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Beleaguered Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy just broke another record. As if a plague of corruption scandals was not enough, Spain's debt-to-GDP has now reached levels not seen in over 100 years. As El Pais reports, Spanish debt levels rose at an alarming EUR 400 million per day in 2012 making for the largest annual increase in debt in the nation's history - all the while proclaiming austerity. The EUR 146 billion increase in debt in 2012 is the equivalent of more than 14 percentage points of GDP leading to a staggering EUR 882.3 billion or 84% of GDP overall - far exceeding the government's own budget forecast of 79% and expected to rise significantly further in 2013. The last time levels of debt were this high relative to GDP Spain was recovering from war and the loss of its colonies. At EUR 38.7 billion, Spain has never spent so much money to pay only the interest on its debt, 33% more than budgeted for last year. Despite the apparent Draghi-inspired truce that investors appear to have agreed with Spain's bond markets, the average interest expense remains 4.1% and as one economist put it, Spain fails in all the variables that serve to stabilize the debt: its economy does not grow, its pays a relatively high interest rate, and has a primary deficit (prior to payment of interest on the debt); unless this situation is corrected, this "is a dynamic that eventually leads to non-payment," especially as the nation's unemployment surges and GDP shifts from recessionary to depressionary.
¿Y qué comenta hoy la gente en la calle del tema? ¿O muchos lo aborrecen? Este torpedo va directo a la MN, los que recuerdan la Transición con ternura, época en la que pegaban más de un polvo a la semana.
pues exactamente no lo sé quizás arte más que culturacreo que en época de crisis el arte, la creatividad está/ debe estar ahí; creo que venimos de tiempos de borrachera y subvencion contra cualquier cosa que transmita algún sentir real y que debe haber gente, grupos, colectivos con capacidad de transmitir y hacer sentir por encima de toda esta mediocridad embutida y corrupta.éstos a los que añoro siempre han sido unos muertos de hambre, ahora son legión e igual se escuchan másdivago, lo sé, disculpen,me falta poesía
Lienzo FiscalSe desafía al comprador a no declarar la adquisición de la pieza y a la galería a no declarar su venta. El "Lienzo Fiscal" es una obra de arte como soporte para otras obras de arte. Si otra obra de arte utiliza este soporte debe ser tratada fiscalmente de la misma manera.Lino bordado sobre lino, con el texto “Undeclared Income” (Ingreso no declarado)162 x 162 cm2013
En la obra titulada " "* la financiación otorgada por el Banco Santander para la realización de una obra de arte fue utilizada para especular con acciones de Bankia. El capital aumentado con las plusvalías fue destinado a la adquisición de todos los billetes de un vuelo regular con origen en Europa y destino en África para que hiciese su recorrido vacío.Durante el verano de 2012 en plena crisis de la zona euro, Bankia fue intervenido, las acciones del banco habían hecho perder a sus accionistas el 90% del dinero que habían invertido. En ese contexto se produjeron fuertes rebotes de la acción que en una misma sesión alcanzaban subidas del 30% sobre el valor, para continuar con fuertes caídas. Este escenario de volatilidad provocada por los Hedge Funds de la City de Londres que operaban la acción, se desarrolló durante varios días. Fue entonces cuando se utilizó la totalidad de la cuantía otorgada por el Banco Santander —a través de la Fundación Botín— para tradear la acción, comprando títulos de Bankia en una tendencia alcista intradiaria y cerrando las posiciones con beneficios en el valor un día después. El capital aumentado con las plusvalías fue destinado a la adquisición de todos los billetes de un vuelo regular, en temporada alta, que salía la noche del viernes 24 de Agosto a las 23:30 desde Barcelona, con destino Túnez, para que hiciese su recorrido vacío.5 extractos bancarios 24 x 63 cm cada uno2012* 126 espacios en blanco, tantos como asientos vacíos.
¿Con qué milagro convertiríamos México en Canadá? ¿Cómo?
