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bemildred

(90,061 posts) Thu Jan 8, 2015, 02:26 PM Jan 2015

Ha Ha! You Thought Argentina Would Negotiate

For Argentina and its hedge-fund creditors, 2015 could've meant a new era of cooperation and negotiation, and maybe even an end to their battle over more than $1.3 billion in defaulted debt.

But after some hopeful headlines and tons of conjectures, it didn't take long for things to start looking ugly again.

Does this sound like a country that's ready to sit down at the table and negotiate with "vulture" creditors?

"The world recognizes Argentina's right to defend its finances, its people, its dignity and its sovereignty from the vultures' attacks," Argentine Minister of the Economy Axel Kicillof wrote in a long Twitter rant Wednesday night.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ha-ha-you-thought-argentina-would-negotiate-2015-1

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Ha Ha! You Thought Argentina Would Negotiate (Original Post) bemildred Jan 2015 OP

LONG twitter rant? Isn't that a bit oxymoronic? nt MADem Jan 2015 #1

We are deaf to these considerations now. bemildred Jan 2015 #2

MADem

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1. LONG twitter rant? Isn't that a bit oxymoronic? nt

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Thu Jan 8, 2015, 02:35 PM

Jan 2015

bemildred

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2. We are deaf to these considerations now.

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 03:16 PM

Jan 2015

I was reading a piece this morning that was going along just fine and then I ran into an egregious example of just that sort of tone deafness:

What is this beast-like being that conspires behind a veil of secrecy? Thomas Sheridan, author of Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath (2011) pointed to the existence of a small minority in present society who are in positions of power and manifest what he characterizes as a predatory consciousness. He identified them as exhibiting a particular psychological condition categorized as the pathology of psychopathy.

Just to kind of nail down the notion that these people are sick.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/01/empires-secrecy-and-lies/

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