Will Europe’s Subjugated People Rise Before It’s Too Late To Ever Do So Again?

 

So-called “Right Wing Populist” Parties are gaining in Europe… In the polls, in spite of the best efforts of the plutocratic media to vilify them.  Opponents of Populists are often Fake Left Elitist Parties or Plutocratic Elitist Parties… Because the so-called “Right Wing Populist” are gaining, the Fake Wing Elitists, stuffed with all they stole, are panicking. In France they outright send the leading right politicians in front of judges on trumped-up charges. Sarkozy, a right wing French president, was sent to prison… It’s impossible to describe why: the charges seem self-contradictory…. I am not pro-Sarkozy, and have never been… Until Sarkozy was sent to prison, and I wondered if myself or someone I knew could be sent to prison too, for charges which are not understandable… A crime of Sarkozy? Having destroyed the maniacal dictatorship of Qaddafi… Which is exactly why he was sent to prison, having had subalterns speak with Qaddafi, as French emissaries, a decade before Qaddafi was executed… Maybe Islamo-leftist judges are resentful about Libya in ways they can’t express?

 

Another example is Marine Le Pen, head of the main opposition party in France was accused of poor supervision of some people 17 years ago, when she was in the European Parliament, and those people would have in turn employed other people who were paid for some jobs in the European Parliament and may have done another in part instead… Yes, Byzantine. The charges were launched by the German Socialist Party (SPD), a completely corrupt organization entangled for decades with the Kremlin tyrant (long story) .

 

Right now the EU is highly dysfunctional. One does not feel in democracy in Europe. One rather feels in a fascist state. When abused there is no remedy. One gets speeding tickets from dysfunctional robots. No human can be involved. It’s like war of the worlds, and the extraterrestrials are in command.

 

Say something about the Last Lady of France being a pedocriminal for bedding a 15 year old student, and you will be sent in front of judges. Don’t joke she is a man, that’s worse. Same last lady makes gifts to all her friends for all to see… Imagine in the USA saying Melania is a man, and being sued by the criminal system. Actually some US citizens sitting in the USA are sued for claiming the Last Lady was a man.

 

The EC is deeply tainted by the association with Putin, and cannot crack down on the banks involved in the matter, or use the Russian funds. The European Parliament has serious corruption problems with several principals arrested (foreign minister, VP, etc.) .

 

The bottom line is that there is not enough direct democracy in Europe… An enormous meta structure was set-up, the European Union, European Commission, European Parliament, European Court of Justice, European this that and the other thing… But there is so little DEMOS supervision that DEMOS, PEOPLE, has become an INSULT….

 

Resulting in a European government which is a plutocratic puppet which makes deals with world plutocrats while deindustrializing under the cover of “degrowth”…. All this disguised with the powerful anesthetic of “saving the planet”, one Greta Thurnberg at a time. Meanwhile normal life, like heating, driving, eating, is made difficult…

 

The continual drive of the European government is to maximize the erosion of the AGENCY of European citizens. Why? This is what the European plutocracy want. Plutocracies always want to decrease AGENCY, so that they can further their unfair rule without exerting too much with unhinged evil.

 

So the EUropean Commission enables multibillionaires from Brazil who ravage the Amazon to sell their soy beans while forbidding European farmers to use the same products in Europe (“Mercosur”). Interest? The wealthy plutocrats holding expensive German car maker stocks will be grateful to the EC commissioners. Those BMWs going to Brazil… And those private jets made in Europe, sold tax free on the Isle of Man….

 

The latest is making it so that people cannot drive personal vehicles. So above 75 they will not be able to drive (don’t worry they do not say it explicitly). Another trick is robotic radars everywhere, if possible dysfunctional radars (People get flashed at half the speed limit… but one can’t see a judge to defend oneself!). Then people have no more points they can’t drive… Without being criminals. France has millions of driving criminals…. When Meloni became Prime Minister of Italy, she cancelled eleven million speeding tickets.

 

Before the European Commission just tried to make cars impossibly expensive by requiring all to become electric, and then exploding up the price of electricity, sometimes by ten times (one order of magnitude) … Thanks to those hyper costly wonderful windmills and solar panels made in CHINA, which, according to the delirious imagination of elitist European authorities, must work even at night, with no wind, in the freezing fog of the barometric swamp…. (They don’t care, THEIR electricity, the electricity of the elite, will never be cut: if the lowest of the low, the Plebs don’t like it, they can always fly private!)

 

Those who rumble and grumble get arrested and charged with corruption… Put in prison (Sarkozy) prevented to run for office (Le Pen), etc.. But Epstein? Isn’t dead, and is not pedocriminality in France non-existent as it represents a healthy overturn of Bourgeois norms… By the caviar left?

