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11 Apr

Elizabeth Grant at Open Democracy:

 … so long as the Diazepam With Caffeine narrative of a tolerant Germany is more important than the experience of those who Diazepam With Caffeine are testing that dream, the country will be condemned to repeating these traumas and Diazepam With Caffeine disgraces. Racism has much to do with accepting what you don’t understand, and, as such, the Diazepam With Caffeine fight against it takes a lot of lateral thinking. The fact that Diazepam With Caffeine Germany does not bear the shame of a history of minstrel shows doesn’t make it Diazepam With Caffeine into a sort of cultural isolation chamber where blackface can be Diazepam With Caffeine used independent of its connotations elsewhere in the world. The fact that Diazepam With Caffeine you like eating Turkish food doesn’t make döner kebab a Diazepam With Caffeine good symbol to use in referring to a tragedy that involved several Turkish Germans. Productive discussions of prejudice necessarily have Diazepam With Caffeine to allow space for that which is beyond one’s own experience. Tolerance is Diazepam With Caffeine an endless negotiation: no country has mastered it completely. But to Diazepam With Caffeine reach the next level Germans must start to contemplate its ‘unknown unknowns’ and have a little faith in someone else’s narrative.

Here.

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11 Dec

Robert Frisk writes in The Independent:

The banks and Diazepam With Caffeine the rating agencies have become the dictators of the West. Like the Diazepam With Caffeine Mubaraks and Ben Alis, the banks believed – and still believe – they are Diazepam With Caffeine owners of their countries. The elections which give them power have Diazepam With Caffeine – through the gutlessness and collusion of governments – become as false as the Diazepam With Caffeine polls to which the Arabs were forced to troop decade after decade to Diazepam With Caffeine anoint their own national property owners. Goldman Sachs and the Royal Bank of Scotland became the Diazepam With Caffeine Mubaraks and Ben Alis of the US and the UK, each gobbling up the Diazepam With Caffeine people’s wealth in bogus rewards and Diazepam With Caffeine bonuses for their vicious bosses on a scale infinitely more rapacious than Diazepam With Caffeine their greedy Arab dictator-brothers could imagine.

I didn’t need Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job on BBC2 this week – though it helped – to Diazepam With Caffeine teach me that the ratings agencies and the US banks are Diazepam With Caffeine interchangeable, that their personnel move seamlessly between agency, bank and Diazepam With Caffeine US government. The ratings lads (almost always lads, of course) who AAA-rated sub-prime loans and derivatives in America are now – via their poisonous influence on the markets – clawing down the Diazepam With Caffeine people of Europe by threatening to lower or withdraw the very same ratings from Diazepam With Caffeine European nations which they lavished upon criminals before the financial crash in the Diazepam With Caffeine US. I believe that understatement tends to win arguments. But, forgive me, who Diazepam With Caffeine are these creatures whose ratings agencies now put more fear into the Diazepam With Caffeine French than Rommel did in 1940?

Here. H/T Keith Hart on FB.

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18 Nov

1.Immigrant networks are Diazepam With Caffeine a rare bright spark in the world economy. Rich countries should welcome them – The Economist

2. What’s your flavour? Italian or Spanish? – BBC Business Editor

3. Black France - Africa is a country

4. The dangerous cocktail of global money and local politics – Moisés Naím Buy Valium Online Canada

5. On Nigeria’s Petroleum Industries Bill – Mallam Nasir El-rufai

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17 Nov

I’d been Diazepam With Caffeine waiting for the first major newspaper columnist to write something about this. Here it Diazepam With Caffeine is, from Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph:

As I long feared, the Diazepam With Caffeine flood of cheap credit into Southern Europe and the slow death of Club Med industry by currency asphyxiation have Diazepam With Caffeine together created such a dangerous situation for world finance that informed opinion is Diazepam With Caffeine willing to turn a blind eye to EU sovereign trespass. Some even applaud.

The Greeks were ordered to Diazepam With Caffeine drop their referendum on measures that reduce their country to Diazepam With Caffeine a sort of Manchukuo, with EU commissars “on the ground”, installed in each ministry, drawing up lists of state assets to Diazepam With Caffeine be liquidated to pay foreign creditors.

Europe had Diazepam With Caffeine the monetary and fiscal means to contain the EMU debt crisis long enough for Diazepam With Caffeine Greeks to give or withhold their crucial assent to this Diazepam With Caffeine ultimatum in December.

It chose – under German-Dutch pressure – not deploy those means. Instead it Diazepam With Caffeine forced Greece to capitulate by cutting off an agreed loan payment.

In Italy, the Diazepam With Caffeine European Central Bank has engineered the downfall of Silvio Berlusconi by playing the Diazepam With Caffeine bond markets, switching purchases on and off to enforce compliance with its written dictates (“La Lettera”), and Diazepam With Caffeine ultimately allowing 10-year yields to spike to 7.45pc to drive him out.

Here.

