tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post3089196006407874375..comments2024-03-28T07:50:06.102-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard — The European Union always was a CIA project, as Brexiteers discovermike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-89891392844287890232016-04-29T17:32:45.190-04:002016-04-29T17:32:45.190-04:00I meant transcription above for every instance of ...I meant <b>transcription</b> above for every instance of <i>translation</i>. Parguez was speaking English but it was almost impossible to transcribe properly.<br /><br />=========================================<br /><br />Btw, I agree with your last comment, Tom.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-47544503267302583202016-04-29T17:26:34.978-04:002016-04-29T17:26:34.978-04:00Right. And Russians attribute it to American revis...Right. And Russians attribute it to American revisionism iaw "American exceptionalism."<br /><br />It's a propaganda crock that most of the "free world" believes now.<br /><br />If the Nazis rolled over the Soviets the way they expected to, the whole of Europe, including the UK, would be speaking Deutsch now and using the DM. The Soviet victory over the Nazi blitzkrieg and then siege was the turning point. At huge cost to the Soviets.<br /><br />This is why Russians regarded the West's exclusion of Russia from the recent commemoration of the anniversary of the war as such an insult. <br /><br />They are also fully aware that WWII never ended for them, since the Allies immediately made plans for the conquest of the USSR. They can see that the plan is still current, too, with NATO advancing and surrounding them.Tom Hickeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08454222098667643650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-51170202768002634822016-04-29T16:46:37.447-04:002016-04-29T16:46:37.447-04:00"Know history? "
It was a joke. A trave..."Know history? "<br /><br />It was a joke. A travesty of Trumps speech "I know words. I have the best words." Of course he doesn't know his history. He's just telling stories.<br /><br />Here's a French poll from 1944-2004 asking people who they thought contributed most defeating the Germans:<br />http://www.slate.fr/story/88935/defaite-nazis-sondageSimsalablunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12514131877923113302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-5119902222803421872016-04-29T13:47:52.885-04:002016-04-29T13:47:52.885-04:00Ignacio, check this
https://kpfa.org/program/guns-...Ignacio, check this<br />https://kpfa.org/program/guns-and-butter/page/20/MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-4797711618111407242016-04-29T13:42:21.605-04:002016-04-29T13:42:21.605-04:00Not an accurate translation:
http://mediaroots.org...Not an accurate translation:<br />http://mediaroots.org/alain-parquez-at-mmt-summit-2012/MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-30899509734806797822016-04-29T13:39:08.434-04:002016-04-29T13:39:08.434-04:00Ignacio, There is a critical part when he talks ab...Ignacio, There is a critical part when he talks about the Euro being the blueprint.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-67111615473445566962016-04-29T12:28:54.611-04:002016-04-29T12:28:54.611-04:00@MRW no worries, but if that can be uploaded somew...@MRW no worries, but if that can be uploaded somewhere in the web for public access would be nice.<br /><br />In any case I may watch a couple times the speak again, but got the bulk of it, more or less. And indeed, is very interesting.Ignaciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082008115484199316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-7539736670886871002016-04-29T12:27:04.796-04:002016-04-29T12:27:04.796-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ignaciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082008115484199316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-46219430447757266902016-04-29T12:12:44.473-04:002016-04-29T12:12:44.473-04:00Ignacio,
Me: Then I got the translation made by t...Ignacio,<br /><br />Me: <i>Then I got the translation made by the San Francisco public radio station (Bonnie Faulkner on GUNS & BUTTER) that covered the Rimini Conference.</i><br /><br />There was a lot wrong with the translation. <b>I get batshit when people take licenses with translations</b>. I want word-for-word.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-68051059350828724862016-04-29T12:09:58.950-04:002016-04-29T12:09:58.950-04:00What’s really fascinating to me is that once you u...What’s really fascinating to me is that once you understand MMT, what Parguez says makes perfect sense and so does Mosler’s explanation of the EU. I don’t think the Americans attending the Rimini Conference understood the import of what Parguez was saying because they couldn’t understand him. But his talk was mother-fucking explosive, imo.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-81434600644718591582016-04-29T12:04:27.027-04:002016-04-29T12:04:27.027-04:00Ignacio, actually I only check that email address ...Ignacio, actually I only check that email address once a quarter (Q), but I’ll watch out for you.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-2958395026335937802016-04-29T12:01:51.925-04:002016-04-29T12:01:51.925-04:00Evans-Pritchard definitely did not do his homework...Evans-Pritchard <i>definitely</i> did not do his homework.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-81651876849106527702016-04-29T11:59:45.022-04:002016-04-29T11:59:45.022-04:00@Ignacio,
In any case the connections of Mitterra...@Ignacio,<br /><br /><i>In any case the connections of Mitterrand with the far right are interesting.</i> I tracked that down and it’s true. Too long tob explain here.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-30280529940843687562016-04-29T11:57:58.573-04:002016-04-29T11:57:58.573-04:00Ignacio, @ April 29, 2016 at 11:44 AM.