 

Islamo-leftist jihadist judges will send you to prison for burning a Quran, a gross violation of church and state separation. In France, Sweden, UK. Reason: a particular clientele of Europe haters allowed to vote want those judges to apply Sharia (many should be sent back where they come from… But they sit in the European or national Parliaments, vomiting night and day, their hate for civilization… This is no joke, they make private terrorist groups protected by “justice” and then spread terror…One is talking about assassins there, sanctioned by the State... Although, considering the outcry, that may change…).

 

By some standards, Europe is LESS FREE religiously than three centuries ago, as HARD CORE Islam is now becoming the state religion, following the degenerate fake thinkers of the recent past (those who invented “FRENCH THEORY). Astounding. Proof? Muhammad or the Fanaticism (Mahomet ou le Fanaticisme) a Voltaire play from 1936, was played in Paris 292 years ago (yes three centuries). But now it’s impossible to play it: try, you get killed. Islamo-leftists terrorize and kill, because the judges let them terrorize and kill. Catholic non violent Quentin Deranque was kicked to death by members of an association protected by French judges, and founded by a French Member of Parliament… February 2026…. The Islamo-leftist (a contradiction) is sacred to some European pseudo intellectuals for the same reason that the FNL was sacred in the 1950s… It is a continuation of the same error, the failure to KNOW WHAT CIVILIZATION IS. Yes, there was an Islamic civilization in Baghdad ten centuries ago, but then it was destroyed by the Mongols, and that was then, this is now. By “CIVILIZATION” one must understand the latest and best model. If pharaoh Hatshepsut, who had earlier been the Great Priestess, was around, she would understand the flow of progress (she had herself named pharaoh, and ruled alone 22 years, 3,505 years ago, then a revolution for a female, although she was not the first female pharaoh)…

 

By the way, the famous French health care system is in complete collapse, it’s a glorious sight, as now only the wealthy can go get health care in Switzerland to save their lives (I am in good position to know). Yes, French citizens have to go to Switzerland for cancer treatment from their own pocket… But the “ASSOCIATION” budget of France is bigger than higher eduction and research combined…

 

The French plutocratic elite reacts by redacting out all the Epstein connections (besides the “justice” system they own all European media), and arresting opponents. In Germany many would like to outlaw the main opposition party, the AfD, Alternative For Deutschland…. The Socialist president is all for it…

 

Meanwhile, India will soon have more modern French fighter bombers than France, while French media have revealed that Ukraine uses experienced US and Dutch pilots and specialists on board F16s to defend against Russian drone and cruise missile attacks... That revelation is akin to high treason….  Do not hold your breath about anybody getting arrested for this treason. Speaking of high treason, many collaborations of European governments with Putin in the last 27 years are akin to extremely high treason against civilization. And it’s not just German ploticians, I mean politicians (is there a difference?) Prominent French ones too.

 

So will the oppositions succeed to come to power? Not clear, plutocratic media and judges are doing their evil best. … Meanwhile in Italy, the supposedly uneducated blonde Meloni is proving to be an excellent Prime Minister… Maybe because she thinks according to simple common sense… She is supposed to be right wing, of course, but she dared to do what Obama did not dare to do: she legalized (naturalized) the illegal immigrants who deserved it… So that makes her a true leftist whereas Obama was a fake one. A fakist? Was Obama a fakist? Meloni is authentic. That’s an important quality. Forget about “right” or “left”… Authentic or fake, that’s where civilization comes into play.

 

Then Meloni closed the door of illegal immigration by going to Africa, and talking no nonsense to Africans, and making them agree to stop the flow. Socialist Sanchez in Spain is now doing the same, as a parrot, but without closing the door so there too, the “Right Wing Populists” will soon be the most popular….  

Patrice Ayme

Many European politicians talk with forked tongues. They claim the US is a problem because the USA wants to defend the North American tectonic plate. The Europeans on the other hand accuse the USA to not defend Ukraine enough. What liars!  US pilots and US warplanes are in Ukrainian skies… And a few French planes, true. but, after Putin invaded 7% of Ukraine, Crimea, where Obama and the Europeans suggested to Ukraine not to defend itself, and the Donbas, where Ukraine counterattacked magnificently…. What did the Europeans do? Well France sold crucial military electronics to Putin. That was the work of the venal French president (venal, because he sold to Putin). Mr. Hollande is a “Socialist”. Maybe he has nostalgia for the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics…. Nostalgia, as Putin does?

