Regardless of a gloomy situation and of everything bad that may/could/can/will happen, one has to strive to be happy, resolutely happy, hopelessly happy, I therefore wish to wish you (no pun intended) a Happy New Year.
To emphasize that, I'll put it apart and in the official languages of our little group:
This being said, when thinking of the tone with which present one's New Year Greetings, I have to say the World's state of affairs still looks pretty bad. The economy gives no hint it will not crash nastily, being all the more a deplorable event that this so-called crisis is not an uncontrollable jolt of a complex system but a deliberate attack from the banksters on the people, dragging in its wake all that ugly that comes from money, from spoliation of society to the worst conceivable crimes.
Complex systems do have genuine uncontrollable jolts of their own, and in their always more daring attempt of securing a better control of the planet's wealth and of the mass of people through shock doctrine, the ruling elite—not that much the politicians who are the corrupt facade—but those in the closer rings of the money system, may finally give to Disaster Capitalism its literal meaning.
So far however, everything would seem to go according to their plan. "Man is a creature who can get used to anything, and [...] that is the very best way of defining him" was writing Dostoyevsky in the opening lines of Записки из Мёртвого дома. This is true. People get used to money duress, to a worst labor, to reduced rights and increased surveillance and why, then, those who make money out of it would reverse or tamper the trend? Here and then, we even start to hear that the situation is on its way to recovery. So while it is commonly accepted that the financial crisis is irrecoverable,
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