Stacy Summary: Max and I wanted to make a film about this for Aljazeera in 2005/06. We wanted to look at the coming resource wars based around the Arctic in particular. Unfortunately, our executive left the network, so we never did make it.
It would be totally sado masochism for the Icelanders to get in Europe that golden prison. It wouldn’t. What advantage would Iceland have ? Go it alone ! Better to be alone, specially when you know that the main scumbag responsible for the mess has his cushy ass and his one billions euros in UK, that criminal country. They should hire a bounty hunter to arrrest that s.o.b. Send a bountry hunter to the UK and bring hm back to Iceland and hang him.
Hold up a liquor store and you get 25 years. Hold up a small country like Iceland and you retire to the City. Shitbah England, you haven’t changed a bit. No I do not consider that what was done to Iceland legal. It wasn’t. So was giving triple A rating to NINJA loans. No one of these fuckers is in prison.
Yes – At last I get it! Iceland has massive Oil reserves and the Banksters wanted to get control of Iceland. Without the debts the Icelandics would have been free to deal internationally and sell there oil in there own currency backed by gold and oil. Now they are mortgaging their soveriegnty after having their wealth stolen through a elaborate fraud. a announcement will be made soon enough to annouce exploratory drilling in Icelandic waters for suspected huge oil reserves!
What claim, as the Falklands 750 kM from the United Provinces of the River Plate anyway formerly Argentina, what about the France and Spain claims? The Brits left a plaque claiming them anyway and gave permissions for people to come and go over the years.
If the Falksland island?malvinas dispute become hostile it will no doubt threaten the UK’s general election. This could be the opportunity Gordon and his advisors have been hoping for. They could use this to postpone the election.
The new Chilean government is alligned with the US. Either the US is ditching Britain on this issue or the US is gonna carry out the usual ‘distabilising’ measures.
“The Argentine government summoned on Thursday the US ambassador in Buenos Aires to demand an explanation regarding a report from newly appointed CIA chief Leon Panetta which states that Argentina, given the current world crisis could face a serious economic situation and instability.”
…..Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana: “We are surprised and disappointment with an agency which we do not understand why they have to interfere with us”
Hmm. Wonder what our real motive is for not taking sides. Could it be that certain American oil companies don’t want to give a “competitive advantage” to British oil companies?
@snoot – it’s called the art of war; they take out the most vulnerable first; amass the profits that give the power to go over the bigger targets; the US is also ‘vulnerable’ if you look at it in terms of the size of its deficit, both absolute and relative, but only China has the firepower or the nerve to possibly go after them; France not only has large reserves of gold and savings to make a speculative attack expensive for the speculator, at this point, it also has the political power to bring in regulations against them should they dare to attack it
China To Purchase Half of IMF’s Gold
Front page / Business / Finance
25.02.2010 Source: Pravda.Ru
….China has confirmed the intention to purchase 191.3 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund at an open auction, Finmarket news agency said…..
@snoot – PLUS, the speculative attacks are designed for maximum profit in case of outright DEFAULT; speculators got burned when they attacked Goldman, they won when they attacked arch Goldman rival, Lehman; they will get burned, right now, if they take on either France or Germany or the US, but the day will come when they are vulnerable
“BRUSSELS—The European Union’s statistical authority, Eurostat, said Wednesday it had received “incomplete” information from Greece about a controversial 2001 derivatives transaction, a failing it said revealed the need for it to have new powers to audit governments.”
@snoot – you asked why the speculators weren’t going after France; re: the fictional exchange rate CDSs, there is not yet any indication that France has used these; it has been well known for over a decade that Italy has been using them, however; and now Greece has been caught using them
@ WL – Oil company “strawman”? Are you suggesting that competition between oil companies does not influence foreign policies? UK and US oil companies are not state owned.
No, Stacey, I wondered why the press was giving France such a wide berth. Buying time for France/Germany by labeling a group of countries porcine indicates the press is supporting French interests.
Except for the Falklands War proper, the UK has done an F- job of maintaining its territorial claim to the islands.
