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The MoA Week In Review – Open Thread 2020-55
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
The School of Medicine of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has posted a series of videos in which Department Chair Bob Wachter and various medical specialist discuss specific aspects of the Covid-19 epidemic. Yesterday's grand round was about The State of the Pandemic, Opening the Schools, and the Outbreak at San Quentin State Prison. Top first hand knowledge without politics.
This will probably have foreign policy consequences: Dozens of US Marines in Japan's Okinawa get coronavirus – Yahoo
[I am off for a family day.]
Use as open thread …
In the last voting for presiding the Eurogroup, a group of countries mostly belonging to European tax havens, allied with the most recently admitted from the former Soviet space, tiny countries whose economy is irrelevant in the European Union, representing as a whole a 20% of European GDP, managed to place their liberal right wing candidate against the candidate of the countries representing 80% of European GDP, that is France, Germany, Spain and Italy, together…
It seems that something needs to be changed in the EU so that a more balanced representation is achieved and we do not find ourselves crippled for life by the European Popular Party, and its Troy Horses in every European country, who works always in favor of transnational capital and thus against European countries gaining any strength and sovereignty, or the EU ends disamantled by former memebers and their transatlantic partners….
Frugal
(…)Each era enthrons its values. In the 19th century, it was convenient for money to be invested in factories, to promote industrialization, so greed was the worst defect: it immobilized capital. Instead, on the horse of the 20th and 21st centuries, the so-called consumer society made a leap in quality: the middle and popular classes accessed bourgeois luxuries thanks to the source of credit, which never stopped flowing. Trips to the Maldives, high-end flats and cars were bought on credit. People cheerfully went into debt, thanks not only to our banks and savings banks, but also to the German and Dutch banks, which promoted among us a credit binge that in their countries was restricted or frowned upon. When the bubble burst and the cuts came, we doom an austerity that we should never have lost.
The Dutch now champion frugality. With an Irish candidate (a country that practices fiscal dumping, that is, unfair competition), they have just won the presidency of the Eurogroup and will try to put sticks on the wheels of the Merkel and Macron reconstruction plan. The word frugal, which describes sober and moderate life, derives, according to the etymologist Corominas, from homo bonae frugis, which means “honest man”. I do not know if those who, having favored the fiscal or mercantile disorder, can now be described as honest, are indifferent to the devastation of the pandemic. They remind of that Mr. Scrooge, before the spirit of the future let him know that he would end up alone, rejected, surrounded by graves.
We know whose pocket the Eastern former Soviet countries are into…And it is not difficult to relate the European tax havens to the City of London and the interests of transnational capital instead of European nations..
It is to be guessed that even already out of the EU, the UK could manage to continue putting sticks in the wheels of Europe´s post-Covid recovery train, as it managed to do during its belonging to the EU, on behalf of its transatlantic ideological partner…
As Daniel Estulin states in his last podcast on Geopolitics, the theory of MacKinder on that “who dominates Eastern Europe dominates the Heartland, and who controls the Heartland controls the world”, still continues being relevant for UK foreign policy. Eastern Europe signified for MacKinder the breach amongst Russia and Germany, being as well a menace for UK interests the alliance of Russia with China. To the current relevance of these foreign policy directives, the entry of Poland and Ukraine into the “Sterling Zone”….he points at the possibility that the UK´s elite could have as a project in reserve the creation of the Confederation of Poland and Ukraine, including the Baltic states and Belarus….For hat end, it is needed to break the EU as we know it….He points at the significant recent development on London transferring to Varsovia 100 tons of Gold ( the Venezuelan Gold?…) allegedly found…over there…in the vaults….
Posted by: H.Schmatz | Jul 12 2020 13:29 utc | 75
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