Barack Obama has been a disappointment to many – apart of course from Goldman Sachs, his main campaign contributor. It was a dastardly plot; get hosts of idealistic young people excited about vacuous slogans - “hope”, “change”, “yes, we can” - and then reveal the protagonist as being a conservative of extreme dullness. It has worked brilliantly; feeling left out of the fun, the young people 's parents formed a “Tea party” and will guarantee Republican control of all 3 branches of government from 2012. Barack had the power to disillusion a whole generation and inspire another – to fight against him.
It was perhaps de trop of Barack to put the system in place that saved Goldman and their fellow banksters; they were allowed borrow treasuries at 0% and then invest them at 2% or so – with the treasury department. After a few months, Goldman and their peers did not even obey B's summons to come to DC; it was apparently too cold, and nobody could tell them where the train station was. B. had a New Deal scale chance to introduce a more equitable system, but instead used the resources of the state to destroy working and middle class families and buttress the banksters.
B's true greatness, however, is manifest in his support of BP. Lest we forget, the disaster happened mainly because B had suggested 3 weeks earlier that this kind of drilling was safe! Remarkably, no-one has pointed out that Steve Chu, his energy secretary, was the shill who brought BP to UC Berkeley. Indeed, Chu's scenario was DCU-like; whole labs, funded with public money, assigned to BP with no public access. Tenure in the UC system is a great deal more tenuous than is realized; it is held for each academic in the smallest dept in which one teaches. If that dept is abolished, so is one's tenure.
Not so with Brian Cowen, not so. Those who believe that he was constructed from various parts of farm animals only have part of the truth. That happened only after the soviets ran out of money after constructing his mind; the use of a horse's posterior as the hox genes for the face is too well known to rehearse here (I eschewed the glaring pun). . Their funds already had been well spent on a brilliant plan to take down globalized corporatism, now unfolding.
First of all, allow Anglo-Irish bank to perpetrate a scam that would make Bernie Madoff blush; surely the greatest financial fraud in European history. It is rather piquant that the criminal investigation has stalled due to encrypted files in a country that taught decryption of British SIGINT as part of a DCU undergrad course. Then get the other Irish banks to imitate it (as if they could! - but they did try) with Biffo as finance minister overseeing it with a leer.
The true brilliance of the plot has become clear only in late November, 2010. Surely the sensible thing would be to open the books to Fine Gael, FF's good twin – and equally dependent on an overpaid middle class – and “Labour” whose funds mainly derive from union “dues” paid by civil servants? Posing as an incoherent alcoholic, Cowen knew that he could keep the international financial markets in turmoil by appealing to the atavistic instincts of his party. Remember the 77, boys! And Labour can wait!
So there is NO possibility of a budget passing on December 7, 2010, as the IMF has demanded. Whenever “good sense” (read – world government) is proposed, Biffo can simply wrap the green flag around himself. The fact that very few in FF have any family connections to the “War of independence” or the “Civil War” does not matter - it is their narrative.
I salute the brilliance of the soviets in 1959 as they implanted this specimen in an unsuspecting female somewhere in the Irish midlands
Ps Mannion's cross roads is in Co. Offaly
PPS The prediction about the budget was of course wromg but let's see how the finance bill goes 26 eanair 2011
PPPS I was wrong again - the finance Bill passed, with many FF TDS guaranteeing their own political demise. Immediately, the Irish political landscape fractured into right and left, with FF's new leader "burying the hatchet" with Fine Gael, and Sinn Fein leading the agenda with an anti-IMF line with which Labour will have to keep up. IMO, at least
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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