Maintaining a claim is not hard, but you must prove that you own the islands via territorial broadcasting
– http://hireme.geek.nz/fk-SW-dbu.png
– 2 x 100 kw SW, 2 x 50 kw MW is all you need
– All of this could have been installed in the 1970s, long before the war
– The BBC WS would need to maintain its Spanish service, launched with Arabic in 1936
– Some BBC domestic radio would be needed too…
You can’t argue against a high powered transmitter!
Little problem with the Arctic. I takes at least a 200$ oil to be feasable today. Norway is an exception. With actual prices the return on investment is microscopic. There is supposed to be about 50 billion barrels in Groeland. It’s not a lot when you think that world consumption is 2,5 billions barrels per month ! 30 billion barrels per year. Now that’s a real problem. Instead of wasting your time on CO2 all you greenies, you should concentrate on natural ressource waste.At least good news on this front. HUMMER is dead @ @@ !!!!!!!! Youppi !
== Difficulties ==
I don’t even see the Falklands Islands case as being much of a challenge … and a “Radio Free Argentina” of some kind would seal the deal.
@Frances
What’s wrong with you and this France thing ? I don’t see the relation chère France with France. They love in the press to make funny names.
Makes me think of the NINJA loans. Remember them. The PIIGS are NINJA countries. No Income No Jobs and No Assets. Nope. I don’t see any relation with France. It’s like saying the “FOOTSIE” has something to do with Tony Blair or the Queen’s foot. You are smokin good stuff Frances. Still eating “Liberty Fries” ?
@Frances
Greece is a laboratory. If the medecine admistered, the poison injected in Greece goes well there, Sarkozy and Merkel, these two NWO fascist wil be doing the same thing in France and Germany. It’s ALL about destroying the middle class and workers. That’s for sure.
Chile has many historic elitist tie ups to the English. However after the last falklands battle Mr Pinochet who Thatcher relied on to help the British in many ways was effectively shafted – something that displeased thatcher immensely.
Those ties are still in existence albeit damaged and weakened, and as for the white house position, good old disinformation and the recent move by the latin and southern American nations to form there independent group excluding the US and Canada will be another dagger in the side of the administration. Infact it seems that the south American state Argentina remember the last time its neighbor the US sided with the Uk. This is still in the memory of many including the Spanish who have significant relationships in Sounth America. The US could lose out here for the long term!
“@Frances
What’s wrong with you and this France thing ?”
“Van Rompuy is drawing up a blueprint for the way European countries manage their economic affairs, proposing that the EU get involved in planning national policies and ensuring they are carried out.
Governments are unlikely to yield power easily to a central authority, and rejections of a proposed EU constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005 showed popular suspicion of the EU — as did a 2008 No vote by Ireland to a scaled down version, the Lisbon Treaty, which was reversed in a second vote last year and then entered into force on Jan. 1.
Still, Van Rompuy apparently believes a window for major reform has been opened by the Greek debt crisis, which has undermined the euro and has shown up the EU’s inability to coordinate government spending among the 16 countries sharing the same currency. Large deficits can undermine a currency, so members agree to limit them to 3 percent of economic output.
Those rules have been routinely flouted, even by major nations like France and Germany. The EU has done little to stop its members or punish them when they ran up huge debt, even as the world headed into a global recession.
“The long-term outlook is not bright,” Van Rompuy said last month, warning of more years of sluggish growth and high joblessness that could see Europe slip even further behind the United States and China.”
Europe is turning into an unsupervised playground with the bullies in Brussels making the rules according to German privilege, Marc. If you doubt me, please address the issue concerning the favorable turn-of-the-head by the EU council concerning toxic German bank debt, bad banks, and the basel 2 mandates.
France sits as one of the five on the NPT treaty/UN security council veto committee. France is forced by Brussel guidelines to full-tilt-boogie further nuclear contracts to pay down a deficit of 8% to 3% by 2013:
It doesn’t hurt that GDP will be redefined in favor of French interests by Stiglitz/UN. And the new GDP guidelines will include ‘gross national happiness’ which will futher feed into France’s favor if they can just get going on those uranium deals. The deficit will be measured against the new GDP criteria. And Germany wears the iron glove, controlling interests at the ECB and with a deficit of 3.8%.
