Michael Foster’s suit to invalidate the decision of the UK Labour Party’s National Executive Committee to allow Jeremy Corbyn’s name to appear on the ballot for Party Leader without nominations from Members of Parliament because of his status as incumbent has failed and Foster will not appeal it. This means the hopes of the Quisling …
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Jul 27 2016
What’s the matter with Deutsche Bank?
The problems at Deutsche Bank by John Kay July 22, 2016 In the years before the global financial crisis, bank CEOs competed like schoolboys to demonstrate that ‘my return on equity is larger than yours’. The display was led by Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank from 2002 and chairman from 2006 to 2012, …
Jul 27 2016
The First Domino
It has been clear since the Euro Crisis began that unless the European Union adopted more Keynesian pro-Growth fiscal policies and more democratic institutions it would ultimately fail, as the economic suffering inflicted on the populace would become unsustainable in any democratic society. Instead what we have seen is an increase in Neoliberal control (the …
Jul 26 2016
Democratic National Convention 2016: Day 2
Session Opens at 4:30 pm ET. Business- Nominations and Roll Call. How that goes? Your guess is as good as mine. 4:55 pm Nomination and Seconding speeches. Sanders up first. Tonight’s Speakers Thaddeus Desmond Dynah Haubert Kate Burdick Anton Moore Dustin Parsons Jelani Freeman Students from Eagle Academy Mothers of the Movement Joe Sweeney Lauren …
Jul 26 2016
The Big Crawlback
It is starting to dawn on the Quisling Blairite Neolib Tory-lites of the Parliamentary Labour Party that their coup de estate against Jeremy Corbyn is a massive failure despite their anti-demcratic machinations to disenfranchise their members. Corbyn leads Owen Smith, a feckless non-entity who was nevertheless seen as more “electable” than the outright Conservatine Angela …
Jul 26 2016
The Crumbling of the Neoliberal Consensus
It’s not just in the United States that the incompetence of Neoliberal elites and failure of Neoliberal policies is causing it to lose its grip on political power in areas which democracy has not yet been totally stifled. We see it in Britain with the Brexit vote and the seemingly inevitable re-election of Jeremy Corbyn …
Jul 25 2016
Democratic National Convention 2016: Day 1
Good riddance to bad rubbish Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and top executives of the Democratic National Committee are now proven by the Wikileaks e-mail release to have shown blatant favoritism to the Clinton campaign in her primary contest against Bernie Sanders. That’s just a fact and Democrats at all levels of the party from voters to elected …
Jul 24 2016
More about God and why He’s a bad idea.
I told you so. Look, I’m a flat out Atheist and I never try to hide it. I also never shove it in people’s faces in part because, frankly, it makes me a member of the most despised minority in the United States. Yup, folks would rather vote for and live in a neighborhood with …
Jul 23 2016
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It!!!
Perhaps you’re unconvinced that we live in the End Times and civilization is going to collapse like a House of Cards into a Zombie led Mad Max/Hunger Games Apocalypse despite the best efforts of the Justice League AND the Avengers (c’mon, of course the Justice League is first, Stan Lee never met a good idea …
Jul 22 2016
Things you should know about Tim Kaine
Hours Before Hillary Clinton’s VP Decision, Likely Pick Tim Kaine Praises the TPP by Zaid Jilani, The Intercept July 21 2016, 6:02 p.m. Hillary Clinton’s rumored vice presidential pick Sen. Tim Kaine defended his vote for fast-tracking the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Thursday. Kaine, who spoke to The Intercept after an event at a Northern …
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