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Michael Weiss on the unstoppable Putin?

‘A senior Western diplomat told The Daily Beast’, ‘one European leader replied’,’Video footage, purportedly shot in Petrovsky today’,’Boasts by separatists’: We’re in familiar Daily Beast territory pioneered by the once troika of Lake/Rogen/Kirchick! The anonymous sources, until we arrive at … Continue reading

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On Saul Bellow, a comment by American Littérateur

I read Herzog when it came out in paperback from Bantam or Dell, I forget which, in 1965. Those were the days when corner liquor stores had paperback books for sale, it was another age, perhaps, when even drunks had … Continue reading

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Mr. James Mackintosh of The Financial Times on Greek Myths, a comment by Almost Marx

After Katie Martin’s comments on the Greek soap opera, of June 1, 2015 on fastFT here: http://www.ft.com/intl/fastft/331801 What can we think of a newspaper that quotes one of the conspirators involved in the cover up of the true extent of … Continue reading

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Katie Martin ‏@katie_martin_fx

You have the utter gaul, you and your newspaper,to quote from an organization that colluded to hide the real extent of the indebtedness of the Greek government ? And then to trivialize the fight of the Greek government and it’s … Continue reading

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Mr. Lew warns of a Greek exit ‘accident’ , a comment by Political Observer

“There is great uncertainty at a time when the world needs greater stability and certainty,” said Mr Lew.” Mr. Lew and his fellow technocrats have reason to worry about an ‘accident’ that will end in an acceleration of the slow … Continue reading

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@SlaughterAM @wef @BillNigh

I salute you for actually having the fortitude, and what ever it took, to reply to a twitter bottom feeder! But the unanswerable question remains for you and yours: are your pro forma ‘acts of contrition’ going to bring back … Continue reading

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Thank you!

Thank you to all my twitter homies who wanted to bring to my attention that both Mr. Friedman and Mr. Hayek believed in the ‘basic income’ as what? Concern for the poor and the downtrodden? Or just a bit of … Continue reading

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The Economist on ‘The wild ones’, a comment by Political Observer

The usual Economist Left fear mongering in their essay titled ‘The wild ones’, in the face of the slow motion collapse of the Neo-Liberal paradigm. That paradigm embraces both the E.U. and the euro, with Ms. Merkel as the enforcer … Continue reading

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@BloombergTV @ProSyn @Columbia_Biz @cwcalomiris

The usual Left Hysteria mongering from Neo-Liberal reporters/pundits at one of it’s nerve centers Bloomberg! Fear Monger in Chief ‘He can’t think straight’ @cwcalomiris followed by severe scolding of those ‘radicals’, but not just that, but as pardoners of murderers. … Continue reading

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The Economist on the Basic Income: Nyet! A comment by Almost Marx

The victories of Syriza in Greece,of SNP in Scotland and Podemos in Spain has,perhaps, led the Oxbridgers at the Economist to do some preemptive thinking or just call it propagandizing, as the in order too of checkmating the ‘Left’: that … Continue reading

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