Signs of The Times

The expression became part of the Zeitgeist (particularly in my SUB-generation: Catholic teenagers in 1960, in between the opposite myths of Che Guevara and  JFK), with Pope John 2 and his Enciclicae letters writers, like mons. Ferrari Toniolo. The Zeitgeist became self-reflective (reflecting on the Zeit’s signs), in a turn of space-time, and self-referemtial systems were in the pipeline.

Here is another mirror referentiality. In the June 26 selection of Signs of “The Times” (London), there this this guy from Kent,  Kevin Goddard, who goes to Singapore and spots a sign of Zeitgeist war between Christians and Potterists (a derivation of Shamanism). But, travelling for business or  tourism, even Tom Porter of Singapore, while eating a sandwich,  detects something odd in Sandwich, Kent. Now they might know each other, as soon as the first of the two gets back home: The Times has the emails, from which they received the Signs.

 

 

 

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Oh no, not again

Today’s FT leader

Published: June 26 2008 03:00 | Last updated: June 26 2008 03:00
Silvio Berlusconi has been in power in Italy for almost 50 days. Watching his new government in action is a bit like sitting down to view a bad old movie again. When the Forza Italia leader last ruled Italy from 2001 to 2006, he spent too much time legislating to protect himself from prosecution and too little reforming Italy’s sluggish economy. It is too early to make firm judgments, of course. But Mr Berlusconi’s latest essay in government already has the makings of another horror show. Once again, the 71-year old prime minister is spending much of his political energy legislating to protect himself from Italy’s public prosecutors. He wants to pass a law that would suspend for one year most court cases where the alleged crime carries a sentence of more than 10 years. If this law is passed, it would scupper a trial due to start next month in which Mr Berlusconi is charged with paying $600,000 to his British lawyer, David Mills. Needless to say, the opposition has dubbed the legislation the “save the premier law”. Mr Berlusconi does not stop here. He is also trying to introduce a law that would give immunity from prosecution to the top office holders in the Italian state, including himself. Such legislation would be unthinkable in most western states and was deemed unconstitutional by Italy’s supreme court when Mr Berlusconi last tried to introduce it in 2004

subcrime in Italy

LA MAGISTRATURA ITALIANA CONTRO I SANTUARI FINANZIARI.

Truffa aggravata contro il  Comune di Milano (casi così, sappiamo da una trasmissione Report, ce ne sono in tutta la Penisola). Imputati: Deutsche Bank, Ubs, Gp Morgan e Depfa Bank.

 ITALIA 

ILSOLE24ORE.COM > Italia ARCHIVIO

Accusa di truffa a danno del comune di Milano, quattro banche perquisite dalla GdF

Obama leading 1.5/1, i.e. 50% on McCain

PHOTO: CC license, Steve Rhodes. Flickr

An Obama New Deal

i.e. a door out of the merdique Age of …, is at hand’s take:

1.  most recent Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll.

It shows Obama leading by 12 percentage points — 49% to 37% — in a head-to-head contest, and by 15 points — 48% to 33% — in a four-way race, that includes Barr and Nader. Seems the Republicans aren’t crazy about McCain. The Clintonian camp (demagogically cultivated by McCain) is definitely, quickly converging on Obama — only 11% of Clinton supporters would vote the Republican candidate.

2. Naomi Klein has a strong recommendation, in order to get an Obama New Deal, from the Obama succes that is apparently emerging.Obama’s Chicago Boys .

NAOMI KLEIN: Before Obama can transform the economy, he has some housecleaning to do. Too many Chicago’s Friedmanites in his backyard.

3. The Nation, the Institute for Policy Studies and http://extremeinequality.org,  call for a creative competition: propose a standard name for the 1980-2008 epoch, that an Obama New Deal is called to close forever. Last major ages were:

a) The Great Depression, 1929-39

b) The Great Compression: Economic Miracles (1945-80), Keynesian policies, rise of middle classes, Kaleckian income and wealth equalitarian RE-distribution

c)  (Great) X  Age (1980-2008):  globalisation and world Rentiers Elite, drastic COUNTER - distribution in their favour; consequent hysteresis (1990s), then methastatsis (now) of over-accumulation, in a régime of deflation  (Aglietta- Berrebi, Beitel, Chesnais, Fabius Maximus). An implosion and proletarisation of middle classes, an expropriation and repression of creative classes (Florida, Harvey).

Early name proposals already include: 2nd gilded age, 2nd great transformation (my proposal), epoch of deconstruction, Fall of Rome part 2, great bubble age, great disconnect (harley shaiken, berkeley), great divergence (paul krugman), great divide, great repression (economic and political),  the new confederacy (according to a Comment by blueCedars, the confederacy won Civil War in 1980 and established work slavery), Reaganomics age of wealth inequality, Twin Peaks (my proposal too: a peak of N. Atlantic civilisation, and  world Humboldt Peak for hydrocarbures).

REFERENCES

   Michel Aglietta and Laurent Berrebi (2007), Désordres dans le capitalisme mondiale. Paris: Odile Jacob. 

  Karl Beitel (2008), The Subprime Debacle. Monthly Review, May: “other crises await, and the ability of the central bank indefinitely to defer the underlying problem of overaccumulation is far from guaranteed”.

   François Chesnais (2008, Jan.), Fin d’un cycle. Sur la portée et le cheminement de la crise financière. Carré Rouge - La Brèche,  1: 17-31. 

   Fabius Maximus (2008), Consequences Of A Long, Deep Recession - Parts I, II, III. http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/consequences-1/  -2, -3. June 18-20.

25 anni fa Andreotti ha fatto ammazzare Emanuela Orlandi per ricattare Marcinkus?

LA VERA STORIA D’ITALIA, che non ci raccontano.

June 26 update

CorSera - oggi Bianconi   racconta un’alra storia PAZZESCA. In ordine:

1. COSA CERTA. La Magliana c’entra col fallimento BancoAmbrosiano, che portò Calvi alla morte. 2 mesi prima lo avvertono con (nostro grassetto):

la morte di uno dei «testaccini» della banda, ucciso a Milano dopo aver sparato al vice-presidente della banca Roberto Rosone. «Era un avvertimento per Calvi, considerato non più affidabile», spiegò il suo amico e sodale [Renatino] De Pedis, secondo il racconto del pentito Maurizio Abbatino. Due mesi dopo Calvi fu ucciso, e un anno più tardi sparì Emanuela Orlandi.

2. CONFERMA. Il figlio di  Calvi condivide l’ipotesi madre sul perché? del rapimento. Titolo CorSera:

Il figlio di Calvi: la Orlandi rapita per intimidire la Santa Sede

3. INCERTA. QUI LA NOVITA’ (se n’era già parlato). Potrebbero aver sbagliato persona, non dovevano prendere Emanuela.

Gli accertamenti richiesti muovono dall’ipotesi, già affacciata in passato, che nel sequestro di Emanuela Orlandi, figlia di un dipendente vaticano, ci sia stato un errore di persona: la vittima avrebbe dovuto essere Raffaella Gugel, una ragazza che assomigliava molto a Emanuela e abitava nello stesso palazzo e allo stesso piano. Il padre della giovane che solo per caso sarebbe sfuggita al rapimento è Angelo Gugel, assistente personale di papa Giovanni Paolo II e in precedenza - per quanto risulta ai magistrati romani - «stretto collaboratore di Marcinkus» …

CorSera - ieri. Giovanni Bianconi specifica: parte di ciò che dice la Minardi è interessante, se trovasse riscontro. La procura la pensa così, dopo essersi scocciata assai per la fuga di notizie. Perquisita stamane 26 la casa dove sarebbe stata tenuta prigioniera Emanuela, secondo la Minardi.