Mafia presence in Canada
Metáfora naval de un militar hoy. "Un buque puede tener problemas de rumbo o de flotabilidad o de ambas cosas. Si pierdes la máquina y pierdes rumbo te quedas al pairo y la corriente o el viento te va llevando a las rocas. Es vital que venga un helicóptero y te dé la pieza que necesitas para recuperar máquina y con ella rumbo y no encallar. En caso contrario perderás flotabilidad y te hundes. En nuestro caso además hay via de agua. No doy más de 24 meses antes de que haya una nueva situación. La que sea...
The big story this past week, besides the annual State of the Delusion speech by Barack “It won’t add a cent to the deficit” Obama, was the fate of the passengers on the Carnival Triumph as their skyscraper sized ship was left adrift at sea for days without power. This 900 foot long, 100,000 ton goliath is one of the largest passenger cruise liners in the world, carrying 3,400 passengers and 1,100 crew members in luxurious splendor through warm Gulf of Mexico seas to sun drenched exotic isles. These ships are practically floating countries, with passengers treated to an endless American buffet of never ending quantities of bacon, sausage, biscuits, gravy, fried chicken, mashed potatoes, waffles, pizza, cheesecake, soda, beer and the rum drink of the day. It’s as if all 3,400 passengers have a SNAP card with no limit. There are retail stores, restaurants, bars, ice skating rinks, movie theaters, showplaces, and staff waiting on you hand and foot. No cash changes hands. You charge everything to your room number and then just pay with one of your 13 credit cards at the conclusion of your voyage into debt. Then you pay 18% interest on the 25 Funky Monkeys you consumed for the next 14 years. Cruising captures the essence of America as we traverse our voyage to hell.The ordeal at sea of the Carnival Triumph and the leadership displayed by the Carnival management and executive officers is a microcosm of our declining empire. The $420 million Carnival Triumph was put into service in 1999 and has run continuously for the last fourteen years, with only periodic dry dock maintenance. These massive ships are replenished within hours of docking and depart within twelve hours of dumping their 3,400 passengers back onshore. The CEO and top management of Carnival care only about ROI and whether their stock options are vested. Their goal is to bilk the passengers out of as much cash as possible, while paying their foreign slave labor crew members as little as possible. The ships are registered in foreign countries for tax purposes and the crew members are mostly from third world countries. Carnival executives and shipboard officers have a history of recklessness, mismanagement, and willingness to endanger its passengers in its greedy thirst for short term profits. Ask the families of the 32 passengers killed in the sinking of the Costa Concordia. The engine room fire that disabled the Triumph was not an isolated instance. This was the fourth engine room fire on a Carnival owned ship resulting in a loss of power, the others being the Tropicale in 1999, the Carnival Splendor in 2010, and the Costa Allegra in 2012. The Carnival Triumph should not have been at sea. It had been plagued with mechanical problems for weeks prior to the engine fire. Voluntarily taking the ship out of service would have hurt the 1st quarter earnings per share of this public company, therefore the leadership of Carnival told the engineers to patch it up and get it back out on the seas. Two weeks prior to the engine room fire the Carnival Triumph experienced propulsion issues that caused it to be five hours late returning to its Galveston home port on January 28, 2013 and delaying the ship’s departure for its next cruise until 8:00 pm that night. The ship departed, but the problems had not been fixed. The Associate Press reported a story about that cruise that provides a different assessment than the public relations drivel released the corporate office:An email informed Debbi Smedley and other passengers that the propulsion problem would prevent them from docking at two ports. “Due to the limited cruising speed, our itinerary will be impacted. Depending on the progress of the repairs, we will either visit Progreso or Cozumel,” stated the email, signed by Vicky Rey, vice president of guest services. Smedley said the ship was in poor condition overall. During her five-day cruise, a water line broke in the hallway ceiling near her cabin, and a separate sewer line broke outside the main dining hall, she said. Metal was protruding from handrails on the staircases, and the elevators often did not work. Rather than docking in Progreso for only a few hours as planned, the ship stayed in the port for two days, and cruise workers repeatedly told passengers they were waiting for parts to fix a mechanical problem, according to Smedley. Carnival’s public relations machine then admitted to an electrical problem with the ship’s alternator in the last voyage before the fire, but claimed it was repaired. What