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Current news
There is currently a mid-week Steam franchise sale for the Dead Island franchise.
Feel free to check it out on SteamRead more >
As some of you may know, my main contributions were/are more technical than anything. I created many of the original templates on the wiki and, after becoming an admin, I created a lot of the JS.
Moving forward with the wiki's development, I've written a few new scripts and have even more planned to make us really stand out.
In my last blog post, we came to a consensus that tabs would be an effective way to differentiate between various DI games. However, after looking into the TabView extension I found several major issues with its implementation (To read my full explanation, go to Help:Tab_view).
Long story short, it breaks the wiki when viewed on a mobile device, and it is difficult for users unfamiliar with how wikis work to edit the linked content.
So I wrote a script to address these issues. The result can be seen here, in contrast to the tabs on the TabView Help Page. However, there is one bug that I've noticed with multiple rows of tabs thanks to User:DarienLeonhart Thread:19965. …
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This wiki has grown immensely over the last few years and with Dead Island 2 around the corner, I don't see it slowing down anytime soon. So in preparation for the new game, I believe we should request a custom namespaces for Dead Island 2. The main wiki is already starting to blur the lines between the DI1 and DI: Riptide, and I don't want this wiki to end up like the elder scrolls wiki.
If you don't know what i'm talking about, go to that wiki and just look around at utter chaos and disorganization that is rampant throughout the entire wiki. Trying to look at information relating to any one game and you will be give pages with no clear indication as to what game it is talking about. Some pages might have "(Skyrim)" or something similar in the title. But not all skyrim pages have this. Some pages mix large amounts of content from multiple games into one for no reason! The fundamental problem stems from the fact that every game exists in the same namespace. Creating a clear and definit…Read more >
In an effort to streamline the wiki, we have been hard at work cleaning, documenting, and creating new templates to aid in the continuing expansion of the wiki.
First priority was cleaning up the functional templates to make them easier to use, less cluttered, and less obtrusive to the actual content on the page. Additionally, we used a color coding scale, to establish the importance of the functional template being used.
As a reminder, please note the
Good luck, and happy editing!
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Edit: Added disambiguation template
Want to properly style some text to show an items rarity? We've set up some simple classes you can use instead of relying on basic colors such as orange or purple. These colors are taken directly from the game, but have been added as classes so they are easier to use without having to know the hex values.
To style the content, simply wrap the information in a span, and add the appropriate class. Please note this will not affect linked items, as they will always pull the link style.
For ease of use, the styles reflect their rarity counterparts
common = white
uncommon = green
rare = blue
unique or superior = purple
legendary, exceptional or ultimate = orange
If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments!Read more >
First off, I would like to thank you for the support I received for my request for adminship on this wiki. I look forward to helping to make this wiki a better resource for all fans of the series.
One of the first things I wanted to do, as I had discussed with some others prior, was to enable message walls. This makes speaking to and with others a lot easier. Instead of having to force a threaded list via the definition lists (the :, ::, :::), discussions will be automatically threaded like a forum (or blog) post. If you want to reference your former talk page, don't worry, the content has been archived for each user. Navigate to your message wall, and click on See archived talk page to view the content.
I hope this will help everyone communicate a lot easier from now on.Read more >
Feature Dead Island: Riptide Image Left 4 Dead 2
Players explore a large island paradise full of zombies, completing questions, earning experience points, collecting loot, and exploring. PLayers can choose to play in a group or by themselves, and can travel to whatever part of the island they please. The game includes several RPG elements, including leveling and utilizing a skill tree.
Players control one of four characters and must progress through the level, reaching safe house checkpoints along the way. They can gather weapons from around the area to help dispatch normal and special zombies. The last stage of each level is always a large scale battle that ensues with their safe getaway. Players can also take control of the Infected in online modes.
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Tomorrow, 6th of July, Dead Island Game of the Year Edition is released. Dead Island GOTY will contain...
- Dead Island - The full Dead Island Game
- The Ripper - A unique weapon, this combines a baseball bat with a rotary saw
- Bloodbath Arena - Challenging you to take out multiple waves of zombies in four new arenas, plus a new weapon - the Sonic Pulse Grenade
- Ryder White - Play as the game's cheif antagonist in a unique story with new blueprints and weapons to collect
Dead Island has been banned from sale in Germany.
"This isn't unexpected," developer Techland told Eurogamer. "Germany has its unique regulations regarding video games and violence and the industry can only comply. "Both Deep Silver and Techland were aware of such a possibility from the very beginning."
Germany's Federal Department of Media Harmful to Young Persons (the BPJM) classified Dead Island as "List B".
"List B" contains the names of "youth-endangering media". Media on "List B" cannot be sold anywhere in Germany, and anyone caught doing so is punishable by law. GamesIndustry.biz Germany tells us "List B" is usually reserved for media depicting extreme torture or Nazi content.
Being on "List B" means that importing retailers Play.com, Amazon.de and Gameware.at run the risk of cargo being seized at German customs. The BPJM didn't explain why Dead Island was banned, which is common practice. Game publisher Koch Media will have been given a detailed report. Publisher Koch Media (owne…
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The Polish Dead Island developer, Techland, has recently filed a trademark for "Dead World" in the United States. This is huge news for fans of the game, despite of the gaming community's growing frustration with the bug-riddled game. However, the game did launch with 2 million sales in the first week so it is not surprising that the developers want to keep this series alive. But is it dead already?
Yes, true fans are surely going to pick up a copy, but what about the players that couldn't get past all the bugs? If visited your local game store two weeks after the launch, then like me you saw shelves riddled with used copies of Dead Island. I think Duke Nukem Forever fared better than Dead Island in the first two weeks. Are these gamers willing to give Techland a second chance?
I should point out that Techland acquiring a trademark doesn't mean that they are making a game. Although unlikely, they could be planning a comic book series, TV show, or even an iPhone game for all we know. But…Read more >
Lionsgate announced Tuesday morning that it has acquired the film rights to the zombie title and will begin developing it as a feature. There are no writers yet on what is essentially a film in very early development, but producer Sean Daniel ("The Mummy"), who was reportedly involved with a "Dead Island" movie project early on, will produce it, Lionsgate said.
So whats your opinion on this? Do you think is going to be the next big zombie movie or a gametomovie flop?Read more >
This Patch fixed all problems below. There is no news on a PS3 patch. *Fixed map synchronization when player joins during map load.
- Fixed saving player re-spawn position when playing in co-op
- Fixed occasional inability to complete sidequests in
- Improved enemy awareness (zombies).
- Fixed occasional bug with NPC's hands bend (IK)
- Fixed spawning enemies in some quests after joining co-op
- Fixed showing locations on invisible NPCs.
- Fixed potential path blocker when quest "Knockin' on heaven's
door" was completed before talking to Dominik during the "On the
air" quest.
- Fixed displaying gather rings near some doors.
- Fixed enemy reaction to fire.
