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Quarto Reich: Italy Goes "There" Again
Just because Italy's 2 Year bond yield has plunged, bringing its cost of short term funding to manageable levels, if only for a day or two, it is suddenly "obvious" that it will not need Germany's goodwill ever again. Sure enough...
An Italian newspaper owned by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has caused controversy by printing a front page headline which said 'Fourth Reich' above a picture of German chancellor Angela Merkel.
The picture in newspaper Il Giornale also showed Chancellor Merkel raising her right arm in salute, a gesture associated with the Nazi salute used by Hitler's followers.
The article, which was published on Friday, has heightened a bitter war of words between Italy and Germany over the handling of the ongoing Euro crisis.
The angry article attacked tough talking Chancellor Merkel saying that her intransigence had brought 'us and Europe to its knees' adding that 'Italy is no longer in Europe but in the Fourth Reich.'
It went on to say: 'In the First Reich, Germany also wanted the title Emperor of Rome and in the next two they used their own means again against the states of Europe, two world wars and millions of dead, obviously this was not enough to quieten German egomania.
'Once again it has surfaced but this time not with the use of cannon, this time it's the Euro.
'The Germans believe it's theirs and we have to submit, surrender, hand ourselves over to the new Kaiser Angela Merkel who wants to rule in our own house.'
It is not the first time that Il Giornale has been at the centre of controversy with Germany - two months ago after Italy beat Germany in the Euro 2012 semi final they printed a picture of Chancellor Merkel below the headline: 'Ciao, ciao culona' which translates as 'Bye bye lard arse.'
Or, in retrospect, Berlusconi attempting to antagonize Germany and in the process foundering Monti's cabinet as Merkel joins Weidmann in just saying Nein, is not the worst strategy available to the former PM whose own tenure was cut short when the ECB refused to bail Italy out last November, stopped buying Italian bonds, forcing his resignation once Italian bonds hits 7%, and replacing him with a Goldman apparatchik.
Revenge just may be a dish served best cold all over again.
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Hours behind Fox Business on this one ...
Nazi bitches!
Hilters technique was better.
I thought Italy was allies with the Nazi's during WWII...
doesn't this make them hypocrites?
just forgetful....
Italy is lucky there is a France because they surrender almost as fast as the French but not quite.
at least the French run away... the Italians even give up on running away....
Y U No come to our bunga bunga parties anymore, Snaushage Eaterz!?
Everyone knows Italian tanks have five reverse gears and one forward.
The forward gear is in case the enemy attack from the rear ;o)
Italian Tanks are built almost as good as a YUGO
Ironically...did you know:
The Fiat-Ansaldo M13/40 was an Italian World War II tank designed to replace the Fiat L3, the Fiat L6/40 and the Fiat M11/39 in the Italian Army at the start of World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_M13/40
and:
Zastava was founded as an arms manufacturer in 1853. By the late 1930s the company had expanded into automobile production. The first passenger models were produced on 26 August 1953 using designs licensed by Fiat of Turin. The first model designed by Zastava was a sedan called the Milletrecento ("one thousand three hundred") powered by a 1300 cc engine. Some of the most successful models were those based on the Fiat 128 model, marketed under different names: Zastava 101, Zastava 128, Zastava 311, Zastava Skala, etc.
and:
the Crvena Zastava factory which used to make Yugo cars in the former Yugoslavia had been sold to Italian automobile magnate Fiat. That's where the new Fiat 500L is being made.
What goes around, comes around ;o)
This is Italian revenge 4 all those pasty Bavarian fat phucks in Speedos marooned on their beaches.
FIAT - For Italian Appropriate Technology
I hope the Greeks and Spaniards don't forget to ask for reparations.
In fact the Allies(especially the Russians) commited more war crimes in reality than the Nazi's 'on paper' netherless everybody wants to paint them selves on the 'right-side' of history
come on, firebombing japaenese cities to terrorize the population... followed by nuking two cities of no particular military significance? that was all done to save lives, or something... /s
John39:
Gawd, you are one ignorant fool.
