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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 1, 2013 0:01:05 GMT 3
IT has been a thriller with international repercussions. Politics clashed with finance in the €€urozone, and the €uro is still reeling in shock. The cast is as villainous as can be in the wild imagination of post war Europe. Iron German chancellor Angela Merkel portrayed in Southern Europe as a modern re-incarnation of Hitler, and the dutch minister of finance, Jeroen 'Graveyard' Disselbloem, as Dr. Death. By virtue of being the current rotating chairman of the college of EU Ministers of finance, the Dutchman has as official title Mr. €uro.
---[Originally this scepter was reserved for the chairman of the European Central Bank, so it is something of a coup and shifting power balances that these days the title Mr. €uro is a politician's crown!]
And the lanky tall Dutchman, known hatefully in the South as the assassino, used a word which, like one of those bacteria colonies which cause diarrhea in the human being when they contaminate food, has sent the Banking sector into permanent residency in the toilets. Know your bank's foundations before you build castles of interest rates in the air.
The word he used is TEMPLATE, whose easier synonym is BLUEPRINT. [Remember how difficult it is to explain what a 'sequestration' is, when outlining the the options of the USA finance department, faced with a fiscal cliff. Economists then, and fiscalists too, like to obfuscate reality to conform with the confusion in their own heads, whilst keeping up appearances for political credibility.]
Jeroen, not a natural English speaker, had tried to bring a little clarity to financial jargon. Reuters and the Financial Times found a sensational goldmine and rushed to print.
So how do we connect the villains Angela 'Hitler' Merkel, Jeroen 'Graveflower' Disselbloem, and TEMPLATE?
One word: CYPRUS Better written as CYXIT.
Cyprus haS been FORCED to adopt a no nonsense bail out packet which was a first. Depositors in the failing banks would pay dearly for the rescue. The ECB, and by implication the taxpayers in the Neuro countries, would not as has been the case in the past, foot it all up AUTOMATICALLY. It meant, flatly, that if you had above €200,000 deposited in any of the three big banks in the Cyprus, Guaranteed you would loose 50%, and likely 100%. Below €150 thousand at least 15% would disappear.
This meant, to prevent the bank-run which had been stopped by closure of all Banks in Cyprus for a week, evolving into a full scale stampede, ruthless financial controls will be imposed on account holders in Cyprus. A limit of €300/day. A ban on capital export above €5000/month. etc etc. These measures can be revised any day, depending on the latest 'financial stability report'.
Now, this bitter medicine Cyprus was forced to swallow, was it a blueprint, a template, which would be applicable in ALL future bank crisis scenarios! Same disease same therapy? Or was it a one on off?
The cold-blooded Dutchman, Mr. €uro, Dr. Death or Graveflower, an agrarian economist by trade, replied: a little thinking would imply that is a logical possibility. It could be a blueprint thus. Though every case has to be decided on its own merits.
The English press gaped, unbelieving. Had he said TEMPLATE really? The Dutchman waded through the journalists and excused himself, he had a drink to catch, and then sleep. Good work had been done for the day. Aloof, cold, tall and distant he walked into the cold rays of the Northern wind engulfing the city of Brussels ---an inner city part of which is literally Kongo.
The €urostorm started to gather pace. Cyxit was operational. Cyprus out of the €urozone! If they did not bite the bullet!
First domino in a house of cards? greatest story of the financial year! ==================
KEEP THE FOLLOWING IN MIND AS WE FOLLOW THIS STORY
Cyprus is a strategic Island to many players.
1. Two British marine bases, one leased to the Americans, from which an espionage center works, with the nearby middle east and Arab lands as the hunting ground and area of operations.
2. The Russian's only base in the region is in Tyrus Syria, but with the Baathist regime of the bloody Assad dynasty coming to an end, the Russian navy will soon be orphans in the region.
This would be no problem if Russia were folding up and exiting the global Geo-political game, but Alas, under Vladimir Putin, she is ambitious and therefore not averse to assertive behaviour on international scene. So when the President of Cyprus went to Russia in search of a deal to save his banks, Putin was not much interested in the gas fields the Cypriot wanted to mortgage, nay, he wanted a military base on the island. He has enough gas in Siberia and his other satellite republics in the Caucus.
Greek Cyprus still being in the EU, and a member of NATO to boot, this base idea was of course off the cards. But it meant the president of Cyprus could go to Brussels with even a bigger blackmail card.
[Not to mention if the Chinese could perhaps want to outbid the Russians. But the Turks would want a say. And if the Turks, then the Greeks too. This is the kind of dangerous game which leads to Presidents mysteriously dying, in real life! Brussels had a think coming].
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THE DILEMMA OF GERMANY AND HER TROUBLED IRON CHANCELLOR
This much abuse land of disciplined and toiling ants, is the backbone of the Euro. And the D-Mark, their defunct currency, was the TEMPLATE ;D for the €uro. Publicly, her current chancellor, Frau Angela Merkel, comes across as a hesitant figure, diminutive, a bit awkward and lost in the hard world of real men who run banks and big countries. Once ago, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy made her wait as he went on and on on a mobile phone arranging another bunga bunga fiesta no doubt, oblivious that Merkel was waiting on live TV transmitted world wide. Angela waited like a shy girl on her powerful spouse, polite and knowing her place in modesty; and later shrugged boys will be boys as excuse, while Berlusconi later went public to joke: Angela's rear is so negroid thick, it is undoable!
National humiliation, German tabloids screamed. High Brow papers gave the story a wide berth. Merkel held her peace.
A few months later, Italy needed a bail out from the EU kitties. Angela Merkel said Yes, but Berlusconi must resign.
Who the fwak did she think she was, Silvio and other Italian dignitaries shouted in national pride. Nevertheless, as Italy's ratings plummeted, and her companies were starved of international credit by outright refusal or insane interest rates, and it soon became clear her civil servants would not be paid that end month, Silvio Berlusconi had run out of bravado options. He resigned ---and famously came to Kenya for a well deserved holiday, to party with negro girls whose behinds even Angela's robust rears wouldn't match. Merkel then had a proconsul appointed to be Italy's prime minister, a banker from the ECB who carry out her diktats to the letter ---and get punished later at the elections ;D!
Angela Merkel is also known as the Iron Chancellor. Making mince meat of Big Men is no challenge to her. Her first casualty was a very big man. The chancellor of unification Helmut Kohl. Utterly ruthless, disciplined and a workaholic, Angela Merkel has won the admiration of her fellow citizens, by the seriousness with which she takes her duty. Making Germany work.
But there is a problem. There is always in politics. Doubting Thomas-es.
Criticism is, she keeps Germany working and successful alright, but only as a slave nation to other Europeans. Bailing out everybody left and right. Working themselves to death for lazy Greeks, lazy Italians, lazy Spaniards, lazy Portuguese. But always abused, humiliated, unrespected.
'We lost the second world war yes, but the terms of surrender were not bondage and emotional blackmail forever. We bail them out and they call us Nazis and our chancellor Hitler ---Pumbafu people, Ziesta zones!!'
A group of intellectuals have written a position paper to create parameters and platforms where the debate can be conducted at a higher level than Lazy Zeurozone vs Toiler Neurozone.
With Germany's economy the greatest beneficiary of intra EU-zone export, one wonders where the real economic interests of Germany lies. Is she doomed, given the structural defects of the monetary union, to practice a Keynesian aberration? That is, she is like the Monopoly Brewery company which owns the Monopoly Bank, and the bank gives credit to the alcoholics to buy their wares and indulge their habit, From the company that owns her. And now Germans are complaining the alcoholics are costing her too much, after running up enough bad credit/debts to destroy the bank.
These guys stop drinking, the brewery has to find new addicts or fold up. They can get the beer direct from the bank? No, that wont be capitalism. There would be no expropriation, it is at the credit level where the addicts are expropriated. Unfortunately, by not being able to pay back their credit with interest, they have expropriated the bank, and because the Money to launch the bank was largely that of expropriated German workers, it is logical the German workers loose confidence in this model.
Toward a new method to invest their surplus other than in the brewery credit model? Away with this Keynesian Perversion??
That, is a depth of thought even the Iron Chancellor working at her hardest wont be touching.
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Meanwhile, there are €uros flowing once more from Cyprus ATM. Another thriller in itself, about logistics of capital distribution!
Watch this space, I will be back!
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Post by b6k on Apr 1, 2013 7:29:29 GMT 3
IT has been a thriller with international repercussions. Politics clashed with finance in the €€urozone, and the €uro is still reeling in shock. The cast is as villainous as can be in the wild imagination of post war Europe. Iron German chancellor Angela Merkel portrayed in Southern Europe as a modern re-incarnation of Hitler, and the dutch minister of finance, Jeroen 'Graveyard' Disselbloem, as Dr. Death. By virtue of being the current rotating chairman of the college of EU Ministers of finance, the Dutchman has as official title Mr. €uro. ---[Originally this scepter was reserved for the chairman of the European Central Bank, so it is something of a coup and shifting power balances that these days the title Mr. €uro is a politician's crown!]And the lanky tall Dutchman, known hatefully in the South as the assassino, used a word which, like one of those bacteria colonies which cause diarrhea in the human being when they contaminate food, has sent the Banking sector into permanent residency in the toilets. Know your bank's foundations before you build castles of interest rates in the air. The word he used is TEMPLATE, whose easier synonym is BLUEPRINT. [Remember how difficult it is to explain what a 'sequestration' is, when outlining the the options of the USA finance department, faced with a fiscal cliff. Economists then, and fiscalists too, like to obfuscate reality to conform with the confusion in their own heads, whilst keeping up appearances for political credibility.] Jeroen, not a natural English speaker, had tried to bring a little clarity to financial jargon. Reuters and the Financial Times found a sensational goldmine and rushed to print. So how do we connect the villains Angela 'Hitler' Merkel, Jeroen 'Graveflower' Disselbloem, and TEMPLATE?One word: CYPRUS Better written as CYXIT. Cyprus haS been FORCED to adopt a no nonsense bail out packet which was a first. Depositors in the failing banks would pay dearly for the rescue. The ECB, and by implication the taxpayers in the Neuro countries, would not as has been the case in the past, foot it all up AUTOMATICALLY. It meant, flatly, that if you had above €200,000 deposited in any of the three big banks in the Cyprus, Guaranteed you would loose 50%, and likely 100%. Below €150 thousand at least 15% would disappear. This meant, to prevent the bank -run which had been stopped by closure of all Banks in Cyprus for a week, evolving into a full scale stampede, ruthless financial controls will be imposed on account holders in Cyprus. A limit of €300/day. A ban on capital export above €5000/month. etc etc. These measures can be revised any day, depending on the latest 'financial stability report'.Now, this bitter medicine Cyprus was forced to swallow, was it a blueprint, a template, which would be applicable in ALL future bank crisis scenarios! Same disease same therapy? Or was it a one on off? The cold-blooded Dutchman, Mr. €uro, Dr. Death or Graveflower, an agrarian economist by trade, replied: a little thinking would imply that is a logical possibility. It could be a blueprint thus. Though every case has to be decided on its own merits. The English press gaped, unbelieving. Had he said TEMPLATE really? The Dutchman waded through the journalists and excused himself, he had a drink to catch, and then sleep. Good work had been done for the day. Aloof, cold, tall and distant he walked into the cold rays of the Northern wind engulfing the city of Brussels ---an inner city part of which is literally Kongo. The €urostorm started to gather pace. Cyxit was operational. Cyprus out of the €urozone! If they did not bite the bullet!First domino in a house of cards? greatest story of the financial year! ================== KEEP THE FOLLOWING IN MIND AS WE FOLLOW THIS STORY Cyprus is a strategic Island to many players.1. Two British marine bases, one leased to the Americans, from which an espionage center works, with the nearby middle east and Arab lands as the hunting ground and area of operations. 2. The Russian's only base in the region is in Tyrus Syria, but with the Baathist regime of the bloody Assad dynasty coming to an end, the Russian navy will soon be orphans in the region. This would be no problem if Russia were folding up and exiting the global Geo-political game, but Alas, under Vladimir Putin, she is ambitious and therefore not averse to assertive behaviour on international scene. So when the President of Cyprus went to Russia in search of a deal to save his banks, Putin was not much interested in the gas fields the Cypriot wanted to mortgage, nay, he wanted a military base on the island. He has enough gas in Siberia and his other satellite republics in the Caucus. Greek Cyprus still being in the EU, and a member of NATO to boot, this base idea was of course off the cards. But it meant the president of Cyprus could go to Brussels with even a bigger blackmail card. [Not to mention if the Chinese could perhaps want to outbid the Russians. But the Turks would want a say. And if the Turks, then the Greeks too. This is the kind of dangerous game which leads to Presidents mysteriously dying, in real life! Brussels had a think coming]. ======================================== THE DILEMMA OF GERMANY AND HER TROUBLED IRON CHANCELLOR This much abuse land of disciplined and toiling ants, is the backbone of the Euro. And the D-Mark, their defunct currency, was the TEMPLATE ;D for the €uro. Publicly, her current chancellor, Frau Angela Merkel, comes across as a hesitant figure, diminutive, a bit awkward and lost in the hard world of real men who run banks and big countries. Once ago, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy made her wait as he went on and on on a mobile phone arranging another bunga bunga fiesta no doubt, oblivious that Merkel was waiting on live TV transmitted world wide. Angela waited like a shy girl on her powerful spouse, polite and knowing her place in modesty; and later shrugged boys will be boys as excuse, while Berlusconi later went public to joke: Angela's rear is so negroid thick, it is undoable!National humiliation, German tabloids screamed. High Brow papers gave the story a wide berth. Merkel held her peace. A few months later, Italy needed a bail out from the EU kitties. Angela Merkel said Yes, but Berlusconi must resign.Who the fwak did she think she was, Silvio and other Italian dignitaries shouted in national pride. Nevertheless, as Italy's ratings plummeted, and her companies were starved of international credit by outright refusal or insane interest rates, and it soon became clear her civil servants would not be paid that end month, Silvio Berlusconi had run out of bravado options. He resigned ---and famously came to Kenya for a well deserved holiday, to party with negro girls whose behinds even Angela's robust rears wouldn't match. Merkel then had a proconsul appointed to be Italy's prime minister, a banker from the ECB who carry out her diktats to the letter --- and get punished later at the elections ;D!Angela Merkel is also known as the Iron Chancellor. Making mince meat of Big Men is no challenge to her. Her first casualty was a very big man. The chancellor of unification Helmut Kohl. Utterly ruthless, disciplined and a workaholic, Angela Merkel has won the admiration of her fellow citizens, by the seriousness with which she takes her duty. Making Germany work. But there is a problem. There is always in politics. Doubting Thomas-es. Criticism is, she keeps Germany working and successful alright, but only as a slave nation to other Europeans. Bailing out everybody left and right. Working themselves to death for lazy Greeks, lazy Italians, lazy Spaniards, lazy Portuguese. But always abused, humiliated, unrespected. 'We lost the second world war yes, but the terms of surrender were not bondage and emotional blackmail forever. We bail them out and they call us Nazis and our chancellor Hitler ---Pumbafu people, Ziesta zones!!'A group of intellectuals have written a position paper to create parameters and platforms where the debate can be conducted at a higher level than Lazy Zeurozone vs Toiler Neurozone. With Germany's economy the greatest beneficiary of intra EU-zone export, one wonders where the real economic interests of Germany lies. Is she doomed, given the structural defects of the monetary union, to practice a Keynesian aberration? That is, she is like the Monopoly Brewery company which owns the Monopoly Bank, and the bank gives credit to the alcoholics to buy their wares and indulge their habit, From the company that owns her. And now Germans are complaining the alcoholics are costing her too much, after running up enough bad credit/debts to destroy the bank. These guys stop drinking, the brewery has to find new addicts or fold up. They can get the beer direct from the bank? No, that wont be capitalism. There would be no expropriation, it is at the credit level where the addicts are expropriated. Unfortunately, by not being able to pay back their credit with interest, they have expropriated the bank, and because the Money to launch the bank was largely that of expropriated German workers, it is logical the German workers loose confidence in this model. Toward a new method to invest their surplus other than in the brewery credit model? Away with this Keynesian Perversion?? That, is a depth of thought even the Iron Chancellor working at her hardest wont be touching. ----------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, there are €uros flowing once more from Cyprus ATM. Another thriller in itself, about logistics of capital distribution! Watch this space, I will be back! ;D ;D An interesting & informative piece, Jakaswanga. One thing you didn't mention is apart from the Russian intention to have a military base on Cyprus, about a third of the money now effectively confiscated by the banks (in order to avoid a run on the banks ) is Russian money! That might be one of the reasons the Cypriots are being given a very bitter pill to swallow....