- Fixed enemies' health and stamina bars in co-op.
- Fixed filtering of games in lobby.
- Volume of pickup's engine has been increased.
- Fixed a number of issues causing game instability.
- Fixed the switching of maps upon player death.
- Fixed enemies unable to reach the player on some
- Thrown items cannot be picked up by co-op players for five m…
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- Fixed saving player re-spawn position when playing in co-op mode.
Dead Island is releasing currently across the United States. Here is a round up of the currently released reviews:
Expect more to be added as reviews appear
- IGN Score: 8 out of 10 http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/119/1192320p1.html
- Gameinformer Score: 8.5 Gameinformer Review
- CVG Score: 6.5 http://www.computerandvideogames.com/317785/reviews/dead-island-review/
- GameTrailers Score: 8.5 http://www.gametrailers.com/gamereview.php?id=5395
- Destructoid Score: 7 http://www.destructoid.com/review-dead-island-210611.phtml
- Eurogamer Score: 6 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-04-dead-island-review
- GamesTM Score: 7 http://www.gamestm.co.uk/reviews/dead-island-review/
- Xbox Magazine Score: 7 http://www.oxm.co.uk/33104/reviews/dead-island-review/
Hey Everybody! As the release of the game grow closer we have certain goals in mind for the wiki that we wish to accomplish. One of these is getting put the Wikia Spotlight. If you don't know what this is it is the wiki's at the bottom of the page and navigation bar at the top. There are certain requirements for approval for this. Here are the requirements:
"When you request a spotlight, your wiki should follow these best practices:
- The requestor should be either an active admin, or link to a discussion with an active admin of the wiki and agreeing to the spotlight.
- The wiki should have at least 200 content pages, not counting stubs. Stub articles should make up no more than 1/5th of all pages on the wiki.
The main page of the wiki should have at least one picture, and clear links to the most important content. It should not be sysop-protected for editing unless there is a strong history of vandalism.
- The wiki should have a clear category structure to help readers navigate around the site.…
Looks like we finally get to see the floater in all its gruesome glory. It has a pretty decent ranged attack, so be careful.
Looks like you can find an engineer of some kind down there too. Maybe he needs an escort out?
"JoshSaros 21:46, August 19, 2011 (UTC)"Read more >
Managed to find this sneaky lil gameplay on youtube today. Though it starts off rather annoying at first cause of french guys in the way of the screen, it manages to show where, in relation to everywhere else we know, the lifeguard tower actually is.
Also, I swear that map wasn't there originally..... still being editted I see.
Hey, isn't that a plane? Seems like its in trouble..... "JoshSaros 15:21, August 18, 2011 (UTC)"Read more >
Ok when I signed in msn a friend of mine had sent me a link to the Dead Island theme and two other songs whichI think will involve a cutscene or combat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZ0i-wTJyQ the name is Zombie Rising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4jeZMPW59Y&feature=related main menu theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmipn0jy_Rg&feature=related the name is Surrounded by Zombies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78bj6ebUVqA Who Do You VooDoo? (Sam B song)Read more >
I'm not sure if you guys have seen it on MTV due to that copyright thing or seen the videos on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYaPvcjamW4 part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmwFfmON4mw&feature=related part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kcy-ufgMvk&feature=related part 3
I'm terribly sorry if the users have seen itRead more >
We have recently been working on new templates for the articles. They are posted below. Give your opinion on them and any ideas for improvment or other templates.
Please remember that to use the Talkback template you must use a string of code. It can be found here.
Please note these are subject to change in the following days.Read more >
A novelization of the upcoming Dead Island video game has been announced. It will be written by Mark Morris, known for mainly for his Doctor Who books, likeGhosts of India and his Torchwood novel Bay of the Dead. The latter also features zombies, so he is certainly familiar with the genre.
The book is to be published in the United Kingdom by Bantam and released on September 8. There's no information on an United States release yet.
Like the game, the book will follow the pursuits of four vacationers trying to stay alive on the tropical-paradise-turned-undead-infested-island.
Are you ready for the tropical zombie apocalypse?Read more >
Minimum:OS: Windows XP
Processor: Core2Duo 2.66 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI 2600XT 512MB VRAM (GeForce 8600GT)
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0C
Hard Drive: 2.0 GB available hard drive space
Other: keyboard, mouse
RecommendedOS: Windows 7Read more >
Processor: Core2Duo 2.66 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 9600 (1GB)
DirectX®: DirectX 9.0C
Hard Drive: 2.0 GB available hard drive space
Other: keyboard, mouse
Dead Island Preview - The Guardian
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"Perhaps more importantly than any other aspect, it felt fresh and original to play, rather than bearing any marked similarity to any of the myriad zombie games we have enjoyed in the past."
Check it out Here
However, its in Italion though it has english subtitles.Read more >
Preview hereRead more >
The Dead Island official site has revealed the third of our heroes, Logan!
A former American football star, spoiled by life and successful in every possible way, Logan's ego finally put an end to his bright
future. Taking part in a reckless street race with tragic consequences, Logan not only killed a young woman - his unfortunate passenger; he also fractured his knee, putting an end to his sports career. His fall from stardom inevitably followed and he plunged swiftly into a life of bitterness and despair. In an attempt to get away from the demons hunting him, he gladly takes the chance to experience the beauties and wonders of Banoi.
Soon enough though the getaway he was dreaming about turns into a real life nightmare...Read more >
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, zombies of all ages; it's time to present to you: Achievements! Achievements, or badges, as they're commonly called, are here to help motivate editors into editing more often. They look very basic at the moment, but rest assured that they are being customized as we speak by myself.
What's your opinion? Are you gonna dominate the leaderboard or just try your hardest?
Till next apocalypse!
--BobNewbie ∞(Talk)∞ 11:31, June 22, 2011 (UTC)Read more >
On the official Dead Island Facebook page, they announced;Read more >
"The zombie apocalypse is near!
Dead Island is set to be released in North America on September 6th and in the rest of the world on September 9th, 2011."
In this picture you can see all four characters:
Xian Mei is on the left.
Purna Is on the right.
Sam B is on top.
Logan is at the bottom.
We can also see the Ram, the Butcher and the Floater.Read more >
Dead Island Special Edition will be exclusive to specialty retailer GameStop and will contain the Bloodbath Arena downloadable content, which Deep Silver values at £6. As for the content, the Bloodbath Arena pack is composed of both single-player and multiplayer challenges in four distinct areas
Waves of zombies--each billed as more difficult than the last--will assault players in the Bloodbath Arena content, with players tasked with killing them off and staying alive. Additionally, gamers can display and track their progress via the Bloodbath Arena's leaderboards. And to help gamers in their deathly pursuits, the content will include an exclusive weapon: the "Brain wave bomb."
People who order Dead Island will get this DLC for free.Read more >
censored version
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And here is the special edition cover.
Check it out HereRead more >
According to Amazon Dead Island will be released 30th September. Although no official confirmation yet from Techland. Other sources;
- Play.com
- UK's Game has set to release in the month September.