@Marc:
I wonder at the utter neglect of the world press in taking umbrage at Germany’s new military stance. Will old Europe be eating ‘stalwart strudel’, an Austrian version of liberty fries deemed delicious by those who stand with little clothing behind dust-laden treaties and the visions of Merkel:
“We will agree on the way forward in close continuation with the European Union, ” Merkel told the newspaper, “We want to take all the steps together as Europeans”
The steps together as Europeans? Moving outside the UN security council with sanctions provided by the errant translation of the NPT guidelines? What rhetoric is that, Marc?
@Y’All
Dear Max
thank you so much for all the hard work you do, I too am an american ex pat. At the moment I’m live in belgium, huh, huh I KNOW what you’re thinking, but as boring as my life is I would never return to the states for love or money either. I just want to really spend a lot of time on your your website and since I discovered it and became a member… I have learnt so much, especially about about smoking navel, LOL also I have now completely mastered the art of internet commenting and churning out the same rubbish everyday. though I do worry about the implications for the some of younger members of the ‘cut and paste’ google generation… previously I used to really worry about doing things in my sleep, and the thought of sitting in bed all day and staring at my navel used to make me feel quite depressed… but I have an internet connection, time on my hands now and this isn’t such an issue for me anymore. I would also like to mention that like a lot of your regulars I kinda want to be be a writer, so even though I haven’t had a any new idea since the 80′s. I intend to maybe soon think about perhaps writing my first novel, tentativley titled ‘Why do I always wake up crying’ so thanks again to you and your website for a complete lack of inspiration.
Toby Pissdenstuk
If you have any original ideas I would definately avoid the ‘comment sections’ of blogs. The arena is often frequented with trolls who have no purpose in life but to leave behind odd utube video/links in an attempt to forward their nasty musical taste (running to anemic British pop groups or endless second-rate jazz performers). The trolls enjoy targeting those who come to the arena our of an honest curiosity and attempt to learn: the detritus-laden links or outright aggressive personal attacks seen in their weak-minded agenda as a way to eliminate any talk that may be of a ‘threatening nature’ to their own happy-sing-song world bubble.
If you do manage to last a few weeks in one of these mucky rhetorical environments, please remember not to trust the trolls even if they include tid-bits concerning their family members or community activities. The trust you give such digitory numbskulls will be repaid with treachery and antipathy.
Be forewarned and good luck!
snoot
ps. in future I would go with your Christian name and drop reference to your surname
@Frances
Know what a cat does in french ? Il ronronne ! Ronron is a matou. Ronronner means the cat is satisfied and relax. Il miaule when he wants food. Did you know that cats in a natural context rarely do that. A ploy used by cats to imitate the cry of a baby to get their meowmix. This being said I still don’t get it. France or Germany are mainly preoccupied by their banksters bad loans. It’s mainly that and nothing else. Naturally their scumbags eurocrats are trying to profit from the crisis to concentrate power in Bruxelles and create an USSR of Europe. That’s clear.
Classified cable from US Embassy Reykjavik on Icesave dated 13 Jan 2010
This document, released by WikiLeaks on February 18th 2010 at 19:00 UTC, describes meetings between embassy chief Sam Watson (CDA) and members of the Icelandic government together with British Ambassador Ian Whiting.
The arena is often frequented with trolls who have no purpose in life but to leave behind odd utube video/links in an attempt to forward their nasty musical taste
@ Snoot
I object ta sooner ya get wiser ta better hun
And me waitin fer ta day ya say “Bonn ya wer RIGHT I was wrong !!!!!!!”
A-> We don’t have nasty musical taste
b-> We do have a purpose in life Lighten up hun
Hic
ROFL lolololololol
@Bonn:
I wasn’t referring to you, but you may dress yourself according to whatever words you choose. I prefer not to be labelled ‘hun’, I wonder at your choice of expletives: perhaps ‘hun’ meets the same purpose at tat and tis for you? As far as the “Bonn! You’re right! Tat day mit cum tiff I knew ta point to yur tis and tat.
I do apologize for calling music ‘nasty’, of course that is only a subjective judgement on my part. It has nothing at all to do with the real enjoyment you find in listening to the repetitive jim/jams by angry puberty-stricken youth.
Gold!
