The Civil Service and the Financial Sector have been playing footsie again (as they always do), this time resulting in the allowing of gross over-credit margins in public utility institutions, in order to finance gross over-consumption, naturally resulting in the inevitable collapse of a bubble, per the normal Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (1841). And as usual, the Prime Minister is getting blamed for it.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we have a special off-schedule Budget ’09 show. And tonight’s 64 followed by some number of zeroes question is: where before have we seen the statists and the corporatists band together to deal from the bottom of the deck, effectively forcing the Prime Minister to play a bad hand in favour of the oligarchists? Well, obviously, and here for your delectation: in the A Conflict of Interest, II, III, IV episode of Yes Prime Minister (1987, 1/2 hour).
So happy Budget Day, everyone, and now I’m going to go into an acoustically isolated chamber, in order to prevent my hearing from being damaged by the screeching of most everyone’s fingernails on the blackboards (on all sides of the aisle) after this budget is pronounced. Because this pseudo-crisis too shall pass, and I’ll still need my hearing after that.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
An, (out of character…for the Beeb), interview with a British Colonel re Gaza:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WssrKJ3Iqcw
Vladimir Ulyanov, Lenin, aka ulianov: Shoot the kulaks.
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During the twentieth century Lenin and Stalin defined the kulaks in economic and political terms as the capitalist strata of a polarized peasantry. …
http://www.answers.com/topic/kulak
O to Taliban Jack Layton (NDP): sorry, but Taliban are Muslims.
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“Obama to Muslims, ‘Americans not your enemy’
President Barack Obama chose an Arabic-language satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message Tuesday to the Muslim world that “Americans are not your enemy.” (canpress)
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“five Taliban fighters were killed in an overnight gunbattle with Afghan and international forces, said provincial police chief Assadullah Sherzad.”
“Five Taliban killed in southern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – Thousands of U.S. troops originally destined for Iraq have deployed south of Afghanistan’s capital in the first illustration of a new military focus on the increasingly difficult fight in the South Asian nation, NATO said Tuesday”
urlm.in/boag
Right, the National Gallery idiots who are willing to pay nearly $2 million for three acrylic stripes on a canvas. ‘As I thought. Thanks, Charles MacDonald.
Iggy’s fate in PM Harper’s hands.
STOPIGGY.
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“Fate of budget, coalition in Ignatieff’s hands”
(G-M-MSM)
“It makes no sense to a Palestinian to think about a Palestinian state alongside Israel,” Martin Kramer from the Shalem Center in Jerusalem said to me a few days ago. “From the Palestinian perspective, Israel will always exist inside Palestine.”…
Posted by: Charles MacDonald
One of the most insightful comments on this complex situation yet to date on any Blog I have looked at on this subject. Including the MSM.
Thank you!
revenant dream and charles macdonald – well, for an Orthodox and Conservative Jew, their perspective is that there is NO Palestine. Neither the name nor the people nor the land exist. The only land that exists is Israel and the ‘true owners’ are Israelis or Judaic peoples.
Therefore, deciding an issue by perspectives, which is a postmodern phenomenological attitude to life, isn’t a very constructive strategy.
The Eve of Saint Iggy*.
Who will be Iggy’s chosen One? Duceppe? Taliban Jack? Stephen?
MSM is betting/hoping/plumping for “calmly”.
BTW, who are “calmly and serenely”?
Iggy: [Notice the Royal We]”But we will make that choice calmly and serenely.”
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“Liberals to choose ‘calmly’ whether to support budget”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/budget/story.html?id=1224112
(*H/T John Keats The Eve of Saint Agnes)
O has been lurking/trolling ’round SDA*.
SDA gets results.
Will O send in the Marines? Will Hildabeast lead the charge?
Is O a neo-con?
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“President Obama leads US drive to topple Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe”
timesonline.co.uk
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*small dead animals – Greatest Hits on BeltwayBlips
Top posts from small dead animals according to BeltwayBlips users and other bloggers. … Give Us The Child For 12 Years And They Will Be A Socialist Forever* …. Eric Margolis praises Robert Mugabe for refusing to be “pushed around” …
beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/blog/small_dead_animals/hits
“James Hansen’s Former NASA Supervisor Declares Himself a Skeptic – Says Hansen ‘Embarrassed NASA’ & ‘Was Never Muzzled’
27 01 2009
This is something I thought I’d never see. This press release today is from the Senate EPW blog of Jame Inhofe. The scientist making the claims in the headline, Dr. John S. Theon, formerly of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, Virginia, has a paper here in the AMS BAMS that you may also find interesting. Other papers are available here in Google Scholar. He also worked on the report of the Space Shuttle Challenger accident report and according to that document was a significant contributor to weather forecasting improvements:
The Space Shuttle Weather Forecasting Advisory Panel, chaired by Dr. John Theon, was established by NASA Headquarters to review existing weather support capabilities and plans and to recommend a course of action to the NSTS Program. Included on the panel were representatives from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Air Force, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
For those just joining the climate discussion, Dr. James Hansen is the chief climate scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and is the man who originally raised the alarm on global warming in 1988 in an appearance before congress. He is also the keeper of the most often cited climate data.
EPW press release below – Anthony”
http://tinyurl.com/aawoj5 (wattsup)
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Commenter:
“Brute (16:37:00) :
The house of cards is really beginning to tumble………………”
maz2
The story you posted may be the tipping point for this AGW drivel. Here’s hoping.
This is a very big story IMO. Thanks.
when is the Obamessiah to declare the Prius Tanks?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12001.html
Re: “President Obama leads US drive to topple Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe”
Can Ayatollah Khamenei be far behind?