I cant believe they've actually released gameplay! The video is here and it's like a video preview much like the worded previews, but with video!
- Enjoy! -- IDave Ja VuTalkcontribs 13:28, May 23, 2011 (UTC)
Gamers and Geeks unit - Dead Island solo campaign hands-on
Last Wednesday I was given the chance to put my hands-on Dead Island solo campaign which trailer managed to awake my interest while a general zombie overdose had reached (even) me after the awfully boring The Walking Dead TV series (read preview here, and yes I found the series so disappointing I don't see the point in writing more about it...). Following this amazing trailer you can see in our preview, the first in-game teaser was released the day before my hands-on and once again, it worked!
Today the game is still in its production phase and for what I understood the version we played on was a pre-beta one. Though the rendering for the landscapes and characters was nice already and I encountered no bug playing while I'm quite a specialist on this field!
For the first test I started as a woman character in a mountain refuge which allows me to discover in full security the game routines for Dead Island. Quite surprisingly I disc…
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A new Dead Island trailer has been created for dead island showing some of the games environment, with a few zombies, in the first in-game footage we've seen to date!Read more >
Following our initial look at Dead Island back at GDC, I recently got our first chance to play the game for real. And "real" is the appropriate word here. Despite the zombies, wacky weapon combinations and a creepy Lost vibe, Dead Island does a lot to emphasize the reality of your admittedly unbelievable situation.
It starts right away in the demo, with an opening first-person cinematic that has my character living it up at one of the island's clubs, as signs of the big Z start to appear at the corners of my blurred, drunken vision. Is that woman just resting in the booth over there or is that blood near her head? Wait -- did that man just bite his date? Eventually, I'm too drunk to tell or even care, passing out in a nearby corner. This is when the game proper starts.
I'm playing as Xian Mei, one of the four playable characters that serve as classes in the game. She's a feisty Asian woman ("I don't punch like a girl!"), who I'm told is quick and good with knives; sort of the "rogue" o…
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Techland Chrome Engine Tech Demo This is the engin that Dead Island will run on, and it looks great :D
Also, the Dead Island limited Polish edition box set info + image has been put out.
The Polish limited edition will have:
- wooden casket with the logo of the games you will be packed all the elements of the set
- polo shirt,
- comic book "The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks, "based on "The Zombie Survival Guide, " or "Manual of defense against the attack of the Living Dead" by Max Brooks
- a set of postcards with images.
Check it out Here
Everyone loves zombie games. It's a bona fide fact. And if you're shaking your head in disagreement, resolute in your hatred of zombie games, then you're wrong. Deep down, you love zombie games, which is why you can't wait for Dead Island, Techland's foray into melee-based RPG survival horror, casting you in the role of a character at a tropical holiday resort besieged by swathes of the undead.
In the game, you'll choose from one of four characters and use whatever comes to hand to bludgeon your way through thousands of zombies of varying classes, sizes and types. Featuring customisable weapons and four-player drop-in/drop-out co-op, Dead Island appears to be rather ambitious, but will it be able to stand out in a market packed to the rafters with games featuring the slavering hordes of the walking dead?
We caught up with Deep Silver's Brand Manager, Vincent Kummer to get the lowdown on Dead Island, which has been a good few years in the making having been first announc…Read more >
Cheeck out the interview on relyonhorror Here
ROH: It must have been a surprise to see the trailer become a sudden internet phenomena! How has the team been reacting to the popularity?
Sebastian: We knew from the beginning that we had something special with this trailer. But seeing how this trailer exploded all over the internet and the media coverage afterwards was really exciting for us! We are all extremely happy to get such positive feedback on our work.
ROH: Many people were quite moved by the trailer, but are a bit worried if this emotional approach will be held in the actual game. It has been said the story is to be full of mystery and drama, do you suspect there are scenes in the game that may emotionally impact players like the trailer has?
Sebastian: Yes. It's violent, fast, revolting and there are gut punching emotional scenes. But of course in the context of the game they work differently compared to the trailer. A trailer has to work in 2 minutes. The game has to hook you for…
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All credits go to IGN
Deep Silver and Square Enix, Inc. announced today a collaboration in which Square Enix will be the Americas region distributor for Dead Island, the highly anticipated zombie action game with role-playing elements for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Windows-based PCs.
"Square Enix's impressive distribution and marketing capabilities, combined with their proven success with launching top-notch AAA titles, makes them the absolute best partner for Dead Island," said Deep Silver Chief Operating Officer Geoff Mulligan. "We're thrilled to be partnering with their dedicated and talented team and look forward to collaborating with them in order to bring Dead Island to gamers."
Developed by Techland, Dead Island combines first-person action with a heavy focus on melee combat, character development and customization of a vast array of weapons. The engaging survival-focused gameplay aspects are…
Here are some Dead Island 3D models.Read more >
Bears, a vodka factory, an actual zombie. But not the home of the most exciting undead happening since Danny Boyle made them run in 28 Days Later. Techland, best known for cowboy series Call of Juarez, have taken the best bits of zombie killing and mashed them all together into one open world adventure. Oh, and you'll want to pack the factor 50, because it all takes place on the sunny island of Banoi in Papua New Guinea.
You've seen the trailer, the little girl, the biting, the falling out of a really high window in backwards slow motion. This is all about being a bemused holidaymaker suddenly caught in the middle of the zombie apocalypse and scrambling to survive. One minute it's Bermuda shorts and cocktails with umbrellas in, the next it's bashing in the head of a walking corpse with a plank. You get to play as one of four characters, each with their own special skill set and weaknesses, such as speed or strength or ability with sharp things. I mainly got to see Sam B in action, an e…
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You can ask Your question to the Deep Sliver team.
All you have to do to ask a question is to sign up on Dead-island.com
Then, go to this Thread
Finally, post your question.
The good people at Dead-island.com will send the questions off and Your question will be answer!
Also, A new screenshot has been release! Check it out belowRead more >
1. A taste of everything.Read more >
2. Ah! Spoiled meat!
3. Need a hand?
4. People person.
5. Gesundheit.
6. Going steady.
7. Road trip.
8. Right 4 life.
9. Oh, no you didn't!*
10. How many days exactly?
11. Humanitarian.
12. Knock, knock.
13. Cardio.
14. School of hard knocks.
15. Warrenty viod if used.
16. Gotta find them all.
17. 10 heads better than 1.
18. I want one of those.
19. Can't touch this.
20. Steam punk.
21. First!
22. A very special day.
23. Legen... wait for it...
24. Rageman.
25. Menage et trois.
26. Tis but a flesh wound.
27. Busy, busy, busy.
28. Light my fire.
29. Learning the ropes.
30. Together in the light.
31. Swing them sticks.
32. Savior.
33. Everybody lies.
34. Nearly there.
35. There and back again.
36. Originality
37. Catch.
38. Dedicated student.
39. One is all I need.
40. To put it bluntly.**
41. Karma-geddon.**
42. Tae kwon leap. **
43. Hack & Slash. **
44. Guns don't kill but they help. **
45. Hell in paradise. (i)***
46. No racoons in here. (ii) ***
47.Welcome to the jungle. (iii) ***
48.Banoii redemption. …
Techland have posted three new screenshots of Dead Island on their Facebook Page.