Between 2015 and 2020 France had secretly armed Russia, under “Socialists” Hollande and Macron. Shouldn’t not we judge them? Differently from pedocriminal Epstein, arming invasive tyrant Putin is much graver. Open sources, the French Parliament showed that since 2015 France has issued 76 export licences to Russia for military equipment worth a total of 152 million euros. French aerospace and defence companies Thales and Safran, in which the French state has major stakes were among the culprits. But even an electronic company based next to Grenoble contributed, etc. This is just the emerged part of the iceberg. Much of the equipment was navigation systems and optronics, in which the French are supreme (way better than the USA). That equipped thousands of Russian warplanes, helicopters, tanks and armored vehicles. Known spending is well above half a billion dollars for this equipment that Russia is completely incapable of producing, and which enables high precision stealth strikes on the battlefield.

In any case the US President, Trump 45, in his first term, sent lethal weaponry to Kyiv, something Europe did not do, and which enabled Ukraine to resist in February 2022. European leaders know all of this and it is demonstrated by their buying of US weapons…

One may wonder, looking at Macron testing a state of the art Topowl helmet for fighter pilot which shows various indications to enable to look in any direction, and which were sold to Russia with other top ot world electronics found on the Rafale fighter… What was going on in the heads of such traitors as they were betraying civilization? 

What civilization is remains in Europe a subject of great confusion. Putin would say: oh, they are all Nazis and in a way that would be correct (takes one to know one!) What has happened is that some proto-Nazi thinkers are still revered and taught in Europe. And I do not mean the parade of sorry Russian ultranationalist famous writers. If one looks at the journalism charter in Europe, one sees the work of Kant.

Kant, as a system of thought, is a proto-Nazi in the sense that, had the entire German population been anti-Kant, Nazism would NOT have been possible (OK, there are two Kants: the real one and the very different one after the French Revolution came to sniff around…). Kant pretended that one should absolutely collaborate with the state and always tell the truth to the authority of such a state… Even when the state came to assassinate your loved ones, Kant said you had to denounce them, otherwise civilization would not be possible. In other words, Kant was a cold blooded imbecile, Nazi style…. Indeed, Nazis, like Eichman, defended themselves by saying they just followed Kant. But European institutions are still grandly organized according to Kant’s intellectual fascism, because it favored the order which enabled the elite plutocracy (in Russia, Stalin headed a plutocracy, but it had no elite roots… Stalin purged them in 1937 at the latest…).  

Anyway, want the truth? United Europe exists, it’s called the United States of America.

The USA has enough AGENCY to keep the Empire of the West afloat… But just barely (hence the need for Greenland, any acres of snow help). Further European betrayal of European values, under the brainwashing caused by European plutocracy, would be a problem, though...

Paradoxically, annexing Greenland, which the US must do, considering Europe’s ineptitude, and missiles’ trajectories, could be an excuse for Europeans to resume their collaboration with nuclear tyrant Putin…  Choices, choices, choices… This is why it’s important to point out that Europeans were busy betraying civilization well before they lost Greenland… Actually that latter error was in the 1980s…

US Vice President JD Vance mentioned SOME of the preceding last year in Munich Defense Conference, in a direct style. US Secretary struck a more conciliatory, pedagogical stance, with the common civilizational angle. But either were talking to the entrenched, arrogant and asinine elite (I have met some).

When the Roman State went down, starting in 395 CE, the governing elite preferred to make deals with barbarians, and keep its status, rather than go to the PEOPLE, raise a popular army and risk their status. Then, as now “POPULIST” was the enemy of ELITIST.

By 380 CE no treachery was treacherous enough: Theodosius I, a Catholic fanatic which make the most fundamentalist contemporary Muslim extremist look like a humanitarian in comparison, allied himself with the Goths of Alaric to destroy the Occidental Roman Army led by the Frankish general Arbogast (long Roman chief of staff). This outrageous Roman elitist treachery is a warning: European plutocracy and the states it captured, and the ridiculous European Commission, could relish diving towards the bottom of the ocean, as long as they preserve their elite status instead of the prisons many of them deserve…

Patrice Ayme 

I sell, therefore I am.

P/S: The preceding essay could have been more fully entitled: Considering its increasing vassality to the USA, China and its own arrogant pedocriminal and Putinian plutocracy, will Europe’s subjugated people rise before it’s too late to ever do so again?

Pedocriminality? Not a exaggeration: it turns out that criminal inquiries on the Epstein network in France were closed in 2022… When it can actually be argued that much of the French elite was involved, and that, differently from the USA where so-called intellectuals did not profess pedocriminality, in France, pedocriminality was massively professed, and promoted, by much of the French intellectual elite.. With the complicity of the authorties for this “New Sexuality”. Considering that who was once the ultimate boss of the guy represented above was intimate with Epstein… One will understand the reluctance…

After publication of the preceding, the French Paris prosecutor just opened (February 18, 2026) two new inquiries on the Epstein affair...

Censorship on WordPress?

