{"id":98,"date":"2012-02-21T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:41:07","slug":"a-very-good-analogy-the-eu-as-jigsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"A very good analogy: the EU as Jigsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was all originally supposed to be about an old cancer patient  (Jigsaw) who teaches others about the true value of life in clever ways,  but was really just about another pathetic, sadistic man who  manufactures impossible situations and gets off on watching other people  suffer. Sounds a lot like what\u2019s going on in Europe, huh? By now,  everyone and their pet dogs are familiar with the pan-European motto \u2013 <strong>AUSTERITY OR DIE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We cut off the limbs to save the core and throw our fellow man under  the bus, because they tell us that those are our only collective  choices. Mario &#8220;Jigsaw&#8221; Draghi, especially, has been cast in the role of  the wise old man who serves as the \u201cneutral\u201d arbiter of the European  Monetary Union. However, when we look beneath the surface, it is clear  that he is anything but neutral, and is simply running a rigged game for  the benefit of the major European banks (from <a href=\"http:\/\/theautomaticearth.org\/Finance\/the-torture-of-the-european-periphery.html\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was all originally supposed to be about an old cancer patient (Jigsaw) who teaches others about the true value of life in clever ways, but was really just about another pathetic, sadistic man who manufactures impossible situations and gets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=98\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-1A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}