SAN RENATINO. Inoltre, seguendo la pista della vecchia telefonata anonima a Chi l’ha visto? “Se volete svelare il mistero di Emanuela, cercate nella tomba di Renatino a s. Apollinare”, la Procura vuol aprire la tomba del Beato. Il Vaticano HA SEMPRE FATTO MURO, ma stavolta dovrà cedere:

a) teoria ufficiale: dopo la sua scarcerazione, il Beato “dava pane e vino” ai poveri della parrocchia, per questo sta sepolto li (fu subito trasferito dal Verano), per volontà dell’allora Rettore mons. Fergari;

b) resistenza a qualsiasi spostamento ed apertura.

LA TOMBA NELLA CRIPTA E’ L’INQUIETANTE MISTERO NEL MISTERO.

Dice l’indicibile: la finanza Vaticana, REGNO DEL MALE e di questo mondo, protegge boss cui fa ammazzare persone scomode; traffica con Andreotti e la sua mafia, dittatori sanguinari e Solidarnosc. Per quest’ultima, il Vaticano poteva sempre smentire tutto, poiché delegava i lauti versamenti a Calvi.

Parla Giancarlo De Cataldo, magistrato ed autore del capolavoro cult: Romanzo Criminale. Dai giornali Radio 24: “No, non mi ero mai imbattuto in una connessione tra la Orlandi e la Magliana, sennò ne avrei tenuto conto. Emanuela l’avrei raccontata viva. Solo con Chi l’ha visto?, da 2 anni sono  emerse e circolate queste voci”.

Domanda: se questo fosse confermato, cambierebbe la storia della banda?

“Certamente. Ma non sarebbero rapporti di TUTTA la Magliana; bensì di alcune sue parti, che già si sapeva avessero ottime entrature con ambienti ufficiali”.

June 25 update & minor revisions, qua e là

“Lui” disse a Renatino - facciamo un ricattino: - mi accoppi Manuela, - che abitava in Vaticano, - dove arrivò un Polacco, - che protesse il cardinale, - che aveva rubato i soldi - per cui il banchiere s’impiccò. - I soldi eran di Calò -  lui al Gobbo li passò,  - lui li diede all’altro Papa, - che delegò il cardinale, -  che fece tieh! alla mafia, - a Lutero e Vaticano: - col malloppo scappò - con San Pietro trattò - e per 2 tri-lioni il Paradiso co-mprò!

Il vecchio amico Andrea ha fatto molto meglio di me, nella sua rubrica su Il Foglio: eccezziunale. Spero che lo covochino per chiarimenti a via del Clodio.

25 giugno 2008

Allora anch’io. Tengo a far sapere agli inquirenti che, prima di sequestrare l’onorevole Moro, avevo portato tre volte, o quattro, non so, alcuni gigolò alla di lui moglie, Norina, la quale mi suggerì di portarne due alla signora Andreotti, che uno se lo fece seduta stante, sulla scalinata della chiesa del Gesù, ma respinse l’altro, del quale seppi in seguito essere finito in una betoniera trovata per caso. Con la Elenoire Casalegno, credo. Nel tragitto da Roma verso il lago della Duchessa, ricordo si fece tappa a Rignano Flaminio, dal momento che Pier Paolo Brega Massone, detto “o’ primario”, inseparabile da Antonio Polito, detto “o’ primario songh’io”, insisteva da tempo con Faranda che “c’è roba, date retta”. Due volte vidi monsignor Marcinkus. Una, lo andai a prendere nella sala biliardi di via Tacito dove il venerdì andava a giocare con Renato Curcio vestiti tutti e due da cardinali, l’altra volta a casa di Nicola Mancino, un demitiano di Avellino che di tanto in tanto ci dava dei pareri, e di tanto in tanto negava di averceli dati. Una volta, al bar della Pace, incontrai Amintore Fanfani e Gore Vidal, i quali, evidentemente per motivi diversi, erano talmente legati ad Aldo Moro, ma talmente legati, che, pur di convincermi a non fare sciocchezze, insistettero entrambi per baciarmi con la lingua.

di Andrea Marcenaro

Marcinkus, come farsi un tesoro in terra (e forse pure in Cielo)

Concittadino di Al Capone e banchiere spericolato (accuse anche per la morte di Luciani). I soldi per Walesa

Paul Casimir Marcinkus, detto “Chink”, l’arcivescovo che fu presidente dell’Istituto opere di religione e che la magistratura italiana tentò invano di rinchiudere dietro le sbarre per il crac del Banco Ambrosiano, non ha mai avuto “le phisique du rôle” del pio sacerdote.

June 24 BREAKING NEWS. Ieri il VATICANO ha esplicitamente accusato Andreotti

e scaricata su di lui la patata bollente, commentando ufficialmente (e perchè?) che sono “infamanti e senza fondamento” le accuse della Minardi al Banchiere di Dio, che secondo Il Foglio di oggi s’è portato i soldi in Cielo (vedi filastrocca). FINE DI UN IDILLIO, S’ERANO TANTO AMATI, MAFIA E VAICANO. Delle 2 l’una:

a) dopo avergli fatto la guerra da vivo (i 2 fronti opposti, polacchi contro italiani), Oltretevere se lo vogliono ingraziare Marcinkus, si fosse comprato Domineddio (pare che alla sua esistenza, alcuni cardinali omosessuali ci credano; i bisessuali credono nella Trinità);

b) sono stati loro, quindi sanno CON CERTEZZA DOMMATICA, più che matematica, che il povero cristo di concittadino di Al Capone, su questa storia qui però non c’entra, è innocente. Non vorrete mica fargli fare il Purgatorio?

San Renatino Boss e Martire

 Filastrocca: come si vede nel film di Placido,  tratto dal Romanzo Criminale, ispirato alla vera Magliana, che è un romanzo in sè e perfetto, ed a sua volta s’ispira - su consulenza di Marcinkus - ai film Hollywoodiani, che raccontavano Al Capone, che s’immaginava come sarebbe apparso nei film, e quanti lo avrebbero imitato in tutto il mondo, e la fama eterna si comprò.

San Renatino, ammazzato il 2 febbraio 1990 in via del Pellegrino perché sapeva TROPPO, e SEPOLTO IN UNA CRIPTA, DA SANTO SOLDATO dell’imperialismo catto-fondamentalista. Santo subito? La Segreteria di Stato smentisce: la pratica giace ancora nel Vicariato di Roma. Padre Guidobro si dichiara disponibile ad una riesumazione del Beato, su cui Via del Clodio insiste: io mi sarei opposto. La magistratura non conta una mazza. Comunqie si tratta della VECCHIA PISTA CHI L’HA VISTO? CERCATE NELLA TOMBA …

Da Chi l’ha visto? di ieri sera, lunedi 23. Un abbraccio a Maria Orlandi, la mamma serena (!) che aspetta sempre. Aspettiamo con lei, non vogliamo credere una virgola di questa marcia, maleodorante melma andreottiana.

E’ il 25esimo anniversario della scomparsa di Emanuela.  