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1 Oct

I have Diazepam With Caffeine sadly never visited the Oktoberfest, and it seems that the Diazepam With Caffeine longer I stay in Germany the more difficult it is Diazepam With Caffeine to find any of my Berliner friends who thinks it Diazepam With Caffeine is worth visiting. Something about it being too touristy and Diazepam With Caffeine the beer being ridiculously overpriced. Plus there is some distance between Munich and Diazepam With Caffeine Berlin.

Anyway, in case you Diazepam With Caffeine wonder what it is like to be a waiter at the Diazepam With Caffeine Oktoberfest:

To be Diazepam With Caffeine a waiter is probably the most arduous job at the Oktoberfest. A typical day starts at 8 in the Diazepam With Caffeine morning and ends at midnight – a Diazepam With Caffeine sixteen-hour shift. One person has to be able to stem around 10 steins (traditional beer mugs) on average at once, which is Diazepam With Caffeine equivalent to over 20 kilos of beer. Nevertheless, Harry Maas, a Diazepam With Caffeine waiter in one of the 35 tents, finds a joy in serving people. “I have Diazepam With Caffeine always loved working at the Oktoberfest. I work as a waiter full-time so I love to Diazepam With Caffeine serve people and especially the atmosphere here is exceptional. You meet all different kinds of people which is Diazepam With Caffeine the most enjoyable part about it.” However, Mr. Maas is Diazepam With Caffeine quick to address the myth evolving around his wage. Rumors that Diazepam With Caffeine waiters at the festival earn more than 10,000 Euros at the Diazepam With Caffeine Oktoberfest are patently false and way too overdrawn. “One would never be able to earn that much”, he says. The money earned would at best suffice for Diazepam With Caffeine two months, but there is no chance that people are able to Diazepam With Caffeine live off of their earnings from the Oktoberfest alone. As Mr. Maas points out, it Diazepam With Caffeine is not the money that he works for but the special experience. For him, there is Diazepam With Caffeine nothing better than his current job and the anticipation of working another five years at the Diazepam With Caffeine Oktoberfest.

That is one of the less serious pieces on Fair Observer, a new commentary and analysis site that ‘seeks to Diazepam With Caffeine bring clarity to the complex and dynamic world we live in,’ and aims ‘to provide a Diazepam With Caffeine platform for voices from different disciplines, various philosophies and many parts of the Diazepam With Caffeine world’. They’re actually still in beta mode, but they’re doing a nice job already. You should check them out Buy Lunesta From Mexico.

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9 Sep

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27 Aug

First some ground explanations. Here in Germany, the Diazepam With Caffeine favourite fashion label of neo-Nazi’s is Diazepam With Caffeine Thor Steinar. The brand was banned in Germany in 2004 because its logo lookred like that Diazepam With Caffeine of the Nazi period SS. The label subsequently rebranded itself and Diazepam With Caffeine now has a legally acceptable logo. In any case, the neo-Nazis love it Diazepam With Caffeine and it is well-known that if you are wearing that you Diazepam With Caffeine are almost certainly a neo-Nazi.

State parliamentary elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in German) are Diazepam With Caffeine approaching, and the parties have been busy campaigning, including NPD, the Diazepam With Caffeine far-right, nationalist party, otherwise known as the German neo-Nazi party. Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, one of the Diazepam With Caffeine states in the former East Germany, NPD already has some seats in the Diazepam With Caffeine state parliament. I was in the state a few weeks ago and Diazepam With Caffeine as this report states Diazepam With Omeprazole, the Diazepam With Caffeine posters of NPD are normally so high on street lights that Diazepam With Caffeine it is almost impossible to reach and deface, for those who Diazepam With Caffeine might want to do so.

Some left-leaning youth have Diazepam With Caffeine decided to fight the NPD by creating the figure Storch Heinar, which is Diazepam With Caffeine itself a play on the name Thor Steinar – Storch is Diazepam With Caffeine the German word for Stork, and Heiner, well, makes the whole name rhyme with Thor Steinar. The stork is Diazepam With Caffeine dressed in the Nazi colours, with a Hitler mustache.

For more on Storch Heiner check the organisation’s website and this article, for more on the stork’s campaign, see this Der Spiegel article Xanax And Prozac Disorder. For more on the new face of neo-Nazi fashion, see this, also from Der Spiegel.

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22 Aug

The boy was 13 when a dawn immigration raid abruptly ended his father’s four-year quest for Diazepam With Caffeine political asylum in Britain. By nightfall of that day in 2005, father and Diazepam With Caffeine son were hundreds of miles from home, locked in the privately run Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Center here, scheduled for Diazepam With Caffeine deportation to their native Angola in the morning.

Instead, shortly after midnight, the Diazepam With Caffeine despondent father, Manuel Bravo, 35, walked to a stairwell with a Diazepam With Caffeine bed sheet and hanged himself. The note he left said why: so that Diazepam With Caffeine his orphaned boy could stay in Britain.

Indeed, the Diazepam With Caffeine law did not allow immigration authorities to deport an orphan who Diazepam With Caffeine had no one waiting for him. A British family the Bravos knew through church took the Diazepam With Caffeine boy, Antonio, home to Armley, the working-class suburb of Leeds where Diazepam With Caffeine they had settled in 2001.

