Here's Schlosser's current piece on the topic, published by the New Yorker.

Very interesting. If you notice that you unintentionally started clenching your butt while reading the piece, listen to some CONELRAD on the side.

If we take for granted the need for cost cutting, it would be only logical, if not an outright neccessity in a democracy, to leave the details up to the local representatives. Payment of X Euros expected by mm/dd/yy, figure it out yourselves.

Why do it any other way?

Well, you know the three most discussed possibilities as well as I do: shock doctrine, an attempt to force Syriza to commit political suicide, and bureaucratic automatisms.

During the first stages of this facade, I would have put my money square on shock doctrine. The measures are just too damn beneficial to the "there is no society" kind of thinking. It's horseshit, economically, and tremendously damaging, socially.

Replacing Syriza with the Old Guard seems quite appealing, given the behind-the-scenes deals with the nepotistic elite as a means to facilitate a smoother transitition once those pesky commies are out of the picture. The vitriol against Varoufakis is just staggering in this regard. News of the World got nothing compared to what our respectable media has hurled at Varoufakis and Tsipras.

My take on the automatisms on the other hand is rooted in how our politicians and our public has been arguing this entire time. Neoliberalism is the gospel, dissent is heresy. Privatisation is good, cutting wages is good, flexible labour market is good, taxation of wealth is bad, deficit is bad, surplus is good. They drank the kool aid, they are in it hook, line and sinker.

And as a result, the diagnosis is always the same, and so is the treatment. And fuck me for using this ass of a metaphor, given how the language used is the most subtle means of manipulation. "Rescue" the Greeks, "drowning" in debt, "tighten your belt". How about: food only on five days a week, grandma gets to croak on diabetes and your baby boy dies of diphtheria.

Yes, I had a fucked up day. The discussion in parliament about the "Greek problem" was a disgrace and high treason of the humanistic ideas that are supposed to be the foundation of the European Union.

we never asked you, dumbass. unlike religion, science works whether or not you believe in it. News flash, the world changes every day without consulting @lantern53. If you don't like what your taxes go towards, put your money where your whining mouth is and GTFO of the country.

we won't miss you

go back to whining about kids being on your lawn, it would be more productive for you.

Wow really? Like this was not thrown out there to try and get people to think RT is not Putin's personal propaganda station. This lady has less journalistic integrity than a "News of the World" reporter before it was closed.

Sorry lurgee, Charlotte Iserbyt has not been popular with sifters American or otherwise due primarily to collective denial of her message-That message being that it is by design to create a large majority of dysfunctional cretins incapable of critical thinking who feed on a steady diet of bullshit like media news outlets for their "news of the world' in order for them to be herded more effectively by the state and her systems of control.

Think North Korea with coca-cola and Gucci, rap music and video games as primmers for the next generation of wage-slaves with a cult of personality of excess cash to spend on campain (misspelling intended) fleece and bullets, and you have the finished product ready for coffins and pharmaceutical oblivion.

Oh, and fuck this stupid bitch on TV Grimm, and fuck your leading title for your paltry embed. The few Americans left without their head up their own asses may be few, and we detest the same tools used as those of the television.

And in today's news, the sports world is shocked with the admission by Sarah the Cheetah that she used the illegal drug FKP (Fast Kitteh Potion) during her record-breaking run.

This guy's frank honesty reminds me of the several interviews with that News of the World guy who confessed openly to all the tactics used by him and his colleagues, not thinking that anyone would think any less of him.

>> ^Barseps:

Rupert Murdoch got knocked off his perch today Boise
http:/
/www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/09/20/milly-dowler-family-s-3million-over-news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-115875-23432849/


Too bad it wasn't much more.

Rupert Murdoch got knocked off his perch today Boise

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/09/20/milly-dowler-family-s-3million-over-news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-115875-23432849/

*promote

Cornel West is so loveable, I could listen to him talk about paint drying and I'd still be enamoured. Plus anyone who makes that cunt Morgan look like the douche he is, wins in my book. I hope to god he gets taken down in the News of the World furore at some point, I would die a happy girl.

Yeah, I don't know what the big fuss is all about. Guns make everybody safer, right? I mean, I think the evidence is in and it's that America is safer than those other pussy countries, right? Right?

Like the woman who shot at a dog and killed her husband - safer!

http://www.news.com.au/world/american-woman-better-walker-shot-at-dog-but-kills-husband-police-say/story-e6frfkyi-1226096115154

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>> ^A10anis:

He brought down a major newspaper and has put ALL media on trial. What point would there be in killing him after the disclosure? Of course he may have had much more information but, surely, killing him after the fact would just compound the problem. Still, what do i know? Let the conspiracy theories begin.


I don't care if conspiracies begin or if they're true or not (well, OK if it IS true), because if there is someone on this planet that needs SCRUTINY 24/7 due to this and everything else he has done, it's Rupert Murdoch.

/silver linings

I don't think he was talking about lack of whistleblowers in general...but whistleblowers from within the Murdoch organization.

BTW...this just in "Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned.">> ^radx:

How ironic that Olbermann is complaining, indirectly, about a lack of whistleblowers.
The entire Murdoch/NotW scandal is based almost solely on the relentless work of the Guardian's Nick Davies, who kept digging and digging until they couldn't bury it anymore. The very same Nick Davies who brought the Guardian and Julian Assange together, the same Nick Davies who is very outspoken with regards to the mistreatment of, allegedly, the most prominent whistleblower of our days -- Bradley Manning.