Andreottino servitor di 2 padroni, si trovò nel 1983  in un Amletico conflitto: per caso, lo risolse alla Salomone, spezzando la vita di Emanuela?  O fu Marcinkus? O un terzo Grande Vecchio in Vaticano? Il Papa? Chi sa (andrea marcenaro) parli.

Anzi no, meglio non parli, sennò scoppia la terza guerra mondiale.

CONTESTO: enough to start the Third World War

La società da lui presieduta, la mafia, rivendicava una cifra quasi infinita dal Vaticano. In una serie di cadaIl manifesto di Emanuela Orlandi, la ragazza 15enne misteriosamente scomparsa a Roma nel 1983 (Ansa)veri eccellenti, che inizia da Sindona (colui che introdusse l’allievo  Calvi a Marcinkus): uno della Magliana (personale braccio armato di Andreotti IN QUANTO PRESIDENTE, ma della MAFIA SpA) aveva già ammazzato Rosoni, vice-P. Banco Ambrosiano, per avvertire Calvi, 2 mesi prima di far fuori lo stesso.

Esattamente 1 anno prima

(a Londra il 18 giugno ‘82) Calvi era stato “suicidato” da mafia e\o massoni. Ma niente, i soldi (in un intorno matematico dell’infinito) prestati dalla mafia Oltre Tevere per una ripulitina, come faceva correntemente anche la Magliana, restavano sempre in mano a Marcinkus e non ritornavano a casa. In realtà quello - l’AD della Vaticano spa, in quanto Presidente IOR - se li era già spesi: champagne, donne (dice la supertestimone: gliele procuravo io) e lusso, ma soprattutto Imperialismo Vaticano pro-cattolicissimi gorilla in America Latina. Non poteva ridarli più indietro.

LA COSA CERTA in tutta la vicenda,  è che EMANUELA E’ STATA UCCISA, molto probabilmente per conto della mafia, PER QUESTO ESAURIMENTO DI FONDI, crisi di liquidità. COSA GRAVISSSIMA, imperdonabile per una grande impresa multinazionale  di blanchissage di denaro sporco, quale la Vaticano spa!

In termini economici, si trattò di un involontario ed improfittevole (ci rimisero pure il capitale) finanziamento, da parte della mafia siciliana, delle azioni sovversive del Vaticano nel mondo, e della P2 (culla di Berlusconi) in Italia. Ma del plusvalore politico di queste azioni, alla mafia non gliene fegava e tornava nulla: mica potevano immaginare che alla fine, DA QUESTI INVESTIMENTI, ne sarebbe uscito a far carriera  il loro sodale, il Cavaliere! E la coca in Colombia se la compravano senza bisogno di gorilla al governo (anzi: la coca è FARC, marxista-leninista). 

Secondo la magistratura milanese (che emise invano un MANDATO DI CATTURA PER MARCINKUS 4 anni dopo, ma Craxi non la spuntò col coriaceo Woityla) vi erano flussi ingenti co-gestiti dal 1972 all’82 tra Calvi (P2) e Marcinkus (IOR), da cui avevano finanziato il dittatore Somoza, Solidarnosc (Woityla sarà grato), una scalata della Loggia P2 al Corriere, e tanti altri affari sporchi ignoti.

What the Vatican bank was doing with such a dizzying sum of money, was a secret only Roberto Calvi knew, and he had told his lawyers, “If the whole thing comes out, it’ll be enough to start the Third World War.” (Robert Katz). SI NOTI CHE ESISTE ANCORA LA RUSSIA ARMATA DI TUTTO PUNTO, ALL’EPOCA: LA CONNESSIONE CIA- MAFIA- P2 -VATICANO AGISCE PER LA GUERRA FREDDA, Calvi sa (SOLO lui e Marcinkus), e sa perfettamente quello che dice.  Ancora adesso non sappiamo quasi nulla della faccenda.

1 anno dopo l’assassinio al Blackfriars’ Bridge, l’eredità Calvi è una bomba che sta per scoppiare nelle mani di Marcinkus. L’ambasciatore siciliano a Roma Pippo Calò, incaricato dell’esazione, esigeva un nuovo passo. Allora, delle 2 l’una:

IPOTESI A) Agghiacciante!

A pensar male di Andreotti, 9\10 si sbaglia per difetto: lui è Superman al cubo. Il contesto è che la mafia rivuole i danè da Marcinkus, e - QUANDO IL GIOCO SI FA DURO - Andreotti, il Politico con più pilu sullo stomaco della storia:

A1) fa pressione su Marcinkus;

A2) finge di farla, magari d’accordo con Marcinkus stesso  (sotto-ipotesi A+B), per tenere a bada i suoi azionisti di controllo, sport nel quale eccelle

IPOTESI B) Banale ed illogica.

Oppure Marcinkus s’è fatto:

B1)  una guerra civile Vaticana, intra moenia; la cosa parrebbe senza senso, perché è Pippo Calò che deve mandare un messaggio a Marcinkus, non viceversa!

B2) Una sceneggiata per depistare tutti: Andreotti (oppure A+B), Pippo Calò, gli italo-americani ed il Vaticano - rapendo e facendo ammazzare Emanuela da “San Renatino” - che però  è un soldato di Andreotti: questo indebolisce molto l’ipotesi, che reggerebbe solo con ALTRI ESECUTORI (nel caso la super testimone si sia inventata proprio tutto).

TERTIUM NON DATUR. ATTENZIONE!

LEGGETELI BENE GLI ARTICOLI SUI GIORNALI ITALIANI DI OGGI MARTEDI 24. NON SOLO NON FANNO 2+2, la nostra analisi sopra, o una qualsiasi altra (elementare Watson). Fanno  disinformazine  da RAZZA CRETINA. Il trucco: quasi tutti riportano nei titoli “ordini di MARCINKUS”. Ma la SUPER- TESTIMONE, la Minardi non dice affatto questo. O almeno non nei testi citati e noti. Dice che c’erano ordini dall’alto, ma non sposa né l’ipotesi A, né la B o altra: c’è un non specificato Grande Vecchio che tira le fila. Semplicemente: lei non lo sa e non lo può sapere (San Renatino mica è scemo da dirlo a lei: “mi trattava come una bambina”); pensa solo che si tratti di UN SEGNALE IN CODICE  TRA POTENTI: vedi il brano sotto, ed il paragone con Calvi. Ha visto Manuela rapita viva ed ha assistito alla sparizione del cadavere, dice, ma non sa nulla sulla CATENA DI COMANDO.

Anche il Corrierone, che imprudentemente sbatte la super testimone in prima pagina, titola: «Orlandi rapita per ordine di Marcinkus». Testo preciso dal Corriere, che riporta la Agenzia Agi oggi perquisita dalla Procura:   

«stavano arrivando secondo me sulle tracce di chi…perchè secondo me non è stato un sequestro a scopo di soldi, è stato fatto un sequestro indicato. Io ti dico monsignor Marcinkus perchè io non so chi c’è dietro…ma io l’ho conosciuto a cena con Renato…hanno rapito Emanuela per dare un messaggio a qualcuno». La testimone sottolinea di non sapere chi materialmente prese Emanuela: «Quello che so è che (la decisione, ndr) era partita da alte vette…tipo monsignor Marcinkus…È come se avessero voluto dare un messaggio a qualcuno sopra di loro. Era lo sconvolgimento che avrebbe creato la notizia». La donna fa un paragone con la morte di Roberto Calvi: «gli hanno trovato le mani legate dietro, perchè tu mi vuoi dare un messaggio».

