Posted on 01/30/2015 1:11:12 AM PST by nathanbedford
Here’s a list of the parties that coalesced under the umbrella of Syriza ( new Greek regime) :
Active Citizens
Anticapitalist Political Group
Citizens’ Association of Riga
Communist Organization of Greece (KOE):
Communist Platform of Syriza: Greek section of the International Marxist Tendency
Democratic Social Movement (DIKKI)
Ecosocialists of Greece
Internationalist Workers’ Left (DEA)
Movement for the United in Action Left (KEDA)
New Fighter
Radical Left Group Roza
Radicals
Red
Renewing Communist Ecological Left (AKOA)
Synaspismós
Union of the Democratic Centre
Unitary Movement
And a number of independent leftist activists
(Excerpt) Read more at mauldineconomics.com ...
That title is a work of art.
The result was the creation of the best economy in South America and perhaps the best economy in all of the Americas. Such a result was anathema to the left and they have been trying to criminalize both Pinochet and Kissinger ever since. The left objects to any violence associated with the coup but they fail to acknowledge the reality that socialists once in power rig the system so that there can be no reform by Democratic means. When the socialists take over, like Muslim extremists, there is one vote but only one time.
However the general rule applies even and fair elections, when socialism fails the demagogues prevail and gain power in the wake of the inevitable dislocations and human suffering by offering even more socialism.
Those conservatives who think that it is better to let the left collapse the system than to fight every inch of the way to consider this Maxim. Those conservatives who believe that ultimately there salvation will come from the Second Amendment should consider this Maxim even more. The power of the Second Amendment, like the useful power of the nuclear bomb, lies mostly in its power to deter.
UTOPIA: what would a women’s society look like?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3214423/posts
It’s a Man’s World, and It Always Will Be
By Camille Paglia
The modern economy is a male epic, in which women have found a productive role — but women were not its author
http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/16/its-a-mans-world-and-it-always-will-be/
i like thatcher’s analogy the best.
socialism is great, until you run out of other people’s money.
That “Code Pink” was protesting in favor of Chilean traitor and paid Soviet agent Allende was all one needed to know about their ideology. You’d think those Communist pigs would be happy that one of their fellow travelers is in the White House.
” Obama is like a billionaires spouse with a credit card , never checking the costs of anything “ ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qQsgo0_eXs
someone needs to start following these people home
where exactly do they all live anyway ?
Journalists should not enjoy anonymity since they profit from exposing others. Let's have another map.
Greece will not end well. Blood, starvation, rationing of goods and ideas. The nation will go left as far as possible—loot the rich, loot the cutural heritage, loot all that is good before heading right. I fear lots of folks will die. It has happened before—Just ask any Cuban.
P.S. Thanks to David Burge (@iowahawkblog) for the inspiration for this week’s title. - Jared Dillian
Great post/article/thread comments. Thanks. BTTT!
The title reminds me of the song an old man, who loved music until the end, wrote: “I Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore”.
Exactly. It happened in Soviet Russia also, with terror mass murder on a scale that daunts the human mind.
It may happen in Venezuela.
If the US Fed pumped stock market collapses, we could see a mini-version of it happen in the US as well. I believe we are a nation under judgment.
Contrary to popular belief, conservatives are nudists.
That was a scary article.
I recall Anne Rice put forth the same Feminocracy in one of her vampire books: the solution to all life’s problems is to exterminate 90% of the male population.
I don’t doubt for a minute that if Leftists achieve total power, that genocides wouldn’t follow. It’s happened every time they do.
Looking at Venezuela and Greece, the maxim holds true. On the other hand, America, even today, ain't like neither of those, General. America confounds both conservatives and statists alike. Conservatives wonder why more Americans are not conservative and Progressives wonder why more Americans do not buy into Liberalism. America has troubled, and awed, the Soviets and Nazis and despots the world over.
The truly committed statists believe that when America is crushed economically, it will readily turn to 3rd world status. I am convinced that it will not. Yet, what it becomes when the economy collapses is not clear to me. FWIW, General.
The people who get nude on a beach, are the people you do not want to see nude on a beach.
Today, however, we agonize over collateral damage and we handcuff ourselves in waging war against militant Mohammedism. Instead of bombing the environs of located terrorists and assuming that "collateral damage" is the price the locals owe for harboring terrorists in their midst, we shift war making to a different method. As a result, other people die, often innocent victims, our soldiers die, and we squander trillions of dollars.
What we see in Greece is an attempt to evade the costs of the political decisions made by the Greeks. They are simply going to repudiate the debt in the long run but they will, nonetheless, suffer and pay the price for their imprudence in acquiring the debt and putting in place regimes that countenanced the debt. The present regime will not alleviate the pain the Greeks are suffering, it will merely change its nature and inflict it on others. It will make a political decision.
Equally, the governments of Europe, especially Germany, have sought to alleviate the pain banks would sustain if the Greeks default on the debt by transferring the pain to taxpayers. They rationalize this decision with the argument that every citizen would suffer much more if such a default brought on a generalized depression. They have made and will continue to make political decisions.
At some point this chain must be broken and plain must be inflicted.
Do you suppose there is an economic as well as a moral lesson here for the United States?
In WWII, Axis places that were at risk to be bombed were even leafleted ahead of time, to emphasize that the Allied quarrel wasn’t even with civilians qua civilians.
I guess that was humane enough. What do you do when you are about to attack illiterates?
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