On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Matthias Wasser wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/world/europe/29socialism.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
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> German voters clobbered the Social Democratic Party on Sunday,
> giving it
> only 23 percent of the vote, its worst performance since World War II.
>
> Voters also punished left-leaning candidates in the summer’s European
> Parliament elections and trounced French Socialists in 2007. Where
> the left holds power, as in Spain and Britain, it is under attack...
This is deliberate disinformation. What kind of liar calls Blairism "left?" (even the LDs and Scottish Nats are programatically left of New Labor). The German elections "clobbered" the governmental social- democrats by a massive swing to the left parties (Die Linke and Die Grünen) and disgusted abstention by their expected clientele. The French EU elections showed an enormous surge to the Eurogreen left. Portugal last Sunday showed a big success for the Left Bloc. The European left is doing very well, thank you. The social-democrat leaders are doing abominably. In Germany the SPD "Grand Coalition" leadership has been kicked out of the government, and soon will no longer lead their party. Alles Güt!
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos