Ritual punishment of transgressions... in public... enforcing the religion...
No longer shadowy transactions running the world. The markets are bidding to run the world before our eyes, putting on a show that will institutionalise their power. Over governments, of course, we know that now - and aren't we being told here that governments are no more than companies in which the markets are shareholders? And that the real business this week in Britain is how much the markets will bet on the result of an election in a democracy?
We're going to need the guillotine and the tumbrils again. Now that was le Spectacle.
The markets are bidding to run the world before our eyes, putting on a show that will institutionalise their power. Over governments, of course, we know that now - and aren't we being told here that governments are no more than companies in which the markets are shareholders?
It's going to be interesting to see where we are a year from now.
Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze that broke out at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. ... Protesters were hurling Molotov cocktails at police and buildings. At least two buildings were on fire, while hundreds of people were involved in the clashes. The government agreed to drastic budget cuts to win bailout loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
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Protesters were hurling Molotov cocktails at police and buildings. At least two buildings were on fire, while hundreds of people were involved in the clashes.
The government agreed to drastic budget cuts to win bailout loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Basically, I think you would have to run a business for a few years which would not be a "bank" and after accumulating a number of operational records for maybe 5 years you could become a "bank".
The easiest way to start a new bank is to buy a failing one, possbly. The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter
What does it take for the governments to say basta?
They could be made un-global in a heartbeat.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
If it has a foreign trade deficit it will be subjected to economic hit men, and if it is populated by brown people or Russians, it will be subjected to the more old-fashioned kind of hit men.
If it has a balanced or surplus foreign trade and is populated by white people who speak English, yes
The Germans are going to have to work hard on projecting themselves as Angles and Saxons, then.
Europe English The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!
next: grama and sintaks. 2 masta langwidj iz tu masta de mynd! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
large numbers of very rich people
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
But yes, I have imagined scenarios where gatherings of the ultra rich are targets of opportunity. The tip of Manhattan at 10:00 AM on a triple witching could be one such, for those so inclined. Far better that people are brought to their senses via the law, but..... As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Your convoluted period is missing a verb, I fear. The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter