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 1, 2013 9:31:20 GMT 3
;D ;D An interesting & informative piece, Jakaswanga. One thing you didn't mention is apart from the Russian intention to have a military base on Cyprus, about a third of the money now effectively confiscated by the banks (in order to avoid a run on the banks ) is Russian money! That might be one of the reasons the Cypriots are being given a very bitter pill to swallow.... You are right there is a lot of underhand politics involved here, b6k. A fuming Premier Medvedev talked of 'the EU's plunder by official confiscation of Russian depository, and goodies!' President Vladmir Putin attacked what he called an 'unfair and greedy lung at Russia's purse! --The EU is a roguish pick-pocket!' And the Russians are plotting an appropriate response to 'recover t heir money! But look at the following reality cheques, courtesy of: www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/0319/Why-Russia-is-unhappy-about-the-Cyprus-bailout-taxNote also the strident tone and rabid criticism in the international English press, condemning highly the EU's new 'template' on bail outs. They are asking for the Mr. €uro to be fired. The cold-blooded Dutchman shrugged: Sure I could be fired. I will just go back to my old job, lecturer, and hopefully produce a better crop of bankers, because the current cream and crop have proved itself incompetent by running our Western financial system aground. The USA is limping from fiscal Cliff to fiscal cliff ---horrible bail out dependent bankers!The €uro is climbing again, and the Dutchman is being proclaimed a hero in the Zeurozone, with cartoons depicting him as a Roman Emperor bloodily cutting down [ anglo-saxon ;D trained] barbarian bankers specialised in looting the taxpayer! [That anglo saxon bit is a hint at ideological differences with his Reaganomic-Thatcherite schooled brothers, and their orthodox cowboy capitalism! Risk free to them since they land on the taxpayer, as we saw in Obama bailing out Wall Street, as opposed to the toiling White Wanjiku!]
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Post by b6k on Apr 1, 2013 10:02:04 GMT 3
;D ;D An interesting & informative piece, Jakaswanga. One thing you didn't mention is apart from the Russian intention to have a military base on Cyprus, about a third of the money now effectively confiscated by the banks (in order to avoid a run on the banks ) is Russian money! That might be one of the reasons the Cypriots are being given a very bitter pill to swallow.... You are right there is a lot of underhand politics involved here, b6k. A fuming Premier Medvedev talked of 'the EU's plunder by official confiscation of Russian depository, and goodies!' President Vladmir Putin attacked what he called an 'unfair and greedy lung at Russia's purse! --The EU is a roguish pick-pocket!' And the Russians are plotting an appropriate response to 'recover t heir money! But look at the following reality cheques, courtesy of: www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2013/0319/Why-Russia-is-unhappy-about-the-Cyprus-bailout-taxNote also the strident tone and rabid criticism in the international English press, condemning highly the EU's new 'template' on bail outs. They are asking for the Mr. €uro to be fired. The cold-blooded Dutchman shrugged: Sure I could be fired. I will just go back to my old job, lecturer, and hopefully produce a better crop of bankers, because the current cream and crop have proved itself incompetent by running our Western financial system aground. The USA is limping from fiscal Cliff to fiscal cliff ---horrible bail out dependent bankers!The €uro is climbing again, and the Dutchman is being proclaimed a hero in the Zeurozone, with cartoons depicting him as a Roman Emperor bloodily cutting down [ anglo-saxon ;D trained] barbarian bankers specialised in looting the taxpayer! [That anglo saxon bit is a hint at ideological differences with his Reaganomic-Thatcherite schooled brothers, and their orthodox cowboy capitalism! Risk free to them since they land on the taxpayer, as we saw in Obama bailing out Wall Street, as opposed to the toiling White Wanjiku!] Jakaswanga, if I were Uhuruto not only would I proceed with creating the free trade zones (EPZ) in the coast that have been touted about in the past, I would explore options to make KE an offshore investment choice to attract the Russian & other tax-dodgers $$$. Wasn't Comrade Putin one of the first to congratulate Uhuruto on their win. after all? The duo would also then not have to launder their ill gained wealth abroad, but do it right here in sunny KE ;D ;D ;D
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 1, 2013 10:35:24 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, if I were Uhuruto not only would I proceed with creating the free trade zones (EPZ) in the coast that have been touted about in the past, I would explore options to make KE an offshore investment choice to attract the Russian & other tax-dodgers $$$. Wasn't Comrade Putin one of the first to congratulate Uhuruto on their win. after all? The duo would also then not have to launder their ill gained wealth abroad, but do it right here in sunny KE ;D ;D ;D B6KEven if you are being cynical, this is a wonderful idea of economic policy. And you have smoked me out. I am over interested in the threatened economic collapse of a Western dependent economy, because in it I see parallels WITH Kenya, in a worst case scenario.What would the shilling do on the advent of Western sanctions? even limited ones if finance minister William Ruto bolts from the ICC round lady of Mercy? If Uhuruto really wants to challenge the West, what are their REAL financial options! ? even theoritically speaking. --Forget Prayers for a moment. Damn Kenyans, even ace lawyers dared ask the Supreme Court in the CORD appeal for a moment of prayer! Pure Charlatans! .... Offshore for International Money-Laundering looks me to be a rational choice. There is already a RUSSIAN bank in Nairobi; there is already an infrastructure of conduit, which was established to launder Somali Pirate money. There is already an Italian-mafia run Casino gambling racket at the coast. If Berlusconi can come to Kenya, then surely Abramovich --we love Chelsea, and all those Gas-tycoons of Russia can follow suit. If we pave the way to become their play ground. It looks logical then that we build on these multi pillars, and soon, like Cyprus whose banking sector was x100 her real economy, Nairobi and Mombasa will be in the top ten of World financial centers, courtesy of white-washed Russian money. Do not moral me now. The USA became rich on slave labour of blacks, and was concurrently the greatest democracy on earth! civil war or no civil war! From a purely financial perspective this your idea is brilliant. Gordon Brown, as chancellor of the exchequer, used it to have London bypass New York as the world's financial epicenter. ---Removed all prying questions. Controls, and said: let the money roll, I am blind! Precedents galore for this ICC presidency! Precedents galore! But you need a mind. The comprador never had a mind. That is why Afrika is such a mess, with solutions available for free!
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Post by b6k on Apr 1, 2013 11:05:59 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, if I were Uhuruto not only would I proceed with creating the free trade zones (EPZ) in the coast that have been touted about in the past, I would explore options to make KE an offshore investment choice to attract the Russian & other tax-dodgers $$$. Wasn't Comrade Putin one of the first to congratulate Uhuruto on their win. after all? The duo would also then not have to launder their ill gained wealth abroad, but do it right here in sunny KE ;D ;D ;D B6KEven if you are being cynical, this is a wonderful idea of economic policy. And you have smoked me out. I am over interested in the threatened economic collapse of a Western dependent economy, because in it I see parallels WITH Kenya, in a worst case scenario.What would the shilling do on the advent of Western sanctions? even limited ones if finance minister William Ruto bolts from the ICC round lady of Mercy? If Uhuruto really wants to challenge the West, what are their REAL financial options! ? even theoritically speaking. --Forget Prayers for a moment. Damn Kenyans, even ace lawyers dared ask the Supreme Court in the CORD appeal for a moment of prayer! Pure Charlatans! .... Offshore for International Money-Laundering looks me to be a rational choice. There is already a RUSSIAN bank in Nairobi; there is already an infrastructure of conduit, which was established to launder Somali Pirate money. There is already an Italian-mafia run Casino gambling racket at the coast. If Berlusconi can come to Kenya, then surely Abramovich --we love Chelsea, and all those Gas-tycoons of Russia can follow suit. If we pave the way to become their play ground. It looks logical then that we build on these multi pillars, and soon, like Cyprus whose banking sector was x100 her real economy, Nairobi and Mombasa will be in the top ten of World financial centers, courtesy of white-washed Russian money. Do not moral me now. The USA became rich on slave labour of blacks, and was concurrently the greatest democracy on earth! civil war or no civil war! From a purely financial perspective this your idea is brilliant. Gordon Brown, as chancellor of the exchequer, used it to have London bypass New York as the world's financial epicenter. ---Removed all prying questions. Controls, and said: let the money roll, I am blind! Precedents galore for this ICC presidency! Precedents galore! But you need a mind. The comprador never had a mind. That is why Afrika is such a mess, with solutions available for free! Jakaswanga, if we are to believe the do-gooders in KE that "good money" (read MNC's) will go out of KE thanks to the Uhuruto election, then it would simply be common sense for Uhuruto to encourage "bad money" into KE. After all, what do they have to lose? Aren't they already racked up there with the pirates, drug dealers, etc as suspected warlords & criminals against humanity in the eyes of the ICC & the international community? As you point out with the US example, even something that starts on a negative note, with the course of time will end up in the positive as evidenced by their un-paralleled wealth today. Heck even the Kennedy family wealth which was acquired from illegal boot-legging morphed to aid them win a presidency & several senatorial slots within a generation...& is still serving the family well. If the offshore investment centre in Nairobi/Mombasa is run well, eventually the "bad money" will start drawing back in the "good money" since as the ancient Romans discovered millennia ago after imposing a highly successful tax on human urine, money has no smell..... ;D
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Post by jakaswanga on May 24, 2013 19:28:29 GMT 3
EUROPE UNDER PRESSURE AND CRISIS IN LEADERSHIP Of the events I have come to ponder as equivalents of the eery sonar-drip-tone used in Submarine films to heighten, and highlight the tension on the faces of the naval cadets as a torpedo is monitored, in seconds to impact, approaching the flank where nuclear ammo is stored, the speech by David Cameron in January and the launching of the anti-Euro party in Angela Merkel's Germany, are the equivalents that have made my blood freeze and my brows breed beads. Well, I am not Aryan , so the correct imagery should be: have tickled my eurosceptic glands to levels far above Man-K's excitability when the econometry of minimum wages is the topic in Afrika! ON A SIDE NOTE: ---Folks, please watch DAS BOOT, the ultimate Submarine Film by net consensus. But for North Americans it may be these others will be easier for you to find: ... Crimson Tide with Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman; the Widow Maker K19 with Harrison Ford, or The Hunt for Red October with Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. But they are nothing I assure you, compared to the nerve-wrecking hyper claustrophobic DAS BOOT (THE BOAT) Here is some PR-Blurb from the cover of the DVD. Koro, nyikwajokama,I can never write the word EUROZONE without thinking of the mocking cynicism of [Prochnow] the captain of that doomed Boat. Sometimes I think Eurocrats are like him. Brilliant and incomparible, yet fatalistically cynical. Possibly Sucidal. If you take a look at the QUALIFICATIONS DEMANDED OF A EUROCRAT, you will have an idea of what this bureaucracy has to, must think of itself, and, naturally, its tasks in a civilised world! But with the Eurozone drifting bottomwards like an Unterseeboot [undersea vessel] running out of propulsion, the genial Eurocrats must --out of a basic psychological need-- find someone else to blame for the plight of our delapidating Europe! But as if the nerves are not firing enough, comes the loud report as the sub shrinks under the escalating intensity of the pressures acting on its outer periphery, as it makes more depth! A third death-knell making itself known as it were: The escalating frosty relationship between the besieged Francois Hollande of France and the Iron Mother of all Europeans, chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany. Well, the chemistry has so evaporated that these two are barely on speaking terms. There is a coming EURO-SUMMIT in June 2013 --(let alone the one of yesterday 21/5/13 that tackled banking secrets)-- and, ever since the Franco-German axis under the incomparible duo of Francois Mitterand and Helmut Kohl became the effective locomotive pulling the European project up the hill of civilisation, protocol and tradition has always been that Germany and France reach a mutual understanding in advance to determine the agenda. In effect, by the time the Summit was held, the bottom line was already known, above which negotiations could take place. This [kitchen cabinet behaviour] always so infuriated British sensibilities, that it burst under Margaret Thatcher in ... a famous NO NO NO NO tantrum! Britain will not be a COLONY of Germany and France! or some other stuff like that, the Iron landy hysterically thundered at West Minster. A longer version of the same: a scathing Thatcher ridicules the LABOUR PARTY! Then again famously at a Tory conference in Blackpool England: THIS LADY IS NOT FOR TURNING, YOU TURN! Yes, our lady Maggie, she likes it from the back ( in what is called spoon-in-spoon position), a cheeky Frenchman named Jacques desLors is rumoured to have chuckled. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_DelorsI like to keep a tab on the European tabloid mentality. That is where the choice cuts of vintage European lewd humour, s tanding in for tribal xenophobia and other such like anxieties in the Common European home, is on show. And our Latino hot studs from ex Glorious Rome, and Gaulic Romantics from the aptly named Paris, never dissapoint in this vital area of popular discourse. ---Frogs and Narcistic Amores, we anglo-saxons derisively call them back! When recently reveal-all photos of a young Angela Merkel in a nudist camp surfaced and went viral, Silvio Berlusconi who had said Angela's Afro-posterior is too robust for his tastes and so her name would never make the guest list of his bunga-bunga invitees, was revisited for a re-direct: 'In her hey days she was far better than your Ruby [El Farough the Moroccan hooker who was his favourite in these erotic festivals], no?' he was asked by a fellow Roman cheek.. Political Silvio, then running to be Italian Premier once again and dreading annoying Frau Merkel once more beforehand, avoided the invitation to compare, but he laughed in a way which revealed he had studied the young Merkel photo, and had a good understainding of her adorable proportionalities. On the road she must have rode and roared like the ferocious Ferrari. In Italian. But folks, what I really wanted to talk about are the incredibly shrinking David Cameron of the UK, Francois Hollande of France, and the torpedo homing on the MV Karpathia, aka Eurozone. That torpedo is called Afd, ALTERNATIVE FUER DEUTSHCLAND, and the charge in its chamber is branded Bernd Lucke, 50, a Hamburg economics professor. The Herr prof. Dr.'s ideo-think-tank has managed to assemble 500 ranked German economists to underwrite his vision, and that, is some charge, a menace out there in the Deep! The anti-euro thinking they propagate has become too much of an intellectual firepower to ignore, and Captain Angela Merkel and her brain-trust commandos at the Bundesbank, must perform some skilful manoeuvres if they have to deflect a mortal hit from this Lucke and his ilk. Already 10% of Angela's passengers want out of what some premonition tells them is an ill-fated Euro voyage! And elections, the general referendum, are not that far away: SCHEDULED 22 September 2013. www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/world/europe/elites-flock-to-anti-euro-party-alternative-for-germany.html?_r=0And here is an insight into the ORIGINAL SIN; It will be remembered that in 2010 when Frau Merkel was mobilising Germany [tax payers] to support the Greek and Zeuro-Zone rescue packages, she insisted: THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE. And hammered the country into line. What was then only murmured in blogs, has now surfaced in political mobilisation: THERE IS ALWAYS AN ALTERNATIVE TO STUPIDITY. That is what Herr. Prof. Dr. Lucke of Hamburg University and his ilk, are now openly saying, organising around, and daring the Iron Mother with in the court of public opinion. AfD. Mother Angela has to shut these cheeky boys up before too many sheep start bleating after them: NEURO GOOD, EURO BAD! ZEURO ZONE OUT! I will be back on Hollande and Cameron! the incredibly shrinking duo.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 26, 2013 22:08:28 GMT 3
