It should frighten you out of your wits
To learn what was done to those tits
The Great Berluscosa,
Who does nothing sub-rosa,
Had them touched up with clothing that fits.

Degenerate art? Degenerate audience? Degenerate past? Past as prelude?

From: Tony Blair
TO: Gordon Brown
"I'd like to help to smack you down."

From: Gordon Brown
TO: Tony Blair
Your trial for War Crimes will be fair.

Hubris haunts whomever has
Had his Heaven halted.
And can you say for sure you know
Where Tony's money's salted?
Tit for this and Tat for that
Can cost a pretty penny.
Who will say if Gordon's acts
Have cost Our Tony any?

O! The Hedge grows green in summer
Grows great until its mown,
Until at last we learn who's dumber:
Who's holding all them loans?

BushCo's fatal delusion.

It shines the light on an unpleasant fact: "investors" bailed out of those CDOs and freed from SIVs with public money, take the profit from short sales and hot-foot it to China, leaving no money for modest Main Street loans.

Detective Robert Davis at 360-473-5361 is deeply troubled, and urgently needs your help. Banks in Bremerton Washington have been vandalised, but nothing was taken from them as they stood open to the four winds.
Watch the Video.

Dear Chief:
Enjoy your trip, y'hear? No need to hurry back.
Love

[usual signature}

Bush visits Fifth Fleet in Persian Gulf

The facts speak for themselves.

December 20, 2007
Jeb Bush and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis

The Huckster and the Wreckage
By ALAN FARAGO

Outlawed peretuities have secretly stolen the planet. Here's how to snatch it back.

Prescriptions for the Redistribution of Wealth and Responsibility
in the Twenty-First Century

 (l'Engrenage technique) Pub: Gallimard, 266 p; by André Lebeau

Reviewed for Le Canard Enchaîné by Jean-Luc Porquet

When, in 1722, the Dutch navigator Jacob Roggaveen discovered Easter Island he observed only barren grassland. Not a tree on the horizon. Only 400 inhabitants eked out a miserable existence, sustaining themselves on vegetables and chickens. Without trees, therefore without wood or any sort of vessel, they were unable to go out fishing in the surrounding waters, rich in all species of fish. Divided into eleven strongly heirarchised tribes, each of which boasted a leader, they fought fiercely over a territory about fifteen kilometers by twenty.

...why should you care?

This is how it would work, were it to happen.

The FT would run a schadenfreude-inspiring piece on how little demand there now is for IMF loans.and how the International Institution will have to live for several years off the profits (interest-rate spread) it had squirreled away following any scandalous speculator-bailout you can name. (Think big, think - erm - Russia.) Maybe the article would be entitled, let's say, something like Falling income: IMF in dilemma as new loans decline(1). If your reading's almost up to date, you'll enjoy the thought of those slathering Wall Street thugs twiddling their thumbs for the next few years, looking for trouble that never comes, over your morning coffee.

But that's not all.

24 hours later, is what we have here a pro-Saddam Media Riot?
If so, here's what a genuine media-made riot might look like. Compare and discuss:

Shiites Stage Mass Anti-U.S. Protests
By ABDUL HUSSEIN AL-OBEIDI, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 11 minutes ago

A little more below the fold.

People have taken to printing out copies of DailyKos threads and handing them around. It's educational, it's free, it's an individual intiative.

More below the fold.

Monuments are being raised to WWII war crimminals, which US ambassadors representing ButchCo publicly support.

Front Page Réseau Voltaire. Translation below the fold.

Ouch!! What happened here?

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Associated Press
Adelphia to Pay $700M to Resolve Probe
Monday April 25, 10:58 pm ET
By Mark Sherman, Associated Press Writer  
Adelphia Agrees to Pay More Than $700 Million to Resolve Federal Fraud Probe, Government Says

How to crash a listed Corporation

45% of Bush voters think Creationism should replace Evolution in the schools. (this is the view of: 37% of all voters; 60% of Evangelicals; 50% of those who go to religious services at least once per week)

13% of Americans think that humans evolved and God did not guide the process.

55% of all voters think that God created Humans in their current form.

The poll is a canard!! Trust me! Now read on:

You won't find these articles on-Line because Nice-Matin serves a vast area of varied communities: rural villages with histories reaching back to the first millennium compete with densely urbanized former tax havens such as Monaco (now EU; signed ten days ago) for space and attention. It's an odd mix of archaïc parochialism (detailled reports of choir practice in the boonies plus opaquely allusive pieces on long-running mega scandals) and jet-set mean-spiritedness. As everywhere else, the real money maker is the classifieds. So they don't publish daily articles on the web; you'll have to trust me on this, though I am eager to scan and post fac-similies on request.