Thursday, January 28, 2010
Crozier, the champion of slash and burn management, is to take over as chief executive of ITV, having vandalised our postal service to his personal satisfaction. Golden handshake, golden hello. So it's job losses for ITV staff, even cheaper and nastier programming, and a massive pay rise for the chief executive - the chicken's entrails inform me. Then it's look around for a new victim, golden handshake, and stroll away from the débris.
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Actually capitalism is quite wonderful Jemmy, at least for those who know how to practice it. Like anything, if you suck at it, you are kind of screwed..:)
If only the US were more like haiti or zimbabwe, then the world would be in great shape! (Or, at least, the world would all be poor together!)
Of course we wouldnt know about each other because it would be another billion years before zimbabwe or haiti or venezuela invented the telephone....hahahha
Give me a break, flem, lay down the white man's burden for a while. I get the message, you and the Caucasians of USA are the only people on the planet of any value. That's why you have no qualms about offloading your "smart" ordnance on anything that moves in the Third World.
Defending capitalism as managed and executed by the likes of Crozier is just defending grand larceny.
"Capitalism is the Devil's wet dream."
Now Jemmy, where did I use the word "caucasian"? Hmmmm, I did not, did I?
I was talking about capitalism. I dont care who or what or where its practiced. Those who can harness its power effectively will reap benefits beyond their wildest dreams and help their fellow human beings at the same time.
Capitalism is not always executed optimally. What is? But ultimately it mirrors the natural order of things. That is, survival of the fittest, as has been taking place on this planet for the last billion years, over and over again, from the tiniest spore to the most complicated organisms alive today. You do understand evolution dont you? The weak are always eventually killed off. Its the way nature intended it.
Survival of the fittest, hm. I suppose it depends on environmental conditions. Is your hero Bernie Madoff doing time yet?
There's a work called "Mutual Aid" by Peter Kropotkin. I don't suppose many bookstores carry it in that land of rugged individualists.
UH OH Jemmy!
Many Haitians want U.S. to ‘take over’
The prominent role of military, civilians creates high expectations
The needs are extraordinary, and the common refrain is that the Americans will provide.
"I want the Americans to take over the country. The Haitian government can't do anything for us," said Jean-Louis Geffrard, a laborer who lives under a tarp in the crowded square. "When we tell the government we're hungry, the government says, 'We're hungry, too.' "
Added Canga Matthieu, a medical student whose school was destroyed: "The American government should take care of us."
"They're well organized. The United States is the richest country in the world, and they can help..."The Haitian government has been here for a while, and they give us nothing. The United States should take over the country," said Andrelita Laguerre, shepherding four children and a grandchild at the camp. "Most of my friends expect the United States to take over. I wish!""
You quote Haitians who want the US to take control of their country. I suppose that these quotes come via the US media. Perhaps if they were talking to a Canadian or Mexican they would have asked for them to take responsibility (or anyone who'd listen) in such a desperate situation.
Anyway, quoting Haitians, who, you claim, couldn't invent the telephone in a billion years. How much do you value their opinion?
I imagine if the medical student Canga Matthieu had told the reporter, "The Americans should take care of us, after all they are partly responsible for our impoverished condition" that the second part of the quote wouldn't make it into the final report.
Your cynacism knows no bounds, does it Jemmy? Do you think Canada or Mexico has even a tenth the resources the US does?
How exactly do you think the US benefits from Haiti's deep pverty? Why is it in our interests for Haiti to be poor as shit? Especially in disasters like this we end up footing most of the bill.
Answer: It works against our interests for Haiti to be so devastatingly poor. Before the earthquake, millions of americans, including my mother, sent money there. There were over 10,000 NGOs working in Haiti to help alleviate the poverty.
Why is it the US' fault that Haiti had no enforceable building codes? Why is our fault they had no emergency services? Where is the Haitian govt NOW, for gods sake? Im sure many people think like you, that its our fault the Haitians are in such a state. Please. If they were in greaet shape, then that would be all their doing, right? The finger is being pointed at us because there is financial incentive to do so. You think we dont realize that?
Other than just wanting to believe that, I wonder if you could offer any actual evidence to support that "belief".
How does the US benefit from the poverty of Cuba? Why does it continue with the embargo that the UN has declared illegal several times? Why did the US overthrow the democratically elected Aristide and replacehim with a bunch of biddable crooks?
The Monroe Doctrine is not a dead letter.
Try and stay on subject jemmy, otherwise we will never come to agreement....hahhaha
First, let me say the US will never abdicate its sovereignty to some amorphous world body. Not going to happen, ever, but dream on if you like. I guess because we think we have been doing a pretty good job of running ourselves, you know, having the largest and most innovative economy in the world, and the strongest miliary, and dont see a need for a bunch of third world jokers trying to tell us what they think we should do. HA!
Second, Cuba made its bed, let them lie in it. They made a choice to align with the soviets. Totally their choice. Besides, we are doing OK. And why would a perfect and utopian society where "all is fair" have need for anything from the big bad evil USA?
We overthrew him the same reason we overthrow anybody -- because of all the shitty choices they had, he was the least shitty. Haiti is fubared for eternity. We will spend billions and get nothing in return except demands for more handouts and finger pointing as the bad guys. Truly unbelievable.
O.K. flem I managed to get back to you. I've been a bit preoccupied lately, plotting the overthrow of the Great Satan.
Your description of the UN as "a bunch of third world jokers" is way off the mark. It's an organisation controlled by the US, like the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation. These are your country's crude instruments to effect world domination. Perhaps the UN is less crude than the others, as it permits a modicum of debate and democracy. But the US veto has been the chief obstacle to a settlement of the Israel/Palestine issue. Same (vindictive)veto prevents Cuba's fair treatment on the world stage. Remember when the UN report on sanctions-busting in Iraq was seized by the Yanks and the names of all American lawbreakers removed before the rest of the world got a sight of it?
Remember when the US, and it's lickspittle the Blair régime, couldn't get a UN resolution to invade Iraq? That sure stopped them in their tracks, didn't it?
Remember too, that the UN building was supposed to be built in Geneva, but the Yanks stymied that. They wanted it in New York, and it was built ... They built it, they bugged it, and the "third world jokers" have been powerless ever since.
I know you won't agree with any of this, but when did we ever agree on anything?
"It's an organisation controlled by the US"
Really Jemmy? Seems we often have a hard time getting things through that we want. Doesnt sound like control to me.
Sorry, but in no time or place, in the history of the world, has any country, society, culture or peoples voluntarily abdicated their autonomy to some amorphous body with less power, money and military than they. Has never happened. Will never happen. If the roles were reversed you would be only too happy to flaunt your position.
If you really advocate the US should allow Nigeria, Chad, Laos, Cuba, etc., to dictate what US policy is, both foreign and domestic, you are truly living in lala land.
Israel is our friend, and no number of angry arabs will change that. The angrier they are the firmer our stance becomes. Sucks for them :)
"If you really advocate the US should allow Nigeria, Chad, Laos, Cuba, etc., to dictate what US policy is, both foreign and domestic, you are truly living in lala land."
Actually I'm suggesting that your rulers act democratically within an allegedly democratic institution. Stop bullying, stop bribing, stop undermining. Of course I realise that that suggestion is straight out of LaLa Land.
Israel is your friend, OK, keep watching your taxes go to sustain a moribund nation, and welcome its refugees when they apply for residence in the USA.
This is my final comment on this posting, flem. Reply if you must, I'm moving on. No doubt you'll be prepared to spring into action the next time I denounce capitalism.
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