LOOK WHO'S TALKING! THERE AT THE CONTINENT OF THE APES! Human beings always find explanations to observed phenomena. Hence Science. It is a drive we can not help, just like we can not help our instinctive search for mates. The most popular explanations doing rounds in folklore, tend not to have any bearings in scientific logic. For instance, in many peasant countrysides, an instance of death would lead to the question: who killed the deceased by 'remote'!Even if it was an observed snake bite, still some 'shamanistic intervention' is believed to must have influenced the events and 'connected' [otudo] the snake to the victim, for a fee! The crisis in the Eurozone, especially dire in the Zeuro sub-zone, has unearthed a lot of 'witchcraft explanations' in the Neurozone. Sometimes I have found much entertainment in these 'unpleasantries', also because they lay bare the age-old menacing nationalist fault-lines within Project EU. Age-Old prejudices have barely been disguised; stereotypes have been peddled with abandon; disgust generated by reflex, and disdain re-enforced by populist politicians no longer adequate to the task of running modern Europe. We will recall, that only yester week --July 14, in a session of hateful 'witchcraft thinking', a person no less than the VP of the Italian Senate, Roberto Calderoli, whipped up negative sentiment against Immigration minister Dr. Cecillia Kyenge, on account of her race. Cecillia's origins lie in the land of Patrice Lumumba. Calderoli would have this 'ape' shown the door, back to a cage in the Woods, where she can 'tree-swing' . www.news24.com/World/News/Italian-senator-apologises-for-race-slur-20130716 But Roberto may just be passing down the chain what he himself is a victim of. It is a hierarchy of prejudice out there, in Europe. The way it looks from Aryan Germany is thus. Italians themselves are not any better than the monkeys they pretend blacks are equivalent to. Italy, like dark Spain masquerading as white, is afterall 90% Moorish blood. And the Moor was black. With a bit of Arab in it for spice. ---Witchcraft thinking I said! And this is why Italy and Spain have economies which are run incompetently and look more like those of Arab and Black Africa. Ever requiring, together with the siësta addicted Greeks, the firm, disciplined and saving hand of the Germanias and the Viking Nordikas. Of course your high-brow sheets ---Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit, Die Welt, wont call a spade a spade and go that crude on the PIGS, but there is always the Bild Zeitung --- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Zeitung --- for the gut feeling from allemania! Still, every Wag-a-Dog spindoctor and his crack team of apprentices will be scouring through those huge breasts popping out of the Bild pages, searching for the pulse of the German electorate, and the nation. Take it from me: The Bild Zeitung is a rectal thermometer deep in the [arszholes] belly of the beast! Impeccable readings! If you want to ascertain the degree of fever, or may be the heat rate of fecal compost! After that long [enema-ic] introduction, I think I can now handle the sewer subject . THE CORRUPT PRIME MINISTER MARIANO RAJOY OF SPAIN WHO WONT RESIGN en.europeonline-magazine.eu/lead-spanish-corruption-scandal-threatens-to-unseat-premier-rajoyeds-adds-investigating-judge-opposition-rajoy-comment_289565.html?wpf_eol_country=12www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/world/europe/spain-rajoy.html?ref=marianorajoy&_r=0Up North in the Neurozone, it is a homerun. 'These Moors really should have stayed on the other side of the Mediterannean. The concepts of 'integrity in public office', is still out of their range, just like like financially running a modern state.' THE MOBUTUS OF EUROPE, quips a certain German tabloid, referring to Mariano Rajoy and his ilks. And goes further to suggest Spain would better be suited to be part of the Magrehb Union of Afrika, rather than the civilised EU with her high hygiëne requirements for high office! Europe has undergone the Renaissance [enlightenment] and knows the definition of corruption and integrity. Clearly this development and and advance in thinking excluded Spain. They know not corruption is HARAM! But hold it right there. Did I hear Angerla Merkel use the word COUP to define what Gen. Abdelfateh Al-Sisi did to the Morsi regime in Egypt the other week? Haha! Europe sure underwent the great enlightenment, and knows the definition of a military putsch or coup. But the current crop of European leaders apparently have not caught up with the general level of European civilisation. Hence neither David Cameron, nor Angela Merkel wouldn't identify a coup when they see one! Witchcraft infested minds! Just like the Spanish Moor Rajoy wouldn't know corruption if it sat on his lap! his desk, his party, or if he found it naked in his bed! ---Godamn ignorant Moor! [Francois Hollande? forget him. He is French and the word 'coup' is of French origins. If a French politician of great education does not know what a coup is, what is the point of bothering with France? That is the real republic of the apes! Cicillia Kyenge is an ape? Lucky girl went 'home', she is a minister in the continent of the apes! Crog Magnon residues! And I will be back!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 28, 2013 18:12:30 GMT 3
ANGELA MERKEL WAS RE-ELECTED, WELL, SORT OF! JENS WEIDMAN OF THE DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK SINGS THE FUTURE BLUES AS Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble does a mating pirouette. Jens Weidman is currently the most important banker in Germany. This is by virtue of the fact that he is Chairman of the German variant FED, namely the German Central Bank, better known as the Deutsche Bundesbank. Jens weidman. No sooner had Frau Angela Merkel accepted the last of the congratulatory kisses from her admirers on her re-election as 'Reich's Kanzlerin' ---the Imperial Guide of all Germany's, than Jens Weidman read her the disturbing weather forecast. ---Blew the dirge horn at her in public as we would say in the Kongo. Merkel with reverse German colours necklace! It will be noted that Weidman has a history as a top economic advisor of Angela Merkel, and was her handpick for the top Banking job in Germany. She reputedly pinched his cheeks like a loving German mum sending her best son off to war would, thus, 'let Germany be your all, and sycophancy be your bane! It is your head I need over there at the Bundesbank.' --Where does that live Europe as the common european home [ USSR's Mikhail Gorbachev's words of old] HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE WEATHER FORECAST BY JENS WEIDMAN AS IT WAS DELIVERED TO THE ANGEL MERKEL. ----Germany is swell today. A smooth tanker steaming ahead and pulling the Eurozone along it her wake. But those on the lookout, paid to peer ahead, spot a change in the weather over there beyond the horizon. 'There are also plenty icebergs on our course, and we thus issue alerts. O captain, take heed, the clouds of vile storms gather!'A. AGING POPULATION. The %tage of retirees vis-a-vis the working population relative to the total population, is a clear and present threat. Currently 20 million retirees out of a total population of 80 million. The super-tanker is leaking oil. Without a massive [skilled] labour-importation regime, the German economy will have a deficit of 1/2 a million ace labourers in 2020. These 'open vacancies' would count for a 2.5% shortfall, which works out to a 0.5% economic shrinkage at the GDP. Angela must fix that. And Jens Weidman warned this is a conservative estimate, cumulatively calculable to a Eur. 70 billion reduction in GDP by 2020. ---That is an amount equivalent to twice Kenya's current GDP! Mank! this means 1/2 a million trained workers in some countries can produce an output calibrated at Eur. 70 bn in 7 years! ---Is that a good productivity rate, worth striving at sir? The SOLUTIONS -------------as Ordered by Herr. Dr. Mr. Weidman: 1. LABOUR TOP UP: Import intelligent, qualified and thus 'ready-made arbeiters' from elsewhere. Like Canada or the USA have always done in a controlled immigration policy for ages. As a matter of fact, highly-trained professionals from the limping Zeuro-zone are already selling like hot cakes in Germany [and indeed most of the Neurozone], leading to charges in the south of 'Brain trawling'. That is Germany and North Europe is trawling Southern institutes for the best brains, leaving only chaff in the Mediterranean region! The greatest brain robbery in history ever since the USA impounded all of Hitlerite Germany's scientific 'brain-trust', which included men like star physicist Albert Einstein of the atomic bomb equation. 2. Stimulate German fertility. This has been an ongoing policy since the beginning of time, but has failed to convince German women to 'go forth and multiply and fill the world' with little bright Germans! Therefore I think, if Germany wants more race-proof Germans [there is no shortage of multiplying Turks and other less than Aryan breeders in Berlin] they can take a leaf from the BIO-INDUSTRY, especially the high-tech poultry broods. Lab conditions perfected and computerised, no nature. No shortage of little bright Germans to carry the Reich's Standard. NB: There surely is sufficient technical know-how to roll off Germans from the bio-assembly line like Volkswagen's roll off the belt at Wolfsburg. A kind of 'industrieproduktion von 'Menschheit' --the industrial production of humankind. Aryan-kind in this respect, since, globally speaking, there is actually no shortage of humankind in the world. Rather the reverse. What is in shortage is a specific biological profile for a specific geographical territorium. Indeed in large sections of the World, excess children littering streets of commercial cities are physically eradicated by police, where Brazil, reported here, is not the only one. articles.latimes.com/1990-07-08/news/mn-324_1_death-squads units. 3. RETIREMENT AGE UP. Angela Merkel's predecessor as chancellor, Gerhard Schroder, much praised for his bravery in carrying out the radical economic reforms that set the stage for the 'Merkellian Miracle', is the captain who raised the the retirement age sky-high to 67 years. This is sometimes satirised as the 'labour until death' model. But wiith Greeks reported to be retiring at 50 years and then enjoying higher benefits in the tropical sun, while Germans in their self-built Siberian concentration camp slave to death for the Euro, Schroder's rewards would of course be defeat at the elections!Nevertheless Schroder is now an icon celebrated 'alom' [universally German-wide] for his self-sacrifice, or act of political immolation in the service of Des Vaterland. Some people do sing their national anthem, and mean it at heart. Justice be our shield and defender, --we sing in Kenya. But none, do bother to mean. It is a lesson I have tried to teach in Kenya, but failed tremendously. I guess fate will just have to do it. So that 'Natukae na Undugu, amani na Uhuru, Raha tupate na Ustawi...! one day be a truth throughout the land at large. I do have that dream. Like fwack I do!But back to Germany. AND the prescriptions of Dr. Weidman for Frau Angela, pregnant with her latest coalition. 4. FLEXIBISE LABOUR RELATIONS.This is code for 'hire and fire' at will. All the red tape of legal protections for organised or non-organised labour annulled. This is the 'prostitutes model', for labour, ie, Labour totally subject to the whims of the employers. Socially very controversial in Germany where organised Unions have seats in corporate boardrooms. Anglo-Saxons shudder in shock, then faint when they hear that kind of [communist] sh!t! www.economist.com/node/3600260 --A MODEL OUT OF TIME? 4b. INNOVATION TEMPOGermany must do more innovation. ---Increase labour productivity all the more. This would be to totally 'robotise' the workplace as Toyota dId with her auto-plants in Japan and, ten years later, the car in front of you was always a Toyota, at least for a while in most third world countries with 'open' roads! Before robotics there was 'mechanisation', now I believe the buzz word would be total computerisation of the economy. Verily even conception and birth of humans would be more efficient that way, as we have seen above, to redress the burgeoning Aryan genes deficit. 4c: FORGET GENERAL MINIMUM WAGE and Upping Taxes especially for the[ rich] entrepreneurs --as is usually found in the SPD [Social Democratic Party] manifesto. Jens Weidman is said to have been incensed [to the point of loosing his cultivated doctoral cool] when finance Minister Wolfgang Schaube mumbled in public, that upping taxes and talking about a 'may-be' federal-wide Minimum Loan were within the realms of contemplation! Wolfgang Schaube, a politician, was responding to the new reality of the election results of Sunday 22-09-13 in which the the CDU/CSU favourite and traditionally pro-business coalition partner, the Liberals, failed to hit the 5% needed threshold to be in parliament. This sets Germany on course for a MONSTER coalition. That is the two biggest opponents go into cohabitation. Like our lethargic Grand Coalition Government of old between Raila and Kibaki. Always a stalemate. www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e617198-2602-11e3-8ef6-00144feab7de.html#axzz2gAHCC7vvHerr Weidman, the Nation's top banking antenna, then revealed the demons tormenting him. The BRICS had nailed the fear of Hell into his soul. These countries do not have much of a minimum wage regime. They swim in cheap labour, both untrained and highly technically trained. And they are like ants, and breeding like ants. In 2000 they had 37% of the World Economy, In 2012, their share had rised to 50%. In the next two decades, that rise will be noticeable in some punitive ways. And if Brazil overtakes Germany!? where do you want to be? Mank: this is the Henry Rotich of Germany, or the Joseph Kinyua. But watch him in action and compare him to our lot!? what do you notice? [ What is the game in Nairobi? with this vision 2030? and 11,000 doing the work of 5000]?NB: So, Global Competition, and the fear of loss by current powers, is the game in the village, the Global village. And therefore we should not discount Germany in the new scramble for African gas and oil reserves situated off the Indian Ocean coast shoreline, from upper Puntland to lower Mozambique.Germany will be in the game, but her partners will surprise you! Just like Al-Shabaab's partners are surprising Kenyans as they get to know more of the Westgate story. NB: France and Britain have moved very fast, greedily is the best word, to position themselves for a killing of the new found African resources. This is the same way they behaved in laying claim to Iraqi Oilfields post Saddam Hussein, and the same way in gobbling up Libyan Oilfields post Gaddafi, situations that so enraged nationalists in those countries and catalysed their social descent unto turmoil and chaos [see East Libya for instance where the American ambassador was killed in Benghazi and kidnaps have stalled oil production]. Germany was punitively left out of the spoils of war and the modern plunder of the resources of the semi-colonised, and has had to develop a new politics of energy! and money! Shortly we will take a quick but hard look at the effects of this 'treachery by the allied powers' on Russo-German relations. Meanwhile watch the German submarine near your shore. They are the world-leaders in submarine spying technology. --Forget the USA/NSA and their jua-kali internet wiretaps! And it is a very gaseous story!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 28, 2013 23:25:18 GMT 3