CHIARO NO? E ALLORA PERCHE’ SCRIVONO IL CONTRARIO NEL TITOLO? SONO RAZZA CRETINA.

IPOTESI A.

Nella sua doppia veste, il Gobbo decise di mandare un segnale, un avvertimento mafioso con la sua mano sinistra - alla sua destra, e fece rapire ed ammazzare la 15enne cittadina vaticana Emanuela Orlandi?  

Fatto sta che l’esecutore sembra essere stato il killer personale al servizio di Enrico de Pisis, membro eminente della sua guarda del corpo - ombra (la voce del killer è stata riconosciuta da Mancini, un  super testimone di Chi l’ha visto, in una telefonata d’epoca alla famiglia Orlandi). Il colonnello Andreottiano “Renatino” Enrico De Pisis, si sa, è TUTTORA sepolto nella cripta della Basilica di S. Apollinare a Roma, per i servizi resi al card. Poletti ed al Vaticano, come colonnello del LORO uomo (ma altresi Pres. della Mafia spa, come risulta agli atti del processo di Perugia), iI GOBBO malefico. Ebbene, Manuela andava a scuola di musica nello stesso complesso nei pressi del Senato, cui appartiene S. Apollinare.

La seconda testimone, quella delle prime pagine, è Sabrina Minardi: pranzò 2 volte a casa del Gobbo con Renatino  quando questi era latitante. Normale, no?  Ieri,  proprio nel 25esimo anniversario del rapimento  (con la città piena di manifesti che associano Manuela ad un rapimento-scomparsa appena precedente, quello  di Mirella Gregori), la tipa ha ha reso pubblica la sua testimonanianza alla Procura di Roma: fu Renatino ad occuparsi della cosa (probabilmente, secondo il super-testimone no.1, delegando l’assassinio materiale al suo killer, uno pericolosissimo), poi mise il cadavere di Manuela in un sacco e lo gettò in una betoniera a Torvajanica.

Se fosse vera la B, fu Marcinkus a ricattare la Segreteria di Stato, una faida TUTTA VATICANA  - che certo è coerente con  la lunga guerra che ne seguì sotto il pontificato Polacco (con Marcinkus attaccato alla tonaca del Papa). Oppure la Minardi è ancora una lontana pedina di Andreotti (o “ci fa” per ricattarlo, sarebbe una pazza da legare, chiedere un aiutino? VENIRE IN TV IN PRIMA SERATA, A RIBADIRE CHE LEI ERA DI CASA DAL GOBBO e descriverne saloni e salotti, SA MOLTO DI RICATTINO), e fa contro-informazione per suo conto - probabilmene non richesta (e subito smentita, ma delle smentite del Gobbo è lastricata la sua strada per il Purgatorio). Tanto Marcinkus, dal Cielo non può smentire. Tutti gli altri protagonisti in Vaticano sono morti e non possono dire nulla sulla super-testimonianza.

Il lavoretto richiesto da Pippo Calò, cinghia di trasmissione dalla Sicilia alla Magliana, proseguì, nell’ip. A col Gobbo a coordinare il tutto. GLI UOMINI DI ANDREOTTI, mano sinistra, continuarono a ricattare quelli della sua mano destra: Marcinkus, Papa e  Segreteria di Stato Vaticana. Fu coinvolto anche Ali Agcà, che si prestò volentieri al gioco diversivo (era il suo mestiere): presunti rapitori ne chiedevano la liberazione, in uno scambio. Ma nessuna prova di Manuela in vita fu mai fornita, solo false prove facilmente fabbricabili dagli uomini del rapitore ed assassino, A,  B o C.

THE END

I soldi non tornarono più, il volpone Marcinkus lasciò un buco colossale allo IOR e salì al cielo col malloppo, lo mise in quel posto ad Andreotti,  la mafia ed i Papi: Montini lo lanciò. Arrivò il madonnaro di Belluno che voleva una Chiesa povera, forse Marcinkus  lo avvelenò (non esageriamo coi complotti: fu la Provvidenza).  Woityla, dopo averlo a lungo protetto  sotto le sue cotole (in nome dell’antica alleanza, bisbocce e del FIUME DI SOLDI A SOLIDARNOSC) dall’avversario giurato, il Segr. di Stato Casaroli- alla fine dovette a malincuore pensionare Marcinkus (incredibilmente morto di vecchiaia, da Padrino 4) e diede la finanza in outsourcing all’Opus Dei franchista: un mutamento di paradigma, dalla massoneria laica a quella cattolica.

Cambio della guardia anche  a Palermo, dove unificarono le cariche di CEO e Chairman, per migliorare la governance: facendo fuori Gioia e sfiduciando il Presidente, che non manteneva gli impegni sul carcere duro. Pare la filastrocca israeliana o medio-orientale, di cui noi conosciamo tutti la nota cover italiana:

e venne il Polacco da lontano, che prese il bastone di Pietro, ci picchiò il cardinale, dopo averlo a lugo protetto, perché aveva speso i soldi, che la mafia diede al Gobbo, che li passò all’altro Papa, che impiccò un banchiere, il sodale del cardinale, che fece marameo a Lutero, e per 2 trilioni il Paradiso comprò!

Non sappiamo in quale strofa inserire “che Renatino incaricò, che Manuela ammazzò”, ma è una delle due. 

E’ uno dei più grandi Romanzi Criminali della storia; Emanuela è una delle sue tante vittime. 

FBI Operation Malicious Mortgage: Subcrime goes to jail!

There are two distinct breaking GOOD news on today’s media, about Subcrime and US Justice:

1. FBI “Malitious Mortgage” has arrested 70 brokers yesterday, for frauds in subcrime\subprime. SHOCK at Wall Street. This adds up to 1400 ongoing FBI cases under that operation; since March ‘08: 406 people under  inquiry in 144 cases, 283 people arrested and 173 already condemned.

2. Former Bear Stearns hedge funds managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, are federal guests from yesterday morning, due to be arraigned in a Brooklyn court.

Morale: the US institutions surprise us again, as they did already in the Enron scandal years ago (ASHAME ON BERLUSCONI’s ITALY, where at the same time budget lying was de-penalised, and still is).

Shall we revise our evaluation, taking also Obama and the alive Primaries into account?

Are the US, one of the liberal Biopolitical régimes with the highest level of democracy?

For sure, putting subcriminals in jail, the people that broke so many LIVES, makes democracy alive.

Details:

1. Since March 2008, the FBI is dealing with 3 types of subcrime frauds, in “Malitious Mortgage”, in coop. with the SEC and Justice Dept. They  already discovered frauds adding to more than $1 billion.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/182b2ede-3e42-11dd-b16d-0000779fd2ac.html

Financial Times oL (yesterday June 19, 22:09): FBI eyes big business in mortgage fraud probe

By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington and Hal Weitzman in Chicago

(The FT missed to put in on paper this morning, while the news took the 1st page of Italian newspapers)

Federal investigators are homing in on 19 “large corporations” – including investment banks, credit rating agencies, accounting firms and hedge funds – as part of a broad probe into mortgage fraud.

Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, did not identify the companies on Thursday, but said the majority of the large corporate cases involved accounting fraud, insider trading and failures to disclose – with criminal intent – the proper evaluation of securitised loans and derivatives

Marco Onado, at radio 24 broadcast “Focus Economia”, tells that PREDATORY LENDING is now considered, since the victimes of subcrimes and foreclosures were literally forced and stolen; the US justice has adandoned a previous attitude of considering such practices just as private affairs beween “consenting adults”.

2. paper FT today, p. 15 (frot page of Companies and Markets)

Former Bear fund duo charged

By Joanna Chung in NY

Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were yesterday indicted on federal charges that they intentionally misled investors about the financial condition of the investment vehicles that collapsed last year.

WSJ

Bear Fund Managers Indicted

Two former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers were arrested and charged with securities, wire and mail fraud, among other counts.

It’s about High-Grade Structured Credit, and Enhanced Leverage funds: investors lost $1.6 billion, while the two executives were saying in their private emails the crack was forthcoming, and Mr Cioffi secretly retired his money, $2 million, from one fund before the crisis. ENJOY THIS PAGE FROM THE PROSECUTION doc (Tannin: “believe it or not, I’ve been able to convince people to add more money”).

I hope my grab picture is ALMOST readable: otherwise go to the official document http://www.docstoc.com/docs/801755/Bear-Stearns-Indictment

 

 

US bank runs: who told a systemic meltdown is over? IT IS NOT

CAN YOU HEAR SITTING BULL’S WAR-CRY? WELL, THE LITTLE BIG HORN OF SHADOW FINANCE IS ON. After that, in Autumn non-financial co. will start going bankrupt.

Hard 2 read and 2 believe: but this is REALLY the NYT front page, day after Little Big Horn!!! Thanks the sublime NYT serivce: On this Day  (Copyright 2007 the NYT Company). 25 June 1876. Col. George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out by Sitting Bull’s Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn, Montana. 

FACTS, NOT FAIRY TALES!

June 18 update. Alphaville: HOT AUTUMN, banks’ bears warnings 

Deeprecession has a 1 day lead on the RBS mail, 2 days on Alphaville

Bearish analysts are out in force. Bob Janjuah [credit strategist] of RBS, in an email on Tuesday, warns of a global stock and credit crash in the next few months; with the S&P 500 likely to lose up to a quarter of its value. In credit, Janjuah sees the iTraxx soaring to 130/150 and the iTraxx Crossover to 650/700. (…) Wall Street should rally through early July before succumbing to the twin pressures of high oil and high inflation - the first painful spasms of a recession. The RBS team also point specifically to the limited range of options open to central banks. The point is taken up by analysts at Morgan Stanley. A note from last week - “1992 redux” - by the bank’s European banking team - warns of potential for a “catastrophic event” on the horizon to match the European monetary crisis of the early nineties.

MS: We find striking similarities between the transatlantic macro tensions that built up in the early 1990s and those that are accumulating again today. In both cases, monetary authorities took opposite options on both sides of the Atlantic: stabilising output in the US, and stabilising prices in Europe. Macro tensions caused a major currency crisis in Europe in 1992. Will history repeat itself? 1992 Redux - MS note

Just after this entry, posted by Sam Jones on June 18th, 2008 at 11:07,

another contemporary Alphaville post, by Robert Cookson at 13:24 adds:

Mr Janjuah’s peers at other European banks agreed it was inevitable that credit markets would deteriorate later in the year, potentially quite dramatically, when large companies started to default on their debt. However, most said that RBS was a touch aggressive in forecasting that turmoil would strike as soon as August. (According to one strategist)  many struggling companies would be able to limp along into 2009 before falling apart.

The discussion is only about time frame: dead bodies might keep walking to 2009.

Original post

FACTS, not a propaganda trying to delay the redde rationem, an always imminent RUN on US FINANCIAL BANKS  (spada di Damocle).

1) we are still, and only, in the beginning (since end 2007) of a global “subcrime” recession, rooted in historical and structural processes in the creation and appropriation of economic value:

1a) the peculiar way a Reagan-microelectronics Kondratiev Long Wave (KLW) went burst (see Carlota Perez - for full references: goto  subcrimebiosocialscience1.pdf). We mean, not just one bubble or another went burst, but a unique, entire, historical chance of sustainable progress (late capitalisms could not grasp) was missed by humanity and the Earth. For enriching the pockets of a few hundred billionaires. A Donald Duck world.

 

1b) How did such a quantum technological jump go wrong and lost? It was killed on the altar of such Medieval rites as: b1) enrich a handful of global rentiers and rape an obsolete Middle Class (no democracy to be socially enveloped any more); b2) fuck the Russian mil.-ind. complex and “ally”, more exactly link up with China; b3) tell people there is laissez faire and democracy, while MONOPOLIES RULE in thanato-political liberal régimes or tyrannies (Adam Smith and Loretta Napoleoni, Michel Foucault and Roberto Esposito). c) We live for decades to come, a generation or two, in a new (post-Reagan and MPUs) Deflationary Long Wave: a  byproduct of the Greenspan-Clinton irresponsible, witchcraft manipulations of the declining US economy in the 1990s (Aglietta-Berrebi, Chesnais). Hopefully, Bill will not come back as first lady!

2) Last episode of such a deep, structural process in value production and circulation (Marx, Capital, Book 2): the subcrime-based shadow finance, was meant to enlarge the circuits of over-accumulation in search of an outlet. The target was scientifically selected: afro-american bobos and regular Latino workers (at least $4000 of family earnings, in order to steal them 3000-3500 per month !!! see case studies in the quoted subcrime … .pdf). Systemic scope, only way to create a “growth” illusion, in a CRAZY RENTIERS WORLD sunk into deflation and depression:

2A) RAPE the first (quasi-affluent blacks) and second tier (latinos) of people still wiling to enter, via patriotic-sacre housing property, the middle class.

 

2B) From stealing their homes, hopes, lives and wages: create a fixed material point, that the fantasy of the casino economy will multiply some thousand times in  ”assets” (in fact, property rights on a chain leading at the end to the real asset: Chesnais; this is why someone had to be RAPED at chain end), to be bought by the Rentiers èlite savings, out of the surplus value they expropriated from productive value chains.

 

3) 3 months ago, in March 2008 the US Bush Adm. and the Fed JOINTLY delayed a meltdown of the 5 US pure financial banks, likely spreading quickly into a global meltdown, by bailing out Bear Stearns. Now it’s Lehman last bell, death time. Third to be soldout will be Merill Lynch soon (the FT tells BofA wants it), and fourth Morgan Stanley, likely to be historically reunited in the (JP) Morgan mother house. Only Goldman Sachs will survive this Little Big Horn. We do not invent such an order: it is written in their books, leverage ratios and the premium rates they pay (see graph). Rentiers carry on telling (not believing, they are smart), and THEIR MEDIA keep echoing every day as a litany: a systemic meltdown is over. You always find this proposition in newspapers, with redundancy. Ask Roubini: he knows and tells you the answer.  

