Friday, February 12, 2010

Mediterranean Union As Israel Palestine Solution

Roger Cohen in Hard MidEast Truths, opines on the Palestine-israel problem that: "If there are not two states, there will be one state, and very soon there will be more Palestinian Arabs in it than Jews."

In other words, Cohen says that the present Jewish supremacist strategy leads to the extinction of Israel.

Cohen calls onto Obama to rise to the occasion. But...

Considering that Obama cannot see the simplest thing, such as the present big banking sector having nothing to do with the free market, it is dubious he can do anything useful about Israel and Palestine. His Cairo discourse, much admired, was pure demagogy with no concrete content anywhere, whatsoever.

Many are happy about the creeping annexation. Many do not see the hatred, and it is a truth that a lot starts in religious texts.

The USA was not a force behind the creation of Israel. All it probably sees about the area is oil, oil, oil, and the strategy of dividing to conquer, to get ever more oil. The 250,000 troops on the ground put there by Bush and Obama are clear enough a symbol.

Ultimately the only pacific way out is to extend a variant of the European construction, a Mediterranean Union, to the entire region (as Sarkozy initially proposed). This dialogue worked well in Europe, there is no reason it would not work as well around the Mediterranean. A target for conceptual destruction ought to be superstitions and their associated racisms (clearly, for example, some part of the Qur'an are as offensive against the Jews as possible; even the Nazis in their worst state did not talk about the people they hated the most in such an absurdly violent fashion.)

Indeed the last time the Mediterranean area was united was under the Roman empire. It is the rise of superstition, even well before, centuries before the invention of Islam, that originated the present problems (by leading for example to the destruction of the gigantic Jewish temple in Jerusalem and then spreading aggressive heresies of Judaism, namely Christianism and Islamism).

If we want peace, we need to go back to some somewhat similar situation to that which existed under Rome (but with more national freedom, as exists in the European Union.) So the Mediterranean Union is the solution. Anything else is a waste of time, and should lead to an orgy of destruction, especially when some youth understand better the game of the USA.

Patrice Ayme

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Banks As Government

The clueless Obama just claimed that bankers' bonuses are no more shocking than athletes' incomes. According to him, it would be against the free market to be against said bonuses.

But of course bankers are getting all their money from the government. Banks are not about the "free market". They are about the mechanism to create money that can be used in the market, and all over the economy. "Private" banks have recently been endowed with a prerogative governments kept for themselves for millennia. Apparently Obama does not know any of this.

A way to support banks has been by giving them hundreds of billions through TARP (which I mockingly called at the time: Transfering Assets To Rich People).

Another way has been to buy mortgages using taxpayer money to keep interest on mortgages low. This is not innocent as it looks. In connection with the FHA back-up of most new real estate loans, it is mostly a government run subprime program to the benefit of bankers and real estate flippers. What is the interest for the bankers and their White House? In light of a FEW transactions to flippers (or to the banks themselves!), it allows bankers and White House to claim houses are really worth a lot, therefore principals should not be lowered (a cornerstone of the friendly-to-bankers policy).

Another way to help banks is for the government to give them money at basically zero interest, and then allow them to re-invest the same money with the same government, at 3.5% interest.


More fundamentally, the main support to the banks has been the FRACTIONAL RESERVE SYSTEM. It allows private, unelected, unsupervised individuals called the bankers, to create the money society uses. Moreover, it is created under the form of debt. Thus it tends to increase and put the vast majority of People into two categories: those without money, completely out of society, a sort of underclass, and those who are over-indebted.

The Fractional Reserve System [FRS] makes bankers enormously powerful, because it makes them in control of most of the money (under a reserve requirement of 10% they control about 4/5 of it all; it can come arbitrarily close to 100% as the reserve requirement is allowed to go down to zero).

Rothschild actually explained, more than two centuries ago, that the FRS made bankers into the people who controlled nations.

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Sunday, February 7, 2010

AMERICA IS NOT YET GONE

... BUT, WITHOUT A CHANGE OF MOOD, IT'S ON ITS WAY...

Paul Krugman in America Is Not Yet Lost makes an excellent depiction of the dismal situation of the USA, comparing it to Poland in the 18C.

"The way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government, and senators should change the rules to end obstructionism."

Constitutional stasis in the USA contrasts with the hyper dynamic constitutional process in Europe. Now, of course, Europe is changing constitutions globally and nationally, and regionally because of European construction. But also the diffuse feeling was left among Europeans, after the war against fascism (1870-1945), that it was most important (namely nothing more important) to have the best constitution imaginable. Even if it meant tinkering with it all the time.


That is one of the reasons for the Euro: to prevent competitive devaluation, a cause of war (for example Germany destroyed its own currency in the 1920s rather than to help repairing North West France that it had just deliberately destroyed, all the way down to telephone poles). True, such a concept as a unique currency brings, in turn, problems, but those can be, in turn, solved, modulo more constitutional tweaking.


In the USA the parliamentary system is broken, in part because the Senate (not really a democratic representation since a Senator in Wyoming represents 200,000 people and one in California, 19 millions!) damages the work of the national assembly (\"Congress\").


In a country such as France, the Senate plays a distinct role from the National Assembly, and both get together with the president in constitutional changes (the so called \"Congres\").


The USA is not yet lost, true, but far gone, already. Only a mighty neurohormonal and cultural reflection will get it out of its plutocratic stupor. And that is hard to do, after decades of cool.


PA