Now Britain is gonna (re) discover what their position is to the U.S.. They are a willful slave. But if the masons get mad Obama has a problem.
Sell the £
Kill it DEAD!
Mike
max’s latest blog on piratemyfilm
http://www.piratemyfilm.com/blogs/10
Oh man you were good on Al Jazeera discussing the Greek crisis the other day. I LOLed when you said:
‘PIG naitions!’
‘Put down the uzo!’
‘Kick Goldman out of the country!’
Almost nobody ‘says it like it is’ like you do. More power to you. Keep exposing the criminal fraudsters!
Best,
Troy in Bangkok
It would be totally sado masochism for the Icelanders to get in Europe that golden prison. It wouldn’t. What advantage would Iceland have ? Go it alone ! Better to be alone, specially when you know that the main scumbag responsible for the mess has his cushy ass and his one billions euros in UK, that criminal country. They should hire a bounty hunter to arrrest that s.o.b. Send a bountry hunter to the UK and bring hm back to Iceland and hang him.
There is real landgrab taking place, and de facto landgrab through currency hegemony taking place on a major scale.
The Euro is getting a darn good kicking for daring to topple the petrodollar. Funny, just prior to the Iraq invasion, the Euro was on a roll:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2003/feb/23/oilandpetrol.theeuro
Is the petroeuro getting killed off?
The tectonic plates are indeed shifting.
Hold up a liquor store and you get 25 years. Hold up a small country like Iceland and you retire to the City. Shitbah England, you haven’t changed a bit. No I do not consider that what was done to Iceland legal. It wasn’t. So was giving triple A rating to NINJA loans. No one of these fuckers is in prison.
Yes – At last I get it! Iceland has massive Oil reserves and the Banksters wanted to get control of Iceland. Without the debts the Icelandics would have been free to deal internationally and sell there oil in there own currency backed by gold and oil. Now they are mortgaging their soveriegnty after having their wealth stolen through a elaborate fraud. a announcement will be made soon enough to annouce exploratory drilling in Icelandic waters for suspected huge oil reserves!
http://www.platformforthefuture.com/main/index.php?option=com_community&view=videos&task=video&userid=62&videoid=16&Itemid=60
Its always about ta Natural Resources
Hic
New Website:-
http://www.platformforthefuture.com/main/index.php?option=com_community&view=videos&task=video&userid=62&videoid=16&Itemid=60
I like Ted very much, bit off the wall but i like that.
Mike
@Bonn,..Natural resources being “people”,…for without those, nothing would make any sense! : )
@Bonn
Evil is O-I-L. The Mexicans call it in spanish “Oro del Diablo.” The Devil’s gold.
Maybe the masnons are allready bussy. Obama bor in the US of A?
Appeals court: We’re listening to eligibility case. Judges grant permission for lengthy filing in case challenging Obama. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=125985
What claim, as the Falklands 750 kM from the United Provinces of the River Plate anyway formerly Argentina, what about the France and Spain claims? The Brits left a plaque claiming them anyway and gave permissions for people to come and go over the years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Falkland_Islands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZGHJeaK0OA
If the Falksland island?malvinas dispute become hostile it will no doubt threaten the UK’s general election. This could be the opportunity Gordon and his advisors have been hoping for. They could use this to postpone the election.
It it would be helpful to the US if another spat broke out in the south Atlantic – They would also be able to make diversionary use of it!
US/Britain/Falklands
The new Chilean government is alligned with the US. Either the US is ditching Britain on this issue or the US is gonna carry out the usual ‘distabilising’ measures.
Argentina reacts strongly to CIA report on possible instability (Feb ’09)
http://en.mercopress.com/2009/02/26/argentina-reacts-strongly-to-cia-report-on-possible-instability
“The Argentine government summoned on Thursday the US ambassador in Buenos Aires to demand an explanation regarding a report from newly appointed CIA chief Leon Panetta which states that Argentina, given the current world crisis could face a serious economic situation and instability.”
…..Foreign Affairs minister Jorge Taiana: “We are surprised and disappointment with an agency which we do not understand why they have to interfere with us”
Hmm. Wonder what our real motive is for not taking sides. Could it be that certain American oil companies don’t want to give a “competitive advantage” to British oil companies?
