tropicgirl-

on the upside of it:
- you saved yourself $25.- by not buying Pfaff’s ‘new’ book.
(i can’t imagine anything this author could say as new. deluded yes. new, no.)
- your comments may cause Pfaff to start thinking rather than just foaming at the mouth.
“Throw themselves upon one another with a savagery unknown since the Nazi genocidal murder and pillage of what Germany’s leadership 65 years ago considered the inferior “races” of Europe.” (his sense of history is sophomor(on)ic at best)
- there are times when it is very cathartic to round on clowns like this. although even negative commentary probably feeds their personality dysfunction.

...in a truth-dig one always finds some garbage.

I don’t get it. Will Truthdig continue to mine
stories from people who its own bloggers do not
trust, who its own bloggers do not care for their
opinions whatsoever? Who are, every day, like the
affirmative action putz, discredited?

This is the strangest thing I have seen. But it sort
of reminds me of the Hill Blog, which isn’t far from
the same scenario. And, actually Politico isn’t
faring too well with its bloggers.

And Firedog is a complete joke with neandertholistic
writers making no sense, in an alternate world, that
no one has ever been to.

I can’t imagine how this can continue. Do 5 bloggers
that make sense, out of an entire post, actually cut
it?

Please, someone enlighten me.

‘Why the Rest of Europe Isn’t Happy With France and Germany’

this article is a smorgasbord of inanities.

“The EU economy, as many seem to forget, remains the most powerful and successful in the world, despite the international financial crisis (imposed on the world, one must note, by feckless and frequently crooked American high finance, and by American government deregulation and negligence).”
This expreses an aspect of U.S. foreign relations that our government would doubtles like to drown in the bathtub so it never sees the light of day.

How do European countries achieve such a high degree of cooperation when they are an aggregation of century-old feuds and mass killings and internecine conflict?  If they can get their act together, there’s hope. 
  ut the forces behind unregulated world corporate capitalism, floating everywhere like electronic ghosts,  are not interested in limitations and compromises, between nations or agencies if they decrease profits.
  Sooner rather than later, governments are going to have to uunite to reach some mutual agreements on inter-nation regulations and enforcement cooperation or another ruthless IMF will gladly, recklessly, fill the vacuum at the expense of millions of us “ordinary peope” who will have no say except through our governments, if that.

None of us are alone any longer.  International Cooperation at the government level is vital for the survival of the human race. It’s a whole new ball game that history has not prepared us for, so we will have to invent cooperatively as we go.

Human minds and spirits are being asked to stetch and open to a degree never before anticipated.  Ultimately, it means basic changes in human psychology—an enormous leap toward the next level.

Merkel Slams Greek ‘Scandal’ As Attention Turns to Goldman Role

Who are the Germans really bailing out?  Why, isn’t it those same financiers that the American people are bailing out?  The Germans are being accused of being anti-Greek (whooooo, those bad Nazis, at it again, didn’t we teach them a lesson once?).

Merckel Slams Greek ‘Scandal’ As Goldman Role Examined 

The Germans, surprisingly, like most people, don’t like paying for other people’s debts (they kinda have some painful memories associated with this, even), and especially not for debt that was encouraged by the very interests who did the real profiting, see oligarchical “financiers” not Greek family-lovin’ types breaking too many plates while the baklava was flying out of the oven.

In effect, the real high flyin’-type speculators / looters laid a trap for Greeks and Germans alike.  The Greeks and Germans are now, both unhappy.  The speculators / looters (we’re familiar with them by now, aren’t we?) not so unhappy, in fact, it worked out just fine for them.

Interesting, that Truthdig has recently reported on little bomb-like messages from Greece to Sarkozy and Merkel in recent days????  Huh, I wonder what that message would be, and who could be behind it?  It’s a mystery.

An interesting reminder, and some relevant background:

” Let us recall the circumstances under which Germany was forced to accept European monetary union. The Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, and then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl issued his Ten-Point Program, which called for close cooperation between the two confederated states of Germany, leading toward federation. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher thereupon launched her “Fourth Reich” slander campaign against Germany, while French President François Mitterrand threatened that France would only agree to reunification, if Germany renounced the deutschemark and agreed to the earlier anticipated monetary union. Mitterrand advisor Jacques Attali wrote later, in a biography of his boss, that Mitterrand had even threatened Kohl with war and a revival of the Triple Entente, in the event that Germany refused to comply. Two days later, one of Kohl’s closest advisors, Alfred Herrhausen, was assassinated. Kohl later described the pressure coming down on him at the EU summit meeting in Strasbourg in early December, to give up the deutschemark, as his life’s darkest hour.

It was clear at the time to anyone with economic sense, that this monetary union could not function without European political unity to back it up. Because as a separate, forced measure, it would not serve as a catalyst for European unity, but instead would permit the various states’ diverse interests to erupt all the more starkly. And that is precisely what will become clear now in the coming “great euro storm,” in the context of worldwide hyperinflationary explosion.”

For more:  Helga Zepp LaRouche:  After Ireland’s “No” to the Lisbon Treaty, June 29, 2008