We faced an enemy which held the Emperor up as a god; there was no surrender for them. Years after the war ended, there were still Jap soldiers coming out of the jungle ready to kill.
The only way that the war could be ended with less than house-to-house fighting, which would have been incredibly more bloody than anything that was done instead, was to literally put the prospect of completely wiping the Japanese from the face of the Earth using technology instead of humans as their fate.
This had to be put directly into the face of the Emperor - the only Jap who had the power to pull the plug on the warlords running the country.
The truth is that using firestorms and atom bombs saved most of the island's infrastructure - and its people. Imagine rebuilding Japan if it had been turned into a mass of ruble from conventional bombing, artillery attacks, and formations of soldiers blowing up everything in front of them to get the Jap soldiers and civilians who were prepared to die for the Emperor rather than surrender.
You are probably one of those ignorant fools who thinks that it was possible to somehow defeat the Japs without resort to such techniques. You are probably ignorant as a stick about the complete animalism demonstrated by the Japs to those they conquered. They butchered everyone they defeated - they made the Nazis look like choirboys in comparison.
The Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the use of Koreans and Chinese for the Japanese version of Dr. Mengele - only the atrocities multiplied by 100, the Death Camps that rivaled the Gas Chambers for genocidal horror, the beheadings of captured British troops . . . you are such a fool to not recognize that the Japs were less than animals in their conduct.
And where do you think the cultural of the Kimikaze came from? Are you so ignorant that you can't see that any nation willing to enthusiastically send its people on suicide missions as an "acceptable strategic option" demonstrates you are dealing with a country with no regard for death - whether it be the death of others, or the death of their own?
So do you think you were going to politely ask them to surrender? The warlords knew they were marked for death as war criminals. They had nothing to lose by having every other Jap on the face of the planet die in an effort to save their own life. And that is exactly what they planned to do - revisionist fiascoes of history notwithstanding.
So what do you do, ignorant one?
The US did what it had to do to save millions of lives - those of our own troops, and the citizens of Japan who were nothing but human fodder to the warlords.
The Japs have never paid for their crimes as have the Germans. To this day they skip over their disgusting history. To this day they do not feel the need to apologize for what they did - because, for political reasons - they have never been held accountable as they should.
You are typical of the idiots who know nothing of history, but shoot off their mouth anyway in a sick attempt to be "sophisticated" and witty.
You are neither.
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We(the USA) could have easily found a less lethal way of ending the war. The Japanese were trying through diplomatic channels to end hostiliites so why couldn't we play along? The allied cause which was always depicted as being motivated by the noblest motives and behavior culminated in the massacre of over a 100,000 people. I can think of one way we could have avoided the atomic attacks, find a deserted island and drop the bomb on it with some Japanese miltitary officers in attendence. It would be worth a try wouldn't it?
Ctrano:
I've also read the revisionist history.
The truth is that only the warlords running the country could surrender - outside of the Emperor. Only he had the power to deprive them of their power.
People in the West can't grasp the oriental culture of death - even though we are getting a taste of it from the serial mass murderers of the Islamic jihadists. I remember my father telling me about the way that when he served in the south Pacific (legitimate Purple Heart recipient for having his shipped bombed out from under him) - that when they attempted to pick up survivors from a sunken - or sinking - ship, the Japanese would literally drown themselves rather than be rescued.
That mentality is incomprehensible to us.
I went to Wikipedia to add something to my prior post to John39 about the Rape of Nanking. For whatever reason I tripped some filter and ZH won't let me edit it. I'm going to use this reply to put it in everyone's face so they can grasp the brutality of the Imperial Japanese Army we faced:
"On 10 February 1938, Legation Secretary of the German Embassy, Rosen, wrote to his Foreign Ministry about a film made in December by Reverend John Magee to recommend its purchase. Here is an excerpt from his letter and a description of some of its shots, kept in the Political Archives of the Foreign Ministry in Berlin.
