing.

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you are in grief, mimi. It's not an easy world. Last night, walking back from the store, I heard my neighbor, on his porch, talking to himself, saying he had no life, and there was no one there to hear. Was I able to help him? Probably not. But it's right to try.

It doesn't matter if your mind drifts off when you read my words; my mind drifts off when I write them. ; ) They're just words that are there because JtC asked me to fill the Saturday morning space. What's improtant, is that you do something kind for yourself.

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I thank you very much for accepting the offer, and I apologize for not being around much lately, must earn a living working for the Man. Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get...

Thanks again hecate.

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the Man you worked for . . .was you. Kind of like being your own grandpa. : 0

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you caught the irony.

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inflenced my life the last 48 years has passed away and it was a difficult relationship. It's confusing to grieve a difficult relationship. So, my mind is trying to get a handle on it and is drifting.

Please don't take my comment personally. I am so sorry that I can't write up things for the OT here. I never know what I could say that would be worth writing about. May be one day it will come back to me and I can focus.

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With Israel trying to prove itself open to the renewal of peace talks with the Palestinians, the State Department today warned that it would be a “provocation” to send the Israeli military into the West Bank Palestinian town of Susya and bulldoze it to the ground, despite an Israeli High Court ruling approving that action.
Susya, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, has already been demolished 4 times in the past 35 years, and is adjacent to the site of an Israeli settlement. With the settlers regularly attacking the Palestinian residents, the Israeli military has often been called in to tear down the Arab homes and expel them all.
Which they do, but the Palestinians come back. They don’t really have a choice from a legal perspective: the Palestinians are refused Israeli permits to use their own land, but if they don’t use the land, the Israelis can declare it “abandoned” and seize the property outright. Instead, they just keep demolishing the village and chasing everyone away for building without the permits they aren’t able to obtain.
The Susya problem is well known in the Arab world, particularly among Palestinian leaders, and has become in many peoples’ eyes the prototypical case of the unfairness and brutality of the Israeli occupation. The Palestinians were chased out of their village, so they lived in tents and collected rainwater in cisterns, so the tents were demolished and the military blew up the cisterns. They are denied the use of land that even Israel recognizes is theirs for no real reason, and are regularly attacked by the settlers and the military.
In 2013, the Israeli High Cort once again affirmed that the Palestinians legally owned the land in Susya, including land seized into Mitzpe Yair, an Israeli settlement that even the Israelis view as illegal. Despite this, the court urged them to simply relinquish that ownership, saying there was no way they would be allowed legal use of the land they legally own. In May, the High Court again declared Susya an “illegal” Palestinian village, despite being built on land legally owned by the Palestinians, and authorized the military to destroy it yet again, and to expel the 450 residents.
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In 2001, Greece was looking for ways to disguise its mounting financial troubles. The Maastricht Treaty required all eurozone member states to show improvement in their public finances, but Greece was heading in the wrong direction.

Then Goldman Sachs came to the rescue, arranging a secret loan of 2.8 billion euros for Greece, disguised as an off-the-books "cross-currency swap"--a complicated transaction in which Greece's foreign-currency debt was converted into a domestic-currency obligation using a fictitious market exchange rate.

As a result, about 2 percent of Greece's debt magically disappeared from its national accounts. Christoforos Sardelis, then head of Greece's Public Debt Management Agency, later described the deal to Bloomberg Business as "a very sexy story between two sinners."

For its services, Goldman received a whopping 600 million euros ($793 million), according to Spyros Papanicolaou, who took over from Sardelis in 2005. That came to about 12 percent of Goldman's revenue from its giant trading and principal-investments unit in 2001--which posted record sales that year. The unit was run by Blankfein.

This part most people know. The next part I didn't know.

Then the deal turned sour. After the 9/11 attacks, bond yields plunged, resulting in a big loss for Greece because of the formula Goldman had used to compute the country's debt repayments under the swap. By 2005, Greece owed almost double what it had put into the deal, pushing its off-the-books debt from 2.8 billion euros to 5.1 billion.

In 2005, the deal was restructured and that 5.1 billion euros in debt locked in. Perhaps not incidentally, Mario Draghi, now head of the European Central Bank and a major player in the current Greek drama, was then managing director of Goldman's international division.

Greece has a lot more debt than this, but Goldman sort of pushed them over the edge.

In early November 2009, three months before the country's debt crisis became global news, a Goldman team proposed a financial instrument that would push the debt from Greece's healthcare system far into the future. This time, though, Greece didn't bite.
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Greece is a microcosm of the what the "great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-mach... has wrought globally. How did the people of the world all buy into this utter bs. economic insanity that proclaims it's inevitable and Axelrod's 'world as we find it'. These people and their insane institutions are the monkeys paw. From GS and all the too big bankster's to the IMF, the World Bank, all the so called inevitable global blood suckers need to go. this is not economics this is an assault on humans and the planet by global pillagers who bring shame on the other hoards throughout history who have rampaged across the world unchecked. Well people do eventually check them but as Senator Obama said in 2006 at the Hamilton Project Launch 'there will be blood.'

Goldman Sachs Coup De tat
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/12996-goldman-sachs-global-coup-de...

In 2001, Goldman Sachs secretly helped Greece hide billions of dollars through the use of complex financial instruments like credit default swaps. This allowed Greece to meet the baseline requirements to enter the Eurozone in the first place. But it also created a debt bubble that would later explode and bring about the current economic crisis that’s drowning the entire continent. But, always looking ahead, Goldman protected itself from this debt bubble by betting against Greek bonds, expecting that they would eventually fail. Ironically, the man who headed up the Central Bank of Greece while this deal was being arranged with Goldman was – drumroll please – Lucas Papademos.

This is not CT, it's history. Read it and weep.

Goldman Sachs Conquers Europe
http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/the-power-of-goldman-sachs/904590

By now GS has woven an expansive network of Goldmanites to run the Western World. Not only are the current governors of the Bank of England and the European Central Bank alumni of GS but positions at international institutions like the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the World bank, the IMF, and political positions in Italy and Greece are or have been occupied by members of the Goldman fraternity. When you look at the lists below, note that the US Americans generally worked a lot longer at GS than any of the European Goldmanites.

Can't figure out where I found this ... but it was a valid source.

Here’s one tie that binds Lucas Papademos in Greece, Henry Paulsen in the United States, and Mark Carney in the U.K., and that’s Goldman Sachs. All were former bankers and executives at the Wall Street giant, all assumed prominent positions of power, and all played a hand after the global financial meltdown of 2007-08, thus making sure Goldman Sachs weathered the storm and made significant profits in the process. But that's just scratching the surface.

Yanis Varoufakis "It was like a cat chasing its own tail.” His conclusion was succinct. “We were set up.”

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enjoyed the read, as always; was going to respond earlier, but got caught up in the Network Nations embarrassing town hall debacle where friends shoot their friends or movements supposedly become better than the allies who brought them there over the years.

'Sometimes a great notion,' I suppose, what are these people thinking, attacking their best ally?

Now we learn of subterfuge...an inside job...follow the money journalists.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/18/martin-omalley-bernie-san...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/18/1403460/-Bernie-Sanders-watch-l...

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It looks bad for NN that they can't control the schedule. It looks even worse for BLM, because they weren't even protesting the right people and they are alienating a lot of people. Even on the KOS it's getting ugly. It's such a small contingent of divisiveness, but it's getting a lot of play.

Terrible, BLM screwed up bigtime. And NN apparently thought this was a good idea and fostered it.

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