 What I got hundreds of times from Wordpress recently:

Updating failed. Sorry, you are not allowed to edit this post.

I am then incapable of publishing anymore... There are other indications that my site is manipulated into inexistence... Hours with Wordpress on the phone have not been productive:"Out of my hands" said the technician... Scary

So back to Blogger...

1989: End of Cold War. Start of Unbridled Oligarchic Plutocratization. Now… Terrorized By Warren!!

Warren Scares Financial Plutocracy: There are periods for revolutions: From 1776 (onset of US war of independence), or 1789 (French and US republican and human rights constitutions) until 1848 (revolutions all over Europe) and 1865 (end of US Secession War and US slavery). Just like there are times for fascist attack: 1914-1945. In 1789 US Vice President Al Gore announced that there was a terrestrial emergency, from the CO2 catastrophe… Not in these terms, so it was not taken too seriously by the deciding elite.

 Since then world plutocracy instrumentalized the globalization rendered possible by the end of the Cold War. Yet even if Ms. Warren cannot get most of her more far-reaching proposals through Congress, as is likely, finance executives fear and moan that as president she would appoint regulators who would actually take a far stricter view of the industry, and enact laws and regulations passed… Under Obama.

 Consider this: “Everyone is nervous,” said Steven Rattner, a prominent Democratic donor who manages the wealth of Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor. “What scares the hell out of me is the way she would fundamentally change our free-enterprise system.” So the ex-mayor of New York is so wealthy, another hyper wealthy man financing “democrats” (of his own choosing, with his own ideas, and feelings) is managing his fortune… 

 Meditate this: Mitch Draizen, a former fund-raiser for Mr. Obama who made his money in the financial industry (surprise, surprise, remember we have no corruption in the USA, financing Obama is no corruption), said he would back Ms. Warren’s candidacy against Mr. Trump’s. But he is supporting former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. this time, worried about Ms. Warren’s disruptive approach.

“She would be just as unpredictable and unproductive as Trump if she were to become president, and who needs that,” he said. “She’s getting a little carried away and to me it’s irresponsible.” What is is more responsible than a great white shark? “She’s screwing around with the wrong guy. I want to give it all away, but I want to control the decision. I don’t want the government giving away my money. The idea of vilifying wealthy people is so bogus,” billionaire Leon Cooperman, worth more than three billion dollars. Cooperman declared Warren’s proposed wealth tax is “morally and socially bankrupt.”

 Plutocrats know everything about morality, they rape it, everyday. And of course everybody gives it all away: that’s called death. Hour after hour, day after day, month after month, plutocrats use their present wealth to steer the world in the direction they like, where their perverse morality, their satanic, Dark Side morality rules.

And this is the gift they leave behind. Look at Augustus.His gift was called Tiberius. And others he personally knew, who came to rule too, including… emperor Galba… Actually Trump has mostly fought globalization, the exportation of jobs, investment and know-how to, mostly, China. And that was very effective: the US economy got a boost from it, obviously. And one can compare. Europe has been affected just as badly by the phenomenon of exporting industry and IP to China. For example, the French nuclear know-how was exported to China… while being forgotten in France. Thus now China makes and sells reactors most of the research on was made in France, for a generation. The same happened with trains, is developing with Airbus. (China was excluded, at US insistence, from the International Space Station, just from fear of IP theft… Not happening with Russia, as Russia was more advanced in more ways than one…) However, the US, thanks to Trump’s local plutocracy drive, has reacted to the exportation of everything to China (by and for the intermediaries, those wealthy, world controlling plutocrats). Conclusion, the US has avoided a recession, for the longest time, ever.

As Europe is slowly sinking into one, led by… Germany. A small financial elite has grabbed the levers of command of the planet. This is not really a new phenomenon, it was condemned already in the Bible. The hyper wealthy will go to paradise less than a camel through a needle, hence the interdiction to lend to one’s coreligionists found in Judaism and its descendants. The “money changers” are parasites, as soon as they earn too much money for what they do, as is presently the case. To help moneyed individuals to invest is one thing.

What we have now is something else, a giant corruption machine. The finance industry has money laundered cash from corrupt regimes or fossil fuel industry, as set up by FDR in 1945. Too much money is done by transactions so fast that normal individuals cannot partake, and which the “industry” itself creates. Also some of the leverage used is enormous, out of proportion relative to the size of the world real economy, it’s a case of the tail moving the dog, and a case of free money for a tiny gang.

A way to cut that out is simply to introduce a financial transaction tax: even if very small, of no consequence for normal investors, it would be enough.