"On December 13, about 30 soldiers came to a Chinese house at #5 Hsing Lu Koo in the southeastern part of Nanking, and demanded entrance. The door was open by the landlord, a Mohammedan named Ha. They killed him immediately with a revolver and also Mrs. Ha, who knelt before them after Ha's death, begging them not to kill anyone else. Mrs. Ha asked them why they killed her husband and they shot her. Mrs. Hsia was dragged out from under a table in the guest hall where she had tried to hide with her 1 year old baby. After being stripped and raped by one or more men, she was bayoneted in the chest, and then had a bottle thrust into her vagina. The baby was killed with a bayonet. Some soldiers then went to the next room, where Mrs. Hsia's parents, aged 76 and 74, and her two daughters aged 16 and 14. They were about to rape the girls when the grandmother tried to protect them. The soldiers killed her with a revolver. The grandfather grasped the body of his wife and was killed. The two girls were then stripped, the elder being raped by 2–3 men, and the younger by 3. The older girl was stabbed afterwards and a cane was rammed in her vagina. The younger girl was bayoneted also but was spared the horrible treatment that had been meted out to her sister and mother. The soldiers then bayoneted another sister of between 7–8, who was also in the room. The last murders in the house were of Ha's two children, aged 4 and 2 respectively. The older was bayoneted and the younger split down through the head with a sword."
The Japanese took out as many as 300,000 people. The fact that it turned the stomach of even the German Nazi in-charge in Nanking should tell you something about just how animal the Japanese became.
That is what we were up against. OK, 100,000 people died in the bombings. How many would have died on both sides if we had gone house-to-house to conquer the island?
So no, I don't buy the revisionist history that if we had set off the bomb, the Japanese warlords would have surrendered.
Why? Because they saw its destruction not once, but twice! And they didn't surrender.
No, the Emperor surrendered. Not the warlords.
It would be good to keep that in mind when considering whether showing them the bomb elsewhere would have made them surrender, when seeing its effects on their own country did nothing to move them.
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Are you really so ignorant of history as to have such a simplistic notion of the Japanese psyche before and during WWII? When it comes to dying for a cause, the Japanese of the war make today's suicude bombers look like pikers. They invented the Banzai charge not to kill the enemy but to die gloriously for their God Emperor.
Coast:
You taking to me? That is my entire point - they were the ultimate fanatic, and were not about to surrender regardless of what weapons we possessed or what destructions rained down on them.
We are fortunate the Emperor had some sense. Ultimately, I think that is the only reason MacArthur allowed him and his family to live.
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Mars, no, not you. We posted at the same time, apparently. I actually agree with most of what you've said. I'm talking to the starry-eyed pseudo historian who thinks the Japanese would have surrendered if we had demo'd the Bomb on some empty atoll.
OMG, I just realised how fucking sick and tired I am of idiotic selective expert mass debates about the end of world War II.
good work on memorizing the propagandized cartoon version of history. your overlords are very proud... btw, the "jap" emperor was just a puppet... as knowledgeable as you claim to be, I would have thought you would have know that.
John39:
You continue your idiotic remarks.
If he was a puppet, how then did he strip the warlords of their power? Puppets - by definition - don't tell the puppet master what to do. Yours is an incredibly idiotic remark.
Then to throw in some trash remark about my "overlords" - OK, you win the whack job award for this thread.
Go read about the atrocities I noted - or are you a "Denialist" too? The Japanese atrocities never happened, the Holocaust never happened, it's all a Zionist plot, blah, blah, blah, insanity, insanity, and more insanity from your ilk.
I have a life to live. Goodbye.
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japenese women and children living in hiroshima committed the Nanjing massacre? wow, news to me, thanks for pointing that out. I lived in Nanjing and somehow managed to miss that bit of history... I guess then that the vietnamese should have nuked Chicago to address the injustice of the My Lai massacre in your view? great logic man.
You're arguing with a morbid zombie-troll john, head-shot it and move on. ;)
You are the stupid fuck.Is that the same reason Allies flatened Dresden after Germany signed surrender.You know shit so shut the fuck up.
Oh yeah, the Russians had even more and bigger bigger deathcamps than the nazis....NOT.
History lesson #1: war crimes are only committed by the losers of said war.
