Wallets Full of Blood: Houses On The Moon: 'Zombies Roam An Undead Republic'

by ec Fri Feb 20, 2009 13:03

The crisis consists precisely in the fact

that the old is dying and the new cannot

be born; in the interregnum a great

variety of morbid symptoms appears.

—Antonio Gramsci

by Blazes Boylan - The triple-Z Ranch Fri Feb 20, 2009 16:51

If you were at all concerned, or had the slightest suspicion, that the government didn't know what was going on, it turns out that the ECB still hasn't worked out its rules on how to help us.

Seems like Lisbon just ain't gonna happen this year...

by ec Fri Feb 20, 2009 21:50

"Yeats said it. He said: 'Though gravediggers' toil be long, Sharp their blades and muscles strong, They will thrust their buried men - Into the public mind again.'

by ec Sun Feb 22, 2009 15:14

http://www.thepropertypin.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=19016

by zombie hunter Sun Feb 22, 2009 19:17

Citigroup Inc. -25.10
Bank of America Corporation -17.05
Allied Irish Banks, plc. (ADR) -10.37
Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (ADR) -9.32
U.S. Bancorp -7.81
ICICI Bank Limited (ADR) -7.79
Bancolombia S.A. (ADR) -6.46
BBVA Banco Frances S.A. (ADR) -6.28
The Bank of Nova Scotia (USA) -6.18
Deutsche Bank AG (USA) -5.72

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2009/02/markets-today.html

by redjade Mon Feb 23, 2009 18:53

This is a fantastic little animation that more clearly explains this crisis than anywhere else I have seen.....

Embedded video Vimeo

by Diarmuid Sat Feb 28, 2009 18:37

Not attacking your thrust but maybe you should think twice before quoting a Nazi sympathiser.

by ec Sun Mar 01, 2009 15:00

Some of her family (specifically two sisters) were fascists - she was not. She was a socialist who supported another one of her sisters who travelled to Spain to help in the fight against Franco in the 1930's. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701702267/mitford_n....html

Thanks for your 'useful' comment.

by ec Sun Mar 01, 2009 15:16

The title of the film combines bits of lyrics of two armageddon type songs I'm fond of

'Houses Everywhere' by Jinx Lennon: You can listen at this page: http://jinxlennon.com/video.htm

and

'Dead Flag Blues' by Godspeed You Black Emperor: You can hear it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aLjup934Rk

And an update about the little movie: It's been viewed more than 1000 times on the vimeo page - which for a kind of 'arty' experiment banged together in 4 days is to me at least very healthy. I've gotten a lot of nice feedback in my e-mail and it was great to see blogs like slugger / irishleftreview / notesonthefront etc featuring it on their pages. No formal reviews as yet. Some of those would be nice. I don't mean in 'publications' - just 'this is a review' kind of thing.

I'm trying out making a couple of 'sequels' set in the capital at present as the idea doesn't feel played out yet.

Anyway - pass it on if you like it.

by auditor Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:06

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/developer-found....html