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The state of the SPE is truly deplorable, they are dead in the water. The communists a la Bertinotti and Gysi? Well, they are vanity folks - good for talk shows and 'per fare salotto'. They essentially represent the European pensioners. The Greens? They are on their march back towards the nice (not yet gated) neighborhoods mansions of our lawyer and dentist friends.

It is depressing.

I guess we better concentrate on the LocustWatch project and try to broaden it to make it eventually become a European 'narrative". It will be an absolute first. A 'riot' so to speak.

"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819

by Ritter on Mon Nov 7th, 2005 at 12:18:21 PM EST
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The state of the SPE is truly deplorable, they are dead in the water.
Hmm. I have to agree with you there unfortunately. What do you think of Borrell? He's (or used to be) quite popular among a certain class of pseudo-intelectual quasi-jacobin socialist sympathisers in Spain. By the way, you never commented on this rant of mine.


guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Nov 7th, 2005 at 12:40:55 PM EST
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I will read it later tonight.

For now only this:

When I worked for the EP party group I was warned by friends not to get too close to the SPE. I followed their advice and they were right. The closest I ever got to the secretary general was in Costa Rica in a djungle hotel. I was playing chess with a LA share broker who told me that he had been playing chess with another fellow from Brussels until recently and who had also worked for the socialists. He then described this person to me. I knew him. He was on the run with some million $ of Craxi's illegal money from the Agusta helicopter affair, which had led to the killing of a Belgian political big shot. He later went back to Milan and did some time in Uccerdone prison.

"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819

by Ritter on Mon Nov 7th, 2005 at 01:19:56 PM EST
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