Arithmetic

Here's an obvious question, with a despicable answer:

Why do these guys get bailed out, but these guys don't?

One key to the answer is to look at who is doing the bailing.

I find that, once you pull back a little, common sense takes over.

It's just like anything else: crews compete, in different but connected arenas, and whoever gets to the top gets to control the nation's money - which in turn controls the policies of the nation.

It's like sports. Teams go hard, competing for their share of the world's pies, but they are all part of the same game. They all chill together and get wasted together and all that. Every now and then someone will point this little system out to us, but they are usually military i.e. not rich and their views just dont matter that much to the dudes upstairs. (Until they put their foot down. Which makes everyone nervous.)

There is no mystery anymore. There is only business as usual.

Iran

For all you watching the elections, here's a glimpse of what is actually going on behind the scenes of the media crap-storm...

Most of us are pretty sure that corporate media lies to further it's own interests, but there is nothing like being caught red-handed to (hopefully) keep them out of trouble in the future.

Ok...That was a nice one. Anything else? Things like this will help continue to clarify who is picking fights with who. The information is there. All you have to do is take the time to look up some well-referenced facts.

When you look at the present situation, and you look at history, and then you look at the present according to these people again, then the past again...

Obvious patterns start to emerge.

Facts and precedent both say that what we are witnessing is nothing more than business as usual for the corpo-military-political machine. Yawn.