"We Are An Image From The Future"
While researching for a text I'm writing, I thought of this book about the insurrections in Greece 2008 and what do you know: it's available on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/WeAreAnImageFromTheFutureTheGreekRevoltOf2008

Lots of very interesting articles about that time ... like this one about the supermarket expropriations, which I will always have a soft spot for.

#2008 #FinancialCrisis2008 #Anarchism #ArchiveOrg #eBook #PDF #Greece

We Are an Image from the Future: The Greek Revolt of 2008 : A. G. Schwarz (editor), Tasos Sagris (editor), Void Network (editor) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

What causes a city, then a whole country, to explode? How did one neighborhoods outrage over the tragic death of one teenager transform itself into a...

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All this talk suddenly of maybe getting rid of the FDIC takes me back to the financial crisis of 2008. In 2009, reflecting on that, I wrote a brief parable, Hollow Support.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2009/03/hollow-support.html

#FDIC #banking #insurance #DepositInsurance #FinancialCrisis #risk #risky #Reckless #policy #deregulation #Trump #TrumpAdministration #Project2025 #doge #financial #economics #HollowSupport #FinancialCrisis2008 #BankRun

Hollow Support

A short parable offering a metaphorical framework for understanding how collapse is invited by systematic elimination of safeguards.

The Men Who Stole the World (and got away with it)

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#MichaelAndTeene-172:
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The "Big 3" credit rating agencies - #Moody's, #SP & #Fitch - are considered more culpable than #JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon for the #FinancialCrisis2008, because, while Mr. Dimon seemingly loves concealing #WallStreet &/or #Washington financial blunders, the Big 3 convinced the #American public to invest in shady financial instruments.
Now #FitchRatings is endorsing #Islamabad's (flawed) Budget:- What awaits the global economy & where is the #FATF?
https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy/story/extremely-problematic-indias-cea-calls-for-dismantling-oligopoly-of-moodys-sp-and-fitch-424033-2024-04-03

Post-#financialcrisis2008/ #brexit / #covid Britain.

Us (hopefully): Can we fix it?

#tories: Why? Everything’s tickety-boo. We and all our mates are doing fine.

#labour: Yes but we are not going to tell you about how until you vote us in to power and then decide we can’t.

DIY SOS: Don’t look at us. Nobody wants to volunteer to try and fix that shit-show.

Bob The Builder: Nah. It’s fucked!

#film #documentary

#InsideJob (2010 Full Documentary Movie)
#FinancialCrisis2008
#greed
#housingcrisis
#globalfinancialcrisis
Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the late 2000s financial crisis.The global financial meltdown that took p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk

Inside Job (2010 Full Documentary Movie)

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