Having established the contention, that Germany was sidelined by her would be allies in the distribution of war booty, in as far as Bush's Oil and gas Gulf Wars wars were concerned, we may need to have an idea of Germany's energy needs, seeing that she is a key global industrial and technocratic power. www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/electric-power-consumption-kwh-per-capita-wb-data.html and wikipedia German Industrialists and energy thinkers did not go to sleep having been outmaneouvred by their fellow Western classmates, but they reacted ruthlessly in pursuit of their nations interest. They presented a paper to Chancellor Gerhard Schroder [term: 1998-2005], and off he went to Moscow, with a proposition. Under Siberia in far-flung North and wild East Russia are some of the worlds largest gas and oil reserves. 'You want a gas pipeline?' an opaque beer name Putin asked him. 'Don't we already have one going your way, flowing through Ukraine and Poland?' Schroder grinned back at the bear who spoke fluent German, having been a KGB station-master in the other Berlin when there were two Germany's. 'Big Baltic states they are, from where I stand!' The Baltic states, removing themselves from the Bear's pawy embrace, seeking to disentangle themselves totally from the suffocating eastern Big Bro, had sought even NATO membership, a move that had made Putin and other great Russian patriots livid with rage. Poland and the Ukraine --[then infatuated by the blond braids of beautiful Julia Timoshenko] too were turning their backs on Moscow. Here is the complicated web that was sending jitters in Berlin as disputes between Kiev and Moscow, and Warzawa and Moscow led to decreased volumes of gas reaching Berlin. Then there were the upcoming KACZYNSKI twins with their rabid anti-German Polish nationalism. www.spiegel.de/international/twin-pillars-of-populism-the-kaczynski-twins-are-taking-poland-by-storm-a-378418.htmlsomething had to be done given this web ---and that vital line through the heart of Poland to Germany! SomethinG had to be done. A new corridor independent of the petty squabbles of old brothers. The Nord Pipe. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901755.htmlIf Germany was going to rely on the uninterrupted flow of Russian gas, then the line needed to avoid the mercurial fault-lines of historical geopolitical Europe. A mammoth technical challenge, and pricy too. And in half a sentence dark with history, a grim Putin had put all the cards on the table. Molotov von Ribbentrop, it was the Germans who absconded from the deal. Momentarily the oily or should we say gaseous smile on the face of the German froze, but it was obvious the pipeline would be at sea, which, while condemning Germany and Russia to an unprecedented maritime cooperation, also underwrote their distrust of their neighbours in the COMMON EUROPEAN HOME! ---The deal would ran into many a storm, Washington not the least. This was the Germany of the U-boat fame The first country to industrialise submarine warfare. And she had always remained a marine technological power and thus a potential naval power. In fact if one knew what German technology does currently for NATO and Israeli nuclear submarines, you would forget the idea of a peace-loving Germany, but rather consider her a silent warmonger, technologically speaking. But this undersea mating with Russia was to others, a stab in the back by a treacherous ally! Germany and Germans were unmoved. The project went ahead and was launched operational. Nov 8 2011. A few footnotes remaining in this tale: Germany is so confident of this NORD STREAM, Angela Merkel stole the thunder from the Green movement and is getting away with it: she has agreed to phase out Nuclear power! --I have not believed i myself yet! I will be back.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 1, 2014 15:03:40 GMT 3
UKRAINE: THE UNRAVELLING OF A DEALIT is a big story no doubt elsewhere. But by me, it is one of the footnotes in the Eurozone death watch, or a paragraph in the power relations between Powers and lesser powers. THE 88 MATYRS OF KIEV AND THE FLEEING PRESIDENTBut as always, always follow the money money money money! Why is the Ukraine a basket case?Can the EU engulf, swallow and ingest the Ukraine, given the history of Ukraine? www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/world/ukraine-history.html"] That was begin December, 2013, last year. In the last two weeks culminating in the expulsion of renegade President Viktor Yanukovych late February 2014, there was a de facto bank run in the Ukraine, forcing the authorities to limit foreign currency withdrawals to about $1000/day. In any case 10% of all deposits had already been withdrawn by the last week of February, with people dumping the local currency too, hryvnia, to seek refuge in the 'harder' others. The new government found Eur 15bn of foreign currency reserves, down from about Eur 20bn begin December. The national currency –hryvnia-- was devaluing free fall, and the Central Bank not in a liquidity position to stablise the exchange rate. Here are your new heros, just a few days in office in Kiev. New Finance Minister: Oleksandr ShlapakNew Prime Minister: Arseniy Yatsenyuk. And Stepan Kubiv is the new governor of Central bank, staring at a near empty pot and waving the white flag of both surrender and SOS! NB: It is dangerous to talk of the New government of Ukraine, because some eastern regions, including the Krimea, have effectively declared autonomy, and do not recognise the illegal Kiev administration that has replaced the kleptocratic buffoon Yanukovych. And the ‘’government can has no wherewithal to move against them!) A rough guide to the fault lines in this map. Russian bank investments in the Ukraine is estimated at Eur 30 bn, some 30% Ukrainian financial sector. EU banks account for slightly less than 30%, with Zeuro-Zone banks more exposed than say, Germany’s. Important detail: these Zeurozone Banks have not your best solid ratings in the EU banking tests ----all on the ‘infuse’ from the ECB! And the ECB being more or less the Bundesbank nowadays (the other motor France is down and out), that 30% EU exposure in Ukraine can be condensed down to, yes, Germany’s risk. ‘Fwack the EU!’, you heard Obama’s foul-mouthed-Hilary-Clinton-replacement Viktoria Nuland herself say so the other day! ONLY OPTION FOR THE NEW GOVERNMENT THEN, THE IMF AND THE USA? (Germany's umbilical gas cord with Russia makes Germany a forked tongued mediator!) The Ukraine needs Eur. 40 bn do meet its obligations in the next two years, at the current exchange rate. Which exchange rate continues to be volatile as the political crisis continues. NB: [That 40 bn Euros is small changed compared to the 70 bn Euros Yanukovych and his oligarchs are reputed to have looted from the country and stashed way in eg Switzerland, using the financially savvy but mercenary Dutch as intermediaries! The Dutch are experienced in this role, apart from the the Shell-Oil thieving Nigerian military Generals, the dutch served both Khadaffi and Mubarak with distinction in their respective looting sprees, and were naturally the first choice of the upstart Viktor Yanukovych. ---But that is another story!)Well, the IMF is not ready yet with its own fact-finding figures, says Ouru Kenyatta’s hero Christin Lagarde. So the EU (Ha ha ha Germany that is), the USA plus an assortment of her financially-muscled satellite allies like Canada, and the World Bank, are on standby. ---- May be that is why the WB are using the flimsy excuse of anti-gay law to suspend loans to Uganda. They are re-routing it to shore up the crumbling (currency hryvnia) financial sector of Ukraine, which is of greater geo-political significance that some bush dictator sporting curvy horns. FOOTNOTES: Because if we find the time we will later tackle the Oligarchs of Kenya and their control of the main political parties CORD TNA $ URP, keep the machinations of the following super-rich Oligarchs of the Ukraine in footnote: Dmitry Firtash and Rinat Akhmetov. They were once the key backers of Yanukovych, and owned his ruling party through financing it. Away they worked, these two, scheming behind the scenes to multiply their fortunes, fixing the future of their country to their profit. But well, owned is relative; Kiev is the backyard of Vladimir Putin and is Russia’s Western Front door, and Oligarchs playing god are gnomes in a cooking pot. When the people enter the equations of power, even the Almighty Himself is never in control. Amen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro_Firtashen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinat_AkhmetovGiven the geo-political significance of the Ukraine to both East and West, to both the EU and Russia, it is obvious, that both sides were comfortable with a gangster state in Kiev through the years.A prosperous independent democratic and crime-free, corruption free Ukraine, clean before her people, has never been the interest of the so-called international community and foreign powers who now rally to concoct new solutions to the mess. Let this be a ruthless reminder, a chilling lesson to us Kenyans who are ever trusting in the good intentions of foreigners with their bags of free cash landing on our shores. Their real game, is the destruction of Kenya’s independence and chaining her to a cell of dependence and subservience in which she can be manipulated at will, to suit their interests.Take a look at the big country Ukraine. As the government which only controls a few 'states' meets in session, Obama and Putin have a 1.5 hour telephone call arranging and MOU on the game plan. Then Obama calls Angela Merkel. Shortly afterwards Putin calls Merkel.30 minutes later, the German finance minister says something to the press through his press secretary. And behold! A miracle happens in Kiev! The Ukrainian currency holds! Well, breaks the free fall, sliding in a more controlled manner! And the new minister of finance, flanked by the new chairman of the central bank, emerge into the camera lights to report a ‘’ relative stablelisation’’! ----I believe in miracles... you sexy thing, sang Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate!It may not be much money, what Russia and Germany have invested in the Ukraine. But the times are hard even for super powers, and one does what one can to save Eur 60bn loses in a week, and one moves to prevent a group of imbeciles running a country from doing it aground, and sinking her right to the bottom of the sea of total bankruptcy and political chaos. Watching Ukrainian parliamentarians changes sides four times in a day as they were locked in deadlock, inflating the bribery rates before they vote out their president, and then fleeing as a mob stormed the parliament baying for their blood late at night, I could not laugh at the comedy. For I remembered my own country Kenya. As the big parties head for their elections, the owners of Kenya are reputed to be engaged in operation vote-buying to fix the future of the republic by putting their puppets in place.Pray it does not go wrong! With our parliament already a sty of Mpigs greedier than hyenas! NB: And with that, What really happened at the ODM party elections at Kasarani? The real story!? Any offers?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 2, 2014 21:02:35 GMT 3
A DOMESTIC IN BRUSSELSKik chunyi parre, to iyie kuom Nyasaye, to kuoma bende iyie-e -(Worry your heart not, find rest in the Lord, and in I, his only begotten son)--The Bible as quoted by D aniel Owino Misiani, a late benga artist, in the song Harusi ya MKThere has been a domestic in Imperial Brussels. There were European Union Parliamentary elections, and the results are out. In a bid to democratise the EU, it was decided these elections should guide the next President of the Union. (there has been talk of a democratic deficit, with the way in which the chief administrator of the Union is selected, ridiculed as more opaque than the process by which the Curia in the Vatican lets billow white smoke from the Chimney, once they are through with their Budhist-Monk incantations, and Heaven dropped a name --Habeus Papam!)There always has been a power struggle between the European parliament and the caucus of European heads of state, that hitherto had the exclusivity of anointing their malleable choice, or poodle. But power tends to be a matryoshka thingy. You shake things up and open up the box and Behold! It is a replica that came out! Robots with the same serial number, and sometimes, same production date! The Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker parties belong to the European People's Party bloc, which dominates the European parliament Merkel, even if she had earlier mumbled a readiness to accommodate David Cameron’s fears, was beaten back by electoral results! –the so called democratic diktat. Now, this Juncker has been around for quite a while in Euro corridors and is called a Euro junkie by David Le FarageDavid who? Okay, that should actually read David Cameron the prime minister of the United Kingdom. But of late he is colloquially referred to as Dave Farage, after his eyes popped out when Angelo Merkel endorsed Juncker. Cameron threw a temper and shouted! Very well, I am out of here! Merkel shrugged in boredom: ‘’Have you ever been in, Monsieur le Farage?’’ Farage is a UKIP joke. UKIP is short for United Kingdom Independence Party. And that independence is not from trans-atlantic domination, but from the continental yoke of the Franco German axis. UKIP under Nigel Farage won the euro elections in the UK, with the Tories of Cameron coming a distant third after labour’s poor second, but their –CP’s- coalition partners the Europhilic Liberals wiped out. David Cameron is smelling the coffee as they say, and opting for blackmail. In the aftermath of the mammoth defeat, Nick Clegg, his liberal coalition partner, survived an internal coup with the skin of his teeth as they say. Thus the coffee has strong odour. And Cameron has become Farage in Europe. A tabloid version goes like this:
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 2, 2014 21:30:52 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 21, 2014 20:38:08 GMT 3
A DOMESTIC IN BRUSSELSKik chunyi parre, to iyie kuom Nyasaye, to kuoma bende iyie-e -(Worry your heart not, find rest in the Lord, and in I, his only begotten son)--The Bible as quoted by D aniel Owino Misiani, a late benga artist, in the song Harusi ya MKThere has been a domestic in Imperial Brussels. There were European Union Parliamentary elections, and the results are out. In a bid to democratise the EU, it was decided these elections should guide the next President of the Union. (there has been talk of a democratic deficit, with the way in which the chief administrator of the Union is selected, ridiculed as more opaque than the process by which the Curia in the Vatican lets billow white smoke from the Chimney, once they are through with their Budhist-Monk incantations, and Heaven dropped a name --Habeus Papam!)There always has been a power struggle between the European parliament and the caucus of European heads of state, that hitherto had the exclusivity of anointing their malleable choice, or poodle SOAP UPDATE:The irony was once captured in a cynical headline. Europe Votes, Germany decides. The word Germany was crossed out and above it written Merkel. That is Angela for intimi.No, we are not talking about the Crimea nor Novorussia, --those weird places where there were referenda Angela Merkel declared null Rigged. No, we talking the European Parliamentary elections recently concluded, and we wondering who, of the babushkas, would become the president of the European Council, effectively the official president of Europe, even if a figurehead and Merkel's toy. Traditionally this creature is decided by the European curia of prime ministers and presidents wheeling and dealing in dingy chambers across the continent -- see the boat picture below, taken in Finland. And these political curia always made sure to come up with a nondescript figure like Herman van Rompuy, officially called a His eminence the Greyest Mouse, since a much more colourful and driven figure (like the famous Jaques Delors of the founding ECC) could dangerously unsettle the delicate boat of power relations in the Old Continent. It would pay if one thought of the various European heads of state as the Presidents of the once notorious Homelands under the apartheid regime of South Africa. Scared like hell of a Mandela presidency. These leaders then do everything to give the EU a bad name with their citizens. ---They delegate idiot commissioners like Lady Ashton –she is EU foreign secretary. Imagine her grappling with the current Iraqi situation, or even the Ukrainian one? You catch!? --They second rum-dum and faded politicians to important