A Primer on Neoliberalism. Free Markets Were Not Natural.
They Were Enforced The modern system of free trade, free enterprise and market-based economies, actually emerged around 200 years ago, as one of the main engines of development for the Industrial Revolution. In 1776, British economist Adam Smith published his book, The Wealth of Nations. Ideology and ethics of Tony Blair. Prime Minister Tony Blair will be remembered for foreign wars and his doctrines of military intervention.
In January 2007 he even insisted that his successors should fight them too. Yet they played no role in his first election campaign, and the other ideologies of that early period remained in place, throughout his time in office... the underlying political model of Blairism was, and is, the liberal democratic nation state the global crusade for liberal democracy existed as a doctrine long before Tony Blair took office. The stolen Shepway by-election nobody knew about. Can Councils Set A No-Cuts Budget? The following article is a personal contribution to the debate from a London-based LRC member.
“If our Labour council votes a no-cuts budget, then the Tory minister Eric Pickles will just take over the local authority and make worse cuts.” Satanic-capitalist: Bill Moyers and Matt Taibbi:... Karl Marx Was Right. Labour Used Virgin 'Restricted' Report to Open NHS to Healthcare Companies. A hitherto restricted report commissioned by Labour back in 2000 has revealed how Virgin overstepped their remit – advice on improving customer service in the NHS - by promoting an increase in the use of private companies.
Further inclusions written into the report by mystery authors also reveal a fledgling policy idea that would later become part of Virgin’s expansion into the healthcare market. The document also sheds light on New Labour’s wider programme of marketising the NHS – the job the Coalition has now seen to conclusion. The document, which was meant to focus on customer service, extended into areas of regional pay, consultant contracts and staff salaries, elements that would later be included as part of Labour’s ‘NHS Plan’. Under Tony Blair, Labour welcomed private companies into the NHS like never before, and in doing so helped spawn a new organisation that would go on to be key to maintaining competition in the recent Health and Social Care Act. Who wrote Appendix 4? NHS Plan. CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support' The full extent of the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme has been laid bare with the publication of a report showing there is evidence that more than a quarter of the world's governments covertly offered support.
A 213-page report compiled by the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), a New York-based human rights organisation, says that at least 54 countries co-operated with the global kidnap, detention and torture operation that was mounted after 9/11, many of them in Europe. The psychopathy of the corporate personality; lessons for law from cognitive neurology. In cognitive neurology, ‘psychopathy’ does not mean ‘a tendency to kill someone’ as is common thought by the general public.
‘Psychopathy’ is literally a ‘suffering of the mind’, and is used by cognitive neurologists to refer to individuals who cannot understand the mental states of others. This inability to understand the mental state of another in your mind is thought to go to awry in autism, from the seminal work by Prof Uta Frith, at UCL (and who was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Cambridge this year) and Prof Simon Baron-Cohen, Macurdy Professor of Abnormal Psychology at Cambridge. It is even thought an ability to monitor to your own mental state, in particular distinguish internally-generated mental states from those of other people, can lead to conditions such as schizophrenia, causing delusions.
Salomon v Salomon provides the pivotal House of Lords case in English law, establishing that the body corporate has a separate legal personality. Related posts: Haile Selassie address to the Unted Nations Oct 6, 1963. Mr.
Occupy Everyone: Making Revolutionaries, Not a Revolution. Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan's Financial District.
Twitter Gulag Defense Network - What Is - #TGDN.
"I wouldn't want my anarchist friends to be in charge of a nuclear power station": David Harvey, anarchism, and tightly-coupled systems. An industry-specific response to David Harvey's popular claim that anarchists can neither run nor combat 'tightly-coupled systems', specifically nuclear power plants and air-traffic control.
This paper is examines the the former and critiques Harvey's understanding of how such systems meet anarchist theory and practice, arguing that hierarchy does not make such systems safer or more efficient - quite the contrary. Quote: Fetishism of the Organizational Form and Tightly-Coupled Systems. S Rights 2012.pdf (application/pdf Object) Community Assets and Services Grants. NHS privatisation: Compilation of financial and vested interests. Liberal Democrats 71.
Lord Alliance: Shares in Huntsworth plc - a company whose CEO is Lord Chadlington - which £15,500 to the party in August last year and has given money every year since 2008. Denied it at first but Electoral Commission found them out. The same company that had Baroness Cumberledge as one of their non-executive directors. Heavily involved in lobbying and PR. Donations: Lord Alliance according to the electoral commission has given £697,440.48 to the Liberal Democrats through their central party and local party.
Economics. Freeman on the land. Freeman on the land, also known as FMOTL, FOTL, "Footle" or simply freeman,[1] is a form of pseudolegal woo in various English-speaking countries.
Freemen believe they can opt out of being governed, and that what normal people understand to be "laws" are merely a form of "contract" that applies only if people consent to it.[2] Freemen hold that we are all subject to a massive international legal conspiracy perpetrated for the profit of the elites, but you can hack the system if you just use the right form of words.[3] They believe only in their version of natural law, which they call "common law. " In practical terms, they believe this means they do not have to pay taxes, debts, mortgages, etc. because we were all deceived and if you say the right form of words, this fact will be accepted!
[edit] History. Democracy: Fabricant in a haze. Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings? - Africa - World. Westerners, including a man with blond hair and blue eyes, are believed to have been among the Islamist militants who launched last week’s attack on the Tigantourine complex near Algeria’s border with Libya. A French jihadist, previously unknown to authorities, and two Canadians are suspected to have been involved in the hostage-taking, and reports also claim that a man with a Western accent was among the extremists who lured terrified gas workers from their rooms during the hostage crisis.
Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told reporters that a man, judged “by his English accent” to have been Canadian, was among the 32 Islamists whose raid on the Algerian refinery prompted a global crisis. One of the Canadians, identified only as “Shaddad”, is alleged to have played a leading role in the attack which left 58 hostages – including 37 Westerners - dead after a four-day battle with Algerian forces. Five further Western workers are still unaccounted for. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists. An action-packed thriller is about to unfold in Davos, Switzerland. I have an idea for a particularly mediocre film.
The plot runs thus: a bunch of rich white men gather in an Alpine hamlet. British politics urgently needs a new force - a movement on the Left to counter capitalism's crisis - Comment - Voices. Something sinister about the lack of prosecutions at Lehman Brothers. Arms dealers.