When faced with lamposts, as they are now, Bunga, Monti and Draghi will volunteer to be her bitches faster than you can say tutti frutti.
Italy always comes to the best outcome....back the winners.
And jealous, apparently.
No, if you were Italian you would understand.
Yeah sure, as if Italians didn't have their own fascism a la Benito Mussolini.
Camicie nere everywhere in the 30's and 40's. Italians so proud of their clown-dictator. Country of clowns.
Italians so proud of their clown-dictator
As were all of the grandparents of the progressive elite in the UK and US.
The progressive elite's in the U.S have the something in common
“I remember distinctly an image of--we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.”
Carmela Soprano: I think you should pay him, Tony.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: No fucking way!
Carmela Soprano: What, your daughter's future isn't worth 10,000 dollars?
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: That's not it. That motherfucker's full of shit. He's shaking me down.
Carmela Soprano: No, he's not.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Oh, yeah? Who knows more about extortion, me or you?
Tony's got a point right there
Gee, where have I heard this storyline before???
I like how the Daily Mail described the picture as Merkel "saluting."
Because we all know, that what she does everyday.
Looks like another case of "Let's you and him fight!"
Someone might want to remind Berlusconi that Italy and Germany were on the same side in that whole Third Reich thing. In fact, Italy was allied with the second reich/Kaiser in WW I, too but they stabbed their ally in the back and changed sides.
oi ! ... knock that off! ... that's no longer the truth! ...
We won't have thought-criminals coming in here and spreading lies around, and trying to twist all the known facts to fit some absurd fictional version of hystery!
You are right, Element. I am going to forget that history and then forget the act of forgetting. Only then will the true history be revealed.
You know it's bad when...
Let's see....you borrow money you have no intention of ever repaying, then get pissed at the lenders for finally figuring out you're not good for the money...and when your pathetic begging gets shunned & you're told to live within your means, you throw a tantrum..
Yea, that sounds about right for Italy.
Sounds about right for me too.
Funny, reading that post I thought you're talking about a person. Then I get to the end and instead find a soulless abstraction, capable of absolutely none of what you've described.
Yea, that sounds about right for collectivists.
+55
Stupid guineas.
This newspaper is simply attempting to stir up emotions by depicting the Euro/Germany relation as a scapegoat and external enemy to drum up nationalistic fervor, deflect blame and buy time. The old guard will be back shortly and the beatings will continue until moral improves.
I hope price stabeeleetee was worth it.
On the bright side of things, i'll be able to buy an Italian villa for change, just like in the 50's.
Right there with you, only on the Spanish Rivera.
Or a couple ounces of PM's.
Wow! Look at the balls on those beggars! If there was any doubt of sympathy on the part of the Germans, I think we can safely say that's been "taken care of".
Off Subject sort of.... You know I am fed up with people and govt. feeling entitled to my wealth just because I work hard and save. Italy feels entiltled and jsut because Germany says Nein they are pissed. Fuck the free loaders.
Now you're speaking my language!
It's when the welfare state becomes the welfare case...as all of us in turn will.
Concordia is sinking....
Germany needs to tell the Italians to go fuck themselves. See how they like it when yields spike up again this week on their way to 10%. Then maybe the beggars will shut their pie holes.
I bet some of them could as well....versatile.....
The message is print or GTFO.
Is this the definition of "biting the hand that feeds you"?
The patron is begging the beggar to beg for assistance.
France and Germany want to loan Italy and Spain more money with which thier own banks will be paid back and the bill is left with the ECB/poplation of EU.
I thought Germany had a plan but now appears they have been shown a better way.
Which is the one in need here.
This has reached a point where it is quite entertaining - survivor European. And provides perfect cover for more printing and other "policy".
Word!
Pact of Steel 1939 and Il Duce as from 1925.....so just what is Italy's problem ? They can't find another Mussolini and simply make do with Monti who has just said that Governments in the EU should ignore their Parliaments and simply do what they need to do.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/monti-comments-on-parliaments...
She looks a wee bit zombie state.....much like these soverigns.
Looks like she just farted
Another GOOD UN...MY MAIN MAN!!