 The hyper wealthy financial plutocracy a dreadful influence on decision makers, worldwide, starting with banks, governments. Thus the world keeps investing in fossil fuels instead of new energies (such as hydrogen, fusion, etc. energies which get less money in a year than many individual financial parasites), and in sports and the like, instead of housing for the needy (a reader here pointed out here, the salaries of a couple of sport idiots is as great as all thermonuclear research in the USA)…

 The Roman Republic survived 5 centuries, thus as long as it had no billionaire (Roman Republican taxation was 100% above the equivalent of $30 million). Globalization enabled the wealthy to escape that, they plotted, and the Republic died. Yes Trump will probably defeat Warren: too much misogyny around… And Trump has actually been effective against globalization. But what is important is to advance the ideas, change the underlying emotions. And, in four years there will be another campaign. Patrice Ayme
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 Some of the essence of the preceding was sent, under more moderate guise, to the New York Times as comments of articles critical of Elizabeth Warren’s program. Such articles focus on the distress of the financial industry, the anxiety of the medical industry, as Warren threatens in the distance, etc. The latest such article confronted the ogre Warren, boldly identifying her to… Trump (as quoted above) the article also revealed the financial plutocracy is so scared that the laws and regulations passed under Obama, thanks to Sen. Warren, would be applied… Because, turns out, they are not. Those comments of mine were censored, because the New York Times is terrorized of Warren and her alleged alter ego, Donald Trump (!) So in depth analogies and advocacy are unacceptable. Meanwhile, to add insult to injury, Obamacare was nothing (I have long said, except a gift to the wealthiest in US health care)… Warren confirms this. As Sanders campaigns with the Sharia refugee and perpetrator, Omar, who got elected to the US Congress to promote her opinion that women are half of men legally. Is it progressive to be pro-Sharia now? Because subjugating women is the future, according to pseudo-progressives?
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 [1] Trump supported Farage, the financial guy who became the inventor of the Brexit notion in a long phone call, last week. Now Trump is very much disliked in Britain. So that call led, unsurprisingly, to an immediate collapse of Brexit Party support by 50%! (OK, Farage not running may have helped.) People who have no feeling for Machiavellianism may not understand that, this way, Trump was helping Boris Johnson, in the guise of helping his opponent (like Nero helped Claudius with a serving of mushrooms). Another example of Machiavellianism is the Trump Impeachment by the plutocrats and plutophiles leading the “Democratic” party… It is designed to make Warren fail…

The Sub Quantum Problem Goes Beyond the Quandary of Measurement

Wave Mechanics compute probabilities of occurrence. Given the wave W, an infinitesimal variation of W is dW = i (Hamiltonian (W)) dt. The simplest differential equation imaginable (Schrodinger Equation, SE). Then the particle jumps out where W is strong, according to SE. So we get Quantum jumps: W becomes a point particle. That was the experimental situation for 95 years (since De Broglie got SE). However, we now know that there is another process than Quantum Mechanics at work: Michel Devoret and Al. were able to predict Quantum Jumps (published June 2019). Quantum Mechanics is thus incomplete: it can’t predict itself (but Devoret can!) Call this existing situation Sub Quantum Physical Reality (SQPR). The question with SQPR is what could it be? Nonlinear, for sure, because so are the “jumps”. This is no Platonic debate: SQPR could well bring predictions (or postdictions?) such as Dark Matter. At least, so I claim. Notice also that local time (central to Poincaré’s Relativity theory) is a Quantum phenomenon (it counts photons oscillating between mirrors). Thus SQPR is not bound by it (thus to claim SQPR violates Relativity is no objection)..

No Rationality Without a Prior Irrational Jump

Any logic L1 is derived from a finite number of axioms. Any discovery not consequence of these will require another logic L2. Going from L1 to L2 is only logical in a Meta logic, LM. In any case L2 and LM are NOT rational in L1. That means irrationality is what feeds rationality!

Plutocratization Can Be Helped By Welfare: Rome

One of the cause of the increasing inequality is simply that those who control public opinion (media owners and managers, pundits), are, in general, very wealthy, or sympathetic to wealth, in the USA. Thus appears a strong pro-plutocratic bias in the media. That same effect is characteristic of banana republics. It makes it unlikely that a civilized debate will get out of the plutocratic comfort zone. Thus, insensibly, inequality and poverty augment. The case of Rome, where panem, circenses and alimenti (food stamps) were inaugurated show an alarming point: welfare programs can comfort plutocratization. http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/1914-imprinting-emotions-rule-iii/

Reshoring, Globalization, Plutocratization

I agree with the notion that global trade's growth has abated, as many one time improvements are behind us. But there is more to say. What was the main enabler of globalization? Plutocratization. Globalization allowed plutocrats to augment their production, hence power, all the more as they could buy the local potentates, hence the local law, while avoiding the laws of their countries of origin. A developing problem for plutocrats is the rise of transnational laws, regulations, and even examinations (!) to foil their plutocratic plots. For example, if Apple is condemned to pay more than 2% tax, it may reconsider some of its global gymnastics. If capital cannot take refuge overseas, it will have to invest locally. As observed with reshoring. The pirates are coming home to roost. https://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/all-we-need-is-tech/

Deficit Reduction Scam? Barack Rand Obama Paul?