Photo one seems to have a man in a straightjacket. It looks like that he is going to be a boss zombie.
The other two just seem to show parts of the island. However, in both of those photos there seems to be no zombies.Read more >
GDC11 has posted a preview of Dead Island. Check it out Here
Sorry for the lack of updates and edits.Read more >
The good people at IGN has reposted the two original trailers for dead island for those of us who did get the chance to see it.
Original Teaser can be found Here
Zombie Damage Trailer can be found Here
Also Tobuscus has posted his LITERAL Dead Island TrailerRead more >


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Part 1 was in Solidarity 3/136. In this second part, the author traces the history of the German workers' movement in the decade before Hitler consolidated power. It was published in the US Marxist journal Fourth International in February 1943.
Sherry Mangan (writing under the name Terence Phelan) was a well-known US journalist and secretly, using his journalistic assignments as cover, a key organiser of the international Trotskyist movement of the time.
Unlike classic police reaction, fascism builds on a mass base. To obtain this, it offers the disoriented and desperate petty bourgeoisie and lumpenproletariat a violently demagogic anti-capitalist, anti-monopoly program. It is financed, however, precisely by monopoly capital. It thus rests on two main supports: a mass party and capitalist subsidies.
It is expensive, violent and risky. Capital prefers as long as possible to rule through the smoother method of democracy, while keeping fascism in reserve. When the crisis of capitalism, however, reaches the point where it is impossible further to depress the masses' living standards except by destroying their unions and parties, capital calls in fascism. The destruction of the workers' resistance enables the capitalist state to prepare for the external "solution": imperialist war.
Thus for really large-scale growth of fascism, two components are necessary, both stemming from the acuteness of the crisis of democratic capitalism: the despair of large masses, and the decision of an important sector of capital that fascism is the only way out.
The 1923-24 inflation had wiped out the savings of the middle class. The ruthless "rationalisation" of German industry to compete in the world market sped the creation of giant monopolies, which drove small business rapidly to the wall. Big department and chain stores forced small shopkeepers out of business or condemned them to a precarious marginal existence.
Unemployment, always endemic since the war, crept uncheckably up to staggering totals. The government measures to alleviate it were utterly inadequate; and there was created a vast uneasy army of millions of declassed elements, lumpenproletarians, whose ranks were yearly swelled by a dynamic and desperate youth doomed from the very start of life to hopeless idleness. Hitler, bent on saving monopoly capitalism, inveighed demagogically against capitalism and monopoly, promised the small businessmen and shopkeepers the break-up of the industrial combines and the department stores, promised the unemployed full employment and the youth a normal future, promised a resentful nation as a whole freedom from the bonds of Versailles, promised miracles to everyone.
With the missing of the 1923 revolutionary situation, the petty bourgeoisie which by its nature cannot have an independent policy, turned increasingly away from the proletariat. Looking for miracles, the prey of demagogic catchwords, it wandered from party to party: the Nationalists, the Center, the People's, the National-Socialists, and a score of smaller ones. During the comparative stabilisation of 1925-29, Nazism's progress was slow. In May and December of 1924, for example, even by combining electoral forces with the German Social, People's Bloc and National Freedom Parties, it managed respectively only 2,251,000 and 906,000 votes; in May 1928, running independently, 809,000.
But with the world crash of 1929, Hitlerism began a tremendous surge. Important sectors of German capitalism (and certain international capitalist groups), fearing a new and final revolutionary wave, swung behind Hitler with enormous subsidies; and the petty bourgeoisie, in ultimate despair, with its "readiness to believe in miracles," its "readiness for violent measures," responded to his demagogy. The results showed startlingly in the September 1930 elections: the Nazis polled 6,401,000 votes. It was a shrieking alarm signal.
That same month, from his exile in Prinkipo, Turkey, Trotsky issued a crystal-clear warning in a pamphlet entitled The Turn in the Communist International and the German Situation.
He particularly stressed that "The gigantic growth of national-socialism is an expression of two factors: a deep social crisis, throwing the petty bourgeois masses off balance, and the lack of a revolutionary party that would be regarded by the masses as an acknowledged revolutionary leader. If the Communist Party is the Party of revolutionary hope, then Fascism, as as a mass movement, is the party of counter-revolutionary despair…
"Fascism in Germany has become a real danger. . . . Whoever denies this is either blind or a braggart."
Trotsky called for immediate practical measures: the genuine united front of the Communists with the social democracy, and particular attention to the unemployed, who were falling prey to Nazi demagogy. His wise words went unheeded.
Against Hitler were ranked the great Social-Democratic and Communist Parties, millions of workers ready and eager for battle, whose combined forces were powerful enough to have crushed Hitler forever. Yet Hitler marched to power between them practically unchallenged. To understand how this shameful and almost incredible disaster could have happened, we must analyse the roles and policies of the social democracy and Stalinism.
Whether they were actually in the cabinet or not, the democratic capitalist republic of Weimar depended on the active support or benevolent neutrality of the social democratic leaders.
These agents of the bourgeoisie within the working class were wont, it is true, to don red sashes on Sunday and deliver terribly revolutionary speeches about socialism at some unspecified future date; but on every occasion in the weekday present when they were threatened with that socialism, they rushed to the support of the capitalist state.
The growth of the pre-war socialist movement in Germany had created an enormous apparatus. The leaders were well entrenched in a powerful bureaucracy; and the 1925-29 stabilisation strengthened and solidified their position. They controlled between 290,000 and 400,000 posts in their own, the trade union and the government apparatuses. They had the provincial government of Prussia, Germany's largest state; within Prussia they had appointed two-thirds of the chiefs of police and a majority of the police ranks. Theirs was the largest single party in Germany. Its electoral vote ran in 1928 to 9,150,000, or 29.8 per cent of the total; it had nearly a hundred deputies in the Reichstag.
Its "theory" was that capitalism was uninterruptedly advancing in productivity and democracy, and eventually a peaceful transition to socialism would be made by the ballot. The social democratic leadership everywhere bases itself on the maneuver as other groups base themselves on principles. Its value to its masters is the support of the workers; yet it can betray the workers to their enemies only within certain limits or risk losing control over them; it must appear to be getting something for the workers in return. In moments of revolutionary upsurge, it can show limited gains, crumbs from the capitalist table. But in the periods of capitalist decline, its basic policy is that of "the lesser evil." The greater the reaction, the more it clings to the "less reactionary" of various groups. In times of ultimate crisis, its despairing grasp slips from one to the other of these, the deadly enemies of yesterday becoming in turn the lesser evils of today, until finally, its utility to the ruling class is exhausted, it drops off the end of this opportunist chain and scurries for safety abroad, leaving the masses to bear the unleashed terror.
