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Marx, Nationalism and Zionism
My favourite Golda Meir quote is "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!." Here!
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Capitalistan
Before New Labour leave office, and in order to sanitise the financial markets, they could rebrand the City, I suggest a new name ...
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We Never Saw It Coming
Iceland is a miniscule economic guinea pig, the liberal media journos saw all of this coming, the orthodox economists didn't have a feckin clue, the bad economics commentariat (The Economist) are guilty, the OECD fiddled while Reykjavik burned, and it's all Brenda's fault.
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Seven Kids from The Valleys
Where Libyan monsters yell,
From the most gloomy glens
Of Greenland’s sunless clime,
To where the golden fields
Of fertile England spread
Their harvest to the day,
Thou canst not find one spot
Whereon no city stood.
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Baltic Trouble Making
The fact of the matter is that the EU is not contemplating excessive protectionism; neither is it going to sacrifice the use of stabilising economic measures on the altar of destructive free-market dogma. This is a given, and no amount of frothy freefall free-market "café lattevianism", "journobism" or reverse polish notation will change that position.
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Know Your Enemy
Know your enemy! The real enemy isn't the democratic left or democratic and radical liberalism, its isn't Plaid Cymru or the SNP, it isn't even the Tories, as vile as one may consider some of their economic and social policies.
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With friends like these: Neo-Nazis, Anti-Semitism and Israel
When the neo-Nazis start pretending that they are the biggest opponents of anti-Semitism I would pay particular attention to that – this is a serious problem of our times, the neo-Nazis are lying their way to semi-respectability, and are gaining support, which is quite worrying.
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Another own goal for equality
This blog post related to the article entitled "So you think women would have saved us. Think again" with the strapline of, "we're told that what the world needs is more females at the top. So, I give you Hazel, Tessa, Harriet..." which was written by Catherine Bennett and published in the Comment is Free section of The Observer on Sunday 22 February 2009. More here.
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Virtue is not chosen, the chosen becomes virtuous
The title of this essay is "Virtue is not chosen, the chosen becomes virtuous", it aims to argue that we have been conditioned to accept that what is "popularly acclaimed" is generally more legitimate than that which is not, and that the popularity and legitimacy of "things" is a result of a heightened and wide-spread sense of discernment, judgment and perspicacity, and not the result of big lies, propaganda and unceasing conditioning carried out via channels such as the entertainment industry a
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Respetar la Constitución
No debemos condenar ni criticar a los medios de comunicación por recibir cualquier documento o grabación insolicitada.
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BERNIE (THE FASTEST HEDGE FUND IN THE WEST)
You could hear the dollar fall, then it crashed upon the ground,
And the chatter from the White House as they spun, 'round and 'round.
And he glided into Wall Street, his scam under his vest,
His name was Bernie, and he sold the slickest secret in the west.
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Spain and the Crisis
"As a result of the events that the U.S. has been experiencing in the last year, Europe is experiencing serious difficulties".
These were just some of the words spoken today in Madrid (2008-10-07) by the President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, in his announcement of two new and temporary measures to improve saver confidence and to ensure the ongoing availability of quality credit. More here.
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New Tory Wide Boys
New Labour is not so much a party of shopkeepers as a guild of slick and sleazy wide boys and girls.
They never seem to stop thinking about making a fast buck, sorry, a quick quid. This need to capitalise follows them around everywhere they go, like a stray dog, always sizing up the financial potential of everything and everyone. This “commercialise it, mark it up and sell it on” behaviour becomes second nature to them, the totality of the whole of the known universe is there for them to lev
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Too clever for your own good
Anti-intellectualism has always been a powerful undercurrent in some cultures, and no doubt will continue to be so for many years to come. It should therefore come as no surprise that Anti-Intellectualism can be found in almost anyplace we care to look, and I’m pretty sure that the phrase “too clever for your own good” can be found in umpteen languages. However, when Anti-Intellectualism is so institutionalised that it becomes a proud tradition then it might indicate a large degree of superficia
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Financial Crisis and Subprime
Oh dear, whatever happened here? After years of over-borrowing and under-saving, the plentiful supply of cheap and easy money, the enthusiastic recklessness of a number of financial managers, and the complaisance of governments, the inevitable happened, and panic ensued.
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Short Termitis and the Bonus Culture
Short Termism is an accusation aimed at the financial institutions and is directed towards their short-term expectations of the companies that they finance; we know that, we have known that for years.
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Welcome to my new blog site
Welcome to my new web site., where I will dump my personal opinions, comments and rants from time to time. Maybe some people will even get to read some of it – by accident or omission.