Much of the deficit reduction may be a scam. Banks have been repaying the government, using money from QE. Moreover; From the Wall Street Journal today: "The sequester is squeezing the very programs liberals care most about—including the National Endowment for the Arts, green-energy subsidies, the Environmental Protection Agency and National Public Radio. Outside Washington, the sequester is forcing a fiscal retrenchment for such liberal special-interest groups as Planned Parenthood and the National Council of La Raza, which have grown dependent on government largess..... Liberals had hoped that re-electing Mr. Obama, the most pro-spending president since LBJ, would unleash another four years of Great Society government expansion. Instead, spending caps and the sequester are squashing these progressive dreams. Welcome to the new fiscal reality in Washington. All Republicans need to do is enforce the budget laws Mr. Obama has already agreed to. Entitlement reforms will come when liberals realize that the unhappy alternative is to allow every program they cherish to keep shrinking." What is there to celebrate? That we don't need to elect Rand Paul to the White House, because he is already there, and has already enated his program? PA

Transient Stimulus, Permanent Improvement: Much Feared.

Paul Krugman argues that stimuli are not permanent. I observe, though, that their results can be permanent, for the best. Even president Hoover had advanced the start of the construction of the colossal Hoover dam, to provide jobs. Although a stimulus is not permanent, the tasks it accomplishes can be. To wit the Hoover dam, and many other public works of the 1930s, let alone the Interstate FREEway system of general-president Eisenhower in the 1950s. And so it is around the world. Germany uses Hitler's autobahns... And Volkswagen (another Hitler creation) is still around... The same holds for the most major Japanese companies, created by Japanese government programs, starting in the 19C... all the way to American directed stimulus in Japan in the 1950s. All the Very High Speed train projects, in France, Japan, Germany or present day UK, all started as government programs. And also Boeing and Airbus. The Marshall (another general, used to be Eisenhower's superior) Plan was another example of transient stimulus, with PERMANENT consequences. In democracy and related regimes, the ultimate boss of the economy is not the economy, but the government. Trying otherwise is trying to run the chicken without a head: it works, but not very long. It is precisely the fact that a transient stimulus can permanently improve the condition of common folks that frightens the plutocrats. The lower We the People, the higher our lords, relatively speaking. That's what real greed is all about. Not just having more, but having things no common person has. PA

Wealthcare State Endless Summers

Wealth Care State’s Endless Summers

Starting with Nixon, the Kennedy-Johnson welfare state became the wealthcare state. The rise of systematic failures such as Lawrence Summers, was instrumental that way.



Democrats point at Republicans all the time. In truth, they set-up the Wealth Care State just as enthusiastically. Ever since Nixon, all outwardly socially motivated programs grew that monstrosity.



Obama said, July 31, 2013, Summers saved the USA. However, under Summers the bad operators of the very bad bank holding corporations were lent indefinitely (through QE) more than 8 trillion dollars, and the American people, who paid for this rescue did not even acquire the properties they paid for.



Anyway, 2,500 words of details of what is wrong with Summers, TARP (Transferring Assets to Rich People) and the wealthcare state on:

http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/wealth-care-states-summers/

Wealth Care's Summers

Plutophiles are terrorized by the idea that their masters the plutocrats would enjoy in the future less money, and less control, than they do presently. Indeed, who would feed them? Would they have to work? Would they be exposed to truthful thinking? Would they have to recognize that money for the very few does not an economy make?

The WEALTH CARE state is the exact opposite of the welfare state. The Wealth Care state has a knight, and demonstrated enabler, Larry Summers, champion of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, all hedge funds and their ilk. Summers, Grand Cross of all derivatives, especially those that allow banks to show profits that do not profit society, and are reserved to the very few, insured, as they are, and financed, as they are, by the bleating, unworthy, clueless taxpayers.

Summers, and the inflationphobes are the incarnation of all what's wrong, as the Wall Street journal itself admitted Saturday (Summers is on the take from the plutocracy, an article said substantially), and today (Federal Reserve 'Doves' Beat 'Hawks' in Economic Prognosticating

Slow Growth, Low Inflation Give Yellen, Dudley Upper Hand on Forecasts; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324144304578624033540135700.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection)

Urban Sprawl: USA versus Europe

The recovery of the USA, the real one, not the fake one from financial engineering (zero interest rates, QE, Goldman Sacks and its ilk) rests mostly on fracking (and a low $/Euro ratio). Break the ground, get gas and oil.