Such was the policy of the German social democracy. In the presidential elections of March, 1932, it supported the reactionary Junker General von Hindenburg as a "lesser evil" than the rival candidate Hitler. It supported the reactionary Catholic premier, Bruening, against von Papen, von Papen against von Schleicher, von Schleicher against Hitler. Then its stop-Hitler candidate Hindenburg named Hitler Reichskanzler — and the end of the rope ran through its hands. The whole length of rope was then used to hang the German proletariat.
Why, then, did millions of workers — who were no cowards but were ready to block Hitler's road to power with their own bodies — remain in the Social Democratic Party, especially when Hitler threatened, and these leaders showed no intention of seriously fighting him? Partly because they had themselves built it — and often with great sacrifices; partly because they were themselves victims of the fatally false theories of reformism and the lesser evil; but above all because the Communist Party did not create in them the conviction that it had not only the correct program to lead them from the madhouse of capitalism but also the steadiness and determination to carry through that program. And the Communist Party did not appear as that in their eyes — and with reason.
Of crucial importance for the future of the KPD was its capacity to draw the necessary lessons from the 1923-24 events. But the already Stalinised Comintern leadership, with each disaster that its intervention produced, simply dumped the blame on the leadership of the KPD and bureaucratically replaced it by another. There was no serious self-criticism; no learning from errors. Discussion was stifled, expulsion followed expulsion.
The German party was demoralised. The all-important problem was to win the millions of social democratic workers. But the door to this was barred by the Sixth Congress of the Comintern which met in July 1928, and promulgated the nightmare-theory of "social fascism." Classifying everything except itself as various forms of fascism, Stalinism proclaimed there was no essential difference between social democracy and Hitler, and declared that fascism in the form of Bruening (the Catholic Center Party) was already triumphant in Germany. All social democrats became "social fascists." On social democracy and fascism, Stalin's own formulation was:
"They are not antipodes, but twins." (Die Internationale, February, 1932.) On the basis of this definition, any united front between the KPD and the "social fascist" SPD in defense against fascism was impermissible and absurd: what was the sense of an anti-fascist united front with one brand of fascist against another? It sounds — as it was — the sheerest political nonsense. The only permitted tactic was the "united front from below," which had nothing to do with a united front, but was a fancy name for an ultimatum to social democratic workers to break with their leaders and follow the KPD.
Thus the Stalinist line refused to recognise the indisputable fact that a social democratic worker was — a social democratic worker. If such a worker had been thoroughly disillusioned with his treacherous leaders and in addition had confidence that the KPD leaders would really lead a socialist revolution, he would already have joined the KPD. Toward him — and there were millions like him — the arrogant "united front from below" was not only useless, it was ultimatistically insulting and could only harden his prejudices and distrust.
The only possible tactic in such a situation was the genuine united front of organisations which, while achieving the practical effects of defending the workers' press, headquarters and meetings against nazi and police attack, would simultaneously have enabled the Communists to win the confidence of the social democratic worker and help him test his leaders: the KPD, publicly, before this social democratic worker, could call on his leaders: "You say you want to fight fascism? Good. Here are concrete proposals for a joint struggle." If his leaders refused or evaded the common task, it would open his eyes. Instead, the KPD adopted the "social fascist" policy thus described by Trotsky:
"Ultimatism is an attempt to rape the working class after failing to convince it: Workers, unless you accept the leadership of Thaelmann-Remmele-Neumann, we will not permit you to establish the united front… We can say with assurance that the majority of the Social Democratic workers remain in their party to this day not because they trust the reformist leadership but because they do not as yet trust that of the Communists. But they do want to fight against fascism even now. Were they shown the first step to take in a concurrent struggle, they would insist upon their organisation taking that step. If their organisations balked, they might reach the point of breaking with them.
"Instead of aiding the Social Democratic workers to find their way through experience, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party abets the leaders of the Social Democracy against the workers. The Welses and the Hilferdings are enabled to screen with flying colors their own unwillingness to fight, their dread of fighting, their inability to fight, by citing the aversion of the Communist Party for participation in a common struggle."
(What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat, 1932.)
The theory that prevented joint actions with "social fascists" did not preclude common action with Hitlerites. The Nazis in 1931 instituted a referendum in Prussia to drive the provincial social democratic government from power. The KPD campaigned and voted side by side with the Hitlerites, calling it the "red" referendum. That autumn one sector of the social democratic leadership, grouped around Breitscheid, declared itself in favour of a united front with the KPD. The leader of the KPD, Thaelmann, flung the offer back in Breitscheid's face, and warned party members that the "relics of social democratic thought in our ranks" are "the most serious danger that confronts the Communist Party… Social fascism is 'threatening' to form a united front with the Communist Party." (Communist International [English] December 1931.)
The KPD belittled Hitler just when he began to be most dangerous. Its official paper, the day after the 1930 eIections that gave the Nazis eight and a half million votes, light-mindedly announced: "Last night was Herr Hitler's greatest day, but the so-called election victory of the Nazis is the beginning of the end." The next day it repeated its folly: "The fourteenth of September was the high point of the National-Socialist movement in Germany. What comes after this can only be decline and fall." (Rote Fahne, September 15-16, 1930.)
When succeeding events proved the utter falsity of this prediction, the KPD leadership, far from correcting itself, went on to greater folly: the assertion that Hitler's accession to power would prove his undoing. Though it was never officially launched as a slogan, the Stalinists operated on the mad idea of "First Hitler; then it is our turn." This was plainly indicated on October 14, 1931, when Remmele, parliamentary deputy and one of the three top leaders of the KPD, boasted in the Reichstag:
"Herr Bruening has put it very plainly: once they [the nazis] are in power, then the united front of the proletariat will be established and it will make a cIean sweep of everything. We are the victors of the coming day; and the question is no longer one of who shall vanquish whom. This question is already answered. The question now reads only, 'At what moment shall we overthrow the bourgeoisie?' We are not afraid of the Fascist gentlemen. They will shoot their bolt quicker than any other government."
At the very moment that Remmele was indulging in this criminally frivolous boasting to the applause of the KPD deputies, Trotsky in Prinkipo was writing a very different evaluation of the perspectives:
"The coming into power of the German 'National Socialists' would mean above all the extermination of the flower of the German proletariat, the disruption of all its organisations, the extirpation of its belief in itself and its future. . . . That the Communist party will actually evade the struggle and thus deliver the proletariat to the mercy of its mortal enemy . . . would signify only one thing: the gruesome battles would unfold not before the seizure of power by the Fascists but after it, that is: under conditions ten times more favorable for Fascism than those of today. The struggle of the proletariat, taken unawares, disoriented, disappointed, and betrayed by its own leadership, against the Fascist regime would be transformed into a series of frightful bloody and futile convulsions. . . ." (Germany: the Key to the International Situation, 1932.)