Another look at gold:
http://wp.me/p2CT0a-1K
WHAT THE FUCK...
do all you red neck CONSERVATIVES expect from Berloscooni?
He a mother F'ing CONSERVATIVE cheat to win mean spirited prick.
Just like all of Wall Street...
....and Most Zero Hedge Columnists, duh, aka Durden, Whalen, Mauldin, et al.
Who have a real problem with intellectual honesty about politics and real facts....
Oh, baby, I could so beat all you morons in a debate about the last 100 years of American History.
You F'ing Conservatives are so full of total horseshit. Intellectual Dishonesty Horseshit.
My. My,
Someone is definately off thier meds this week.
or we need to triple his dose.....Liberal elites are just too stressed right now about barry sotero
Why is it that when I click on Republi-Ken's name I get "Access Denied - You are not authorized to access this page" ?
Usually means a ban.
Doesn't appear there's been a ban. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Even though it is stupid as shit.
Agreed.
Dumb ass, do you even know what "red neck" means?? Still a dumbass even if you do.
So you are saying that the welfare-socialist-collectivist states has been a smashing success the last century or so? Wow. I think it you would be impossible to beat in a debate with your "real" facts.
Now put the dooby down and clean your room.
"Just like all of Wall Street"
Oh you mean like Jon Corzine, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, the squid, etc.
FYI - You should probably go research opensecrets.org before presenting your wishful beliefs as truth and with such bellicosity
your very rant defeats your contention and exposes you as what you hate.
There is nothing conservative about printing money.
the fat italians
want their welfare for free...just like the greeks...
they can't hang mussolini, he didn't tell them to PRINT BABY PRINT in the hey days..He didn't tell them to retire @ 45 years !! freaking lazy morons !! we know the answer = DIVORCE of italy from EUR.
in other news the US women's volley ball team is doing well.
jersey #19 Hooker and # 10 Larson = I'm huge fans of theirs.
Actually Italians are thinner (and healthier) than Americans (by far):
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
too much latinos, blacks and white trash who can't control their calorie intake.
yes,
many italians when young are thin...but in their 30's+ they get FAT. and grow a beer and pasta belly..perfect example the guy from CAKE BOSS on TLC...thin when young and NOW he must weight like 250 lbs..he's like 5'8".
italians and greeks...THEY ARE ALL THE SAME...=gimme welfare OR i'll cry RACISM !!
I think your talking about Mess-I-co
I have to admit though that the Turks looked good as well, they seemed to tire near the end of the first game though.
yes the turkish witches
did ok in the first set...it was close..after the first set it was ALL DOWN HILL for the turks.....the turks have two cuties.
While the cat's away, the mice will play. But even if they grow some balls, she'll bite them off when she gets back to work.
Really going back to 1980s history with the Fourth Reich Stuff, and the Sonderweg obsolecense.
http://silvervigilante.com
Just another reason for Germany to leave the currency block. Better for them to let the PIGS loose to ruin their own currency.
I agree with you. I think the first one to bail will be Germany.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-06/romney-persona-non-grata-in-italy-for-bain-s-deal-skirting-taxes.html "That’s because Bain Capital, under Romney as chief executive officer, made about $1 billion in a leveraged buyout 12 years ago that remains controversial in Italy to this day. Bain was part of a group that bought a telephone-directory company from the Italian government and then sold it about two years later, at the peak of the technology bubble, for about 25 times what it paid..."
"The origins of Bain’s deal can be traced to 1996, when the Italian Treasury -- whose chiefs then included director general Mario Draghi, now head of the European Central Bank -- began privatizing several publicly owned businesses to reduce government debt, making it easier to enter the euro zone.
One of the first companies to go was Seat Pagine Gialle, or yellow pages, controlled by a state-owned company called Stet SpA.
Bain got wind of the public auction through the Italian unit of Bain & Co., the consulting company whose partners created Bain Capital. The Milan-based subsidiary was run by Gianfilippo Cuneo, a founder of McKinsey & Co.’s Italian operations.
