Me Ol' China, these are financial times... remember... remember

Long Live the capitalism!

ahahahhahhahhaha oh guys it's so fucking funny to see the capitalism being rescued by the governments! amazing! where are those that think that the State should be out of everything?

Would they be so happy today if the whole system had crashed? Even because those who normally cry "Capitalism! Capitalism!" are those who will be swiped away first with this crisis.

I read that the banks are keeping cleaning their cupboards of the remaining skeletons they have accumulated in the last 15 to 20 years and I still think that the subprime got nothing to do and to see with this crisis but it has been a good excuse for starting showing the dirt in the safes.

At last the Capitalism and neo-liberism is shown its face. These days events are shown how over exposed banks are and that their intermediary role is reduced to a small part of their activities. I think that there is no doubt that banks have hands into everything and their main inter mediation role is just a power grabbing one rather than facilitate money flows between those who have excess of liquidity and those who are short of it.

I see big names like Fortis being saved by the governments, not to talk about the US banks or the Swiss and the UK ones... The growth of Fortis has always been puzzling and the team that was put in place to demolish ABN AMRO shows the true face of Financial Scavengers. If you only knew how much money Fortis wastes in external consultancies and the same for the other banks part of the triad that bought ABN, you would be disgusted!

Those who want to privatise everything, included the State activities, these days should repent, but I know that they will just stay at home and they will praise how perfect the capitalism is because it allows a rescue plan.

Oh Gosh if it was China doing this!

V for Vendetta!

When I used to live in England I remember I was really impressed by the freedom I could breath in London and by the simplicity of going through the passport controls and so on. I always said that I couldn't feel and form of State authority on the citizens or visitors to the UK. Yesterday, arriving in the UK, I had the exact opposite feeling. when I was coming through the passport control I started seeing a series of Black, Red and Blue (the UK colours) boards telling you that you were going to be controlled, that the officers in charge know how to detect a false passport or Visa, that if you dare being aggressive with the officers they would kick your ass, that you could not mess around with Political Asylum, that controls take longer than usual due to the times we live in and so on.

On the way to London via the Stansted Express I was looking at London by the train perspective and I found the show absolutely desolating: old! But not old like Rome can be, old like decadent, dirty. and even the new building here and there popping up, are so close to the rail-tracks giving you the impression of poverty and cheap.

Of course when you pay 21 pounds for a one way ticket from Stanstead to Mansion House and when you use the same old trains and the same old tube and you look at the sad face of people, you really miss China and the less capitalistic countries.

V for Vendetta!

Believe me guys, I felt as if I was part of the movie. the sense of freedom I had more than 20 years ago in England and that accompanied me for more than a decade is gone. I feel the UK as an oppressive place. I do not feel safe. I feel as if you are a suspect, no matter what you do. For the first time I felt as if the Big Brother was there at the airport, with me.

It is a very odd feeling and I was telling myself "remember remember the 5th of November..."