Following on from where Lesson 1 left off, this morning, we have Lesson 2, from David McWilliams, about the direction of the EU’s crazy macro parasite economics.
And this time, I didn’t have to put my hands over my eyes and my fingers in my ears.
The graphic work is simply superb.
World's finest probable book, still under construction
Joshua Hall and Adam Martin have written a great little academic paper which tries to squeeze the whole of Austrian economics into a few pages.
For someone, such as myself, writing an introductory guide to Austrian economics, it’s an absolute Godsend, for letting me know what needs to be in, and what can be left out.
And no, I’m not plagiarising it, you doubters. It’s at a much higher level than anything I’ll ever write.
[Currently halfway through Chapter 4 of the book, as it stands, after having just explained what money is, as opposed to paper fiat nonsense.]
David McWilliams, an Irish economist, delivers a colourful view of where the EU is going, which hopefully, if he’s right, is into the same dustbin of history that Napoleon and Hitler descended into. I had to put my fingers in my ears and my hands over my eyes for some of the economics on fiscal union, but the artwork is great enough to overcome that small glitch.
It would be equally great if Mr McWilliams does a similar video on Iceland, and on how those Vikings are on the up again, after refusing to swallow the blue pill of bankocracy, but for the latest news on that, try Max Keiser.
What the EU plan to do to Greece
Nigel Farage, serious contender for the title of Europe’s best politician – with Ron Paul clearly holding the title of World’s best politician – is on King World News again, with another update on the chaotic situation in Greece.
Although my money’s on the Drachma coming back into existence within a few hours of March 23rd, Farage is less concrete, though he does say it will be back sometime in 2012.
So why are the Unholy Troika of the EU, the ECB, and the IMF (as controlled by Washington) so desperate to keep Greece in the Euro, in the face of probable Greek revolution? Listen to Farage, to discover his views:
For those of a more conspiratorial bent, who view the EU as more sinister than stupid, you might also want to read the Daily Bell’s latest prognostications on why Greece is being taken out to the chicken shed for a little light neck shredding. The clue to what the piece is about, is in the title:
As the fascist macro parasite Napoleon might have said, it seems you can’t make a single omelette out of Europe, without breaking a few eggs, on the long bloody road to a single world fascist macro parasite government.
Don't look down!
I never usually push the King World News interviews with the heads and ex-heads of mining companies, as there’s normally too much puffing of their various books and share issues to wade through, to justify the useful nuggets of information they do generate, if you’ll pardon the gold-mining-related pun.
However, as they say in movie trailers, this time it’s different.
Jean-Marie Eveillard delivers a coruscating analysis of the current financial situation in Europe, with a superb and explicit Austrian analysis of what’s going on, followed by an incisive flow of information about where investors should be placing their resources.
What really makes it good however, is the bit where he calls Bernanke a lunatic.
Check it out:
What destroyed the old medieval order of Europe, and freed the enslaved serfs, which had been created a thousand years earlier by the dregs of the Roman Empire, was the Gutenberg press, in 1440.
All the elite ruling mafias of Europe were shaken to their foundations by that seminal event, as Gutenberg’s press ignited or accelerated the Renaissance, the Reformation, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the genesis of classical liberalism.
However, the elite macro parasites fought back, and eventually strangled us again, especially after their string of successes in the 20th century, in which they succeeded in killing hundreds of millions of us, to drag us back into line.
And then the Internet came along, to ruin their day once more.
Let us hope the Internet eventually has the same impact as the Gutenberg press, and helps us shake off the macro parasites, hopefully forever this time, whereas the Gutenberg press didn’t quite make it, especially when the macro parasites took over all the newspapers, magazines, media, and publishing houses, which made use of it.
Once they suffocated the media, the macro parasites were able to usher us into their golden age of control, the twentieth century, and once again dominated all the bastions of information flow. But in Gary North’s memorable phrase, they may still control the bastions, the trouble is for them, the walls are down.
Because that is what the Internet does.
And the macro parasites hate it, in all their various usually-acronymed disguises, such as the UN, the US, the UK, the EU, the IMF, the ECB, the Federal Reserve, the Chinese CP, the Russian government, the G20, the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, the CFR, Chatham House, and Uncle Tom Cobley and all. Having learned their lesson from the Gutenberg press, they will therefore try to seize and control the Internet. And word reaches us, in these towers of voluntary capitalism, that this is exactly what we can read about in of all places, the Wall Street Journal, one of the house papers of the macro parasites (no doubt its editor will receive a slapping soon, for going off reservation in such an open and honest manner).
You’ll probably be able to get around the WSJ’s paywall, for the first few goes, so read this:
Here’s the beginning, which almost sounds like it could come from Prison Planet:
“On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last June, his goal and that of his allies is to establish “international control over the Internet” through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a treaty-based organization under U.N. auspices.
If successful, these new regulatory proposals would upend the Internet’s flourishing regime, which has been in place since 1988. That year, delegates from 114 countries gathered in Australia to agree to a treaty that set the stage for dramatic liberalization of international telecommunications. This insulated the Internet from economic and technical regulation and quickly became the greatest deregulatory success story of all time.”
A recent self-portrait
Apparently, although I never knew it, Joakim Kämpe tells me I can speak Spanish!
Check this out, if you don’t believe me.
Here’s my favourite quote of myself:
“No tengo ni idea de cómo consiguió acertar tanto en su tiempo. Sospecho que usó una máquina del tiempo. A los propios socialistas les gustaría tener esta excusa para refutar la inexorable lógica de Herr Richter respecto de los peligros de su religión.”
Remarkable. The world gets more and more like The Matrix every day.
Here’s the original piece in Anglo-Saxon.