 

4) Rev. Jessie Jackson, one of the greatest living personalities, as far as we know invented “subcrime” for subprime. In a March 20 timely speech in Chicago (quoted in our .pdf, Section 4), where he accused the Govt. of moral hazard financing bankrupt banks, while ignoring foreclosures and people. As we have already discussed in this blog, in synchrony with the economic blogs community (namely: perplexity towards a NYT  op-ed by  Robert J. Shiller, on May 18), this is a delicate issue of policies; since a bailout of foreclosures (with the excuse of the poor rape victims) will always close the gap of Subcriminals. It’s the easy credit for sacred property TABOO that must be challenged, overcome, identified as a Middle Class narrative belonging to the past, while manipulation belongs to the present (see Joriot). But the US left is always in a mess, lost in between Blair-Clintonian Late  Reaganism, and a-scientific, ideological Populism. Even Obama - basically a postClintonian, on that line of evolution of neoDemocrats, but somehow divided, as it often happens to us, between his rational mind and heart. This is physiological in a country that, after Tocqueville (no democracy without religion), is so much ideological and radical, but has not declined a variety of complex ideologies (like Eurasia). They stand by the American Myth, Father of a constellation of Myths - e.g., housing, financed by the Fed. State via Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (Joriot)- a bit like Greece before the Ionians and the Athenians. They hardly get (perhaps The Nation?) to such a Myths deconstruction (Derrida), that would engender a Real Socialist left. This is a priority area of political work, in networks of international coop - helping US progressives to make a step further. This is what we mean by “Robin Hood policies”. More on this another time. 

 

The DIAGNOSIS, from p. 5 of  subcrimebiosocialscience1.pdf

 

1. the global economy is locked in a longrun demand deficit hysteresis (requiring a drastic redistribution), and liquidity trap (making monetary and credit policies totally ineffective)

2. fiscal and income policy implication: the world badly needs an epoch-making, giant income and wealth redistribution, from the élites to impoverished masses. A Keynes-Kalecki and Ricardo-Pasinetti models classic case, calling to rebalance 25 years of counter-distribution

 

3. in fact, the “1987-2007 Rentiers’ glorious years” increased:

- both the rate of Absolute and Relative Surplus Value extraction: in each OECD country, 9% GNP shifted from wages, to gross profits and self-employment incomes; - and of its appropriation by Rentiers - see Fig. 2 of the pdf: showing that the US finance margins jumped from 35% to 50% in the “20 Glorious” 

4. such a counter-distribution dropped the global economy into a deflationary régime

 

5. a drastic improvement of world welfare, an intrinsic ICTs potential, went bust by Lewis-effects (unlimited labour supply discouraging technical change, i.e. substituting Absolute for Relative Surplus Value)

 

6. a complication: political systems do not allow such a global Keynesian-Obama New Deal

7. morale: a political hysteresis (Blair-Clinton-socialdem. PostReaganism, a follow up of “doc” Reaganism) in leading OECD countries, is blocking the road out of the economic hysteresis.

Glass ceilings in Washington DC, and Wall St.

 

Kiroko Masuike/WpN for The Wall Street Journal
Erin Callan, 42, is known for being frank, fashionable.

 

 

CEO, CFO women are the Wall Street ritual lambs: Zoe last November, now Erin. But theory tells: beware! The blood of your victims will fall upon you, in the next bank run (from René Girard anthropological model of the lamb).

 

Washington. Ms Clinton has used the imaginative metaphor of  BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING. As the excellent Guglielmo Zucconi (La Repubblica correspondent, June 8th) has explained:

“la barriera trasparente eppure infrangibile che impedisce alle donne di volare” 

“the transparent though unbreakable barrier, not allowing women to fly”.

A nice interpretation is that Barack, by being no macho in his family gyneceum, is dealing at the same time with gender and race, trying hard to  break 2 ceilings at the same time (Susan Faludi, NYT op-ed).

The metaphor has already entered our language. Here is an example.

Wall St. is again under the pressure of a subcrime impact on finance, that - without an emergency State aid - would have already degenerated in a systemic meltdown 3 months ago. When the game is tough, women are kicked off from CEO and CFO roles. Actually not just them: in a Sunday meeting, insurance giant under subcrime fever AIG, replaced its CEO, a Martin J. Sullivan - a half an hour ago breaking news. But they are so few, that after Zoe and Erin, we are close to 0%.

From the FT’s chief business commentator blog:

June 12, 2008

The lowering of Wall Street’s glass ceiling

The abrupt removal of Erin Callan as Lehman’s CFO yesterday (along with Joe Gregory as Lehman’s chief administrative officer) is first and foremost a sign of Lehman’s fight to regain credibility among investors. But it also means that Ms Callan, who was dubbed “Wall Street’s most powerful woman” in the April issue of Portfolio magazine is powerful no more. She is being unceremoniously bumped down to “a senior position” in the investment banking division. Ms Callan’s move follows the firing of Zoe Cruz, the previous holder of the “most powerful woman on Wall Street” title. She was dismissed as president of Morgan Stanley last November by John Mack, its chairman and chief executive.
nymag.com, April 27       photo: ben baker
One morning last November, Zoe Cruz walked the length of hallway from her executive suite at Morgan Stanley to the office of her boss, chairman and CEO John Mack, who’d called her in for an impromptu meeting. The distance, roughly 50 feet, represented the final leg of her journey to the highest echelons of Wall Street: Three weeks earlier, the 63-year-old Mack had signaled that Cruz was his first choice to replace him as the head of Morgan Stanley when he retired.
portfolio.com, March 17 - April issue
The most promising female candidate, Morgan Stanley co-president Zoe Cruz, was pushed out last fall after the firm posted a $3.7 billion loss from mortgage-related securities. Merrill LynchBear Stearns, and Citigroup underwent C.E.O. searches in recent months, and no women appeared on any of their short lists. (Read more about the workplace battle of the sexes.

A handful of women have achieved C.F.O. status at major Wall Street firms. The select group includes Sallie Krawcheck (briefly) and Heidi Miller before her at Citigroup, as well as Dina Dublon at J.P. Morgan Chase and Barbara Yastine at Credit Suisse First Boston. None of them have moved to the top job at their firm or even to an obvious precursor position.

 

Lehman failure likely: Bear Stearns no.2 story

THIS IS A SHORT REMINDER >>> sending to the June 3 post on the same issue.

Please go to our - DAILY UPDATED - June 3 post, timely dealing with the current Lehman Brother involution and its next catastrophe.

A major step was June 12 revolution in LB top managemet, CEO & CFO: too late and ineffective, since it confirms that Lehman stands only on the tyranny of his benefactor, Mr. Fuld; but he can’t cope with THIS crisis and - as Breaking Views has  pointed out - there is no plan for his succession.

In the short run, the left purely financial US banks will be only 3 (not necessarily the LR final equilibrium): Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.

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B. News: Google winner again?

BREAKING NEWS

MICROHOO TELENOVELA AT A NEW TURNING POINT?

YANG CONFIRMS HIS OWN (ALMOST SUICIDAL) CHOICE:

BETTER A GOOGLE SATELLITE THAN EATEN BY MICROSOFT.

HE’S RIGHT OF COURSE,  PROBLEM IS: IS HE STILL IN COMMAND OF YAHOO? PROBABLY YES, HE IS. BECAUSE ICAHN’s ASSAULT IS FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS: by such a  mono-mania of selling to Ballman, the stupid Icahn undervalues Yahoo (against the  shareholders’ interests, he pretends to represent), he has no alternative and  - by definition - no strategic menu,  view of technolgy nor any idea of how to shape an industrial, a development plan for Yahoo. THESE IDIOT FINANCIAL MEN don’t know anything about anything.  Had this to be the last stage of the M.HOO telenovela (who knows?), all the pressing by Microsoft along 2007-08 had just the result to cut out Yahoo’s independence space, and push it into Google’s   area, withuot Google having to spend a single cent. WE WAIT FOR ICAHN TO ASSAULT MICROSOFT, AND ASK FOR STEVE BALLMAN’S HEAD …

YHOO shares (see graph below) lost 10% today, Thursday, closing at $23.52 (30% down from $33 MSFT offer).