posts in Brussels, such that the electorate can laugh in scorn at creeps they already rejected in their own homeland politics. –(The EU ministries as a dumping yard for finished careers). On another plane, take the example of the Italian Mario Draghi who heads the ECB. He is routinely, derogatively called Mafia banker in the Neurozone popular press. It means the Germans and Dutch and Scandinavians have more faith in their own Central Banks than that Italian-run lousy Bank in Brussels! And that is fine with the Bundesbank whose words the financial markets continue to rate higher than those of the Mafia banker! A Norwegian snob economist just said it loud: when Italians run your central banks, Norway does not join! That is looking for a greek tragedy.If the ECB were to become the real boss, then like with the American FED, the various states would bow before her policies without caveats, because she would be fully manning the currency, the Euro. As it is, you would be hard-pressed to know how exactly the Euro is run. Another curia of Central Bank Chairmen from the Homelands sits in a council more opaque than the brothel hierarchy of a Sultan.And so in the recent EU-parliamentary elections, a dejected electorate experimented with many wild and extreme parties. Like in England where UKIP wiped out the establishment, driving David Cameron nuts. Concerned with their bad press amongst the electorate, the Euro-Parliamentarians ( called MEPs in English), enacting a scene from the power struggles in Old Rome between the senate and the emperor, staged a coup of their own. They colluded to usurp the curial powers of the caucus of European heads of state to anoint the EU President. They decided the leader of the voting block that gathers the most seats, automatically gets the presidency. In this election that would be the Christian Democrat Jean-Calude Juncker, the conservative former President of Luxembourg. This man is an Eternal as they are sometimes called. Eternals are those politicians who have been through the bureaucratic revolving doors of Brussels since the day of creation in ancient times. These eternals are pathologically Europhilic. –Brussels is all they know, and all they love, and they are suspected by euro-sceptics of secretly belonging to sects that chant odious slogans within the undercover altars of Unitary Europe: All power to Brussels! Hail the Euro! Hail the EU! Death to the nation states! goes their liturgical chants. Sterling Premiers like David Cameron of the troubled pound land, enter into extensive periods of convulsive fits when they hear names of the Eternals like Jean-Claude Juncker forwarded for top EU jobs. And this is exactly what is in the offing next week at the Euro-Summit, when the top curia gathers and the masses await billows of white smoke from the ancient digitalised chimneys. NB: The Englishman even deliberately ‘misprounounces’ the name to Junk! (John Clown Junk) www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27865053 First it appeared Dave would have his way with a conciliatory Angela Merkel. Certainly No Junk for the presidency of Europe, Angela seemed to make such-like sheepish noises in public. Then hell broke loose. The EU parliamentarians forgot who Merkel is. They asked: and who in a goat's world is she, and does she think she is? We already got an election result, and we got a candidate, and by majority script, he is now awaiting his coronation. Then German papers came up with their surveys: Angela Merkel should stop behaving like Putin. Respecting the consequences of elections only when they pleased him! It was a unique event to see a somewhat confused Merkel in public. The Iron chancellor had rusted. The golden girl had gone bronze.Europe votes, Europe decides! David Cameron is free to go! England free to quit the EU. (England not the UK, because Scotland wants to stay in, and even join the Euro!) The Ancient nemesis of David Cameron. Next week, climax of the soap.
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Post by b6k on Jun 24, 2014 7:27:56 GMT 3
Wow Jakaswanga. I've been following your updates with a lot of interest. Whenever the Yankees get all "moral", as they have in the Ukraine, all one has to do is look for an oil/gas pipeline in the vicinity. With the Nord Stream pipeline you have hit the nail on the head! With Merkel telling the Yankees poodle to stop barking about an EU pullout and bite (if they have the guts), the whole thing really does take on the look of being a struggle between the Anglo-Saxons (USA & UK) against real Europe (Germany & Russia). As if to put Victoria "F*** the EU" to shame, the Polish Foreign Minister, Radislow Sikorski was recently caught on tape speaking candidly to the former Finance Minister. This is what he had to say: “The Polish-American alliance is not worth anything. It’s even damaging, because it creates a false sense of security in Poland,” Sikorski allegedly said. “Complete bullshit,” the tape purportedly records Sikorski as saying. “We will get a conflict with both Russians and Germans, and we’re going to think that everything is great, because we gave the Americans a blowjob. Suckers. Total suckers.” He went on to add: “The problem in Poland is that we have a very shallow pride and low self-esteem,” he allegedly said, decrying such a mindset as “Murzyńskość”, a racially-charged derogative term that could be translated as “thinking like a negro.” Sikorski suggested on Twitter the translation should be “negritude,” linking it to the anti-colonialism movement in Europe. Ouch!!!! rt.com/news/167740-poland-us-alliance-worthless/So in public it's all cheers & smiles about tagging along with NATO but in private even the Poles know they're getting shafted by Uncle Sam. PS: Keep Sikorski's analogy in mind as you prepare your climax next week
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 28, 2014 14:55:25 GMT 3
b6k, that Polish hiccup as Sikorski chocked on American cock (like an amateur blower), needs another separate voyeuristic tele-lens. It could even be Viktoria --F*ck the EU- Nuland wearing strap-ons who is doing all the damage, forcing Sikorski to throw up in an episode reminiscent of the Lewinsky and a somewhat overenthusiastic come back kid named Bill! Today, lets do Ypres Belgium. A venue of horrific slaughter in 1914-1916. I do not know whether there were intended winks to history, but on the run to the day that the famous shot was fired that ignited the First World war, EU leaders met famously at the historic Ypres town in Belgium and a guttural HABEMUS EUROPRESIDENTE issued out of their well-dined throats. There were muted speeches about the collective folly that had led to a half a century of slaughter within the continent, and eventually a cold war that ended only when the Berlin wall fell yesterday. Where to with the new collective folly unfolding in the politics of the Europeans and the republic of Ukraine, did not get a mention. Putin of course was not invited to this war commemoration, it was this war that marked the end of Czarist Russia. Do the EU leaders experience a sense of foreboding? Do they experience a historical chill, as if that lining far in the cloudy heavens, is not much of a silver future? Ypres in any case is home to many a graveyard where many a British lad found rest, not far from an equally sad-fated German lad. Their politicians having made bad decisions. Meanwhile, 2014 , the EU, with NATO sabre-rattling in the background, has given Russia’s Putin a new ultimatum. Guess about what!? Another Hellen of Troy story may be!? or Belle and the Beast!? Talk about collective follies sleepwalking nations into testosteron mayhem. The magnificent EU heaquarters Brussels. Where the ‘bureaucratic games’ are played. As stupendous an archictectural show as the Colloseum –(the Amphitheatrum Flavium)- must have been in Rome, when it was freshly delivered. For more physical games of course. Well, there are two small anecdotes one has to hold in mind whenever one discusses the politics of the European Union. The first is the Agricultural budget as a %tage of the total EU expenditure, and the second is the much-mocked, idiotic spectacle of the European parliament evacuating Brussels to meet for one week in Strasbourg, France. It is so wilde-beest stupid there is no record of any serious defence of it, other than that a sulking France had to be messaged. It was earmarked to be scrapped, but now strange rumours have surfaced, that it wont be, since it was one of France’s secret demands in exchange of supporting Jean Claude Juncker (who now has been elevatrf to the coveted job!) For those who have not heard, the 5th republic is suffering from a partial mental paralysis, her political elite, an acien regime. The alternative EU parliament house in Strasbourg France. And here is an inside track on the politics of the agricultural budget and ponder the lines attributed to Francois Hollande of France. Somebody might ask, why would France claim such a sordid subsidy arrangement is a victory? The answer is simple. The French agricultural sector is relatively primitive and seriously uncompetitive. Left to their own devices, they would be overrun by he super-efficient, over competitive Germans, Dutch, Danes, Scandinavians and what have you. Two of Europe’s most striking premiers. One is the smashing Helle Thorning Schmidt of Denmark, whose flirtatious selfie with Barrack the POTUS at the Mandela send-off, achieved inter-galaxial notoriety. Allegedly issing off Michelle Obama greatly.But back to France and why it is addicted to agro-subsidies like Kenyan bureaucrats to corruption. French myths like unique champagne and awesome wines sporting regional names –Perigord, Bordeaux, Dordogne, Bergerac, D'Anjour, would all go bust in the face of competition from Chile, Bulgaria, Australia and the monster California. And the famous French goat cheeses? Denmark alone, before you add the rest of Scandinavia, can produce enough goat cheese at a friendly price, to feed the whole world on nothing but a diet of EU goat cheese for 10 years thrice a day! NB: If Ukraine and Georgia, grinningly signing EU agreements this weekend, think they will be allowed to sell their smelly cheese in the EU market, they have another think coming. The EU will lock them out with the pretext of health, then dump its own cheap excess cheeses on the poor East Europeans, claiming that is the manna for civilised people, not some cottage industry obnoxious produce (made in the neighbourhood of Chernobyl) Yes, the great EU parliament migration circus, and agricultural subsidies! Understand them, understand the Union. And get an idea why subconsciously Cameron may want reform, and derisively refers to John Clown Junk, as a candidate of the past! Well, if you believe the English, the past has been hoisted once more at the top of the EU, when the heads of state, bar the pair Hungarian and United Kingdom, ratified Jean-Claude J. to replace Herman van R. But this is the EU, where horses are traded in smoke-free boardrooms. Cameron’s anger will be tempered somewhat, thrown a lifeline when the UK is tossed a choice post as the lucrative Euro-commissioners are distributed. After all it is not democratic reform that he campaigns for in his crusade against the Junk from Luxembourg. It is for his job as UK prime minister, threatened by UKIP. That one is clearly understood by every fool. And you do not count Merkel amongst the fools. Remember she had the pliers on Juncker’s balls, and god knows what Jucker cried to haver her release them from the iron grip. Cameron got a bum deal, but it still is a deal you know. Lord have mercy on Juncker, he is he one in a tight spot. And we have not talked on the deal, why the toothy Italian Matteo Renzi (and the sinking French of course) supported Juncker. Something about draconian and rigid stability pacts made in Berlin that need loosening up since they annihilate growth? Hmmm.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 20, 2014 18:31:11 GMT 3
A TALE OF SANCTIONS AND AGRO POLITICS IN THE EU. The internal politics of sanctions against Russia within the EU can not be overstated, neither must they be underestimated. In the latest enhanced sanctions spearheaded by the USA, Russia's response has been to target agricultural products imported from the EU. In the beginning there were haughty laughs from the EU, ridiculing Putin for denying the Russian middle class the choice goat cheeses, custom designed shapely cucumbers, and horticultural GM miracles from Holland and Denmark etc. Those in the know will understand ''a custom designed cucumber'' is an insult to both Russian men and women. This is the old continent Europe, and tribal prejudice predates Christianity! Nevertheless, for all her brave face as she giggles at the price rises in Russia, the EU is hurting too. Not much, because, at a first glance, the agricultural sector counts for less than 4% employment; but on a closer look, the distribution of the pain is a fault line. South Europe has a heavy agricultural sector running on subsidies from Brussels. Hit when they are just creeping out of the sustained depression of the Euro-crisis, the political instability which has seen Greek politics go topsy-turvy could just escalate some more. This is a real political risk, given the good performance of the fascist parties in the last EU parliamentary elections. For those of fascist inclinations is this of course not such bad news. Eastern European countries like Poland and the Baltics who only joined the EU recently, too, are predominantly primitive agricultural economies with Russia as their natural export market. For these Easterners, the sanctions are a national crisis already, and in deed Poland has forthrightly told the USA to buy off the now excess stuff, before she can agree to host an American spy post na kadhalika! (A destitute farming population can easily find a fascist stabliser of their crisis more appealing than an impotent democrat.) The USA has refused, not only because she has her own agricultural overproduce to deal with and must mind this thing called NAFTA ... … but ALSO because if Washington gives in to Polish blackmail –-or blow-jobbing-- as the Polish foreign minister Skorksi tends to think of it, then there is no stopping the orgy, since a long line of them Eastern girls are already in position, their tongues wagging, ready to, so to speak, feast off American love drops to the last drop. But DC with its fiscal cliffs and unworkable quantitative easings is already hard up. 9I think the correct imagery should be DC is already dried out! It is tough being hard up and resisting a suck.) With the EU economy sluggish, and the recovery tune is blues, the Eastern Europeans want more money from the Brussels as usual –-which is irritating traditional paymasters like Germany and Holland, whose populations are now calling Eastern Europeans a beggar cousin. This perennial gonya gonya bleating from the East is boring a nearly broke Brussels I tell you! '' Gisiko mana ni gonya! –-Obama gonya, Merkel gonya, Xi Jinpin gonya!'' Thoo! May be they should go back to blow-jobbing Russia for some bear love drops! actually Putin was recently Latin America. Brazil, Argentina, Cuba … just before he came back and announced the ban on EU agro stuff. We should take a look if any of those Latino countries do Agriculture in any noteworthy fashion. let us take a look at Spain, in their own words as they fry in their own olive oil. www.thespainreport.com/10374/spanish-farmers-facing-e580-million-losses-russian-exports-income-putin-announces-sanctions/ And now this is unbelievable, but I have a mea culpa to do. You see, I have painted a picture of Eastern European Slavic blondes as undignified creatures who, as soon as they see an official from the hard currencies, unleash sexy gonya gonya incantations, seductive like the Sirens bent on crash-landing Odysseus and his swift ship, making home from Troy. Well, what do I know! One of the proudest nations on Earth, Spain, where Kenya-famous clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid are homed, is currently displaying her famous sunny temperament outside the ECB! Take a look: rt.com/business/179764-spain-russia-trade-compensation-eu/ that must be pure Russian propaganda! If Great Spain wants agricultural subsidy and compensations, what are we to do with lowly Poland and even lowlier Ukraine when she joins!?So let me tell you what we Germans were saying yesterday after getting drunk on Dutch horticultural wine –-yes, Luos should try that in Nyanza and forget sugarcane: Spain? Actually she belongs more with the AU, than the EU. Moors they are. Totally shameless in their laziness. Let them pay Ronaldo and Messi less! (who won the world cup?) Neuro zone on a one two with Russia? Italy which is involved in building the Southern pipeline is exempted?? No?
