tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post7504346591071965661..comments2023-07-23T14:10:14.460+02:00Comments on Shall we talk?: The 4 P. ruleFloconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-40635314058932387942012-06-18T09:06:06.366+02:002012-06-18T09:06:06.366+02:00SemperFidelis,
I'm not knowledgeable as you a...SemperFidelis,<br /><br />I'm not knowledgeable as you are in these matters but if I understand what you're writing, at the end of the day the British, Dutch etc. banks are asking the Islandic collectivity to reimburse to their clients the money that has been left through gambling in international finance nets. <br /><br />And also, dividends of said banks must not be altered by these Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-90785197309116782372012-06-18T08:30:06.506+02:002012-06-18T08:30:06.506+02:00Anijo,
Nobody's stating that Norway is ruled ...Anijo,<br /><br />Nobody's stating that Norway is ruled according to marxist precepts (whatever that may mean), or Sweden for that matter.<br /><br /><b>Ikea</b> in Stockholm, <b>Lego</b> in Copenhagen, <b>Nokia</b> in Helsinki etc. (although Finland isn't a Scandinavian country mais c'est pareil).<br /><br />Capitalism in northern Europe isn't left unbridled as it is elsewhere Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-28313842018268127032012-06-18T04:40:41.245+02:002012-06-18T04:40:41.245+02:00//Un autre exemple des 4 P : Quand les banques bri...//Un autre exemple des 4 P : Quand les banques britanniques et néerlandaises ont fait de mauvaises affaires en Islande, à qui ont-elles fait appel to bail them out but... the State of Iceland through the Islandic taxpayers.<br /><br />For some reason, these ungrateful people have refused to pay English and Dutch capitalists through the nose. Bizarre.//<br /><br />I don't think this is the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-23468519671418323852012-06-18T02:53:58.898+02:002012-06-18T02:53:58.898+02:00and they relie on the Northern Sea oil wells
Yup....<i>and they relie on the Northern Sea oil wells</i><br /><br />Yup. No Marxism there. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway" rel="nofollow">That's capitalism, it is.</a><br /><br /><i>Norway is the third largest oil exporter on Earth</i><br /><br />Perhaps capitalism is not as evil as some Marxists imagine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-85629883194685575362012-06-17T23:06:34.449+02:002012-06-17T23:06:34.449+02:00"Perhaps keeping their own currencies and sta...<i>"Perhaps keeping their own currencies and staying out of the Euro had something to do with it.</i><br /><br />Exactly! it has to do with it, though it doesn't explain everything.<br /><br />These countries don't have to pay for the Greeks as much as the Euro zone members must. But as members of the E.U, I suppose they nonetheless have to contribute somehow.<br /><br />As pertainsFloconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-40485713863904654692012-06-17T12:44:35.185+02:002012-06-17T12:44:35.185+02:00//For some reason, Scandinavian countries have kep...//For some reason, Scandinavian countries have kept their head cool and are breezing with ease, safety and tranquillity.//<br /><br />Perhaps keeping their own currencies and staying out of the Euro had something to do with it.<br /><br />SemperFidelisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-36568879031733105762012-06-17T08:57:47.103+02:002012-06-17T08:57:47.103+02:00Well, that wasn't the best bottle of wine I ev...Well, that wasn't the best bottle of wine I ever drunk by far (but actually I hardly drink three bottles per year). It's just that I wasn't totally fit to write after ten minutes...<br /><br />As for being a Marxist the test is easy: If you favor exploitation of man by man you're not a Marxist. Now, choose your side ;-)Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-47024898775074081742012-06-17T02:54:29.152+02:002012-06-17T02:54:29.152+02:00Wish I was there sharing with you a bottle of red ...Wish <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPL_SV3n7IU" rel="nofollow">I was there</a> sharing with you a bottle of red wine from the Loire region.<br /><br /><i>We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl<br /> year after year<br />Running over the same old ground<br /> <br />What have you found?<br /><br />The same old fears.<br />Wish you were here.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-67114137049685715562012-06-16T22:50:52.871+02:002012-06-16T22:50:52.871+02:00waow... I've indulged with a bottle of red win...waow... I've indulged with a bottle of red wine from the Loire region and for some reason I feel I'm not in a position to properly comment on the blog. What's more, I feel an urgent need to sleep. I'll keep you informed later... ouch! zzzzz....Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-3656960940442891302012-06-16T16:39:26.390+02:002012-06-16T16:39:26.390+02:00Flocon,
It was linked to by Norm Jenson on his bl...Flocon,<br /><br />It was linked to by Norm Jenson on his blog <a href="http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2012/01/links_with_your_1529.html" rel="nofollow">onegoodmove</a>.<br /><br />Am I a Marxist? Hell, I don't really know what I am. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ycB4Y_USTA" rel="nofollow">A strange mix of many things it seems</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-84881428878104797762012-06-16T16:02:29.179+02:002012-06-16T16:02:29.179+02:00Anijo,
The article you link to is most interestin...Anijo,<br /><br />The article you link to is most interesting indeed. It mentions this (swedish) movie <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85dalen_31" rel="nofollow">Ådalen 31</a> which went out when I was in my last year in the lycée.<br /><br />Was it because that was the year after 1968, or because I was still very young (but yet muscular, well built and handsome) and in the process of Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-2900676277073432382012-06-16T08:26:57.313+02:002012-06-16T08:26:57.313+02:00The American equivalent of your 4P would be a phra...The American equivalent of your 4P would be a phrase used since the Reagan years.<br /><br />"Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor."Ned Luddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00599196155953996432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-6386425929702396862012-06-16T03:39:14.269+02:002012-06-16T03:39:14.269+02:00How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the O...<a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=6368:how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-the-power-of-the-one-percent" rel="nofollow">How Swedes and Norwegians broke the power of the One Percent</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-87997971761441825192012-06-16T00:35:57.517+02:002012-06-16T00:35:57.517+02:00Salut Jan,