WSJ

[Go to article]      

Yahoo reached a search-ad pact with rival Google, uniting the systems of two industry giants and dealing a blow to Microsoft. Yahoo said acquisition talks with Microsoft have ended, sending Yahoo shares tumbling.  7:02 p.m.

Yahoo destroyed itself to save itself. Microsoft tried to get stronger, but only ended up exposing its own weakness. Somehow Google emerged triumphant, effectively neutralizing its two biggest competitors.

That is what makes the Yahoo-Microsoft nonmerger such a spectacular failure. Never have so few failed so many for so much at stake.

[Zipper]
Associated Press

Consider the state of Yahoo now: Thrust into the arms of Google, it now is forced to admit it can’t develop the technology to compete head-on with the Googleplex. It is as if IBM were to admit it could no longer build a big server, or Toyota were to give up on the Corolla and start selling Honda Civics.

      Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Nears Search-Ad Deal with Google By MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG

Microsoft Corp. has definitively abandoned its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo Inc., people familiar the matter said, opening the way for Yahoo to complete a search advertising pact with rival Google Inc. Microsoft told Yahoo it was no longer interested in a pursuing a takeover, even at the $33 per share price it offered for the Internet company last month. Shares of Yahoo plunged on the news, dropping 11%, or $2.88, to $23.27 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The decision likely spells the end of Microsoft’s five-month pursuit of Yahoo, a deal it characterized at the time as essential to its strategy of countering rival Google. In retrospect, Microsoft’s unsolicited approach appears to have badly backfired. Instead of winning Yahoo’s huge audience and online search capabilities Microsoft has driven its quarry into the arms of its arch enemy — Google. The deal unraveled last weekend, at a meeting between Yahoo directors and Microsoft representatives. At the meeting, Microsoft made it clear that it was no longer wanted to pursue a larger deal, the people said. The two companies have been in discussions in recent weeks over an alternative transaction that would have involved Microsoft acquiring Yahoo’s search business but Yahoo concluded that such an arrangement was unworkable. The company now plans to pursue a search advertising pact with Google, a deal that could be announced as early as today. Details of the plan weren’t immediately clear but the two companies have been discussing a deal under which Yahoo would outsource its search advertising to Google. Analysts believe such a deal would significantly increase Yahoo’s cash flow because Google’s system generates significantly more revenue for each search query than Yahoo’s does. Write to Matthew Karnitschnig at matthew.karnitschnig@wsj.com  

update of this article: 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121329534659368693.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

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Floresta zero

We are waiting for the UN troops

in Amazonia (BR) and Campania (IT):

FOR HOW LONG? LET’S ACT NOW!

 

Enquanto isso, no campo

A grilagem continua,

A prática do escravismo,

A violência mais crua,

A agressão ambiental

Na flora se perpetua.

(Medeiros Braga 2007, O Cordel da Reforma Agrària)

Deeprecession acredita que YA BASTA! Os governos Lula tivem tempo demais, gastarom quase todo isso, e demonstrarom nao saber defender os intereses indios e da natureza (see our post 3 weeks ago, “Saudade de uma Amazonia perdida”, in occasion of Marina Silva’s exit). O tempo chegou de uma autoridade internacional entrar na Amazonia, com forças armadas das Naçoes Unidas, para defender o Patrimonio No.1 da Humanidade (a rainforest da Amazonia) dos atacos de fazenedeios e seus aliados em Brasilia.

Publicamos do sitio do Mov. Sem Terra:

Via Campesina exige rejeição do “Floresta Zero” pela Câmara

05/06/2008

Integrantes de entidades da sociedade civil e movimentos sociais - entre eles, a Via Campesina Brasil e o Greenpeace - participam da Comissão Geral sobre a Amazônia que acontece nesta quinta-feira (05/06), às 14h, no Plenário Geral da Câmara, para exigir a rejeição do Projeto de Lei 6.424/05, de autoria do senador Flexa Ribeiro (PSDB/PA), conhecido como ‘Floresta Zero’.

O Projeto, que passou no Senado e tramita na Câmara dos Deputados, autoriza a derrubada de até 50% da vegetação nativa em propriedades privadas na Amazônia e legaliza praticamente todos os desmatamentos que, nos últimos 40 anos, derrubaram cerca de 700 mil quilômetros quadrados da área original de floresta - o equivalente a quase três estados de São Paulo. O Projeto também desobriga os responsáveis pelos desmatamentos de recuperarem o que derrubaram, permitindo que um desmatamento realizado no Pará, por exemplo, seja compensado com o plantio de árvores no Rio de Janeiro.

“Ao invés de aumentar a proteção do meio ambiente e estabelecer metas para a redução do desmatamento, o Congresso Nacional estará dando as costas para a Amazônia e abrindo as portas para mais destruição, agravando uma situação que já coloca o Brasil na incômoda posição de quarto maior poluidor do clima do planeta”, afirma o documento que será distribuído pelos manifestantes a partir das 14h, no Salão Verde da Câmara.

 

FAQ: What has Camorra’s Campania to do with this?

NOTHING: just an emergency need of UN troops.

Cfr. Roberto Saviano (2006), Gomorra (various worldwide ed.).  A cameo adding to Loretta Napoleoni’s Rough Economy fresco: the South Tirrenic coast of Italy is  directly governed by multinationals (camorras, ndrangheta, mafia), the State has since long stopped to simulate a control, after having financed the Camorra’s take-off with fake earthquake compensations in the 1970s.  Corrupted and\or criminal politicians, like post-communist Bassolino, (No.1: as former Napoli Mayor, now Campania Governor) sold their soul, and Neapolitans to the camorras. The strongest clan, the Casalesi, has emitted a Fatwa to Roberto Saviano, obliged to live in legal clandestinity after his book.

Until the LIBERATION WAR will come: GARIBALDI 2.

Obama New Deal on the road: Barack is the candidate, Hillary has a future behind

Illustration by Doug Chayka, The Nation 

8 june update: a superb Hillary gave by far the best speech of her life, in the neoclassic scenario of the Natural Building Museum, Washington. She took up our points below, summarised in a nice image: 18 million breaks in the upper glass to women’s career, broken forever. And finally joined Obama for the Presidentials.

She shouldn’t be sorry: Obama is her angel.

Hillary’s Presidency would have compared to Bill, like GWB to this father: unless she stroke Iran (precipitating the world in a catasrophic oil crisis), she might not have doubled in 2012 (the year the Maja calendar ends …). Angel Barack came to save her, and America first of all, from a last Reaganian-age presidency - at odds with a Great Depression requiring  absolute novelties, a political paradigm shift.

Call it Destiny Athens-style,  Providence Jerusalem’s style or Spinoza’s necessity: a synthesis of the two.

5 June UPDATE: with Primaries over, Presidentials now fully on, the Subcrime crisis takes the hegemony of the narrative and the political fight; Iraq and foreign policy in 2nd place (and also an economic issue: see our blog sub-title inspired by Joe Stiglitz). 