Cuneo also was part owner of an investment firm, which needed additional capital to invest in the directory sale. Cuneo brought the deal directly to Romney.
“He immediately understood that it was a credible operation and it was worth devoting some time to it, so he guaranteed the support of Bain Capital,” Cuneo said...
Bain funneled profits through subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a common corporate strategy for avoiding income taxes in other European countries, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The buyer, Italy’s biggest telephone company, now has a total market value less than what it paid Bain and other investors for the directory business..."
Molto bello - abbiamo scopato voi pagliacci ass buon italiano - lo stile Mormon (giovane e ignorante)!!!!!
Why does Italy love Obama ?
As everyone knows - there is no corruption in Italy.
Plenty of italians myself included can't stand him! We know that lots of italians, greek, sapaniards like to use Germany as a scapegoat. It is easier to put the blame on others instead of admitting that our troubles are caused by irresponsible government spending, no structural reforms and a luxury welfare state that is bankrupting our countries. Can't you people clone Ron Paul and send him to us ASAP?
Who do you think Ron Paul is stupid.Controled oposition.Nothing would or will change.It is all rethoric for stupid flluoridated morons like you.
Both have a weakness for puppet shows.
"a common corporate strategy for avoiding income taxes in other European countries" So it is legal and practiced by all firms then. Why make it out to be more than it is, a socialist government entity was losing money on an enterprize and were forced to sell it. Bain doesn't hold on to a company after they turn it around if it makes it at all. Some are just broken up as they should be due to a poor business model.
I'm sure a 28X return in 24 months is pretty standard, that's just 1400% a year return. Noteable when the buy is from an interesting government run by interesting men, and your partner is an interesting person himself. The coup de gras is the sale to another monopolistic corp/govt entity for a such a large increase in price, just a few months later.
Why didn't the phone company bid, I don't know maybe just 20x the Bain price, to win the "auction".
Or maybe they didn't think a company making phone directories (like Yellow pages) would be of any use to a telephone company.
But as the article states "Italy's stock market watchdog, Concob, and Turin prosecutor Bruno Tinti investigated, according to a person familiar with the matter and news accounts at the time. No charges were brought."
Well, Concob looked into it - I'm satisfied - how about you?
I love the idea that there are italians who are impoverished and are reading this thinking that it is true and then being angry at germany.
I haven't spent so much of my life learning about european history and world war I and II only to think I would never get a chance to apply my knowledge to modern dynamics in europe. it's time to bring back nationalism. This time, with drones and directed energy weapons.
Yup, Germany has to liberate those poor Tyroleans.
the italian paper
should have also had a mug of ODUMMER doing the sieg hiel salute from 2008 visit to Germany ! He did a "better job" than Merkel in doing the Hitler salute.
Mr Monti, the Goldman Sachs apparatchik who, unelectedly, reigns Italy, made perfectly clear where he sees the real problem. He said
"If governments allow themselves to be entirely bound to the decisions of their parliament, without protecting their own freedom to act, a break up of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration."
so, apparently, he is not much in favour of democracy. But then, as Goldman Sachs Manager and EU Commissar, he wasn't elected as well. And so he is only used to give orders, not to explain and campaign for what he wants to do.
Lesson learned: never make a Goldman Sachs guy head of state, or of institutions like the ECB. Oh, wait, the ECB is already headed by a Goldm...
Could someone from Italy please chime in and provide some on the ground opinion.
At first, Germany will buy back or repatriate Südtirol again. People there are already waiting for it after my own experience.
They miscounted I think we are on the fifth reich at this point in time
So why is Monti the one calling for apr more civil discussion since his country is the one who has repeatedly provoked the Germans?
Germany just needs to go full on greece style and spend some bucko euros and need a bailout themselves. THEN we can get this party started. DRINK DRINK DRINK DRINK!!
This is a distraction, Italy still supports the German economy so Germany gives Italy the financial equivalent of a reacharound AKA a bailout.
The Italians are jealous of their Freedom.
I keep writing that Merkel wishes to use the present crisis to politically unite the rest of Europe under the leadership of Germany. It looks like the Europeans are starting to pay attention.