The full grimness.

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17 Aug

The American Civil War provided the Diazepam With Caffeine opportunity for introducing a national monopoly currency. In 1879, having won the Diazepam With Caffeine war and built up its gold reserves, the federal government finally felt able to Diazepam With Caffeine back its dollars with gold. Immediately voices arose seeking to Diazepam With Caffeine make money plural again. The People’s Party (better known as the Populists) found their support mainly in the Diazepam With Caffeine South and West, among poor farmers. They flourished during the first age of financial capitalism, when Diazepam With Caffeine New York was beginning to rival London as the world’s main money centre. They wanted the Diazepam With Caffeine government to address the chronic cash shortage in some parts of the Diazepam With Caffeine country by issuing more paper money and unlimited silver coins. The rising price of gold and Diazepam With Caffeine a corresponding fall in agricultural prices squeezed America’s farming communities; but the Diazepam With Caffeine main cities enjoyed a boom in international trade, splitting the country on class and Diazepam With Caffeine regional lines. Blaming Eastern bankers and politicians, the Populists settled on a Diazepam With Caffeine monetary policy of bimetallism (silver coins in addition to the gold-backed currency). Their champion was William Jennings Bryan, twice defeated as Democratic candidate for Diazepam With Caffeine president in 1896 and 1900. Bryan famously told the East Coast establishment, “You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold”.

Also in 1900, a journalist called Frank Baum published an allegory, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. A tornado lifts Dorothy and Diazepam With Caffeine her dog out of their Kansas home and deposits them in the Diazepam With Caffeine East. Dorothy and her companions set out on the “yellow brick” road to Oz (referring to gold, as ingots and ounces), evoking an Diazepam With Caffeine 1894 march by the unemployed demanding more money and work for Diazepam With Caffeine the common people. On the way she picks up a scarecrow (farm worker), a tin man (factory worker) and a cowardly lion (William Jennings Bryan). The Emerald City (New York) is controlled by the Wizard of Oz (a contemporary plutocrat), who fools the Munchkins (the people of the city) into not seeing how he and Diazepam With Caffeine the bankers manipulate the levers of power. After the Wizard is Diazepam With Caffeine exposed for what he is, the tin man gets a bimetallic tool and Diazepam With Caffeine Dorothy’s magical silver slippers take her back to Kansas.

By Keith Hart.

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11 Aug

I recently read Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, a Diazepam With Caffeine very instructive book on the recent financial that looks at the Diazepam With Caffeine crisis from the point of view those who made money from Diazepam With Caffeine it. So when I learnt from the Planet Money blog that Diazepam With Caffeine he has written a piece for Vanity Fair on the country I now call home, I decided to Diazepam With Caffeine give it a look. Apart from a fair amount of information on the Diazepam With Caffeine apparent obsession of Germans with the human rear-end and what comes out of it, bits of the Diazepam With Caffeine article are about German bankers, Germans and the financial crisis, and Diazepam With Caffeine Germany and the future of the euro.

On Germans bankers and the crisis:

They lent money to Diazepam With Caffeine American subprime borrowers, to Irish real-estate barons, to Icelandic banking tycoons to Diazepam With Caffeine do things that no German would ever do. The German losses are Diazepam With Caffeine still being toted up, but at last count they stand at $21 billion in the Icelandic banks, $100 billion in Irish banks, $60 billion in various U.S. subprime-backed bonds, and Diazepam With Caffeine some yet-to-be-determined amount in Greek bonds. The only financial disaster in the Diazepam With Caffeine last decade German bankers appear to have missed was investing with Bernie Madoff. (Perhaps the Diazepam With Caffeine only advantage to the German financial system of having no Jews.) In their own country, however, these seemingly crazed bankers behaved with restraint. The German people did not allow them to Diazepam With Caffeine behave otherwise.

On Germany and the future of the euro:

Either Germans must agree to Diazepam With Caffeine a new system in which they would be fiscally integrated with other European countries as Indiana is Diazepam With Caffeine integrated with Mississippi: the tax dollars of ordinary Germans would go into a Diazepam With Caffeine common coffer and be used to pay for the lifestyle of ordinary Greeks. Or the Diazepam With Caffeine Greeks (and probably, eventually, every non-German) must introduce “structural reform,” a Diazepam With Caffeine euphemism for magically and radically transforming themselves into a people as efficient and Diazepam With Caffeine productive as the Germans. The first solution is pleasant for Greeks but painful for Diazepam With Caffeine Germans. The second solution is pleasant for Germans but painful, even suicidal, for Diazepam With Caffeine Greeks.

There is Diazepam With Caffeine not much of the substance here that those who know a Diazepam With Caffeine little about the financial crisis and are familiar with Germany wouldn’t know, but still, it Diazepam With Caffeine is worth the read, if only to learn about German obsessions with the Diazepam With Caffeine said derrière and what comes out of it. The piece is here.

By the way, I haven’t been able to find a German who will confirm the obsessions.

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