I know. Oh...Ignacio, @ April 29, 2016 at 11:44 AM.<br /><br />I know. Oh Christ, I know. I spent four months fixing those videos. First, I sped them up by 160% which brought them up to nearly normal speech. Then I got the translation made by the San Francisco public radio station (Bonnie Faulkner on GUNS & BUTTER) that covered the Rimini Conference. But she took a station break over one of the most critical statements that Parguez made! Shit. I spent weeks searching down Italian-translated copies of Parguez’s talk. Then I had to remove the Italian overdub to hear what he said underneath. I also contacted Parguez and got his historical references. <br /><br />Let me see if I can find a link on my other drives.<br /><br />I found them. If you want them, email me at my handle walesmartin at the common google email address (figure it out) and I’ll send them to you. Just give me a couple of days to reply to you, because I rarely check that email address. Like once a month, if that.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-61099602321503496652016-04-29T11:47:32.752-04:002016-04-29T11:47:32.752-04:00He acted out of French pride to be sure that Franc...<i>He acted out of French pride to be sure that France and Germany would be united in the new regime.</i><br /><br />Funny Karma... now France is being dumped with all the southern nations.Ignaciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082008115484199316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-68311771521584542612016-04-29T11:45:47.879-04:002016-04-29T11:45:47.879-04:00French historian Bernard Bruneteau wrote L'Eur...French historian Bernard Bruneteau wrote <b><i>L'Europe nouvelle de Hitler. Une illusion des intellectuels de la France de Vichy </i></b> in 2003. Never translated into English.<br /><br />He is one of several French historians who are addressing this. Guess Evans-Pritchard doesn’t speak French.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-77046802652765537472016-04-29T11:44:17.669-04:002016-04-29T11:44:17.669-04:00@MRW I've searched the Parguez video in Youtub...@MRW I've searched the Parguez video in Youtube but is very hard to watch (the man English is not very good unfortunately). Wish there was a transcription... May try to find some original literature or a speech in France (may have more luck with that, even tho I can only catch some French).<br /><br />In any case the connections of Mitterrand with the far right are interesting.Ignaciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082008115484199316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-34657555016406721722016-04-29T11:40:45.456-04:002016-04-29T11:40:45.456-04:00Matt there are many more problems to the EU apart ...Matt there are many more problems to the EU apart of the misguided macro economic policy. <br /><br />But on the macro front: rules only matter depending on who is breaking them, ie. why no enforcement on surplus rules for Germany? Surplus like the ones Germany runs are not allowed by the same rules that enforce smaller deficits. If they enforced that rule they would be forced to ramp up internal demand and wages.<br /><br />The rules are arbitrarily applied anyway (ie. Spain is breaking the deficit far above the target), it's all a political facade. You have unaccountable institutions like the ECB making political calls to force payment crisis in member states to push forward an agenda (ie. shutting down the Greek banks).<br /><br />Then there are many national institutions and laws that are overruled at European level by someone who never was elected. If you knew Spain history you would be amused at how Europe forced an express change on the Constitution to include fiscal responsibility rules. That's pretty much unheard of and impossible to do without some insane leverage, political parties would have never agreed to do such a thing organically and nationally considering all the baggage and internal tensions.<br /><br />Is pretty crazy, a dictatorship in everything but name.Ignaciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082008115484199316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-73663506783471434852016-04-29T11:31:48.593-04:002016-04-29T11:31:48.593-04:00Matt @ April 29, 2016 at 6:41 AM. If you believe t...Matt @ April 29, 2016 at 6:41 AM. If you believe that, you’re gullible.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-567873014131517972016-04-29T11:30:35.216-04:002016-04-29T11:30:35.216-04:00@Ignacio,
