Greece, default already

Hey Greece, some advice from Bronx NY dudes.  Default already, get rid of the Euro, and go back to the Drachma.  Face reality.

Germany's leading news weekly, Der Spiegel declared that the Greek bailout policy is a total failure and that therefore, Greece should be allowed to default and be free to have a fresh start.
Der Spiegel: "If it was ever the goal of Merkel and her allies to rescue Greece from bankruptcy, then they have failed. The only thing the drastic austerity measures have done is to exacerbate the economic crisis and push Greece's debts even higher. Nevertheless, the creditors have insisted on moving forward with their plan — even though it already became clear long ago where it was heading... The end of this approach now appears to have been reached. Neither euro-zone countries nor the IMF can provide Greece with more aid without sacrificing their own credibility. Given these circumstances, there is only one option left: Greece must go broke."
The magazine writes that European leaders continue to play for time, but, "the new permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), which is supposed to cushion the economic impacts of a Greek bankruptcy, has yet to be in force," implying that it may never.
While a Greek bankruptcy could cost Germany 80 billion euros, writes Spiegel, "Lest this figure climb any higher, the right thing to do would be to finally make that one fateful step. No matter how unpredictable the consequences of a Greek bankruptcy might be, it appears to offer the only chance to resolve the messy situation. In this way, Greece would be free of its debts and would have a chance to make a fresh start — either as part of the euro zone or not. And the creditors in Berlin and Brussels could finally free themselves from the spiral of threats and rescue actions that they have gotten themselves into."

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All of these innovative companies tackled engineering challenges, presented by a mission that was made up of mostly "firsts."

Curiosity about Mars

Kesha Rogers is a member of the LaRouche national candidates slate. She won the Democratic primaries in both 2010 and 2012 in the 22nd District of Texas on the slogan "Save NASA, Impeach Obama". Upon the success of Curiosity's landing on Mars, she issued the following statement:
The successful landing of the Mars "Curiosity" Rover on Monday August 6th represents a turning point for mankind, as we have once again established our presence in space. The success of this landing lies not in the mere risk and challenges that were overcome, be they significant as they are, but in the crushing blow that this victory has dealt to a shrinking number of desperate fools still clinging to the coattails of Obama's environmentalist, anti-science, anti-technology, thermonuclear war-driven puppet presidency.
The success of Curiosity's arrival on the surface of Mars expresses nothing less than a significant step upwards in the evolution of our species, and in our species' understanding of its own creative nature to master mankind's power in our solar system. This great achievement gives voice to the fundamental importance of organizing our economy from the standpoint of the future scientific advancements we wish to see, and demonstrates Man's presence in space, which is so vital to our species' survival today, directly connected to expanding this type of visionary thinking.
The world is currently gripped by a total collapse in physical economic conditions: destruction of farmland by drought and fire, homelessness, joblessness, and bankruptcy. It is only by increasing our understanding of the universe we inhabit that we will muster the optimism and know-how to halt a hyperinflationary blowout of the trans-Atlantic economies, and the threat of war that grips the planet. The surge of optimism the Curiosity landing unleashed, is the most dangerous weapon patriots can wield against the tyrant Obama and wannabe Romney.
This successful mission has now provided us with the foothold to establish a system of planetary defense. Many more rovers will need to be suspended onto Mars, from which a control system will be established in the first steps for a "Strategic Defense of the Earth" from extreme space weather and asteroid impacts. This mission will help to answer very vital questions that will come up in considering the defense of earth, and establishes a different conception of the organization of the solar system: one with Man the Explorer as the willfully creative species with the power to overcome all challenges, planetary and even galactic ones. We may come to answer such questions as: how planets may be engineered to become habitable to human life, how the human species may survive in this galaxy on the timescale of billions of years, and how to bring into existence an age of reason and discovery among nations and cultures. These questions and more are crucial to securing our species' existence as a space-faring civilization.
In my campaign, along with my the campaigns of my colleagues on the national slate of LaRouche candidates, I have led the call for the rebirth of a Mars colonization policy, which is essential for establishing a commitment to a "Stategic Defense of Earth" policy. Once the first steps of our national recovery program are in place, namely a return to Glass-Steagall and national banking, we will find that achievements such as Curiosity will be much more common -- --- though no less awe-inspiring -- in their occurrence.

Mars, Better than Ever

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The never-before-attempted complex of techniques for gently landing the one-ton laboratory, Curiosity, on the surface of Mars all performed perfectly. We know this because, for the first time, the spacecraft sent simple "beeps" back to Earth, to indicate the basic parameters of its entry, descent through the atmosphere, and landing on Mars. Because previous Mars-bound spacecraft did not have such a capability, it was not possible to definitely determine the causes of those that failed. This was only now possible because NASA has the communications infrastructure in place — two long-lived spacecraft orbiting Mars - -able to relay signals from the spacecraft on its way down, and when it landed, on the surface.
NASA scientists report that Curiosity is exactly where they wanted it to be, close, but not too close, to Mt. Sharp, at the center of Gale Crater. They were able, for the first time, to carry out a pinpoint landing, thanks to a series of maneuvers, carried out automatically by the spacecraft. These included the first guided flight of a craft through Mars's atmosphere, using rocket engines, rather than a ballistic trajectory of simply falling through the sky. Through a series of banks and rolls, based on Apollo's experience of coming back through the Earth's atmosphere, and similar "S-curves" to reduce speed carried out for 30 years by the Space Shuttle, Mars Science Lab controlled its speed and direction during descent, rather than just being in free-fall.
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