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 2, 2014 19:50:06 GMT 3
FORMING A CABINET, EU STYLE --HOW TO CHARM SCORPIONS IN BED WITHOUT GETTING STUNG!Now folks, it would appear politics is local everywhere, and never more so in Europe, where most states are nation states in the main. Germany is German, Poland is Polish, France is French etc. The multinational states like Belgium, the UK, Spain are not in a good shape seeing the manifest secessionist tendencies. Europe does not know how to handle ethnic minorities , Jews or Gypsies. The banning of the Russian language in Ukraine recently instituted by the anti-Yanukovych putschists for instance, would be like banning the Somali language in Kenya. Obviously that would be asking for a Sh!t storm, and I believe there is one in Ukraine right now. Ireland is divided into one part Independent, another within the United Kingdom. Yugoslavia went bust, Bosnia went bust, and the Slovaks and the Czechs decided to call it a day and disband their union, once called Czechoslovakia. So much for multi-ethnic harmony within a single unitary state in Europe! But even as the various ethnic groups insist on their own states –we will soon see what Scotland votes, and then the Catalans whose capital is Barcelona--- they all feel the need for a supra organisation, an umbrella Union where they can face the nasty outer world as Europeans. All in all then, the centrist European Union is a run-away popular thing amongst these desperate European tribes. And the smaller they are, the merrier they wax over the EU. Lonely rejectionists like Norway are more motivated by a desire not to share their wealth with the parasitic Greeks for instance. We call that ''ras politik'' or racial politics. Like in ethnic profiling. --You know like Luos are Gor hooligans while the Kikuyus do all the work of nation-building, or the inverse ! The popularity of the EU then, may appear anachronistic in the light of the local ethnic drive toward independence that now threatens local conglomerates like Britain and Spain, but one needs to recognise the civilising role her predecessor performed. The EEC set rigorous standards for the bourgeois societies responsive to her citizens they wanted to be. The treaties are too many to mention! If your country had a military dictatorship, or rigged elections, or jailed political opponents; or had cities with the masses defecating in the open, or open air abatoirs next to sewers, or eating joints infested with diseased flies; or undrinkable tap water, etc etc and yet collected taxes from the citizens, your were deemed TOO STUPID AND TOO PRIMITIVE a country to join the Economic Union of Civilisation. If you were a white country around the area, you were free to apply and join the EEC and later the Union, but you knew what you had to do. Stop being a European version of an African country?? There was also the European charter with some interesting clauses like on the total legality and protection of Homosexuality and homosexuals. If like Spain and Poland, sunken in Catholic and Biblic conservative orthodoxy you denounced homosexuals, that was very well, but you needed not apply. Fwack you! The eternal fascist dictator Francesco Franco of Spain told the Brussels eurocracy (that is how the European bureaucracy is known). I am staying catholic, fascist, and a dictator! with my people! The dictator colonels of Greece whose names are too long to pronounce –Poupoudoupoulous for instance, followed Franco's example. And Portugal too had her primitive soldier sods at the helm, their heads firmly ostrich like in the famous saying. Well, there is something called propaganda by deed, and it is in deed deadly. As the EEC Northerners led by the dynamic union then known as the Benelux riding on German Industrial prowess recorded stupendous growth rates and their populations, with whole families, came to flaunt their prosperity during summer holidays in the sunny beaches of the shrunken and primitive South with her catholic rigidity and simple-minded military caudillos, the Southerners were turned on, and turned on their dictators. That EEC thing with her crazy ideas about social liberties even for gays had its advantages: Let us apply. The rest is history. Though it must be said that the Polish elite many decades later would, on account of piety to Catholicism, toy with the idea of opting out of some of the the European charters which bestow legitimacy on gay nuptials. That was fine for them, but the EU was not a piecemeal affair. They were free to get out in toto -simply hold their referendum and initiate the exit procedure, who cares! Well, the population did care after all. The Polished citizens remembering their stagnation of yester years, and fearing being dashed back to them dungeons, got rid of their political class instead. And today it be a Pole, Donald Tusk, who will be head or president of the European Council, the top official who chairs EU summits and mediates between the 28 governments. He replaces José Manuel Barroso . José Manuel Barroso, CENTER, is a Portuguese politician. He HAS BEEN the 11th president of the European Commission. He served as prime minister of Portugal from 2002 to 2004 He will be replaced by former Polish prime Minister Donald Tusk, below, left. Then there is the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, and the President will be Jean-Claude-Juncker, left here below, replacing Herman van Rompuy. The former Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Herr Jean-Claude Juncker, ever ridiculed by the British tabloids as John the Drunk Junk, is now busy forming his Euro cabinet. The ministers are officially known as Eurocommissioners, and the portfolios are ''commissariats'' not ministries! This [cabinet formation] is a delicate task. I will compare it to forming an ideal Kenyan cabinet, where one needs to beware of all sensitivities: Regional, ethnic, block, party lineage, electoral representation, anti Russian sentiment or transatlantic phillyEssentially there are only five core commissariats: economy, finance, competition (market regulation), foreign affairs, and agriculture. And all the member states are gunning for one of theirs, or their block. The Notherners do not want some Southern bumble or bimbo at finance, given Draghi of Italy is already messing at the ECB. The French want it all, finance and agriculture so that they can manipulate money to fuel their stalled economy. Small but rich countries like Holland and Denmark always want to be strongly represented at the core, given they trust themselves best with economic thrift. Germany always sighs in tiredness. They are the real paymasters but here nobody wants a German at the table. Will give them too much power. The eastern Europeans are suspected of always cutting deals to transfer cash their side, leeches! Then there is the catholic vs protestant divide, the reformed vs the orthodox Christians; the socialists vs the liberal free marketeers. And the mandatory need for gender balance.Forming a Eurocabinet it is said, is the art of going to be with scorpions and not getting bitten. This is why men like Van Rompuy and John Junk rise to the top. They are old hands at any horse-trading. They are veterans of negotiations lasting whole decades, and meetings lasting 5 days non-stop. (The story goes Tony Blair once forgot not only his name, but his country and what he had come to do in Brussels, in one of these marathons.) Junckers technique is said to be out-drinking everybody else. Then he fishes a document out of his pocket and lets them sign it, dead drunk! That is how you go to bed with scorpions and wake up alive to bed them another time. And yesterday and tonight and tomorrow night in Brussels, Scorpions will be charmed, devils tamed, demons exorcised. At Last! At last! Habemus Eurocabinet! the collective cry will be heard across the old continent. NB: I can see breaking news now is a Dutchman (current foreign minister) is to deputise Juncker. NB: While the English Press is rabidly anti Jean-Claude Juncker, the Scots are different. The amounts of Scotch consumed in Juncker's marathon meetings register in Scottish GDP calculations. Now then, that is a friend in Europe for the highlanders! I am out of time, but there is a nice one out there. About a ''difficult'' telephone conversation between Barroso and Putin last thursday! that will be juice worth squeezing slowly I assure you! Stay tuned.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 24, 2015 15:45:40 GMT 3
www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/22/us-ecb-policy-idUSKBN0KU2ST20150122 SAVING THE EURO(zone). That was April fools day 2014. Why FOOLS DAY? Because Chair Draghi of the ECB said the governing council is UNANIMOUS. Now, FF to JANUARY 21 2015 . A tsunami of cash has been unleashed. 80% OF the government bonds will be owners own risk, to bear respobsibility. It may be one currency zone, but the risk solidarity just goes so far. When the quantitative easing deal was concluded in Frankfurt, there was a break with required protocol, in the sense that it was not put to vote. Yes, the UNANIMITY was a gentlemanly nod of heads while eyes avoid each other like in a shifty gathering of mafioso. Here is a list of the known dissenters. Jens Weidemann, chair Bundesbank (Germany) and Sabine Lautenschlaeger, Ewald Nowotny (Governor central bank) AustriaKlas Knot (Chariman Central Bank) HollandArdo Hansson [governor of Central Bank) EstoniaDraghi's import of the word Unanimous needs many qualifications. It is EUROSPEAK. Once upon a time, Germany unilaterally decided, against earlier UNANIMOUS assertions, that she would do all to support the Italian Lira. Now again, by forcing the concession that every central bank apart will cover the bond risks of that particulal country, Germany effectively has one foot outside the door. A kind of opting out. NB: Bankrupt Greece is going to elections January 25, Sunday tomorrow. Tired of scorch-earh austerity, the electorate could just experiment with something out of the ordinary, putting on the table a new round of negotiations, with both parties being called on their bluff: GREXIT or not!? Good luck to Angela too.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 27, 2015 23:55:35 GMT 3
THINKING OF OSKAR LAFONTEINE, A FORMER (1998/9) GERMAN MINISTER OF FINANCEThe Victory of the -by some accounts EXTREME--- leftist Syriza party on the January 25th (2015) Greek general election, reminds me for some reason I will presently reveal, of a man named Oskar Lafontein. Oscar Lafontein sped across the German political landscape like some kind of comet, moving from a ''centre right'' SPD (Social Democratic Party) theoretical position in economics, toward a centre left -(as he became the party's candidate to run against the Unification chancellor Helmut Kohl in the federal elections of 1990). He failed to unseat the - Unification bonus-- popular Kohl, but did so well that, in 1998/99, he was rewarded by the party, only to become the short-lived finance minister under now victorious SPD's Gerhard Schroder.The Euro was erected/anchored on his watch. More or less ! By 2005 Oscar Lafontein had moved EXTREME LEFT to join and be prominent in DIE LINKER (The Left). The furthest left of Germany's big political parties. And then he started to wobble back again -toward more business loyalty. Painting a picture of confusion, but ultimately ANTI-EURO. More or less! WHAT DOES GREXIT MEAN? It means a tacit recognition, that there is life outside the Euro, and, more so, for those who, within the euro, life has been hell on earth! Like Greece. Greece's period of (4-year) dread austerity to date, imposed by the so-called (EC, ECB, IMF) Troika -with the promise of more of the same until the Gods of Debt decide they have had their fill of Greek blood, has been described by the winners of yesterday's election as a period of HUMILIATION. If it has been that bad, why do they not straightaway abandon the Euro for that panacea of theirs outside? some might be tempted to ask, and rightly so. -because, I think, there is still room within the Euro, to negotiate and practice other economic policies, other than the orthodox scorch-earth which Northern banks have dictated upon Greece, and used her quisling middle of the road parties to locally enforce.The evident popular mandate/uprising against austerity -German orthodoxy, is a statement in modern European history that, if it leads to GREXIT, would raise fundamental questions about the DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY of the European Project itself. As things stand, the whole Brussels bureaucracy is tainted with the charge, suffering from DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT. A Grexit would like prove a popular democratic mandate, fair and square, and the Eurozone, are mutually exclusive!One notes the financial markets are already running scared . In other words, according to the financial markets, the Greek population is crazy to reject their skinning alive! Rather, the right market choice would be for the Greeks to vote what the Greeks themselves called ''their national humiliation and individual degradation!'' Intriguing stuff! The peoples will contra the market's or Banker's will! So why does Syriza and Tsipras remind me of Oskar Lafontaine?A long long time ago, once upon a time in Germany ... content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1061439,00.html Me theorises Germany, as a dominant financial and industrial power, has the luxury of being able to export her internal contradictions to the lesser European nations, mainly to the South. Thereby buying time. -I do not have the time now to delve further into this theory of ''exporting internal contradictions to buy time''. But I will come back to it, possibly in the weekend when I do not have students on my back to mind in the morning. Anyway, it means, in my opinion, that the contradictions which resulted in erratic behaviour of Oskar above, had to be fought out elsewhere as Germany reported all ship-shape and safe sailing. But Southwards, like in Greece, the locusts would must eat to the bone, and the prey, feeling the pain on the bone, would need must react accordingly, writhing in pain, finding no anaesthesia, no where and no one to re-export the contradiction to.''Greece has nobody else to pass the buck to!'' they are the last in the line. So, whether they be the tragic heroes or not - the Spartacus who challenged mighty Rome and paid the price, or the David who slew the Goliath, Greece and Greeks have no option but to say NO to the economic policies of ''humiliation national degradation''. They refuse to be bled further as sacrificial lambs at the altar of a banker's fetish of a financial policy of extortion. The French, having neo-colonies abroad (like in Africa) to partly pass on the ''costs of their locusts'', can still afford to entertain (even racial) illusions, ie. the majority of the working class preferring to flirt with chauvinistic fascism as their candidate to stabilise their capitalist crisis and attempt halt their national decline. So they vote Le-Pens xenophobic national front. The wretched French whites think the wretched Muslims huddled in concentration camps around their big cities like Paris, festering in Islamic fundamentalism, are the true danger to their declining nation, and not the failed policies of their elite, left or right, Sarkozy or Hollande.The Greek working class has, apparently, majorly decided otherwise. Majorly voting leftist Syriza. But the far-right came in strong too. No middle ground here. Now the Greeks risk being booted out of the euro-currency, at least Angela Merkel has opted that bluff. And Northern banks --(German, French and Dutch majorly)-- which would go bust if Greece went, are keeping the faith, that the Greeks are more scared to go it on their own (issuance of their old currency the drachma), that they would rather stay in the euro and be flayed to death! Alexis Tsipras, like Spartacus, would better prepare for an epoch changing duel. Lots slaves are watching the gladiator enter the arena against the monster Merkel, the shadow of Death. And I will be back, because this is gonna be a thriller. Yes, Oscar Lafontein. I had made a mental note when I read his resignation speech. (resignation from the the ministry of Finance that is).