Encouraged by their successes, the Brownshirts took to the streets. First they began to beat up or murder workers returning from meetings, then to raid the meetings themselves. Protected by the state police, they made provocatory demonstrations in the heart of workers' quarters. The toll of their murders began to mount. Filled with a profoundly correct instinct, despite the lack of directives from their leaders, the workers fought back courageously for their organisations and their lives. Meeting fire with fire, they stood up to the nazis arms in hand, and the Brownshirts began to fall. But it was only guerrilla fighting, not organised combat.
In January 1932, in his What Next?—Vital Questions for the German Proletariat, Trotsky warned that the situation was growing desperate, that the counter-attack against Hitler's gains must now be launched from a defensive position, but prepared to pass to the immediate offensive. In a masterly analysis of the German situation, he pleaded with the KPD ranks to force a change of line: the abandonment of the delirium of "social fascism" and immediate concrete measures for the genuine united front. But the KPD leadership led the doomed party on the same fatal road.
As the crisis deepened, so did the desperation of the middle classes and the unemployed. While social democracy appealed to the capitalist state to intervene, and Stalinism continued its suicidal policy against the united front, the middle class and lumpenproletariat began, first in driblets, then in a torrent, to pour into the ranks of National Socialism.
In each succeeding election, the nazi votes rose. In the presidential elections of March 1932, Hitler polled 11,338,000 votes to Hindenburg's 18,661,000, while Thaelmann received 5,000,000. In the run-off the Hindenburg vote rose to 19,000,000, Hitler's to 13,000,000, while Thaelmann dropped to 3,000,000. In April, Nazism won 162 seats in the Prussian Landtag, the largest of any party. When the social democratic-Catholic Center government of Prussia continued in office, the KPD deputies, true to the "social fascist" theory, joined with the nazis in a vote of censure. In July, Chancellor von Papen, under the notorious Article 4 of the Weimar Constitution, simply ordered the administration of Prussia out of office. The social democrats went, whimpering, without the semblance of a struggle. The workers were aroused, enraged, ready for action, waiting in the factories for the call to a general strike. But no signal came from the temporising social democratic leaders, while the Stalinists would make no united front except "from below." At month's end, the Reichstag elections gave the nazis 13,700,000 votes; the social democrats 7,000,000; the Communists 5,300,000. On a purely electoral plane, the forces were about equal; but the real correlation of forces was infinitely more favorable to the workers. Twenty million strong in all, concentrated in the key industrial centers, the potential masters of transport and industry, they could still have smashed the Nazis.
The rank and file workers were thoroughly aroused to the imminence of the danger. The July election had been signalised by 25 political murders by the confident nazis. The workers, despairing of directives from their leaders, spontaneously multiplied defense squads. The SPD and KPD leaders tried to hold them to party lines, but the workers, with a sure class instinct, often disregarded their efforts. But even so, such united actions were on a limited and temporary scale. In September, sensing that it was the eve of catastrophe, Trotsky in The Only Road launched a desperate appeal to the KPD, warning that it was almost too late.
But the KPD paid no heed. They even joined forces with the Nazis in the autumn transport strike in Berlin. Some of the social democratic leaders, who had cynically supposed that they could make deals with no matter what government, began to see the doom approaching: Stampfer published in Vorwaerts an appeal to the KPD for a united front. The KPD contemptuously dismissed it.
The crisis had reached its pitch. The November elections showed that Hitler had passed his apogee on the parliamentary plane. It was time for him to make a coup or to jump the last gap by a deal with the government. on January 30, 1933, Hindenburg named him Chancellor.
Trotsky's terrible predictions were promptly realised. While the Stalinist leadership blandly continued to assure the workers that Hitler's downfall was just around the corner — and went down without a struggle, Hitler, with the pretext of the Reichstag fire, unleashed his anti-labor terror — but this time with the full armory of governmental weapons. Despite the evidence before their very eyes of Hitler's smashing of all the workers' organisations, the KPD leaders parroted on—from exile. As late as April 1933, Fritz Heckert, representative of the KPD, reported to the ECCI:
"As far back as 1924,the leader of the international proletariat, Comrade Stalin, gave an estimate unsurpassed in its exactness and perspicacity of the evolution of Social Democracy toward Fascism—an estimate which lies at the basis of the programme of the Comintern and the policy of the Communist Party of Germany.. . . Everything which has happened in Germany has fully confirmed the correctness of Comrade Stalin's prognosis."
One political conclusion was inescapable: Stalinism had destroyed the Comintern as a revolutionary force. It was on the basis of this terrible, unnecessary, disgraceful German defeat that the Trotskyists, the International Left Opposition which had heretofore considered itself, despite all expulsions and persecutions, an oppositional group within the Third International, launched the call for the new, the Fourth, International.
Within Germany, all socialist and communist organisations were destroyed, all trade unions, all workers' cultural and sports groups. Workers were butchered by the thousands, by the hundreds of thousands beaten to pulp and flung into Hitler's concentration camps. With the blood purge of 1934, Hitler put an end once and for all to any hopes of the middle class that his "revolutionary" program on their behalf was anything but the sheerest demagogy. Nazism fused with the state apparatus.
Germany became one vast prison. When Hitler's territorial grabs at last in 1939 so frightened Germany's imperialist rivals that they plunged into war in an effort to check him, the German workers, atomised, terrorised, with every organisation utterly destroyed, faced with the choice of mobilisation or execution, filed sullenly into the ranks of the Reichswehr.
This, then, was the actual 15-year process which is described by Secretary Hull as Hitler's ability "overnight almost, to stand… 65 million Germans on their heads… so … that they arise the next morning and insist on being sent to the front-line trenches without delay."
Why, then, do the German masses, despite their bitter hatred toward Hitler, fight so desperately that only when they faced the Red Army were they finally checked and rolled back again? Even those Germans who most hate Hitler fear that a repetition of the 1918 defeat will bring an even worse version of Versailles and its terrible consequences. Furthermore, each bloody Gestapo brutality in the occupied countries brings premonitory shudders to the German people that retaliating armies may some day roll vengefully into Germany. The German people are trapped by the cruelest of dilemmas: on the one hand, continued support, even negative, of the accursed Hitler and the unbearable war; on the other, the vengeance of Germany's imperialist foes, ranging from dismemberment of the Reich up to threats of sterilisation.


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Gardens Tennis Center getting new clubhouse from sales tax hike
Not to be outdone by soccer and baseball, the Palm Beach Gardens Tennis Center will get a makeover from the penny sales tax increase, too.
The Palm Beach Gardens City Council is negotiating an agreement with Palm Beach County to use future park land it owns on 117th Court North for a new soccer complex and subsequently plans to expand its baseball complex. Those projects have generated a lot of buzz, but the tennis center will undergo some major changes, too.