I was one of the many millions which le...@Ignacio,<br /><br /><i>I was one of the many millions which legitimated the creation of the euro</i>.<br /><br />The Euro was created in 1942 by the great French economist, Francois Perroux. It was designed as the currency that was intended to impoverish the “southern and eastern European countries” when Hitler won WWII, as was assumed then, by removing their sovereign currencies and locking them under a ‘supra-gold standard’ that Germany controlled. Perroux was a darling under the Pétain government. He acted out of French pride to be sure that France and Germany would be united in the new regime.<br /><br />Hitler intended to create a united Europe after he won, and the Euro was to be the new currency.MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-30043735396446729882016-04-29T11:07:22.283-04:002016-04-29T11:07:22.283-04:00Ignacio is right: “Know history? USA didn't sa...Ignacio is right: “<i>Know history? USA didn't save the world in 1940, ak the >22 mill. of Russians that died in WWII.</i>” Furthermore, Canadians were in the war two years before the USA, and lost an enormous amount of men. Their vets grind gears when they hear Americans lay claim to being the saviors of WWII. They created CAMP X, knowledge of which is only recent.<br /><br />Benjamin Schwarz wrote a fabulous op-ed about it in the Los Angeles Times. Unfortunately, the LAT was under a paywall then, so few ever saw it. I suggest everyone read it and keep a copy. It’s short.<br /><br /><b>A Serious Case of Mistaken Identity<br /><i>The U.S. is not the 'indispensable nation,' as a growing WWII mythology would suggest.</i></b><br />June 22, 2000|BENJAMIN SCHWARZ | Benjamin Schwarz is the literary editor of the Atlantic Monthly<br />http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/22/local/me-43656<br /><br />MRWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878920695841363553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-48033514266459237422016-04-29T10:35:29.433-04:002016-04-29T10:35:29.433-04:00I,
It doesnt seem that bad of a system ... the ...I, <br /><br />It doesnt seem that bad of a system ... the problems seem to be coming from the same old view that "the deficit!" is borrowing etc...<br /><br />Then thay have that 3% target on "the deficits!"... imo that is (as usual) the problem...<br /><br />System seems like its basic functions work... settlements, etc...Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-91740484709244423502016-04-29T09:44:24.193-04:002016-04-29T09:44:24.193-04:00Know history? USA didn't save the world in 194...Know history? USA didn't save the world in 1940, ak the >22 mill. of Russians that died in WWII.<br /><br /><br />On the EU, the becoming of the EU had such a long history, and has involved so many parties, it's impossible to attribute all events to a one big monolithic plan.<br /><br />I was one of the many millions which legitimated the creation of the euro, I was young and naive, at least more than now. I would still support an EU as if it has been envisioned by so many people (one which would remain under democratic checks and balances), but... how things are sold, how things turn to be in reality and how things you want them to be are three different things. Even the different parties had different ideas about those three items, and different expectations. Even amongst the elites involved.<br /><br />I certainly would be much more diligent now in my research to end up supporting an other 'European adventure' in the quest of a creation of a super-state.Ignaciohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082008115484199316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-83817060266862189632016-04-29T08:56:22.332-04:002016-04-29T08:56:22.332-04:00"No Bob its a "neoliberal conspiracy!&qu..."No Bob its a "neoliberal conspiracy!"... (no snark)"<br /><br />I see, you're working on your new theory…Simsalablunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12514131877923113302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-15454549390678054602016-04-29T08:52:50.547-04:002016-04-29T08:52:50.547-04:00Trumps:
-I'm very highly educated. I know his...Trumps:<br /><br />-I'm very highly educated. I know history. I have the best histories. Simsalablunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12514131877923113302noreply@blogger.com