COMMENT: In the aftermath of the arrest of Kim Schmitz aka “Kim Dotcom” in the wake of the MegaUpload takedown by the federal government, Herr Doctom has been variously portrayed as a martyr for internet freedom and the Second Coming of Christ by his cyber-libertarian supporters and as the Beast of the Apocalypse by [...]
COMMENT: A joint Iranian/Hezbollah terror team has been arrested in Argentina for plotting to attack a Habad center in Argentina, according to the DEBKA newsletter. (DEBKA has some good information in it, but has an editorial bias that favors the Israeli right wing, which itself has a fascist heritage, as we’ve seen. Its content [...]
COMMENT: Standard & Poor’s recent downgrade of eurozone countries’ credit ratings leaves us with much to ponder:
Germany’s credit rating remained at triple-A.
The McGraw family–owners of S & P–are decades-long power elite associates of the Bush family.
As noted by Paul Krugman (and the vigilant “terrafractyl”) S & P’s own analysis warns that the “continued austerity” [...]
COMMENT: In the long For The Record series on WikiLeaks, Pirate Bay and the Arab Spring, we noted that the Pirate Party milieu in Europe has been the foundation of WikiLeaks’ presence in Sweden and Europe.
Ostensibly “anaarcho/Utopian” in their outlook, the Pirate Bay/Pirate Party milieu has manifested strong fascist and Nazi connections, despite its [...]
COMMENT: As things deteriorate, a growing number of voices are echoing a warning I’ve sounded for decades.
In the article below, Dominic Sandbrook notes that the collapse of the global economy during the Great Depression drove the desperate into the arms of political extremism.
Noting the inability of the feckless coalition government in Britain to [...]
COMMENT: As noted by blogger David Seamon, the demise of American democracy took place amid the voluminous, flatulant pontification of U.S. media pundits, a profound distraction in the event.
With very little notice from politicial or media institutions and/or individuals, the National Defense Authorization Act has incorporated some features that would allow the virtual elimination of civil [...]
COMMENT: During the eurozone debt crisis, France and Germany have jointly announced/proposed various elements of solution, with statements carefully crafted to shape the actions as best for all parties involved and deriving from mutual interests.
Yet, the media have recognized that the solution will be a “Europa Germanica,” with German political and economic will [...]
COMMENT: As Germany cements its control over the European economy and the European Central Bank, the German power elite are openly and derisively calling for Britain to join the EMU.
(Note that the ECB could solve much of the eurozone debt crisis by lending money, but has been blocked by Germany from doing so. The only [...]
COMMENT: Viewing events in Europe brings to mind the closing words of James Stewart Martin’s All Honorable Men. Quietly, the Eurozone debt crisis has brought about an orderly transition to the “calm judgement of business necessity” with which Martin closed his book.
As Greece and Italy have seen governments appointed by the German dominated “technocracy” with [...]
Book written in 1961 asks: Has Germany really changed? If so, where are the hundreds of thousands who once faithfully and eagerly served Hitler’s reign of terror? And what is life like today for the Jews who are still in Germany?