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The tennis center at 5110 117th Court North, near Timber Trace Elementary School and Watson B. Duncan Middle School, will get a $3.5 million upgrade. That includes a new, 10,000-square-foot, two-story clubhouse.
The tennis club money will come from the future sale of the public services building. The city plans to build a new Operations Center with $6.7 million from the sales tax.
Players will be able to view all of the courts from a wrap-around porch on the second floor, according to a description of the project Recreation Director Laura Schuppert wrote for the city's magazine.
READ: Will Gardens tennis center pay tribute to Williams sisters?
Other additions include a juice bar, ping pong play area, other games and catering facilities. The work is expected to be complete in summer 2019.
The City Council didn't support the sales tax increase, but the city will still gain its share of the revenue – about $30 million – over the next 10 years. The Council voted to issue a $30 million bond to get the money now to advantage of interest rates and accelerating the completion of the projects.
Other work to be paid for by the sales tax increase voters approved in November:
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Three mobile phones introduced by Nokia at the Nokia World conference in London. All three phones are presented as a response to challenges from competitors like Apple, Google and RIM. All three phones are E7, C7 and C6.
A research released by comScore, said that while Nokia controls 50% of mobile market in many Western European countries, the power of Nokia on the mobile phone market declined by about 14% as of July 2009. With the launch of mobile phones is expected Nokia could reclaim a starting position shifted its competitors.
An analysis of Ben Wood of CCS Insight said that the competitors Nokia developed a phone-based operating system that is easier for users and also spoil them. Not just users, but application developers are also easier to develop applications on the Symbian operating system competitors such as IOS and Android.
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This small town drama was an interesting and subtle enigma in a quiet town with about four hundred residents, and Greg managed to go after not only his neighbor but local government as well. Locals insist both Greg and John (the stone mason) are great people, it is simply a collision of two opposing forces.


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In a statement marking the fifth anniversary of the repeal of the so-called Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell " law that barred gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said today`s military is stronger than ever.
I am proud to report that five years after the implementation of the repeal of "Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell" our military, drawn from a cross-section of America, is stronger than ever and continues to exemplify the very best that our great nation has to offer, " the secretary said. The American people can take pride in how the Department of Defense and the men and women of the United States military have implemented this change with the dignity, respect, and excellence expected of the finest fighting force the world has ever known. "
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As the memory of "Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell" fades further into the past, and we move forward together to face new challenges, " he said, we recognize that openness to diversity and reaching out in a spirit of renewed inclusiveness will strengthen our military and enhance our nation`s security. "
Also today, the acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness released a letter to service members, families and veterans, encouraging people who received less-than-honorable discharges from the military based solely on Don`t Ask, Don`t " tell and its precursor laws and policies to seek a correction of their records.
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A default position among what passes for finance cognoscenti in the blogosphere is to argue that media stories pointing up bank improprieties are making a mountain out of a molehill. The form of the argument is usually, "If you only understood XYZ technical issue, this is not such a big deal." Now that isn't to say that position is wrong; we've more than occasionally made just that type of argument. But if you are going to go that route, it's incumbent on you to take account of the relevant background; otherwise, whether you intend to or not, your argument can wind up being the equivalent of "Look, over there!"
We've seen this type of diversion-as-argumentation take place on the brewing Deutsche Bank scandal over losses that three separate whistleblowers allege that that bank hid from investors during the crisis. The debate has focuses on one position that accounted for the overwhelming majority of the misvaluation, involving so called leveraged super senior trades. In particular, Matt Levine of Dealbreaker and Felix Salmon have both contended that all the bank needed to do was wait and its positions would have worked out. Felix explicitly and Levine implicitly analogize a position carried in the bank's trading books as a long-term bank asset. Um, trading book positions and loans are chalk and cheese, witness the old Wall Street saying: "an investment is a trade that didn't work out."*
There are two problems with that argument. First, it's a classic example of hindsight bias. Tell me who during the crisis would have assigned a 100% probability to that view, because that's what this amounts to. It runs afoul of Keynes' observation: that markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
Second, Levine and Salmon say, to use Levine's turn of phrase, that all the German bank did was ignore the losses until they went away. That is a misrepresentation of what actually happened. Levine and Salmon airbrush out what has been called "the biggest structured credit restructuring in history" and "the largest restructuring in Canadian history." If the restructuring had failed, Deutsche most assuredly would have had major losses on its hands, not just from being forced to unwind the trades at an unfavorable time, but also from litigation, which is not factored into the whistleblowers' estimates.
And the restructuring failing was not a hypothetical risk. There was not assurance it would get done, and analysts with no dog in the fight were of the view at the time that it was not likely to be completed successfully.
A short overview: three former employees have charged the German bank with misvaluing various positions during the crisis, allegedly totaling $12 billion at the peak, when by comparison, the banks had roughly $45 billion of equity. The largest single misvaluation involves the biggest risk position in the bank's trading book, that of a leveraged super senior trade, a type of synthetic CDO that was funded by Canadian commercial paper buyers.
To make things very simple (you don't need to get deep into the transaction details to understand the restructuring risks) the LSS trade was a CDO. The asset side of the CDO was corporate credit default swaps. For conventional CDOs, the liability side consists of investors who when times were good would take the payments made on CDS (like insurance premiums, remember CDS were tantamount to insurance) and if the deal came a cropper, would make payouts. Conventional deals would have 100% of the possible losses covered (at least in theory) by various investors, usually tranched by payment priority, from equity (highest income/greatest risk of loss) to multiple AAA classes. Even though a deal where the assets were all CDS in theory needed no cash, most had a cash reserve which meant the investors in the highest risk categories paid money, as opposed to merely offering to fund losses. That was so that the higher-tranche investors had some assurance that the first losses could readily be paid.
By contrast the leveraged super senior was "leveraged" because it only had a portion of the potential losses covered by investors. First, it dispensed with insuring all of the default loss; the attachment point was usually 10% to 15%, meaning the first 10% or 15% of any losses CDS weren't apportioned to investors in the LSS trade. The deal was then "levered" in Deutsche's deals, 10 to 1. So if the notional value being insured was $150 million, investors would pay only $15 million and that would pay the losses immediately above the attachment point. That meant if the losses exceeded the amount the investors put up, Deutsche would be on the hook (Deutsche internal documents consistently describe these deals as non-recourse, with the non-recourse in bold. Levine spends a lot of time intimating DB thought the counterparties might and maybe did kick in more. The DB discussions are crystal clear on this point, that the only use for the various triggers was not to get more money out of the counterparties, but to liquidate the trades to contain losses.)
The other wrinkle was that the CDS were 5 to 10 years in maturity, while the investors were Canadians commercial paper buyers. Every 30 to 90 days, depending on how the deal was set up, the CP would be "rolled", meaning the current CP investors would be paid off and new investors would buy new CP. Now since it was possible that there might be some awful event like 9/11, these deals usually had a liquidity guarantee from the bank. Deutsche's annual report for 2007 confirms it was a liquidity provider on these LSS trades. (Deutsche indicates that its deals had both extendible CP and conventional CP; I've not yet seen any breakdown of this aspect of the structure, so if any readers know how Deutsche's liabilities on these deals were configured, that would be helpful).