they didn’t reveal is that it was a Coast Guard inspection that revealed there was a short in the high voltage connection box of one of the ships generators causing damage to cables within the connection box. A directive with a compliance due date of February 27, 2013 was issued following the inspection requiring that “the condition of the ship and its equipment shall be maintained to conform with the regulations to ensure that the ship in all respects will remain fit to proceed to sea without danger to the ship or persons on board.” The Coast Guard Marine Information Safety and Law Enforcement System showed that this deficiency remained unresolved at the time of the subsequent fire and loss of power while at sea on February 10. So you have a company PR maggot lying and you have another useless Department of Homeland Security branch not enforcing regulations that are supposed to protect passengers. This is par for the course in our corporate fascist states of America today. Shit Happens George: Aha. Aha. Could it be because you don’t want him to know that you have a friend who pees in the shower, is that it?!Elaine: No, that’s not it!George: Oh, I think it is! I think that’s exactly what it is!Elaine: Why couldn’t you just wait?George: I was there! I saw a drain!Elaine: Since when is a drain a toilet?!George: It’s all pipes! What’s the difference?!George Costanza would have enjoyed sailing on the Carnival Triumph as passengers were left to piss in showers and shit in red plastic bags for days. It finally became socially acceptable to pee in the shower. Most of the ship’s electrical power went down after the engine room fire, causing extensive breakdowns of vital shipboard mechanical systems, including taking out sanitary systems. Passengers reported sewage sloshing around in hallways, flooded rooms and trouble getting enough to eat. Passengers waited in line for three hours to get a lousy hot dog. On the lower decks sewage came up through the shower drain, pooling in the sinks and flowing into the hallways. The allegory of the poor people on the lower decks being inundated with feces and living in wretched conditions, while the rich people living in luxury on the upper decks are blissfully ignorant of the fate of their fellow passengers is so easy to apply to our society in this day and age. The 1% glory in their stock market gains, while 20% of U.S. households are on food stamps.These direct quotes from passengers and pictures taken onboard this voyage from hell provide a taste of what our future portends: “We have to urinate in the shower. They’ve been passed out plastic bags to go to the bathroom. There was fecal matter all over the floor.”“They’re walking around in a lot of urine and fecal matter, and the sewers are backing up.”“The sanitation situation was gross and the stench was awful.”“Just imagine the filth. People were doing crazy things and going to the bathroom in sinks and showers.”“A lot of people were crying and freaking out.”“We are trapped aboard a floating petri dish without power, air conditioning, or fresh water.”“It’s degrading. Demoralizing, and then they want to insult us by giving us $500″ After reading a number of articles describing what happened before, during and after the engine fire aboard the Carnival Triumph, the parallels between this Ship of Horrors and our Ship of State become self-evident. You have the CEO and top executives of Carnival only concerned about their wealth, power and control of the company. Rather than thinking long term and making decisions that might be detrimental to their short term quarterly earnings, but insure the long –term financial health and reputation of the company, their decision was driven by their true masters on Wall Street. Instead of taking the ship off-line to make vital repairs and necessary investments, they just papered over signs of an imminent disaster and turned to public relations spin and propaganda as there preferred course of action. When disaster “suddenly” struck, the management and executive officers were unprepared, slow to react, and more concerned with their reputations than about the health, safety and welfare of the passengers. Much more could have been done to alleviate the misery of the 3,400 passengers. Carnival could have had a large generator helicoptered onto the deck and used to produce enough electricity to run some lights, ventilation, refrigeration and toilets. It appears that this ship had two engine rooms and only one was damaged by fire. They could have restarted the undamaged engine room and would have had enough power for most normal functions in the cabins of the ship, and probably some capability to propel the ship towards port. The disgraceful lack of urgency and refusal of top management to attempt every possible solution to this crisis is a lesson to be learned by passengers and citizens alike. They don’t care about you.Rev. Wendell Gill’s experience onboard the Triumph provides a glimpse into our future. He immediately recognized the leadership of the ship