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 4, 2015 19:57:24 GMT 3
Right! no kidding! check that date again! 2014 About fools day. (Christin Lagarde --that is the French IMF replacement of the pimp DS-Khan, also went to Athens at around the same time as Angela last year, and, as they say, gave Tsipras the big snub. Further, in a new year message last month, she, IMF Queen, tried to scare aware the Greek voters away from SYRIZA. Since then I have learnt some unflattering greek choice words which have to do with old cows rehashing old wives scare tales!Came January 25 2015, now we have this interesting 'Gorgon head' act in Athens. One eye of the monster is Extreme right, the other extreme left! And In less than two weeks time, Eurozone leaders will be meeting in Brussels. EU supremo Angela Merkel of Deutschland is said to be preparing the mother of all snubs! she insists she wont have a one on one with the Greek upstart and political rascal, Alexis Tsipras.Hmmm S0 let us have a background go at the emotions up North. The vice-president of the European commission, incidentally the former Finnish prime minister, Jyrki Katainen, read the edict to Tsipras directly: We dont change policies depending on elections. This is important to repeat. The man means, elections which change governments are of no consequence to the policies in place. -Elections are essentially a useless tool of changing government policy! -Screw you if you thought so --(Greeks and other eurozone creeps!) 'Greece should just, for a ;)change, try paying their own bills and debts like everybody else!'' said a senior German MEP. In other words, the Greeks are parasites. The message is clear: ' 'It is a monetary Union of some 19 countries. For small, insignificant yet bankrupt countries, they will do what they are told, or, why not, reclaim their independence by getting out of the Euro, back to their original currencies.'' That is the bottom line. And I think Greece has reached it. Angela Merkel really has no political room to manoeuvre methinks. The ECB is printing money like it were rolls of toilet paper (Quantitative Easing), and tempers in Berlin are lost never to be found so long this lunacy of Draghi persists, while, in Frankfurt where the nerves Bundesbank holds vigil at the ECB, German hearts are sunk beyond consolation nor redemption. To have the upstart leftist Tsipras walk over her would be suicide for Merkel. Not to mention the suspicion that France and Italy are in a proxy fight with Germany, and they are not exactly short of distant moral support for the anti-austerity headstrongness of the Greek challenger. But who, O who, will be the Ariadne to help out contemporary Iason navigate labyrinthian Brussels, The EU palace, whereunder many a career of many a Greek prime minister and minister of finance, has perished in ritual sacrifice!? AHOY! Germany did not bankrupt Greece! The Greeks themselves did themselves in! this they managed by means of their corrupt politicians in tandem with a rotten oligarchy and ancient bureaucracy, all united in a festival of national plunder and disinvestment, all to the din of a population cheering like sheep bleating happily at a meat market! Their meat. The Greek elite cannibalised Greece. Alexis Tsipras should more or less be like Ulysses in his return to Ithaca, doing away with the suitors who had turned his palace into a wasteful brothel, Ulysses purging a dead-end aristocracy. His fight is not in Berlin, nor Brussels. There is no reason why Germans should pay for the stupidity of a defunct Greek ruling class. But, wait a moment! I retract : with Merkel stupid enough to go for further sanctions against Putin's Russia on account of Crimea and Donbass, and , further, join the United states in the currency war against the Russian rouble, it would actually be a act of some German intelligence to save Greece from herself mutilation!Imagine the same Germany forcing limping France and stalled Italy to declare economic war on Russia!? Such a sorry lot heading to a sad fate, one would seriously think a Grexit with all its nightmare scenario is the old worthy price of LIBERATION. Elections should have a consequence. Actual change of policy. If they don't, why bother? Democracy being an old Greek word -Of the banks people by the markets people! But we know the Eurozone: elections come and go, governments come and go, policies stay the same. Leftist or rightist democrat, take it or leave it! It is a thriller! (the french working class are gearing to elect a fascist, greece left, france right!)
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 19, 2015 23:40:09 GMT 3
Another D-DAY FOR GREECE, 20-05-2015.www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/19/greece-requests-eurozone-loan-extension On Thursday Feb. 19th 2015, Greece asked for an extension of the bailout program, signalling she would refrain from unilateral action and stay the rigid, demanded course. The Chairman of the eurogroup --(the caucus of the 19-eurozone finance ministers)-- the Dutchman Joram Disselbloem, then announced this would be discussed in the scheduled meeting in Brussels, 20th February 2015. Then came Germany's pre-emptive bombshell, throwing a spanner in the works. The Germans, by voice of their finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, do not think this Greek request amounts to an iron-cast commitment to the conditions! (it still leaves room for them to wriggle out of the austerity package at a date of their choosing! --the lazy siesta-crazed bedbugs of the Aegean archipelago!) Joram of the Lowlands was in Athens Monday 16th February in what ended up being a very acrimonious meeting with Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek green minister of finance. The Dutchman (often caricatured as a proxy German hitman) was essentially delivering an ultimatum for capitulation. Earlier on in the first week of February, the Greek minister had gone on a charm offensive around Northern Europe, mostly reaping scorn. Wolfgang Schäuble, finance minister of Germany, and his Greek counterpart, Yanis Varoufakis, at a press conference, Berlin February 5th 2015.Then to Paris below. Unfortunately France has no say in this. No Financial muscle to talk back at Germany in public. Varoufakis in paris with French finance minister Michel Sapin. Feb-2 2015. The European Central Bank announced february 5, that it would no longer accept Greek State Bonds as collateral for low-interest loans to Greek commercial banks. That is more like a trigger for the latest bank runs. So, does Syriza capitulate? Or does the former Marxist bald-head of a professor, Yanis Varoufakis, with the heady looks of a street-fighter, have a secret technique to win against these odds? Germany will have nothing but a capitulation! the Syriza rebellion must be squashed. It has a 'Spartacus' element to it! And Rome must not show a soft spot, an appeasement for a rebelling slave! Yanis in London with George Osborne of the UK treasury (chancelor of the exchequer)When Yanis met Jeroen! no love was lost.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 22, 2015 19:04:38 GMT 3
GREECE GETS A TWO DAY HOMEWORK PERIOD, AND 4-MONTHS CASH TITRATION GRACE From the USA to God knows where, BANKERS have successfully transferred their loses and mistakes on to the public purse. That is not the way it is suppose to work in the free market, a competitive arena where only the fittest would survive. Some entrepreneurial, investment mistakes must have consequences called bankruptcy, the doctrine would predict; but a floater theory was developed, that the Financial Sector is Holy and therefore some Banks are too big to fail. Subsequently their private debts were thrust on the back of the public, nationalised. Citizens would be bled to death as an austerity to the level of autarky was instituted to feed the debt monster. It is a kind of heist. An expropriation formula. How do we explain the fact that Greece, ever since it entered the Troika supervisory regime in 2010 or thereabouts, recievership in other words, has seen her debt/gdp ratio gallop from 120% to 175%! her industrial base has shrunk 30% and unemployment rised to an excess of 40%. And, wait for it, Yanis said young greeks work for 3 Euros/hour --which only a Chinese labourer will take in Kenya to push wheelbarrows for the SGR! yes, money has been leaving Greece. By the truckloads per second! it is called a bankrun I believe. We will negotiate some charts for the four years. SYRIZA AIMING AT THE ACHILLES HEEL OF THE WHOLEIn the Eurozone, the leftist Syriza is ideologically radical, even if it is a coalitional broad spectrum of doctrinal tendencies. Her message is nothing but treasonable, subversive and has a risk of contagion, and,yes, that message is leftist in vision. that is a stomach ache for liberalism. (-Given a free-run, genuine leftists would prosecute and jail corrupt bankers and all those who have aided tax-evasion and massive swindling. -That is just about every big banker, and every Swiss banker! The recent HSBC scandal aside. Not to mention the LIBOR scandal!) Greece would certainly have to commission one of its islands neighbouring those currently holding African and Arab immigrants fished out of the Aegean sea, into a full-fledge prison colony to hold the crop of European bankers!) That kind of mythology is how Syriza politics sounds like up North to the well to-do of the world. And these of course have Wolfgang Schauble to fight their corner. Leftist Syriza therefore represents and ideological rebellion to the ruling [neo-liberal Reaganomics] orthodoxy underpinning the EUrozone, and worse, Syriza is supported by an electorate. Greece may be small, but such an example could be a beacon of light to the other austerity-tired, big-bank-bail-out hating populations of the Eurozone. Therefore the neo-liberal Brusselian agenda is to crush Syriza as an ideological force. To show it has nothing to offer but a mirage, a teen-age nonsensical dream of no practical use. That is why we had this from a gloating Wolfgang Schauble In other words Wolfgang believes he has rammed Syriza into capitulation. The German could not help himself. He could not generate enough internal discipline to suppress the sneer on his face. The rest is for eloquent Varoufakis to find the words to explain his surrender to his people. A bit like the quagmire Petro Poroshenko finds himself in after his wipe-out at Debaltsevo in Donbass. Monday 23/02/15 The Greeks have to explain just what exactly they intend to do in the 4 month grace period in which they will be able to pay their bills in Euros, courtesy of life-line from the ECB. And it must be said, an must be repeated, that the Greeks really dug their own hole. What on earth did they do will all the money they loaned cheaply from Northern Europe? (The joke is they tarmaced for jobs for 20 years on full pay, entered the labour force at maximum pay, worked for ten years maximum, and retired at 50, with full perks like a Kenyan Mpig. And they lived high in the sky all along!) Now they pay up! GAME OVER.NB: It is a wildfire North, punning on the fact that Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is a professor at mathematical economics and majored in Game theory. POST-SCRIPT. The centre left (PASOK) and centre right of Greek politics were vanquished. Crushed by German hegemons. Now the far-left too is decapitated. Which option remains for the working class of Greece to resist the terrorism of the bankers from Brussels? Behold, onnly the extreme right ultra nationalists and fascists have not been in office yet! And this is Europe. With a memory how crisis can be stabilised by those who have not created them. Desperate times require desperate measures. May be it is the extreme Right's turn to wield the state and take on the craven bankers like Hjalmar Schacht did, or, declaring that the Greek Drachma lasted thousands of years as currency, exit the euro, back to another thousand years of ups and downs with the drachma. Grexit: it requires one hell of a Greek hero to lead it. Herculean. Game over? Not in history. Some will remember Francis Fukuyama's boast, then retraction. ------The end of history and the last man. nb: Greece's entry into the Euro was of course a fraudulent exercise. She did not meet the criteria. But it was a political decision. Now, with the war simmering in East Ukraine and East West cold war setting in ever more firmly, and ISIS threatening invasion of Europe from Libya (believe it or not they did said it!), a NATO member and Mediterranean frontline country with a winky eye toward Russia is, geopolitically said, a safer bet within the Euro!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 8, 2015 15:43:07 GMT 3
