Wake the President

[katty]

Wake The President
more: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25338.htm


By Simon Johnson

April 28, 2010 "Baseline Scenario" -- Most days we can coast along, confident that tomorrow will be much like yesterday. On a very few days we need to look hard at the news headlines, click through to read the whole story, and then completely change a large chunk of how we thought the world worked. Today is such a day.

Everything you knew or thought you believed about the European economy – and the eurozone, which lies at its heart – was just ripped up by financial markets and thrown out of the proverbial window.

While you slept, there was a fundamental repricing of risk in financial markets around Europe – we’ll see shortly about the rest of the world. You may see this called a “panic” and the term conveys the emotions involved, but do not be misled – this is not a flash in a pan; financial markets have taken a long hard view at the fiscal and banking realities in Europe. They have also looked long and hard into the eyes – and, they think, the souls – of politicians and policymakers, including in Washington this weekend.

[Ozymanithrax]

1. The virulent antisemitic comments under the article leave me wondering...

who the writer is appealing to.

[mwrguy]

3. Is that a neo-nazi site?

I've seen it linked on DU before, but don't remember seeing any of that crap.

[Ghost Dog]

4. Certainly not, normally, as far as I have been able to observe

over the last many months.

But, the comments appear to be lightly moderated.

I see one (the first) comment there that, rather unintelligently, refers to "Zionist bankers" and "a room full of Talmuds".

So? :shrug: Have a look at the kind of comments we have to put up with that especially come out of the overweight teabag US refering derogatively to, eg, Brits, French and Germans (not to mention PIGS), just for a start (in fact, just about any 'alien'). And of course "socialists".

Enough with the thin-skinned 'antisemitism' blinkers, puhlease. Stop whining.

The point of the article, albeit ill-expressed, appears to be that corrupt systemic finacial crisis-causing too-big-to-fail US-UK banks and their heavily-bonused employees deserve taxpàyer-funded 'bailouts'. Mere nation-states are no more than fodder, grist for that mill and are easily sacrificed to the greater elite oligarchic greedy-banker good, whether anglo-saxon or whatever.

[Ozymanithrax]

5. It's commenters are well versed int he Protocols of the Elders of Zion...

That may not be fair, but it is something I noticed.

[Ghost Dog]

6. Yeah, well, amongst so much propaganda...

I scanned the original article source and its over a hundred comments (at the Baseline Scenario: http://baselinescenario.com/2010/04/28/wake-the-president/ ) and it didn't look too bad, you know, humanity-wise.

My sympathies. :hi:

:smoke:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

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