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Could you find it in your heart to help Americans find it too?

In the old days we'd have lynched him. But we're more civilized now.

While the faux-libertarians fall all over themselves defending Sno Klux Klansmen, not a peep about this...

Um, no. But you know who is? American firms! Yeah, that's why they're investing in China instead of here. 'Cause let's face it, this just don't look like a very good place to make a buck these days or in the medium term...

Didn't you have to work today? Ever? WTF, do you just sit around and spray all day? Whew, spraying all day makes me tired. Sorry you couldn't hang out with us today, Fairweather. It was a fun one. I'm going to spend time with my family now (it looks like most everyone has already dipped too). Could you turn out the lights here when you're done?

278 posts today. Your employer must be proud.

FOAD.

Like your new sig line! HAHAHAHAH!!!

Nice try. What should actually be under consideration is your particular brand of capitalism, the most recent iteration of which can be dated from the late-1970s to the present and can't even be deemed successful in its own terms. Metric-- Golden Age / Washington Consensus Average global growth 4.8% / 3.2% Average global inflation 3.9% / 3.2% Unemployment (US) 4.8% / 6.1% Unemployment (France) 1.2% / 9.5% Unemployment (Germany) 3.1% / 7.5% -from here.

total bullshit i'd bet - takes big balls to leak secrets as them balls seem usually to get slammed in the nearest door soon thereafter. Get him in touch with Kojak. His "power shake" will get 'em down to the size of dried garbanzo beans in no time.

Could be. I certainly don't know what I'm going to do with the blockbuster revelation that Vladimir Putin is a fascist, etc. though I am pleased that GWBush might be "embarrassed". Whatever. I am looking forward to the leaks of bank documents wikileaks has promised. You know, stuff that might lead to investigations, prosecutions, etc. Has anything come to light of this nature that has been revealed in the recent batch?

For intelligence to be "actionable", you need: a) Someone who gives a fuck and b) Someone who can do something about it. I thought the bazilliongigs of information already on the internet showing exactly how we're robbed, beaten, and fucked over by the powerful on a daily basis would've proved that point already.

Yes. The latest bulk leak is basically a diplomatic tabloid tattle sheet. Elites already know how they talk about each other behind closed doors and most citizens should already know this as well. At this stage in the game power already operates quite freely without resistance. The notion that the leaks are any kind of geopolitical game changer or a danger to "world order" is a media hoax.

CIA operation. What better way to doom all these "secrets" to immediate irrelevance than bulk dump them on the internet?

so, folks shouldn't try to tell the market who is boss yet they should tell the banksters threatening to sink our economy that they won't be bailed out. Did I get this right? Doesn't it strike you as contradictory? Dude - they're the best friends that all of the private entities that bought bonds issued by the PIIGS ever had! These "eternal foes of the market" like bondholders so much they're willing to inflict the liabilities for every penny of losses on the said bonds on the public. The public in any country that defaults is going to suffer, but they'll suffer quite a bit more if their governments foolishly commit them to repaying debts that are beyond their capacity to repay under any terms. Defaulting on sovereign debt is disastrous. Committing to an impossible repayment regime and then defaulting is worse. Europe is going to have to default one way or another. Outright or by devaluing the Euro via inflation. Ditto for Japan. The combination of exploding public sector debts and spending obligations and an imploding birth-rate means that people who have lent them money are going to take some losses, they're going to have work more, and longer, and live with less in retirement. There's no escape from this. So pure. So chaste. Let the markets rip, deregulate, self-correction, the whole nine yards, in the real existing world, mind you...till the whole porta-potty explodes...then walk away without a speck of shit on 'ya, sayin' "I told you so". Get bent, Jay.

Your disdain for the mentally challenged is sure, well, EVIL. I'm not disparaging them, only trying to diagnose you!

No Down's emoticon?

What's that quote about the banality of evil? Yep, FW and Kojak have it in spades.

Doesn't get much better than literally taking food out of children's mouths, does it Kojak?

More of Fairweather's "common sense".

Putting 2 million unemployed into the streets during the worst social crisis since the Great Depression is "common sense"? What's next, invade a militarily insignificant country in an exceedingly volatile part of the world? Oh, wait...Fuck!

"Og like meat" -Kojak

Well, I'm not retarded enough to pursue an education I can't afford to pay off with gainful employment later on. The little wavy Down's Syndrome emoticon guy is a nice touch.