"It is so hard to believe that al...Salut Jan,<br /><br /><i>"It is so hard to believe that all this is the way that it has to be"</i>.<br /><br />A very deterministic statement which I completely agree with.<br /><br />It has some religious vibes...Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-85160991927979565722012-06-16T00:33:19.360+02:002012-06-16T00:33:19.360+02:00SemperFidelis,
As a complement to ZapPow's co...SemperFidelis,<br /><br />As a complement to ZapPow's comment, suffices to consider the economic state of France after 10 years of rightist policies: the unemployment level has nearly doubled, so has the national debt (<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Dette_publique_France_1978-2010.png%22" rel="nofollow">here</a>) (Chirac and Sarko).<br /><br />The poor are poorer Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-25977615935678166692012-06-15T21:29:06.566+02:002012-06-15T21:29:06.566+02:00"It is so hard to believe that all this is th..."It is so hard to believe that all this is the way that it has to be":<br />http://tinyurl.com/7gyukw4<br /><br />-Jan<br />CDNAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-67540430261714426752012-06-15T21:15:40.584+02:002012-06-15T21:15:40.584+02:00@ SemperFidelis
Not exactly. Sarkozy himself has ...@ SemperFidelis<br /><br />Not exactly. Sarkozy himself has been a champion in increasing taxes and taxes creation, and most of the future increase was already in the books of Sarko's government. And the present government still has the goal of reducing spending, but not at the expense of our children education, and with some social justice, which seems to be an unknown concept on the right.<ZapPowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055974915059655780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-35887030777762647532012-06-15T17:28:42.180+02:002012-06-15T17:28:42.180+02:00But happy days are here again! French voters have...But happy days are here again! French voters have elected politicians who propose to bring back prosperity by increasing taxation and without reducing government spending. <br /><br />Problem solved. <br /><br />Isn't that how the Swedes did it? <br /><br />SemperFidelisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-74202946673290938972012-06-15T08:51:24.127+02:002012-06-15T08:51:24.127+02:00And look how Chirac and worse, Sarko, have dilapid...And look how Chirac and worse, Sarko, have dilapidated Jospin's legacy...<br /><br />Re Victoria Grant (whose most excellent memory must be commanded for she is obviously reciting her lesson), it brings Grouch Marx's quote to my mind:<br /><br /><i>"Run out and get me a four year old child, I can't make head or tail out of it."</i>Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-45086390948768385312012-06-14T13:40:27.397+02:002012-06-14T13:40:27.397+02:00Victoria Grant
has an answer to Reagan, who would ...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5Sc3vWefE&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">Victoria Grant</a><br />has an answer to Reagan, who would probably to lefty for the current Republican Party.<br /><br />Reaganonmics was based on enormous deficit spending by cutting taxes for the rich. It took Clinton to correct things and he left office with a financial program that almost all economists Ned Luddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00599196155953996432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-14234425211824537522012-06-14T08:54:05.869+02:002012-06-14T08:54:05.869+02:00Hmmm... I've ordered the petite piece de red m...Hmmm... I've ordered the petite piece de red meat to go back home, he's not welcomed.<br /><br />Here at two men whose singular beauty fascinated me when I discovered their face when I was still a very young teenager.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.starplus.fr/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/les-plus-grandes-stars-dhollywood-gary-cooper.jpg" rel="nofollow">Lui</a> et <a href="http://Floconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02152293520895506516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-81042588131114568222012-06-14T02:45:49.872+02:002012-06-14T02:45:49.872+02:00Flocon,
Je préfère Sean Connery au lieu de ton pe...Flocon,<br /><br />Je préfère Sean Connery au lieu de ton petite piece de red meat. Seriously, that type of phoniness doesn't interest me, believe it or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-16795133546196157052012-06-13T09:36:04.157+02:002012-06-13T09:36:04.157+02:00Anijo, malheureusement, il n'y avait jamais un...Anijo, malheureusement, il n'y avait jamais un remplaçant plus jeune pour <a href="http://egotvonline.com/2011/08/25/sir-sean-connery-photos/" rel="nofollow">Sean Connery</a><br /><br />Au moins que je sache.Ned Luddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00599196155953996432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-22878394951283986042012-06-13T03:12:43.513+02:002012-06-13T03:12:43.513+02:00Image de Ben Laden, et puis Reagan... et après, tu...Image de Ben Laden, et puis Reagan... et après, tu vas nous régaler avec cet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch" rel="nofollow">cet homme ?</a>... mauvais garçon !<br /><br />Encore de Rafa ou Dr Cox stpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186849324750028115.post-21399077215680872632012-06-13T03:04:14.031+02:002012-06-13T03:04:14.031+02:00Alors, tu me plaît avec Rafa, et puis me fait vomi...Alors, tu me plaît avec Rafa, et puis me fait vomir avec cette image.... mauvais garçon que t'es Flocon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com