DRUGI DOM

Kdo so ti hecni strici?

To bi iz prve vedeli samo največji sladokusci, zato brez panike. No, na levi je gospod Geir H. Haarde – danes finančni minister premier bankrotirane Islandije.

Na sredini… Friedrich von Hayek. Dovolite citat:

His visit to Iceland made a huge impact on the intellectual debate.

Right. Naslov članka: “Impact of MPS (Mont Pelegrin Society) members”. Ni kaj, “impact” je veličasten.

P.S. Na tretji slikci boste našli gospuda Davida Oddssona, ki je bil nekdaj župan Reykjavika, kasneje pa tudi premier.

Oddsson became Prime Minister and instigated an ambitious (and successful) programme of reform, liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation, stabilisation and tax reduction.

GM lobira za bailout na YouTubu

Zanimive povezave 11/14/2008

• FT.com | Willem Buiter’s Maverecon | How likely is a sterling crisis, or is London really Reykjavik-on-Thames?

  With the pound sterling dropping like a stone against most other currencies and long-term interest rates on UK sovereign debt beginning to edge up, this is a good time to revisit a suggestion I made earlier on a number of occasions (e.g. here, here and here), that there is a non-trivial risk of the UK becoming the next Iceland.

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Ministrska ekipa ali kaj je Pahorju naredilo okolje

No, pa so znani.

Ministrstvo za finance naj bi vodil Franc Križanič, ministrstvo za gospodarstvo Matej Lahovnik, ministrstvo za notranje zadeve Katarina Kresal, ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve Samuel Žbogar, ministrstvo za pravosodje Aleš Zalar, ministrstvo za obrambo Ljubica Jelušič, ministrstvo za delo, družino in socialne zadeve Ivan Svetlik, ministrstvo za okolje in prostor Karl Erjavec, ministrstvo za promet Patrick Vlačič, ministrstvo za javno upravo Irma Pavlinič Krebs, ministrstvo za šolstvo in šport vodil Igor Lukšič, ministrstvo za visoko šolstvo, znanost in tehnologijo Gregor Golobič, ministrstvo za kmetijstvo, gozdarstvo in prehrano Milan Pogačnik, ministrstvo za kulturo Majda Širca, ministrstvo za zdravje Borut Miklavčič. Nova vlada naj bi imela tudi tri ministre brez listnice: minister brez listnice za razvoj in evropske zadeve naj bi bil Mitja Gaspari, ministrica brez listnice za lokalno samoupravo in regionalni razvoj Zlatka Ploštajner, minister brez listnice za Slovence po svetu pa Boštjan Žekš. Vir

Moji pomisleki:
- Žbogar: Po Ruplu, Rupel?
- Erjavec: kaj za vraga je zagrešilo slovensko okolje, da se bo z njim že drugič zapored ukvarjal povsem nesposoben minister?

Zanimive povezave 11/11/2008

• Short-Sighted?

  The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 limited the time mothers could spend on welfare and required some work as a condition for receiving it. The reforms were, by most measures, successful at reducing the number of women on welfare and increasing their levels of employment. … But…, the authors … found that the reforms made adult women less likely to pursue education.

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Nasveti po britansko

Keith Miles je baje finančni svetovalec iz Velike Britanije in član strateškega sveta za gospodarski razvoj pri slovenski vladi.

Ob neučinkovitosti katerega izmed novih ministrov boste morali biti neizprosni.
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Na mednarodnem prizorišču ni veliko stvari, v katere bi morala biti Slovenija globoko vpletena, in zato vas pozivam, da se osredotočite na domače zadeve. Izleti na tuje se morda res zdijo privlačni in tudi državnim uradnikom je precej všeč zamisel, da boste veliko časa zdoma, vendar naj vas te skušnjave ne zavedejo in imejte vse to trdno pod nadzorom. Vir

Bog, pomagaj! Ob takih naivnih prodajalcih megle ne rabimo sovražnikov, svetovne krize in klimatskih sprememb – zadušili se bomo v idiotizmu.

P.S. Kje smo ga našli in koliko smo plačali za te globokoumnosti?

Mi smo ofce!

Bilo bi na mestu, da slovenski neoliberalni krožkarji Bošku Šrotu pošljejo zahvalo.

Le kdo drug bi lahko te ideološke mrtvece, ki bi v luči trenutnih svetovnih dogodkov po Ljubljani morali hoditi z vrečko na glavi, obudil kot relevantne komentatorje, ki v Sloveniji spet rešujejo demokracijo, pravno državo in usodo države na sploh?

In če ne tulite v pravi rog? Ste pa ovca, seveda.

Zanimive povezave 11/10/2008

• Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes

  Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.

  The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground.

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Prosti trg je rezultat centralnega planiranja

Iz knjige False Dawn, The Delusions of Global Capitalism:

Encumbered markets are the norm in every society, whereas free markets are the product of artifice, design and political coersion. Laissez-faire must be centrally planed; regulated markets just happen. The free market is not, as the New Right thinkers have imagined or claimed, a gift of social evolution. It is an end product of social engineering and unyielding political will. It was feasible in nineteenth-century England only because, and for long as, funtioning democratic institutions were lacking.
The implications of these truths for the project of constructing a worldwide free market in an age of democratic government are profund. They are that the rules of the game of the market must be insulated from democratic deliberation and political amendment. Democracy and the free market are rivals, not allies.

October Surprise

The new evidence increases the likelihood that the August 7-8 clash between Georgia and Russia was an “October Surprise” that would highlight John McCain’s greater foreign policy experience at the height of the presidential election.
The Georgia fighting occurred immediately before the Democratic convention in Denver. McCain, the leading public advocate for Georgia, immediately declared “we are all Georgians now” and promised “to blast Russia.” Obama, on vacation in Hawaii, at first called for greater diplomacy, but quickly fell in line with a bipartisan consensus of national security advisers and the mainstream media.
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The trail of evidence stats with Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s top foreign policy adviser and former director of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which secured some $90 million in federal funds to lobby for the fabricated agenda of Iraqi exiles like Ahmed Chalabi leading to the Iraq invasion.

Scheunemann became a registered foreign agent for Mikheil Saakashvili’s Georgian government when it came to power in 2004, making $800,000 in fees for his lobbying firm, Orion Strategies, until the relationship on May 15 was formally terminated under McCain’s 2008 campaign rules.

In those years, McCain traveled to Georgia more than once, nominated his “close friend” Saakashvili for a Nobel Prize in 2005, engineered support for Georgia through the Republican Democracy Institute, and supported the US training of combat forces there. With Schuenemann as his adviser, Saakashvili had campaigned on a platform of taking back South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Schuenemann was also his lobbyist when Saakashvili sent troops to retake two other separatist enclaves, Ajaria in 2004, and upper Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia in 2006, both over Russian objections. Schuenemann and McCain visited Georgia again in 2006.
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Now that they are in opposition, there is little doubt that the neo-conservatives will continue their strategy of confrontation on the Russian border. These are people who deliberately exaggerated the Soviet military threat in the Reagan years, developed the Project for the New American Century [where Scheunemann was a director], fabricated evidence about Saddam’s arsenal, and seemingly have never stopped.

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