was non-existent and it would be up to people helping people if they were to make it through the ordeal:“What you had was a tale of two ships. You seldom saw a deck officer. I never saw the captain. Some of the people in the upper areas had plenty of air, but down below, it was unlivable. It was like a sauna of sewage. It was the people on the boat that saved Carnival. In an adverse situation, most people will rise to help — that’s just the human spirit.” Reverend Gill and his wife noticed that no one from Carnival was stepping up to help the elderly and sick get around. The Gills, along with other concerned passengers, decided to take matters into their own hands, carting mattresses and bedding up from the lower decks. They witnessed the worst side of human nature in the inaction of Carnival leadership, along with some people becoming drunk, disorderly and fighting over food. But they also witnessed people coming together under difficult circumstances, with many in the upper cabins sharing their space with those from the lower uninhabitable decks. The passengers created their own shanty town of tents on deck and in the cooler hallways. The vast majority of people acted like decent human beings. Kindness, sharing, and helping one another won the day. This voyage through hell is a precursor of what lies ahead for everyone in this country. When vital systems fail, the lights go out, and your beloved government leaders are nowhere to be found, how will you fare? Don’t count on someone from the government to lead when we are set adrift in a sea of chaos created by them. The politicians, bankers and bureaucrats will be scrambling to save themselves. Your family, friends, and neighbors will be the only people you can rely on. Your caring government doesn’t really care about you. Cruisin for a Bruisin “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche The similarities between the horrific voyage of the Carnival Triumph and the tragic voyage of the dysfunctional ship of state we call America are many. We have a ruling class consisting of the President, Congress, Judiciary, Central bankers, Media titans, and goliath corporation CEOs who care not for the citizens of this country. You are ignorant peasants in their eyes. They only care about maintaining and expanding their wealth, control and power through the complete capture of our financial markets, political system and media propaganda to the masses. The health and welfare of the peasants isn’t even on their radar screen. The ruling class steering this ship of fools have no interest in the truth or the best long –term interests of the country. The vast majority of the passengers on this impaired listing ship prefers to believe the propaganda and lies spewed by the captain and his minions. They prefer the illusion of safety and security to the truth about the real condition of this ship. When the engines of this ship come to a grinding halt, their illusions will be shattered. Big government will come up small when it counts. The government propaganda and public relations will be revealed as nothing but hot putrid air and fecal matter.
@Rain Dog¿Una acción externa? También puede valer una inacción, como dejar de prestar"nos" dinero y obligarnos a quebrar. No hay mas que ver las gráficas que subió hoy (creo) Currobena (aunque creo que esa exponencial de deuda debe ser muy parecida en muchos países, la burbuja crediticia). A ciertos niveles no hay "tiros perdidos". Se practica muchísimo y se espera el momento exacto de apretar el gatillo. Ahora parece que se ha encendido el ventilador de la mierda, con el añadido morboso de que una vez encendido se realimenta.Ya quisieran algunos dar ese tiro directo, pero creo que hoy día no funciona así: no vamos a asaltar el palacio del Zar ni a ir degollando gente por las calles, no, ahora se usan otras técnicas. Además, ya sabemos bien como aquí nos gusta echarle la culpa a la Merkel, a Bruselas, a los meteoritos que aún no disponen de suelo urbanizable, etc. Y hacerlo directamente sería ponérselo demasiado fácil a la Castuza populista hispanistaní. Si algo así se quisiera hacer, primero habría que noquear a la castuza, bajarles los pantalones en público y que la gente les mire su bajeza y no a donde ellos señalan para exculparse. La cantidad de mierda sacada estas semanas da para ello, y las que aún tienen guardadas...Son temas complejos y se mezclan muchos niveles. Disponemos sólo de una ínfima parte de información y casi siempre se nos sirve tras hechos consumados.Y esto que dices "Los españolitos no están más que para tragar y pagar. La borregada está muy ocupada con el whatsapp y tratando de salvar su culo." Vale, claro, pero es igual en toda Europa.El Zombie se muere (¿se mueren los zombies? ) cuando se queda sin cerebros frescos: si los que pueden emigran y muchos de los que se quedan se huelen ya la tostada y contraatacan con lonchafinismo, cuando no tienen ya casi margen para consumir, cuando les suben/inventan impuestos cada 2 semanas, cuando la pirámide poblacional no engaña...