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Jun. 18th, 2012 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* A center right party won the Greek election. The strongest left party came in second. The winners are in the process of trying to form a governing coalition. Likely they will be staying in the EU, which means an anti-growth strategy in order to keep getting bail out payments. The plan is to fire huge numbers of of public sector employees in the hopes of dramatically increasing unemployment. To keep with the bailout terms means a projected 30 year long or longer Depression in the Greek economy. I do not know why crippling the Greek economy for the next generation or too is considered a good thing, but the folks with power insist this is so.
There are no winners here except the extremely rich who generally favor the policy of destroying economies in order to concentrate wealth at the top.
* In Egypt, the Military Council has given itself sweeping new powers, including the right to veto any constitutional provisions it doesn't like. There is worry that they will not turn over power to civilian authority.
* It looks like the Socialists have taken a majority of seats in the French elections.
* BBC coverage of the 300th Anniversary of the War of 1812 was surreal for me. I mean, they actually found folks to do Person on the Street interviews who actually had not only heard of the War but could make a sound bite about it. O.o Seriously, I used to teach US history for money. The War of 1812 generally gets a day or two at the 8th grade level and at most a week at the High School level. Pretty much everything between the Constitution and Andrew Jackson short shrift. We mostly only do Andrew Jackson because of the trail of tears and the ways he changed the mechanics of the executive branch. We are in a hurry to do the causes of the Civil War, so it's industrial development, Bleeding Kansas, and the Fugitive Slave Act in the spotlight. I'm not saying the War of 1812 didn't have importance in shaping a whole bunch of things, but for Modern Americans, the Civil War still looms so large we can barely see it. As a result, watching the BBC make a deal about us commemorating the War's bicentennial was odd. I mean, there is no coverage in US news sources that I've seen yet and I was unaware here were any plans....
* Cisgender Privilege: http://faysbook.tumblr.com/post/25284199982/crunkfeministcollective-30-examples-of
* Marine Rob had to postpone. I got a lot of small but needed errands and things around the house done. I'm still exhausted all the time. I wish this pathogen would end.
* Steampunk animals: http://peterpangal365.tumblr.com/post/25315335552/staceythinx-andrew-chases-incredible-steampunk
There are no winners here except the extremely rich who generally favor the policy of destroying economies in order to concentrate wealth at the top.
* In Egypt, the Military Council has given itself sweeping new powers, including the right to veto any constitutional provisions it doesn't like. There is worry that they will not turn over power to civilian authority.
* It looks like the Socialists have taken a majority of seats in the French elections.
* BBC coverage of the 300th Anniversary of the War of 1812 was surreal for me. I mean, they actually found folks to do Person on the Street interviews who actually had not only heard of the War but could make a sound bite about it. O.o Seriously, I used to teach US history for money. The War of 1812 generally gets a day or two at the 8th grade level and at most a week at the High School level. Pretty much everything between the Constitution and Andrew Jackson short shrift. We mostly only do Andrew Jackson because of the trail of tears and the ways he changed the mechanics of the executive branch. We are in a hurry to do the causes of the Civil War, so it's industrial development, Bleeding Kansas, and the Fugitive Slave Act in the spotlight. I'm not saying the War of 1812 didn't have importance in shaping a whole bunch of things, but for Modern Americans, the Civil War still looms so large we can barely see it. As a result, watching the BBC make a deal about us commemorating the War's bicentennial was odd. I mean, there is no coverage in US news sources that I've seen yet and I was unaware here were any plans....
* Cisgender Privilege: http://faysbook.tumblr.com/post/25284199982/crunkfeministcollective-30-examples-of
* Marine Rob had to postpone. I got a lot of small but needed errands and things around the house done. I'm still exhausted all the time. I wish this pathogen would end.
* Steampunk animals: http://peterpangal365.tumblr.com/post/25315335552/staceythinx-andrew-chases-incredible-steampunk