Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai), page 8

@HistoPol @n_dimension @benfell

Out of curiosity, did you read the article I’ve been quoting from? It’s 26 pages but I think you’ve already said that it’s a lot of assertion without data behind it.

Her comments about inflation with respect to “reparations” are very pointed because the conventional narrative is that the economic burden of them is what caused hyper inflation.

As usual, history is more nuanced than the reductionist marquee story

@n_dimension @HistoPol @benfell

“ When Germany slid into acute financial crisis on the heels ofthe September 1930 election, German leaders began to seek reparations relief, although the initial credit crisis itself was caused primarily by a dramatic flight of capital in response to Hitler's electoral success, not by reparation”

Interesting. The amount of continuous negotiation of reparations over the 1920s has never really mentioned in most historical accounts. diluted repeatedly.

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@n_dimension
@HistoPol
@benfell

Needs institutional access, which libraries usually provide

very interesting to read and I am in the first several pages of 26 page article. It is a reference in the Wikipedia page topic for Weimar hyperinflation.

http://www.jstor.com/stable/4545835

#history #histodons

@n_dimension @HistoPol @benfell

“ By this time, Germany's currency depreciation had become acute. This depreciation had begun during World War I and had continued at an erratic pace. A conjunction had developed between reparations deadlines and dramatic inflationary lurches of the mark.”

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@n_dimension @HistoPol @benfell

“ Germans argued that reparations were destroying their cur? rency while British and French experts agreed that Germany was de? liberately ruining the mark, partly to avoid budgetary and currency reform, but primarily to escape reparation”

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@n_dimension @HistoPol @benfell

“ .. Those historians who have accepted the German claim that reparations were the cause of the inflation, have overlooked the fact that the inflation long period dated reparations“

No, this is not referring to the peak hyper inflation of 1923

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@n_dimension @HistoPol @benfell

“ They have similarly overlooked the fact that the inflation mushroomed in the period from the summer of 1921 to the end of 1922 when Germany was actually paying very little reparations. They have also failed to explain why the period of least inflation coincided with the period of largest reparation payments in the late 20s or why Germans claimed after 1930 that the reparations were causing deflation.”

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@n_dimension @HistoPol @benfell

Later on in the text, then I’m drawing from the Wikipedia quotes basically the peak hyperinflation of 1923 was a product of the general strike, commanded by the government when France and Belgium occupied the Rhur. In order to provide for the workers they had ordered to strike they simply printed money and that’s when in 1923 hyper inflation went straight into the stratosphere.

Reparations causing hyperinflation is reductionist

@n_dimension @HistoPol @benfell

But the hyperinflation of 1923 does substantiate one of the general stated reasons for hyperinflation, which is destruction of economic productivity, while the government is issuing increasing amounts of currency to keep the economy afloat for other reasons.

In an exquisitely painful way , Adolf screaming about the government destroying Germany had a kernel of truth to it. That made a lot of other things he was saying slide or be given credibility.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/116327011588504420

Israel has gone insane. I can only wonder how long this will continue before the nation collapses under its own disassociation with reality.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116324463517531876

@elfin

:ablobcatpopcorn:

for the employees, I feel a lot of sympathy. For Ellison and his misbegotten offspring, I hope they lose everything

RE: https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/116320241129445429

The Democratic field for the governor candidacy oversubscribed.

I would like to see Katie Porter as a Democratic candidate because we need her whiteboard in the governor’s mansion.

Californians need to uniformly reject any pro techbro candidates. They made a target of Katie in her last election attempt.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116314196321946080

I want to point out here that people have only seen the photograph, but not heard of the news the police teargas no kings because they were around one of the LA base detention centers

The LA Time coverage quoted next . 1/n

It shouldn’t be the lawmakers raising a stink.

Each and every one of us, especially after no kings day needs to be shouting, even louder.

The guys in Silicon Valley, Google Apple all your national chain grocery stores. Walgreens all the big box stores. They are responsible for this shit.

We need to shut the fucking country down and reassert our decision-making power over what the hell is going on by shutting it down

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-border-dna-canadian-man-cbp-cross-larson-dingell-raskin-9.7144472

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Another entry into how AI can be qualified as a mental health crisis not only individually, but at a community level

https://youtu.be/OILnYfm8WGM

Yes the world is deeply interconnected, but the reality of the world has learned it’s deeply interconnected through networks of epstein people. This interconnectedness has been responsible for a tiny handful of people, the financial industrial core, to become enormously wealthy on a mountain of dead bodies.

https://www.politico.eu/article/iran-war-global-recession-finland-president-alexander-stubb/

@georgetakei

It is too low in my mind

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@SmithWillSuffice

Travel is broadening

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Pity, the poor pastor who can’t spread the good word

That’s right folks, the faithful should open up their wallets forgo dinner for the kids so their preacher can afford a private jet and just avoid all those long lines the dirty masses have to go through.

Because they of course, are spreading the good word about taking care of your neighbors and all that 💩

https://youtu.be/7kX0EoyosC4

Welp govenor there goes your freedom of movement. Status Coup is reporting that ice is abducting people.

Blow me over with a feather

https://www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/ice-now-kidnapping-americans-at-airports