03-12-2010, 06:47 PM
Peter Presland Wrote:The documents comprising the EU/IMF bankers/bondholders bailout are here
The Irish Unite Union's 'Peoples Budget' is here
I have only skimmed the documents but a couple of things leap off the page:
- The subservient (forelock-tugging) tone of the the Irish in the 'letters of intent' to both the EU and IMF - they seem to be quickly learning their new status as serfs - I guess it's just a return to the status-quo-anti for them, as the new enablers of their new absentee landlords.
- The Unite union's pathetic faith in Growth as our saviour - with absolutely zero questioning of the system that - by design - produced (and will always produce) the mess in the first place.
Peter - thanks.
I entirely agree about the stupidity of Unite's pathetic faith in material salvation through (the fetishized notion of) Growth.
Instead of thinking outside the box, Unite is attempting to preserve its place inside an already doomed box.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war