Not sure if this has been confirmed yet but:
http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/25-02-2010/112369-china_gold-0
Looks like China might mop up the remaining IMF gold.
Why is the press ignoring France and pounding Greece, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, and Spain?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/bild-677351-56989.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6181KV20100209
Auditor says France must urgently reduce public debt
Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:00am EST
@snoot – it’s called the art of war; they take out the most vulnerable first; amass the profits that give the power to go over the bigger targets; the US is also ‘vulnerable’ if you look at it in terms of the size of its deficit, both absolute and relative, but only China has the firepower or the nerve to possibly go after them; France not only has large reserves of gold and savings to make a speculative attack expensive for the speculator, at this point, it also has the political power to bring in regulations against them should they dare to attack it
Maybe this headline could answer why USA doesn’t want to get involved:
Latin America backs Argentina as Britain begins Falklands oil quest
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7036764.ece
@Mep
Very probable.
China To Purchase Half of IMF’s Gold
Front page / Business / Finance
25.02.2010 Source: Pravda.Ru
….China has confirmed the intention to purchase 191.3 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund at an open auction, Finmarket news agency said…..
http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/25-02-2010/112369-china_gold-0
LOL .. seems you can only trust the Russian MSM for honest information !
@ Stacy – Maybe Japan will swat us around a little if we hurt Toyota enough?
dogtricks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFJ0REqDnT0
@snoot – PLUS, the speculative attacks are designed for maximum profit in case of outright DEFAULT; speculators got burned when they attacked Goldman, they won when they attacked arch Goldman rival, Lehman; they will get burned, right now, if they take on either France or Germany or the US, but the day will come when they are vulnerable
@Stacey:
The art of war or a power grab?
“BRUSSELS—The European Union’s statistical authority, Eurostat, said Wednesday it had received “incomplete” information from Greece about a controversial 2001 derivatives transaction, a failing it said revealed the need for it to have new powers to audit governments.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704240004575085663877702760.html?mod=WSJ-hpp-LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
@mep @All
The oil company strawman is you…
85% of global oil production is state owned
http://www.energyintel.com/DocumentDetail.asp?document_id=245527
@snoot – you asked why the speculators weren’t going after France; re: the fictional exchange rate CDSs, there is not yet any indication that France has used these; it has been well known for over a decade that Italy has been using them, however; and now Greece has been caught using them
Merkel is the bully and France the ‘little brother’?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,680274,00.html
Under whose authority is Germany to act with the EU against Iran? The Lisbon Treaty???
hahahaha
@ WL – Oil company “strawman”? Are you suggesting that competition between oil companies does not influence foreign policies? UK and US oil companies are not state owned.
No, Stacey, I wondered why the press was giving France such a wide berth. Buying time for France/Germany by labeling a group of countries porcine indicates the press is supporting French interests.
Red Pill or blue Pill
Truly Old School Technology: p16 Johhny Found Stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTutChHBGVo&feature=related
ROFL
Hic
Except for the Falklands War proper, the UK has done an F- job of maintaining its territorial claim to the islands.
Maintaining a claim is not hard, but you must prove that you own the islands via territorial broadcasting
– http://hireme.geek.nz/fk-SW-dbu.png
– 2 x 100 kw SW, 2 x 50 kw MW is all you need
– All of this could have been installed in the 1970s, long before the war
– The BBC WS would need to maintain its Spanish service, launched with Arabic in 1936
– Some BBC domestic radio would be needed too…
You can’t argue against a high powered transmitter!
Related videos to make my point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jyqEB5Q6Xg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LDWzFe6A0
Little problem with the Arctic. I takes at least a 200$ oil to be feasable today. Norway is an exception. With actual prices the return on investment is microscopic. There is supposed to be about 50 billion barrels in Groeland. It’s not a lot when you think that world consumption is 2,5 billions barrels per month ! 30 billion barrels per year. Now that’s a real problem. Instead of wasting your time on CO2 all you greenies, you should concentrate on natural ressource waste.At least good news on this front. HUMMER is dead @ @@ !!!!!!!! Youppi !