What happened was that investors had bought these deals blind. From 2009 article in the Corporate Studies and Law Report:
According to IIROC, very often the information memoranda did not disclose the underlying asset class composition, the asset and liquidity providers, the role of the sponsor, the issuing and paying agent or the distribution agents. In a June 2007 article in the Bank of Canada Financial System Report, the Bank of Canada said that "[t]he fact that securitization is a complicated process involving many participants would seem to argue for a high degree of disclosure. But the market is relatively opaque."
Would transparency have solved the problem, however? The market was so complex that transparency might have simply confused the issue. When making investment decisions, dealers and investors relied almost exclusively on the credit ratings and the knowledge that the programs had liquidity support. There was no detailed public disclosure of asset class composition by trust issuer to differentiate the asset securitization strategy amongst ABCP [asset backed commercial paper] trusts.
So investors had no way of differentiating among ABCP trusts in Canada, and even if they'd been told the CDS ones were better designed and much safer than the subprime ones that were blowing up, no one was likely to have given that much credence anywhow. When investors are leery of risky, telling them that something is "less risky" is not good enough.
The ABCP market in Canada froze on August 13, 2007. Investors in the US had been fleeing structured investment vehicles another type of special purpose vehicle funded by commercial papers, that often contained large exposures to subprime mortgages. Notice that in Canada when the market halted, there was no way for a Canadian investor in ABCP to know what he'd gotten into.
In theory, the liquidity providers should have stepped up and paid off the investors in the maturing commercial paper. In practice, those liquidity clauses were cleverly drafted so they could shirk that duty. While in the US, the Fed ultimately rescued the ABCP market, the Canadians took the unprecedented step of using bankruptcy laws to restructure an entire market. These negotiations were called the Montreal Accord, since talks started there. The negotiations were fraught; the initial 60 day standstill was extended more than once, until the deal was filed with the courts, just the way a US bankruptcy must be approved by a judge. And remember, just as Chapter 11s are not assured a judicial wave-through, neither was this deal.
Consider this take as of November 21 from David Chang of Clarity Financial Strategy:
When the conduits entered into swap agreements, their counterparties – typically foreign banks – were essentially given first claim on the assets of the conduits in the event of a problem. If the value of the assets backing up their investment deteriorated, they could place a margin call forcing the conduit (or its sponsor) to add more collateral. Conduits would do this by tapping the capital markets for more money, which would have been possible in normal times. But of course now the markets are not functioning at all and the plan is to morph the commercial paper into 10-year notes with floating interest rates.
Under the circumstances it's a fine idea except for those pesky counterparty agreements in the leveraged conduits: They don't just go away for free.
The only logical trade would have been to ask the counterparties to drop the right to demand more collateral in exchange for not having to provide liquidity, but as it happens the liquidity agreements were so weak that there was effectively no risk of them ever being triggered. The banks weren't going to trade something that had very little risk to them for something that exposed them to great risk…Therefore, there doesn't appear to be any motivation for the foreign banks to play ball, and given that more than half the commercial paper is leveraged, it's hard to see the Montreal Accord succeeding.
Ah, but the investors did have something they could give that the banks VERY much wanted, a release from liability. The Montreal Accord contained mutual releases save for very narrow types of fraud. This was the biggest bone of contention, since some investors wanted to sue the banks to kingdom come. The accord was approved by lower court, the malcontents appealed over the inclusion of the liability waivers in the deal. The appeals court upheld the original deal, the Supreme Court declined review, and the Plan Implementation Order became effective in January 2009.
This isn't our only bone to pick with the defenders of the Deutsche books-fudging. We thought it made sense to start with the restructuring not only to illustrate how critical aspects of this history are being airbrushed out but also to remind readers how uncertain this period was. There were serious doubts at the time as to whether official interventions, much the less private pacts, would succeed. Remember, Paulson, Bernanke and Geithner thought they had a deal cinched for Lehman on Sept. 14, 2008 when it turns out they didn't.
* Levine contradicts himself by saying accounting in unimportant (huh? internal P&Ls, cash flows, all that are accounting. So do you want banks just to pay staff, rent, fly around in planes, book trades and hope that they have enough money sitting around when the bills come due?) and then saying that if DB had understood the risks of the LSS trade, like Goldman, they probably would have done very little of it.
This piece is cross-posted from Naked Capitalism with permission.


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Sam and Emma are resting after a good play session where they started to feel each other out. We're going to keep them in isolation from Scout for a bit longer but after a good visit to the vet they are now both staying in the guest bedroom.
Emma had a rough night last night. We had been keeping her in isolation from both Sam and Scout in the downstairs bathroom, sometimes letting her wander the house when Sam and Scout weren't around. At night when I went to bed, she started mewing loudly and clawing at the door of the bathroom. I went to bed with Scout, but my wife eventually woke up to the racket so I went down and slept with Emma on the floor for a few hours. After she was settled I went back upstairs where Scout was still sleeping in the bed.
In the morning, both Sam and Emma had their first visit to the vet, Laurelhurst Veterinary Hospital, who have looked after Templeton and Scout in the past. Emma was quite the lady except for when she was confined to her carrier in the vet's office. She attempted a repeat of Saturday's escape attempt, but this time she was thwarted by the plastic carrier and its metal grate — not that it kept her from trying. But otherwise her visit went well, she may have a mild case of upper respiratory infection that often occurs in kennels, and we're going to have to see if she bathes as regularly as she should, but otherwise her health looks good. The rough night and the escape attempt must have worn her out, though, as I've never seen a cat in as deep a sleep as Emma was this afternoon. Perhaps it's just her nature, time will tell.
Sam (pictured above) had a good night, even if my wife didn't — she spent the night with him and between his loud and constant purring and his playing, she wasn't getting the best night's sleep before Emma's woeful cries woke her up for good. Sam was the perfect gentleman at the vet, purring so loudly that the vet couldn't get a good reading on his lungs until she distracted him and quieted his motor. Well he was the perfect gentleman until it came time to draw some blood, at which point he attempted to draw some blood of his own. To be fair, he let out a long and loud wail of warning before the claws started flying, so perhaps he was the gentleman even then. A towel was called for to keep his legs wrapped up while they worked on his ears, he had mites before and a yeast infection so they cleaned out his ears for us and we're giving additional treatment at home. They also think he's younger than the four months estimated by the humane society based on his size, you can't tell it so well from the pictures but he's a skinny little thing.
Scout is still not happy about the visitors into her home, but she did start playing with me today — more than she's played at any time since Templeton died. It will take her a while to come around — after all Templeton taught her that all cats but the two of them were not to be tolerated — but given the personalities of these two, I think she'll come around in time.


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