Jan 18 2011

In Which Gaius Publius Drinks My Milk Shake

I don’t pretend to be a reporter, I’m a critic.  Gaius has scooped me twice.  Once with this-

Krugman: ‘Can Europe be saved?’

by Gaius Publius, Americablog

1/14/2011 02:34:00 PM

Enter Mr. Krugman, the facts, and his excellent article. It’s all there:

  • The history of the formation of the European Union
  • Its politicalgoals (make the next Franco-German war impossible) and its monetary ones
  • The benefits of having a euro, and the traps
  • How those traps were sprung
  • Why the problem in Greece is different from Ireland, which is different from Latvia, and so on

And now with this-

‘Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer plans to hand over offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous to WikiLeaks’

by Gaius Publius, Americablog

1/17/2011 09:58:00 PM

Blum’s article is a review of a recent book about the “shadow elite” behind the current mortgage crisis, the interlocking network of players who’ve worked together from positions in banking, government and think tanks and who are “involved in each of the succeeding cycles of [mortgage] fraud.” The name Citibank comes up.

Wheeler’s last line: “It says something, I think, that the client of a guy who has gone to such lengths to expose the corrupt money running our world is going to Wikileaks.”

There’s more in all three places, and I recommend reading them in order – the Guardian story about tomorrow’s WikiLeak leak; Marcy Wheeler’s smart teasing of the implications; and Blum’s Huff Post piece.

This WikiLeaks thing is turning out rather well for us Littles, isn’t it. The Bigs are having a fit. It sure would be nice if someone backed that thing up. And I don’t mean back up the data; I mean back up the org.

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2 comments

  2. are running scared of Assange and demanding that the governments they control stop him. So far, they haven’t succeeded, thanks to those damned “tubes”

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