Addendum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yu8DDBq3ws
Tour of UK SW relay station…
When it comes to covering the near or far abroad, I know the longer wavelengths from soup to nuts :
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16316152/LetterPMAUNZRARNZIv301
== Difficulties ==
I don’t even see the Falklands Islands case as being much of a challenge … and a “Radio Free Argentina” of some kind would seal the deal.
But US customers, those I will never see :
http://hireme.geek.nz/payment.html
@Frances
What’s wrong with you and this France thing ? I don’t see the relation chère France with France. They love in the press to make funny names.
Makes me think of the NINJA loans. Remember them. The PIIGS are NINJA countries. No Income No Jobs and No Assets. Nope. I don’t see any relation with France. It’s like saying the “FOOTSIE” has something to do with Tony Blair or the Queen’s foot. You are smokin good stuff Frances. Still eating “Liberty Fries” ?
@Frances
Greece is a laboratory. If the medecine admistered, the poison injected in Greece goes well there, Sarkozy and Merkel, these two NWO fascist wil be doing the same thing in France and Germany. It’s ALL about destroying the middle class and workers. That’s for sure.
Chile has many historic elitist tie ups to the English. However after the last falklands battle Mr Pinochet who Thatcher relied on to help the British in many ways was effectively shafted – something that displeased thatcher immensely.
Those ties are still in existence albeit damaged and weakened, and as for the white house position, good old disinformation and the recent move by the latin and southern American nations to form there independent group excluding the US and Canada will be another dagger in the side of the administration. Infact it seems that the south American state Argentina remember the last time its neighbor the US sided with the Uk. This is still in the memory of many including the Spanish who have significant relationships in Sounth America. The US could lose out here for the long term!
“@Frances
What’s wrong with you and this France thing ?”
“Van Rompuy is drawing up a blueprint for the way European countries manage their economic affairs, proposing that the EU get involved in planning national policies and ensuring they are carried out.
Governments are unlikely to yield power easily to a central authority, and rejections of a proposed EU constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005 showed popular suspicion of the EU — as did a 2008 No vote by Ireland to a scaled down version, the Lisbon Treaty, which was reversed in a second vote last year and then entered into force on Jan. 1.
Still, Van Rompuy apparently believes a window for major reform has been opened by the Greek debt crisis, which has undermined the euro and has shown up the EU’s inability to coordinate government spending among the 16 countries sharing the same currency. Large deficits can undermine a currency, so members agree to limit them to 3 percent of economic output.
Those rules have been routinely flouted, even by major nations like France and Germany. The EU has done little to stop its members or punish them when they ran up huge debt, even as the world headed into a global recession.
“The long-term outlook is not bright,” Van Rompuy said last month, warning of more years of sluggish growth and high joblessness that could see Europe slip even further behind the United States and China.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jt6BMLbbL353kzg8BK_8Y4-CxMQQD9DU3MQG0
The so-called 3% ruling out of Brussels is behind the problematic in the Eurozone at present, Marc. Have you read about this arbitrary rule?
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-04/trichet-says-greece-all-countries-must-meet-eu-deficit-rules.html
Europe is turning into an unsupervised playground with the bullies in Brussels making the rules according to German privilege, Marc. If you doubt me, please address the issue concerning the favorable turn-of-the-head by the EU council concerning toxic German bank debt, bad banks, and the basel 2 mandates.
France sits as one of the five on the NPT treaty/UN security council veto committee. France is forced by Brussel guidelines to full-tilt-boogie further nuclear contracts to pay down a deficit of 8% to 3% by 2013:
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2009/12/france-granted-leeway-on-budget-deficit/66570.aspx
It doesn’t hurt that GDP will be redefined in favor of French interests by Stiglitz/UN. And the new GDP guidelines will include ‘gross national happiness’ which will futher feed into France’s favor if they can just get going on those uranium deals. The deficit will be measured against the new GDP criteria. And Germany wears the iron glove, controlling interests at the ECB and with a deficit of 3.8%.