FIRST OF ALL: a look back to the primaries. A fine observation by Matt Bai, a brilliant pen at Sunday Times, the NYT magazine, has underlined a conflict of paradigms between the two strategist:

the Pollster (mark penn) vs the Ad Man (daniel axelrod)

No wonder the latter won: a systemic approach overweighted a piecemeal one:

Mr. Penn, on the other hand, is a pollster, and pollsters tend to look at campaigns as a series of dissectible data points that either attract voters or drive them away. Get a health care plan and an economic plan that 70 percent of people say they view favorably. Pay attention to words that move the dial in focus groups, like “real solutions for America” or “ready to lead on Day 1.”

Mrs. Clinton’s relentless focus on pragmatism and specificity, as well as her willingness to shift slogans, are not simply a result of her own personality but also of Mr. Penn’s strategic outlook, which values testable ideas and phrases over more sweeping imagery and themes.

New Socialism looks at America as a model of democracy

Comments stress that:

a) Hillary has not lost: Obama won, by charismatic leadership (aggregating a coalition external to the traditional Dem electorate, that now needs to be reunited -  a novel coalition of blacks, young people and liberal professional sorts, rather than their traditional blue-collar and TU base), and a successful funds raising machinery from ordinary people donations, based on mastering web 2.0 politics and marketing.

b) She definitely broke upper barriers to women- although not at her immediate advantage; and didn’t lose for being a woman: mostly for voting the Iraq war,  having Bill always at her side, and conducing an unimaginative campaign, that instilled many doubts about her supposed “experience” and managerial capabilities. “Hillary has always been a policy wonk, a functionary attuned to bureaucratic process, but she has never shown executive ability, which makes her quest for the presidency problematic.” (Camille Paglia, April 29, The Telegraph

c) The US are at a secular cross-road: not only far away from slavery and near-apartheid; closer in time: away from an Afro-American culture of closed identity and opposition. The one expressed by a wrong prediction, in the instant book A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win - by old-fashion Black intellectual Shelby Steele. ”Assimilation, not blackness, is the road to success” he writes. It is worth noting that these Afro-American pundits stood on Hillary’s side, while Kenyan young professionals are now organising a web-worldwide campaign for Obama, independent form Obama’s organization (like Irish people were proud of Kennedy).

d) A LESSON FOR THE WORLD (see this week’s leader, The Economist): no other democracy choses her leaders in such an open and massively participated process, that the dual competition has stressed so much: Barack and Hillary, each one of them has often collected more votes than all the Republicans together. Hillary: no one ever arrived no. 2 in Primaries with so many votes, in % and absolute number. Compare it with all the other countries: they will look like gerontocracies (Italia: non è un paese per giovani - see our June 2 post below), mafia regimes and disguised fascisms: WHAT THEY ARE IN FACT. W AMERICA !!!

e) Deeprecession’s own comment: the new socialism has NOTHING in common with always-Zarist and monocratic Russia, or Mao and Deng’s Chinas. New Socialism looks at America as a model of democracy, with further, minor improvements towards a mix of delegated and direct democracy (Hanna Arendt), but without populism (always associated with false forms of direct democracy: see e.g. the idiot in Italy, Beppe Grillo).   

WSJ CAPITAL By DAVID WESSEL

Election Won’t Lift Economic Clouds

June 5, 2008; Page A2

John McCain and Barack Obama, understandably, are focusing mainly on how to win the White House in November. But it’s none too soon for the candidates and their economic advisers to contemplate the economy that the next president will inherit in January 2009.

The article focuses on 3 issues: housing, energy and credit crunch. Our view is much more pessimistic: January 2009 will not yet be the worst point of the US crisis, even less for the global one. But this leaves room for a timely policy affecting both the crisis itself and distributive issues (Robin Hood policies).

        June 4. Barack Obama, although still unofficially, is the Dem candidate today. As more superdelegates joined him, the Illinois senator on Tuesday locked up the 2118 delegates he needs for victory at the August convention. See his mail to supporters from StPaul: barackmail_stpaul_080604 The Nation has opened an oL vote for suggesting Obama’s ticket. Until now: 21% Jim Webb equal to  Bill Richardson, 18% John Edwards,9% Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Sibelius and gen. Wesley Clark, 6% only Al Gore. Obama’s rally in St Paul, yesterday night

More than 20 000 people filled the stadium to hear Obama — its largest crowd. An additional 15 000 watched on giant television screen outside. Somewhere among the crowd in the arena as Obama spoke, Greg Adkins quietly shed a few tears.

“It was great, and it was historical, and it was really significant,” said Adkins, an engineer from the suburban town of Stillwater who is African American. “I’m a lifetime Republican, and I was touched and moved.” As the crowd filed out of the arena, he still occasionally dabbed at his eyes. “That certainly touches me that he’s African American. That really speaks deep in my heart,” he said. “I hope it speaks to the African-American community that “yes, we can’.” - guardian.co.uk © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2008

The political group we cooperate with, MoveOn.org (see picture above), joined the Obama camp on February 1, when Edwards (closer to the TUs, more representative of a traditional, old Lib politics, although presenting the better and more radical political program among the dem candidates) retired. It was a daring, good and timely decision: for the first time ever, MoveOn was taking position in Primaries. History calls, we answer. We think Obama is already the President IN PECTORE, although the battle will be hard, since:
1) America is fully into the Subcrime recession,
2) badly needs a New Deal
3) and Obama is the only man that might and will deliver it.
There is a sense of destiny and Spinozian necessity in all this. We’ll fight hard, but Obama New Deal ALREADY belongs to History, translating people’s fears and hopes into a wide-ranging set of policies to fight the Subcrime recession, and avoid its degeneration into a depression. Obama new Deal will be written in early 2009, when Subcrime will hit hard: shadow finance collapse still on (after the weakest Lehman, financial sanctuaries under attack and Fed protection challenged), dollar plunging, unemployment jumping in the US. Global crisis abating any decoupling barrier and resistance: during 2009 even Germany, then China and lately, perhaps even India will be affected.
OBAMA NEW DEAL’s first financial and fiscal proposals, will be approved by the US legislative powers in Spring 2009.
As for its international components, they must and  will include, among others:
a) a reshape of Bretton Woods institutions, that will take a few years, charging them of new tasks in order to: regulate global finance (IMF), promote a coordination of Keynesian measures prioritising the poorest and the unhealthy  (WB), counteract- discourage  ”beggar your neighbour” protectionism (WTO), and coordinate carbon policies (a 4th, new World Authority: the WCO, Word Climate Organisation, with effective powers). 
b) An immediate change from  G8 to G12: inclusion of Brazil, China, India and South Africa. G12 will immediately deal with the $ fall, that Fiat’s Chairman Marchionne has just defined (in an interview at Trento’s Economics Festival) a “criminal” competitive policy.
c) Global “Robin Hood” policies, making pay the Subcrime crisis to Subcriminals. We are very happy that our
slogan, has been independently adopted by an Italian minister we usually don’t agree much with (although he recommends Marx and Gramsci!): Mr Tremonti, applying a Robin Hood Tax to Oil Companies. Actually, in this CC blog, we had copy-left, not copy-rights on Robin Hood policies !!!  
June 5 update: listened at Focus Economia (radio 24);  it seems that Tremonti oil tax will target windfall profits along the chain, and create a fund to support the hit categories: a True Robin.