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fetish for the demons
This familiar sequence of volcanic eruption and cooling off illustrates yet again Max Weber’s notions of bureaucratization and the routinization of charisma. Post-modern financial institutions, a mobile faith like the Pentecosts, correspond to a global financial flow. from Slavoj Zizek:Thus, … Continue reading
NO ACCOUNT TO SETTLE IN THE AFTERLIFE: Dionysus Banking System
“In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Aristophanes, Bacchus, Baudelaire, Brian Arkins, Caravaggio, Charles Baudelaire, Cornelius De Vos, Goldman Sachs, Greek debt crisis, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lord Byron, Michael Lewis, Michael Lewis The Big Short, Oscar Wilde, Peter Paul Rubens, Plato, Seneca, Socrates, Thorsten Hasenkamm
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GOD-MAN SACHS and ALMIGHTY DEBT
Its easy to think the God’s must be crazy. The lack of inaction, and sense of paralysis.The line always seems to go dead. In all likelihood, the Gods may have gotten involved with Goldman-Sachs; they went long on faith and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Stern, Clarence Darrow, Daily Moaner, Donald McCrae, Edward Asner, Faisal Shazhad, George Carlin, Goldman Sachs, Henry Fonda, Jesse Jackson, Leopold and Loeb Trial, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Mr. Shahzad, Paul Muni, SEIU President Andy Stern, Senator Carl Levin, Spencer Tracey, tabatha Southey, Wile E Coyote
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AXIS: BOLD AS MARKETING WITH SULTANS, SAINTS, & SINNERS
”Which multinational brand has the biggest image problem these days? BP? Toyota? Goldman Sachs? How about Islam? Say what you will about those other entities: They don’t have to deal with the public’s fear of terrorism. Last month, an opinion poll conducted … Continue reading
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Tagged BP Oil Spill, Byzantine Empire, Gentile Bellini, Goldman Sachs, Irshad Manji, Islamic Art, Kristiane Backer, Mahomet II, Mara Einstein, Mehmet II, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire Art, Sarai Albums, Simon Houpt, Sinan Bey, YouGuv
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SKEPTICALLY UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE CERTAINTY OF DOUBT
Certain quotations from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ”On Certainty” seem to imply that we can doubt everything: each statement that might be true still has some aspects that might make it possible to doubt it. Certainly, the issue of Goldman-Sachs and our … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Schwartz Bear Stearns, Allan Greenspan, Bear Stearns, Benito Mussolini, Charlie Rose, Daniele Moyal Sharrock, evelyn Davis, George Soros, Goldman Sachs, James Cayne Bear Stearns, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Matt Taibbi, michael sherwood, Phil Angelides, Richard Menary, Rolling Stone Magazine, Ross Sorkin, Vanity Fair
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BILLION DOLLAR BASH
The story of Goldman-Sachs, the mystique of the firm and the interest, excuse the pun, it has created, lends much credence to the view of the powerful, influential, yet ultimately precarious and fragile role of the ”Court Jew ”; individuals … Continue reading
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