tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post4518358255279350472..comments2024-01-08T04:16:25.601-08:00Comments on Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa: Still More Shiny Objects -- And It's Coming to a HeadChé Pasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-84024914027520026752010-12-13T05:33:31.061-08:002010-12-13T05:33:31.061-08:00Truly, the Chinese have been one of the dogs that ...Truly, the Chinese have been one of the dogs that don't bark in this whole thing. <i>They </i> don't seem to be perturbed at all. But then, why should they be. <br /><br />I don't know that the upper-end power collectors of the private sector (ie: the Government's Owners and Stakeholders) are more responsive to revelations or public pressure than their Government is. I think they're really hand-in-glove. They serve one another. They ARE one another. <br /><br />We're the ones who get screwed at both ends of the equation. And <i>they</i> like it like that.Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-60765747822883247762010-12-11T10:06:04.979-08:002010-12-11T10:06:04.979-08:00I'm not sure what Julian Assange could release...I'm not sure what Julian Assange could release about our financial sector that we wouldn't already know from reading the two Michael Hudsons and Matt Taibbi. (On the other hand it would probably lead to some fun books or articles when a journalist like Taibbi or the other Michael Hudson dived into the leaks.)<br /><br />Ridiculous, open fraud throughout the system seems to be beaten back in a limited way by this journalism, but on the other hand it hasn't done anything to their tame government. (Sometimes the companies react in some small way to bad PR, but the government is just their to look impotent as usual.)<br /><br />The big problem our government has right now is that it's incapable of responding to crisis. <br /><br />Oh, and also that its an open book to any major power with a competent intelligence service. Frankly, if Julian Assange is able to do this kind of thing, I imagine the Chinese know every move our government is going to make before they make it. This is a good thing, I prefer an orderly transition of power from West to East to a World War.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-2141320936659414152010-12-06T16:47:46.265-08:002010-12-06T16:47:46.265-08:00Lots of folks don't understand the nature of a...Lots of folks don't understand the nature of a Captive Government, and they don't seem to realize that a lot of what we see that doesn't make sense is the result of Government following the directives -- or at least interests of -- its Owners and Stakeholders.<br /><br />And of course lots of Libertarian cultists like it that way. <br /><br />I still wonder about whether Julian/WikiLeaks is following one or another faction in that Captive Government. I, too, wonder why he didn't just dump the BofA docs (if that's what they are) without the tease. As bad as Government may be sometimes, I doubt that BofA or any other major financial player has any cleaner hands.<br /><br />The public needs to know how dirty it all is, it seems to me. <br /><br />As long as all eyes are focused on the Chase Scene, though, I doubt much of what else is going on will penetrate the general consciousness.<br /><br />Take care.Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-54602892652794551862010-12-04T18:54:19.191-08:002010-12-04T18:54:19.191-08:00Yep. It's too obvious that all this mess happe...Yep. It's too obvious that all this mess happened after he announced the doc dump of a major financial institution. <br /><br />Scandal and embarrassment for the government is one thing. Taking down the curtain of the crooks on Wall Street is another. That can't happen, and it's the job of government to protect them. <br /><br />(Isn't that what the propertarians say? The banksters are only asking for the same "rights" but on a massively bigger scale, right?)<br /><br />. . . . <br /><br />And then the predictable hint about Assange's sexual scandal. Can't they come up with a new twist on that one? Sheeeesh. <br /><br />. . . . <br /><br />I only wish Assange had kept his mouth shut and done the Financial Sector leaks as his own form of shock and awe. He would be a hero, then, and would give more than enough ammo to the Taibbis of this world to sink the Masters of the Universe. At least some of them. Sacrificial lambs? <br /><br />. . . <br /><br />If this hasn't blown the lid off of all the nonsense about how we need a "free market", nothing will. If this hasn't blown the lid off how we should admire the rich and protect them and accept their crumbs and accept them as stand-ins for "liberty" and "freedom" . . . nothing will. <br /><br />My guess is that it has a great deal to do with the Fed's recent revelation of that 3.3 trillion dollar giveaway. But now we may never find out. <br /><br />Heads should role. Lieberman and friends are scrambling to prevent that. Protect their bosses at all costs!! <br /><br />It's almost Shakespearean!!Cuchulainnoreply@blogger.com