Urban sprawl exposes the USA in case the fracking gets fracked (from a combination of ecological reasons and bad ROI). Or in case the CO2 crisis becomes so bad, even the deluded government of the USA submits to the evidence.


In Europe, it's different. Europeans have known for at least 1,000 years, that urban sprawl was bad: it encroached on arable land, and precious forests, increased the cost of transportation. Not so in North America. why? Because, modulo exterminating the natives, there was always a lot of land to misuse.


Want to do something about sprawl? First raise tax base of cities, punish sprawling (say by putting a significant carbon tax/gas tax). Otherwise? Danger, long term: one cannot de-sprawl overnight...

More complete version: http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/uniformly-sprawling-atrocity/

Exponential All Over Economics & Biology

The mathematics of the exponential explains the plutocratic phenomenon. Basically, the richer one is, the easier it is to get much richer. That's why, just for society to stay in place, one has to implement increasingly confiscatory taxation in the higher reaches of wealth.




The Roman Republic had an absolute limit on wealth (that was circumvented by globalization, hence the collapse of the Republic).



The exponential is the most important function in mathematics. It may even explain the disappearance of large species after catastrophes, from Neanderthals to Dinosaurs.



Nearly any extinction will reveal itself to be an exponential phenomenon:

http://patriceayme.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/why-did-neanderthals-disappear/

Plutocrats Care, Obamacare, Obamascare

The pseudo-left is besides itself with joy with Obamacare. My calling Obamacare, Obamascare, is obviously inappropriate.

I am so happy that insurance companies, with the generosity that long characterized them, and health care plutocrats, bless their philanthropy, are so keen to provide care for free. They, no doubt, will join the pantheon of all those banks who so generously provided houses to We the People for free, ten years ago!


We should thank Warren Buffet, that experienced health care investor, object of Obama's reverend affection, for guiding us to the land of the hyper wealthy who care.



Ayn Rand was right, and Hayek, and Friedman! It was enough to set (stock?) exchanges all over, and transform patients into shoppers, and, instantaneously, the free market would provide all what We the People needed!the triumph of Obamacare!



It's like in the Bible; please the Lords and the lords shall please you! The USA is such an exceptional country that only here could profit, exchanges and shopping replace boring care, single payer version, as the rest of the world make do with!



And so it was that Obamacare never became Obamascare. Alleluia!

Railroads railroaded

Krugman is "surprised that the econoblogosphere hasn’t taken much notice yet of Keith Bradsher’s interesting piece on the revival of the Silk Road — now not consisting of camels carrying Chinese silk, but of huge freight trains carrying Chinese electronics.

But really, if you’re interested in globalization, this should be of great interest. Transportation technology matters, a lot; container shipping revolutionized the world."

Then the good Paul falls partly back into his old mistake:"It comes down, of course, to time and money... Shipping is cheap but slow."

Excuse me?

Shipping is cheap because it uses bunk oil, the most polluting refuse oil.


Introducing a carbon & pollution tax on shipping would force shipping to retool, say with (partial) sails (or kites). The tech exists, and was long deployed on the Club Med II, a very large ship that saves considerable fuel thanks to the help it gets from sails.

Railroads are enormously efficient, even the obsolete diesel electric engines used in the USA. Their contribution to CO2 is neglectable, relative to the alternatives. Thus all ecologists ought to come aboard.

Krugman opines that: "So there’s an important niche for rail — a niche that probably hasn’t been fully exploited, because people forgot for a while about a technology that seemed old-fashioned."

The truth, according to Krugman, would be that "people" just had amnesia?
Old fashioned, with TGVs going at 400 kilometers per hour?

The truth is different. Quite the opposite; plutocrats remembered very well they could pollute as much as they wanted with shipping and air travel, and get subsidies, to boot.

Air fuel is not taxed, worldwide. In Greece ship magnates don't pay tax either (and one of them had a child with Obama's ex-director of budget, now a pillar of Citigroup). Much of Western policy, in particular in the USA has been made to please fossil fuel plutocrats.

The problem with rail? It's too efficient, hence does not feed enough the clout of the fossil fuel lobby and the politicians associated to it.

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Hitting The Information Wall

In "Hitting China's Wall." Paul Krugman opines that "All the signs coming from the economic data show that China is in big trouble."


He does not do a very deep job at explaining what he means. He claims that China is running out of peasants... Although there are 600 millions of them out there. Anyway, I wanted to deepen the debate, so, I sent him this:
Economy and politics are entangled. China's economic problems are nothing relative to its political problems.


The number one consumption in the developed world is information. That's what Chinese consumers will really want in the end. That sort of consumption, the Chinese dictatorship cannot afford to let the People of China enjoy.