If Germany is anything, it is obsessed. Kaiser Wilhelm succeeded in uniting central and eastern Europe after the capitulation of the czar in 1917. Only the entry of the Americans into the war prevented him from consolidating those gains into a Greater Germany.
Hitler united all of Europe except the Iberian peninsula and Switzerland under his control for a couple of year in the 40's. After he was defeated, we demilitarized Germany and chopped it up so that it would not be a problem again.
Then, the Iron Curtain fell, and Germany was reunited. It helped found the euro and exported its way to strength on the back of a shared currency thanks to its friends in southern Europe.
Now that Germany is strong again, we see its true colors, and it uses this crisis to force its allies to give up its sovereignty to institutions, like the ECB, which it effectively controls.
Fortunately, Germany is no longer a brutal military autocracy. There will be no genocide or war dead. The only casualty will be democracy.
http://dareconomics.wordpress.com/
Cute, but nonsense. Socialism got us in this mess with the EU's debt levels, and somehow socialism is justified and will fix this if applied at the national level? The socialists have finally run out of other people's money, so they have to find a new source to fleece until they too are out of money. I suppose the Swiss became a safe haven as well by abusing the poor Southern neighbors too? Oops, forgot, Swiss don't use the Euro. Next please.
I'm surprised ya'll are being bated by this.
No one should pay back any of the debt.
Fuck the bankers.
Fuck the people (GS) that helped politicians hide the soverign debt so that the little PIIGS could join the Euro.
Fuck the politicians for not budgeting and for over spending.
Fuck the politicians for not telling the truth and making promises that could not be fufilled.
All the contracts related to the Euro and Euro Union were based on fraud. All the contracts are null and fucking void if you just wake the fuck up.
Everyone, Germany, Itally, Greece, you name it, STOP PAYING NOW. Prosecute all the politicians and bankers involved in the fraud. Clear the decks. Start over.
A little good old Bunga Bunga and Frau Merkle would be eating out of Silvio's - er - hand. We all know that's what she really wants anyway, right? I mean, who could resist the glorious Silvio?
hey all.
where does Il Giornale fall in the political spectrum in Italia?
I'll post this for the hell of it... (oldie, yes...)
It's my Merkel at EU Conference channeling the Fuhrer himself (with subtitles) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRXN0iGaV1w
Il Giornale drama queens, what else is new. 85% of their staff is gay.
They need a good butch like Angela once in a while ?
Be like the 22nd elephant with heated value in space: Bark!!
Angela Merkel looks tired because its hard to be mother to whiney bratty children all with their hands out. And when did a wave for a picture become a 4th Reich salute?
Only in Italy *eye roll* ....
I don't get it....
MsCreant - thx for clarifying - - -
there was no money "lent" in the first place since money is created out of nothing and dispensed into the economy as debt. I am amazed how people, even intelligent people, can't seem to get clear on this. IT IS THE ABSOLUTE, FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPT IN MODERN FINANCE AND ECONOMICS.
If you can't "get" this then it is impossible to interpret contemporary finance and economics - and, given the level of fraud in the system, it's hard enough to figure out anyway.
I recommend Michael Hudson to anyone who really wants to understand this. He is clear on the nature of the"con" and good at explaining it in terms most people can understand.
Finally, the international elite will crush anyone who opposes them and the citizens of both Italy and Germany are nothing more than cannon fodder who will be destroyed if that's what it takes.
We are, all of us, the prisoners of history. The elite 1% understand this. Very few of the 99%ers have got a clue.
But please, feel free to continue to argue about who's "cooler", Germans or Italians.
What a waste of time!!!
Correction, the elite 0.01%.
From the land of Mussolini... is this a case of Italian jealousy?
Some 67 years ago, those late settlers in alto adige opted out living there.
This you might have once again, German Bitch.
Some 67 years ago, those late settlers in alto adige opted out living there.
This you might have once again, German Bitch.
Only just one little flaw in Berlusconi’s ‘Fourth Reich’ remark.
ITALY WAS PART OF THE FOURTH REICH DURING WO II
LOlz