if truth were told, you should be on the FT and Economist front pages.
very illuminating, if depressing with regard to our idiot strategy.
by our own addiction to blind consumption, and worse, to bellicose swaggering to boil voters' blood domestically, we are forcing russia to regress to the paranoia of the cold war era.
it is exquisitely frustrating and disheartening to watch this unfold in real time... and to see the gains. socially, culturally and economically. made by the EU these last decades, thrown on the fires of greed and political machinations, in order to resurrect an era that is sickly familiar, and therefore attractively, pathologically comfortable to those wrinkled armchair warriors and death merchants whose superannuated policies are still wagging the media's tail.
this blog is many things to all of us, but what's at stake here, and the impassioned, yet cool-headed style and content you bring to these instructive diaries makes them the heart and dominant drive of this enterprise..
all the best, many thanks for what you do for euro-sanity.
...and godspeed your messages of reason, common sense and good will. ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
These articles seem to be getting fewer and fewer comments. Is it because I'm just repeating the same things over and over again? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Your analysis and critique, always supported cogently by facts, is pretty difficult to disagree with.
Absolutely first rate.
It's when we get to proposals for solutions that the debate gets going! "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
I mean in any organised way? A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
i remember thinking once ET was your vanity blog, that's how ignorant i was.
now i see it more like you sharpen your skills here, sparring with us, but you should be playing the big leagues...
and increasingly you are.
we're your amen corner, you're testifying.
reality will bear you out, and offer you more readers, you don't need to do anything different...if you weren't a front pager i bet you'd get all kinds of recs, i don't thankyou every diary, but i probably should, as i'm learning - and enjoying - your growing skills at combining a reality-based message with superior writing ability.
you reach many more at dkos than here, there your influence is massive, here we are already on board!
anyway, fantastique! ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
