Why is the US involved in Libya today? Why is NATO there? Why aren’t they doing more or less (depending on your politics) than they are? Is the whole thing yet another evil colonial imperialist plot to make the white man rich by seizing the Other’s oil? Let’s look at some hard data and see what we can figure out. Continue Reading »
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Posted in Politics and International Relations |
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And it came to pass, that Goldman’s then-chief overlord was order’d to parade full 7 days and 7 nights through the streets of lower Manhattan, clad in naught save his drawers, bearing tether’d to heavy chains every SEC filing that Goldman hath wrought for 10 years previous; while the peasants of the borough were to gather round to hurl rotting vegetables thence, and cry, “Lo! How the mighty have fallen!”
And only then, once the indignity were suffer’d in full, might he retreat to his penthouse to recover, or to his yacht, or to the coffers of his chalet in southern France, or to his Bahamas estate countinghouse, or to any other sequester’d location whatsoever.
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Posted in Economics, Politics and International Relations |
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