WHEN JEROEN MET YANIS Early February, 2015, Athens. For the first time. Sort of in public. NB: Remind me, O fates: What was it again about the treaty of Versailles and German reparations? Did the rise of patriot Adolf Hitler had anything to do with an interpretation of those debts as German servitude? And dost thou remember to remind me too, when it is that a debt is odious.Aah ---definitions! Don't they change with time, but hunger stays feeling the same. Indisguisable like scorn. body language experts chimed, frosty. Well, Even before 40-year old Alexis Tsipras had finished assembling his cabinet nor the new finance minister agenda the key creditors, the ECB had already decided to preconclude his options. They moved fast to nail theirs on the forehead of the young man. Lest he get carried away with the revolutionary fantasies of youth! (The speed could also be a panic reaction of course, like a blanket quarantine to prevent an epidemic!)If there had been a slow-motion bankrun, this was the clarion call to a stampede: Unless a capitulation edict was signed. And so the morgue-man was sent to confess the condemned, offer the last sacrament, and come back to Brussels with the dismembered soul of Hellas as trophy. That priest of death was of course the chairman of the Eurogroup, the Dutchman Joram D. Yes, we met him before as THE TEMPLATE MAN during the 'Cyxit' crisis --when the banking system in Cyprus collapsed. WHEN YANIS MET JEROEN.Yanis V. is the Greek minister of Finance, Jeroen D., the Dutch. The Euro --it can never be repeated enough thanks to her crisis--- is modelled on the famous D-Mark, the erstwhile currency of the late Federal Republic of Germany. The neighbouring Dutch financial system as it was represented by her now defunct currency the Guilder, was, since the 1970s when the Golden-(USA)-Dollar system collapsed, firmly pegged to the D-Mark. Holland Incorporated is a German satellite economy, and the Dutch Central Bank, a Bundesbank colony. This is not an emotional issue. This is common sense, this is business --the science of knowing where the golden eggs are laid and which side of the bread is buttered. In deed, it has been a prosperous, highly profitable arrangement for Holland. (For decades after the war, the Port of Rotterdam situated in small Holland, was the busiest in the world. Guess how come!? There was an economic miracle happening in Germany, and such real miracles need effective material ports to in and out products at miraculous rates! Wily Holland became a willing cog, developing Rotterdam into pound for kilo the most efficient port in the world. Thus did they soar along with their over-industrious neighbours, the Germans. These had been defeated at war, but were out to win by industry and commerce!) And O boy, did they not make a go for it! [see graph] The Breton-Woods agreement was that every US-dollar had a verifiable golden unit backing the denomination. A gold fetish. Then something happened (likely the Vietnam war I think or some new Trojan War to bring back a contemporary Hellene I guess); the Americans needed and printed more dollars without adding insuring amounts of gold. And that was that. Reality set in, the dollar became a paper tiger, and every currency had to find its own market value, floating relative to the dollar or not. Gold as a fetish was out. The Lutheran-reformed and Max-Weber-inclined Germans, remembering the ravages of an unstable currency, -- devaluation, hyper-inflation, depression and the insidious political turmoil, had long ago decided they needed a disciplined, strict and thrifty Central bank, such to run a quiet currency based on conservative policy, ... one so trustworthy and averse to wide fluctuations (devaluation proof!) it would be a cultural treasure, a (new) peoples' fetish only second to God or Hitler may be. This would be a currency you did not just print when you ran out of money --nay, it would not be like the Lira, the Peso, the Franc, the drachma, the Zimbabuean dollar, or the other toilet-paper currencies the world is so rich in. Such a fort of a currency would be the blueprint for the Euro, otherwise the Germans would never surrender the Queen of their hearts, the D-Mark. Not mentioned here is of course what is called the HISTORIC COMPROMISE between German labour and German Capital. Both sides kept their side of the bargain, meaning there was no --strikes, excessive-- turbulence in the industrial process of regeneration after the lost war. It was historically understood since the Weimer mess that the German Central Bank, Bundesbank officially called, would do everything to insure Price Stability! This creates the tranquil atmosphere for very long-term planning, certainty for both business and labour, to mutual benefit and political order: the stuff of miracles so to speak. And so with Germany ever prosperous and performing competitively in a very long run, otherwise transient political constructs/stopgaps edificed into orthodoxy. And the Eurozone has been finding out just how serious the Germans are in their 'stability fetish'! (and so the emerging criticism that the ''fetish'' is actually very Germanocentric, since it is designed to guarantee Germany's economic pre-eminence in the zone, and thus the world! -Sour grape tales! retorts the accused!) And the trauma of hyperinflation still rings deep, so deep such as .. to warrant this ... --Such statements help us recognise why current ECB chair, the Italian Mario Draghi, and his Quantitative Easings in the line of Anglo-American printing-press runs, is like swallowing a pill of poison to the Frankfurters up North. And we can also recognise why, at a fundamental level, the Germans can not allow Greece her independence within the Euro. The Greeks, in this narrative, are indisciplined bankers and consumers who spend as if there is no tomorrow. And they do not understand credit accrues interest, and consumerism is not investment. (That is the near racist myth up North why the Jeroens of that world find the Yanisses of that world hardly worth a handshake!). Such animals have no business being given a hearing, let alone running an economy, their economy. They are natural born parasites, a lowly financial species known as Spendicus Hellenicus: soaring high for a period but doomed to thud to the bottom of the sea of bankruptcy --Of course the relationship between Germany and the other states of Europe, being what it is after the NAZI trauma of world war II, a degree of reticence on the German's part is prudent. (But the Greeks know of the 'image of a Greek in a typical German mind', that is why cartoons in Athens do not practice reticence. Angela Merkel and Schauble are routinely portrayed as Hitlerite financial (Gestapo) torturers. If nor outright scavengers stripping a corpse.) This historical burden which tends to make German politicians swallow their tongues in the face of other Europeans, is where the Dutch come in as trusted lieutenants. Somebody like Jeroen Dijsselbloem is a Dutch-mask-German-core. A German ideological clone but spotting the typical chameleon-esque soft, cunning Dutch salesman's smile. (The Dutch ''Hitman'' they call Jeroen down South. A ''German Shepherd'' to hem errant sheep within a Bundesbank fashioned straight jacket, the slaughter-line!) Greece, an old country of intrigue as we read in the Olympian tales of Zeus and his incestuous family of gods, could not have failed to mock the Eurogroup chair ---Jeroen Dijsselbloem--- when he arrived in Athens that early February day, a briefcase of papers for the pugilist-headed Yanis Varoufakis to sign: the papers to officialise the capitulation of the new Syriza government. ---Those election promises they had won power on, out of the window now. Greece's fate is not for her people to determine. That is the prerogative of the gods. Typical Northern arrogance over the South, New Athens screamed. Look at this German shepherd with a long leash all the way to Berlin. This arrogant banking errand boy of Dutchman. Still, the truth be spoken, the Greeks made it easy for others by driving themselves into a cul-de-sac. Jeroen condescendingly told them to stop being hysterical and man up to their leaky pockets. 'I am not the beggar here!' German racial mythology always feared this kind of Southern disease. To back it up .... on the other hand, the D-mark was an international reserve currency in the league of the dollar. That is proven 'seniority' which is to be read 'superiority'! Germany would go fo nothing else but the Euro as a D-Mark prototype. And yes, they settled on the Dutch -as an acceptable compromise--- to oversee it. Wim Duisenberg.The first chairman of the ECB was, therefore, a Dutch former minister of finance and central banker, Wim Duisenberg. He was (in an intellectual sense) a protege of Jan Tinbergen, a NobeL price Dutch mathematical economist and great proponent of a scientifically modelled economy, rather than one left to the self-opinionated swings of the market! A disciplinarian. Jan Tinbergen and his models at the institute at the Rotterdam School of Economics, had been very effective in overseeing the thrifty use of the Marshall loan the Americans had offered the Dutch for reconstruction. This kind of thrifty --miserly econometrical-- debt management is, according to Neurozone racial mythology, incompatible with the Zeurozone Central bankers, thieving politicians and mentally ever absent bureaucrats. These must therefore be 'guided' within the iron grip of their more sensible, often blonde Northern brothers. (more later on the tribal politics of Europe when the Italia Mario Draghi was billed to head the European Central Bank: A belgian editorial was bold: we all know what happens to banks led by Italians. [When I recently told my Gikuyu lawyer friend of this racialism. He grinned at me and said. ''It is not all nonsense, you know, I did not vote for Raila because I suspect you Luos are like Greeks and we Kikuyus Germans. We have a better understanding of thrift, even when we steal like there is no tomorrow for Kenya!''] ---but that is another story for later! Therefore when Jeroen met Yanis that day in Athens, their hearts were already poisoned with other things than the agenda on the table. And politics is rarely a game of facts.Greece after all, was not admitted into the Eurozone on account of her economy. Her statistics were a sham. There were other considerations though . --that the figures were cooked was an open secret, so pass. In the new geo-political constellation of the world, I think those considerations are still overriding. Nikos Kotzias, the Syriza foreign minister for Greece, heard over the radio that the EU had unanimously approved new sanctions against Russia. But nobody had consulted him on that. Why did he, Kotzias, think Greece, a 'dead debtor', should be consulted in the geo-political decision? A pressman asked him! Respect of national sovereignty? Umm, a beggar and sovereignty, a beggar and dignity? It is a dangerous world. ---I heard a rumour the IS is plotting to invade mainland Europe through t he MeMediterraneanea from Libya! That makes Greece is a frontline state! And with Russia too no longer a partner knowing her place, it is in the stars where Greece belongs. Constellation NATO. NB: When the Germans occupied Holland and Greece in the second world war, how did the families of Dijsselbloems and Varoufakises cope!? Resistance or collaboration?
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Post by jakaswanga on May 2, 2015 22:21:12 GMT 3
RIGA, LATVIA, APRIL 25 2015. YANNIS VAROUFAKIS OF GREECE BARRED FROM EUROGROUP JOINT DINNER!Like an orphaned child wandering away into the loney darkness as the evil stepmother conferences her biological children to a festive dinner in the warmth of her kitchen, the Greek finance minister was extradited from the Eurogroup banquet in Latvia. And dread was the din of the hecklers as they barked him away!The Eurozone has a pretty clear position. It is the German position. Would-be rival pretenders like faded France may have some known private qualms as far as economic policy is concerned, but the bullet they shall bite; and obey Germany and kick Greece in the dirt they shall, even if for the amusement of the wheel-chair bound Wolfgang who, for the occasion, I shall christen ' 'Sundiata.'' Whichever government is in power, Greece must do what she is told; which is the will of our Sundiata. Greece is captive within a straight-jacket. It can writhe inside it like a pinned worm on a dissection table in the anatomy lab, but its fate is pre-ordained and sealed. The Brusselian agenda is an imperial edict. To see this happen to the dot is the Germans-anointed Dutch enforcer, Jeroen Dijsselbloem. He is the chairman of the Eurogroup, that is the committee of the Eurozone ministers finance, or, let me say, the neo-liberal ''gorgons'' collective. Breaking Hellas should not be a problem. Greece is small change, her economy demure, a nobody really; and so what if they elected a leftist Syriza to halt the Brusselian austerity aka debt tribute? After all, the majority of Greeks still want to be members of the eurozone, and thus, what options do they really have, if not the wry smile of the sheep who joked to a neighbour hog as a butcher haggled over their price: ''we will be attending a barbecue tomorrow! Cheers!'' Yet there is this man Yanis Varoufakis. Yes, he is the finance minister of a broken nation, a lazy worthless debt-colony run by a despicable bureaucracy, presided over by an even a more despicable political class, yet his mind is unbroken. He is a biter of the hand that not only feeds him, but restrains his country from the precipice tumble. WTF! Thats all of them could feel the boring cold stare of ''Sundiata'' on one or other part of their bodies. They, an intimidated Eurogroup, like ace sycophants, had to show the Greek he was the meat at this feast! Instead of negotiating his surrender, Yannis the Greek drew up a - kind of academic-- template for the reconstruction if not democratisation of the Eurozone. The Northerners, blonde minions of the banking system and agents of various loan-sharks and bond-market manipulators, were not going to listen to protestations from a Southerner representing a debt colony. Beggars gotta know their place, and wear the flattering garb of gratitude at their bodily auction. Like a fat barbecue pig.Spartacus had his moment against Rome, and was killed eventually. And so Other sources: ''if you come to that dinner, you fwacking Greek, we will do to you with our cutlery, what the Roman senate did to Julio Caesar! define combative approach! Exit Yannis, enter others more likely to lie down and get skinned. Barbecue pigs which welcome their slaughterer with an approving grunt. That is the role and fate of pigs in human civilisation, department food chain. What options, Tsipras? Call Medusa's bluff? The Dutchman's bluff?This is the political problem: DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT. The Greek government is legitimate and duly elected in an open, transparent and competitive process. How about the so-called partners (originally known as The Troika, or Triad?) Is not their wielding of EXECUTIVE authority over Greece, the illegitimate power of an OCCUPIER? Aint they a colonial usurpation in process? The Greeks votet Syriza, did the Europeans vote the European council, or president Jurgen --the one the British called John Drunk? (Jean Claude Juncker) This is the real reason the group of European finance ministers blocked their ears -like Odysseus sailing past the Sirens, when the pugnacious Varoufakis outlined a DEMOCRATIC template. There is no period in history where colonial prefects have found colonials talking sense, when the tidings of freedom and democracy are hinted. Thought, deep thought, would disturb such an arrangement. So they closed ranks on the Yannis. But the democratic agenda, the question of legitimacy, the EUROPEAN WIDE PROBLEM, wont go away. I am not sure, but I think Europe has fought two continental wars over this stuff in the last century. (at least when the war-dead are remembered, the official line is they sacrifice for freedom and democracy!) -But one would have to think to get the hint. Eurozone sing: Vladimir Putin is evil! (That is the easy part!) I will be back.
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