Who is in charge of the clattering train
The axles creak and the couplings strain
The pace is hot and the points are near
Sleep has deadened the driver’s ear
And the signals flash in the night in vain
For Death is in charge of the clattering train.
[From an old, yellowing copy of Punch magazine. Apologies about the bleakness. It was just too apt to resist posting...]
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Who’s gonna sing the song of change
If no one can imagine life outside the beaten track
And who’s gonna stop a running train
If no one cares to dwell or no one wants to look back…
When philosophers talk about the economic crisis and economists refer to poetry it is time for the politicians to listen up..
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/euro-blind/
It is late…
After midnight
Have to sleep
But
Want to add
That I
Believe!
Know!
That there is not
only
a Minotaur
I believe
in
the Phoenix……
also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)
Hi Yanis,
An article I just read, can this be true???? “See the guy in the photo there, dangling an ax from his left hand? That’s Greece’s new “Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks” Makis Voridis captured back in the 1980s, when he led a fascist student group called “Student Alternative” at the University of Athens law school. It’s 1985, and Minister Voridis, dressed like some Kajagoogoo Nazi, is caught on camera patrolling the campus with his fellow fascists, hunting for suspected leftist students to bash. Voridis was booted out of law school that year, and sued by Greece’s National Association of Students for taking part in violent attacks on non-fascist law students.”
See this link; http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/11/mark-ames-austerity-fascism-in-greece-%E2%80%93-the-real-1-doctrine.html
Today’s NY Times:
BRUSSELS — Someone, somewhere, usually makes money from bad news. With Europe’s debt crisis, that — at least until this week — was Germany.
Lower borrowing costs are one reason why Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has been reluctant to create a huge bailout fund to stem Europe’s debt crisis.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/business/global/german-bond-windfall-may-be-ending-with-euro-crisis.html
Great article. Factual and to the point.
An accurate image of self-serving Germany.
Maybe you are too young to know, but Germany always paid much lower interest rates than the ClubMed.
So just for the record: The level of interest the ClubMed paid the last 10 years in not normal. IT will be an exception. What people are describing now as market attack is lower than the rate the ClubMed paid before 1988 for decades. This was during a time, when inverstors remembered who was frugal and who was not.
This was just sent to me from my family in Athens. Evidently it is making the rounds of the internet in some circles. I am not exactly sure who the man is that is speaking with such passion but this was put on a you tube one year ago. His words about the possibility of rising nationalist violent sentiment in the “austerity countries” are certainly too true, I fear, unfortunately.
Nigel Farage is the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, UKIP.
http://www.ukip.org/
There are many who have seen all this coming a long time ago. But Farage is world class at putting it to the point: “Let´s scrap the Euro to the dustbin of history!”
one word:
Populism.
or laicism.
Completely ineffective. This fellow is a professional euroskeptic with no stick. They say: “speak softly and carry a big stick”. This fellow speaks loudly and has no stick.
To be a professional “Euroskeptik” is pretty good business these days. Populism is better than EU dictatorship.
I would like to share the following song with you .
Paying tribute to the late Argyris Kounadis . He was professor at the Music School of Freiberg . Died on Tuesday …
This year was very unfortunate for Greece . Kakogiannis , Veggos , Rasoulis , Kounadis …
Such a bad timing .
Great song, despite ideology. It makes you want to do what needs to be done.
At least the poetry will never die. We are really doomed if that ever happens!!!
[From Norah Jones: Sinkin' Soon]
In a boat that’s built of sticks and hay,
We drifted from the shore.
With a captain who’s too proud to say,
That he dropped the oar.
Now a tiny hole has sprung a leak,
In this cheap pontoon.
Now the hull has started growing weak,
And we’re gonna be sinkin’ soon.
We’re gonna be
Sinkin’ soon,
We’re gonna be
Sinkin’ soon,
Everybody hold your breath ‘cuz,
We’re gonna be sinkin’ soon
@David Sheegog
Here’s to you David.
———————————————————————-
Standing In the ruins of another black mans life
Or flying through the valley separating day and night
I am Death – cried the Vulture – for the people of the light
Charon brought his raft from the sea that sails on souls
And I saw the scavenger departing taking warm hearts to the cold
He knew the ghetto was a haven for the meanest creature ever known
In a wilderness of heart break
In a desert of despair
Evil’s clarion of justice
Shrieks a cry of naked terror
Taking babies from their mamas
Leaving grief beyond compare
So if you see the Vulture coming
Flying circles in your mind
Remember their is no escaping
For he will follow close behind
Only promise me a battle
A battle
For your soul and mind
And mine
If you think about it, the Merkozy behavior is beyond criminal.
To put innocent citizens through extreme hardship only in the end to do what Merkozy should have done to begin with. Shame on you euro-criminals.
So, you wrecked many innocent, private lives for your national egotism. Well done. Now, step up to the gallows please, right foot first.
http://www.neurope.eu/article/eurobond-inevitable-markets-and-commission-tell-germany
You can use bleak poetry or humor; it’s does not matter.
For as long as we hide behind ill-advised political correctness and we fail to call things by their real name we are diluting ourselves into euro-generalities of no particular meaning.
The truth is that Merkozy is 100% responsible for the European mess. Not ifs and buts about it.
Dixi et salvavi animam meam (?)
Run out of stories with Titanic?
It’s a bit morbid but …
…Ship is sinking, the ship is sinking
There’s a leak , there’s a leak in the boilreroom
The poor – the lame – the blind
Who are the ones that we kept in charge?
Killers, thieves and lawyers
God’s away – god’s away – god’s away on business
Business…
Thanks Alex. Right on. Again.
Excellent, and apt…
Yanis Superb I include one of my own, written in the bleak, urban subway systems of: anywhere.
Passage
Tracks mostly grimy
To what do you pray here?
Blackened arches, tunnels,
The sounds of dripping water
Rats, the poison to kill them
Priority seating for
Persons with disabilities
Black hole tic tac toe
Wet Paint signs
Signs: Beware The Terrorists
Neon cold cell phones
Lines painted, full of hives
To keep you safe from the live rail
Orange once.
Pray for conscious connection
Pray for redemption
Pray to find footprints
To get you out of here faster
Here’s to another
Long cold winter.
c. Triada Samaras 2006/2011