So the leadership is reluctant to allow ever more base material consumption: once that has proven unsatisfying, it would lead to ever more questions, of a deep emotional, rational, and then philosophical, thus political, nature. This is basically the psychological mechanism that led the children of the elite to turn against their parents at the time of Tiananmen.

On the other side of the mountains, India has opted for democracy. democracy depends upon openness and information. As time enfolds, India will be able to become increasingly the master of both, and that's what people want. Worldwide.

Thus the present Chinese political system blocks the long term production of the most advanced service, information. That's what really hobbles the Chinese economy: getting ten dollars making a 600 dollar i-phone gets you only that far.

The Chinese surveillance apparatus, with its 50,000 Internet censoring goons, is only dwarfed by the American one, with its 1.2 million watchdogs. It's an economy killer, be it there, or here.

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Neoconservatism: Neofascism in Disguise, Best Defined by its Origin

Hal Horvath ("mostly from Austin, TX") opines that "A more sophisticated view of A. Rosenbaum (Rand) is that she wrote about artistic freedom and later freedom to innovate in contrast to totalitarian states (where she originated)... That she gradually went wacko is just a lesson to us all about overextending and overgeneralizing ideas. As with religion, many things are said in her name, under color of her, that are near 180 degrees opposite of what she believed."

All these people coming from fascist regimes (Hayek, Rand, etc.) came with the fascist mindset of believing in the providential man (the personality cult). The one who works more, or better than the rest, and thus rises above (Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and countless lesser imitators followed that justification).

Far from being freed from totalitarianism, those thinkers were born from it. The opposition was never between Stalin and Hitler, or Mussolini, but between them, and the French republic (France being where these trains of thought left the station, generations before.)

The opposition between Liberty and Equality is resolved by Fraternity. No subtlety Hayek, Rand, Neoconservatives, Neofascists, greedsters and plutophiles can get.
PA

Why do plutocracy and fascism rise, as the situation gets worse?

The answers are deep. Fascism goes to the very root of herd behavior. The nature of plutocracy goes to the very root of the loving, albeit demonic apes we are. Our brains are constructed to exhibit these behaviors.


The rise of civilization concentrated, and amplified power, a bit as in the cavity that make a laser work.

The rise of money complicated matters. Money is symbolized power. It becomes real power when it is transacted. (That is why financial transactions ought to be taxed.) Power onto others, real or potential, is how Pluto makes Himself manifest. To INTEREST people who have money to lend it, one had to use, well, INTEREST. But then this interest makes money grow proportionally to itself.

In other words, civilization with money and interest ("capitalism") is endowed with a mechanism to make Pluto grow exponentially.

This was long discovered, by countless civilizations. It has also been forgotten, countless times. When it is, a society becomes a plutocracy. A plutocracy, basically think like one. So, in the fullness of time, it becomes stupid, like North Korea.

Stupidity creates difficult situations readily, so plutocracy leads to situations of war that justify its further existence. Thus stupidity itself, although, in the end, it kills plutocracy, makes it blossom further, for a while. Here we are.

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Ref.: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/opinion/krugman-plutocracy-paralysis-perplexity.html

Cognizance Primes Governance

Nietzsche wanted to make a re-evaluation of all values. But we have also to re-evaluate our tastes and desires.

Before better governance, what is needed is better cognizance. And it does not matter what the world thinks, as long as the USA and the EU are at each others’ throats.


World democracy is an illusion. There are UN Security Council permanent members, they pack up more than 95% of the world military capability, and another name for that is global peace.

It is certainly better than global war.

The big problem right now is that a loose alliance of world plutocrats (and I include Chinese and Russian leaders in that) led by their main headquarters in Wall Street is fighting the better angels of the European leadership. So democracy which is pretty much reduced to North America, Europe and a few colonies thereof, is split.

The USA keeps believing in it’s exploitative mentality, thanks to colossal propaganda from the fossil fuel, health, military-industrial, banking and academic plutocracies. The EU itself is under American plutocratic assault (OK, it’s their fault, but…).

Before governance, what is needed is cognizance, that means that the history, and even economic history, and the philosophy thereof, of the last 2,000 years needs to be dissected. Professor Diamond did a bit of that, much more needs to be done, hence my labors on:

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Abrahamism Does NOT Have The Monopoly Of Faith

Those who believe in a particular superstition do not have the monopoly of faith. As the site below will soon argue in more detail, faith is indispensable for a creature of culture to have a mind (OK, this is extremely advanced philosophy). The adulators of the child molester Abraham should be reminded of this.


On another note, the growth of religious fanaticism in the USA is directly related to its sinking into plutocracy. It's part of a general decerebration, and expresses, just as the despicable Abraham does, the willingness to hurt the child to please the boss.

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