I have been reading American State Department cables and my overall impression is sadness. I still have the memory of the million strong demonstrations in Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, when the descamisados mass shouted and jumped at the slogan "Braden o Peron". The American Ambassador in Argentina, Braden, had openly intervened in the elections, demanding from the Church and the military to oust Peron (for being a fascist sympatizer). Peron was elected by the unwashed masses but then duely thrown out and exiled to Panama bordellos. Those were the days when American ambassadors were received in world capitals as "high commissioners" and proconsuls, did not hesitate to make it absolutely clear to the greasy natives who was the real ruler of Latin America, Asia and the rest of the world.
Those days are long since gone. The diplomats who wrote the WikiLeaks documents are powerless bureaucrats: Nobody rises in their honor and clicks their heels when they enter a room. They spend their days taking dictation in tachygraphy of the native dictators's mongolic chit-chat, never daring to remind them who is the superpower and who the banana state.
Maybe it is no longer clear even for them.
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I'm not sure Braden ever was the omnipotent bogeyman that the demonstrators thought he was. He was probably just as much a mild mannered bureaucrat as the present milquetoasts. The US never had any intention of invading Argentina - most Americans couldn't even find it on a map. But it was enough that they imagined him to be so. The old WASP elite knew that keeping up at least the appearance of gravitas was important and that part of gravitas is maintaining privacy - no man is a hero to his valet because the master has no privacy from his valet. Once the curtain is pulled aside from the Wizard of Oz, he is just an old man in a threadbare suit. Now we live in an age where no only is the curtain pulled aside but hidden camera videos of the Wizard and Dorothy in his hotel room are posted on the internet.
K
BTW, written shorthand is fast becoming extinct. Secretaries work from dictation "tapes" (now digital), voice recognition software and stenotype machines all make written shorthand something our children will look at with puzzlement. I'm sure that if I showed the picture of squiggles to my children they would have no idea what it was or that a system of shorthand writing (and I don't mean LOL) ever existed.
America then had the image of power as well as real military power. They installed dictators such as Somoza in Nicaragua at will and financed revolutions that were successful, like in Chile. Today American presidents cannot do those things.
Koko is very glad that America has become a banana republic, and assures me that Mr "Bananka", as she affectionately calls him, will soon shout for help.
"I plan to introduce a new currency", she announces proudly. "It will be called the $oros. With Portugal and the USA on board, we are well on the way to the New World Ordeur."
Anon.
Correction:
"...New World Ordure"
Anon.
The $oros$ will carry the slogan "We Trust No One".
Or "Trust Me".
Or "The check is in the mail"
Will the currency be printed on banana leaves?
K
The currency itself will actually be edible, Koko proudly informs me.
That way, when the price of food gets too high from inflation, the citizens of the NWO will simply consume the currency instead, thus reducing the money supply, and re-establishing price stability.
"Don't get me wrong", says Koko, "I have nothing against eating dollars. It's just they leave a bad taste in my mouth, and produce a lot of very unpleasant gas".
Anon.
The eatable currency will spoil spontaneously, forcing the holder to spend it as fast as he can. The increased rate of circulation will revive consumption, creating jobs and economic prosperity. The currency will also come in different flavours, plain vanilla being the most popular.
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