@Marc:
I wonder at the utter neglect of the world press in taking umbrage at Germany’s new military stance. Will old Europe be eating ‘stalwart strudel’, an Austrian version of liberty fries deemed delicious by those who stand with little clothing behind dust-laden treaties and the visions of Merkel:
“We will agree on the way forward in close continuation with the European Union, ” Merkel told the newspaper, “We want to take all the steps together as Europeans”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,680274,00.html
The steps together as Europeans? Moving outside the UN security council with sanctions provided by the errant translation of the NPT guidelines? What rhetoric is that, Marc?
@Y’All
Dear Max
thank you so much for all the hard work you do, I too am an american ex pat. At the moment I’m live in belgium, huh, huh I KNOW what you’re thinking, but as boring as my life is I would never return to the states for love or money either. I just want to really spend a lot of time on your your website and since I discovered it and became a member… I have learnt so much, especially about about smoking navel, LOL also I have now completely mastered the art of internet commenting and churning out the same rubbish everyday. though I do worry about the implications for the some of younger members of the ‘cut and paste’ google generation… previously I used to really worry about doing things in my sleep, and the thought of sitting in bed all day and staring at my navel used to make me feel quite depressed… but I have an internet connection, time on my hands now and this isn’t such an issue for me anymore. I would also like to mention that like a lot of your regulars I kinda want to be be a writer, so even though I haven’t had a any new idea since the 80′s. I intend to maybe soon think about perhaps writing my first novel, tentativley titled ‘Why do I always wake up crying’ so thanks again to you and your website for a complete lack of inspiration.
Toby Pissdenstuk
Dear Toby:
If you have any original ideas I would definately avoid the ‘comment sections’ of blogs. The arena is often frequented with trolls who have no purpose in life but to leave behind odd utube video/links in an attempt to forward their nasty musical taste (running to anemic British pop groups or endless second-rate jazz performers). The trolls enjoy targeting those who come to the arena our of an honest curiosity and attempt to learn: the detritus-laden links or outright aggressive personal attacks seen in their weak-minded agenda as a way to eliminate any talk that may be of a ‘threatening nature’ to their own happy-sing-song world bubble.
If you do manage to last a few weeks in one of these mucky rhetorical environments, please remember not to trust the trolls even if they include tid-bits concerning their family members or community activities. The trust you give such digitory numbskulls will be repaid with treachery and antipathy.
Be forewarned and good luck!
snoot
ps. in future I would go with your Christian name and drop reference to your surname
@Frances
Know what a cat does in french ? Il ronronne ! Ronron is a matou. Ronronner means the cat is satisfied and relax. Il miaule when he wants food. Did you know that cats in a natural context rarely do that. A ploy used by cats to imitate the cry of a baby to get their meowmix. This being said I still don’t get it. France or Germany are mainly preoccupied by their banksters bad loans. It’s mainly that and nothing else. Naturally their scumbags eurocrats are trying to profit from the crisis to concentrate power in Bruxelles and create an USSR of Europe. That’s clear.
@SuperGeek
Shut Up! http://tinyurl.com/ycrs9tr
Classified cable from US Embassy Reykjavik on Icesave dated 13 Jan 2010
This document, released by WikiLeaks on February 18th 2010 at 19:00 UTC, describes meetings between embassy chief Sam Watson (CDA) and members of the Icelandic government together with British Ambassador Ian Whiting.
http://wikileaks.org/file/us-watson1-2010.txt
The arena is often frequented with trolls who have no purpose in life but to leave behind odd utube video/links in an attempt to forward their nasty musical taste
@ Snoot
I object ta sooner ya get wiser ta better hun
And me waitin fer ta day ya say “Bonn ya wer RIGHT I was wrong !!!!!!!”
A-> We don’t have nasty musical taste
b-> We do have a purpose in life Lighten up hun
Hic
ROFL lolololololol
@Bonn:
I wasn’t referring to you, but you may dress yourself according to whatever words you choose. I prefer not to be labelled ‘hun’, I wonder at your choice of expletives: perhaps ‘hun’ meets the same purpose at tat and tis for you? As far as the “Bonn! You’re right! Tat day mit cum tiff I knew ta point to yur tis and tat.
I do apologize for calling music ‘nasty’, of course that is only a subjective judgement on my part. It has nothing at all to do with the real enjoyment you find in listening to the repetitive jim/jams by angry puberty-stricken youth.