At the end of the day, I can honestly say that smokers and drinkers combined have never come half as near to ruining nice days out for me, be they in restaurants, museums or parks, as other peoples’ children have – particularly the sort of entitled bourgeois brat whose moron of a mother is liable to say, as one cretin did in Waitrose a while back when her spawn came out with an ear-splitting scream: “That was a VERY good noise, darling – do another, even louder!” I’m NOT joking! Yet increasingly there is no place to hide from the creatures – they eat for free in formerly civilised establishments, and turn decent pubs into crèches. Come back, Booze and Fags – all is forgiven!

“The first duty of the press,” Lowe wrote, “is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation… The Press lives by disclosures… For us, with whom publicity and truth are the air and light of existence, there can be no greater disgrace than to recoil from the frank and accurate disclosure of facts as they are. We are bound to tell the truth as we find it, without fear of consequences – to lend no convenient shelter to acts of injustice and oppression, but to consign them at once to the judgment of the world.” Robert Lowe: 1851

Sometimes it’s not so apparent, but hyper finance capitalism is a hell of a lot deadlier than many other viruses going around. Often times one must show a casual link that is rejected by the staunch defender of unfettered and rapacious capitalism as whining by do gooders or leftists that fail to understand god’s master economic vision, or some old demented fuck from the Chicago school for that matter. Anyway, this story shows a very clear link between starving human beings, and an increasingly desperate for mega-profit derivatives markets. Just leave it to the Goldman’s Sack killers to mop up their brandy sauce with the desiccating flesh of their fellow human beings.. .but, it’s all an abstraction to them…they have no power….you see….it’s like the soldier’s blaming the general’s, blaming the geeky big mouth policy wonk, blaming the….et cetera….for the bombing of civilians or the like… This sort of speculation must be stopped immediately, and those entities that profit from death, should be put out of business by whatever means possible.

here is the story from the Independent UK http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-goldman-gambled-on-starvation-2016088.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-how-goldman-gambled-on-starvation-2016088.html

Here is a link for a eye popping piece of honest journalism that does not retreat behind a line of of dishonest neutrality, or splays itself open for language and false  historical droning provided by our ‘leaders’ to swoon us into silence…..and so…here please take a look at Robert Fisk’s piece here: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-0

excerpt:

Now let’s look at history. Our leaders love history. Most of all, they love the Second World War. In 2003, George W Bush thought he was Churchill. True, Bush had spent the Vietnam War protecting the skies of Texas from the Vietcong. But now, in 2003, he was standing up to the “appeasers” who did not want a war with Saddam who was, of course, “the Hitler of the Tigris”. The appeasers were the British who didn’t want to fight Nazi Germany in 1938. Blair, of course, also tried on Churchill’s waistcoat and jacket for size. No “appeaser” he. America was Britain’s oldest ally, he proclaimed – and both Bush and Blair reminded journalists that the US had stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Britain in her hour of need in 1940.

But none of this was true. Britain’s oldest ally was not the United States. It was Portugal, a neutral fascist state during the Second World War, which flew its national flags at half-mast when Hitler died (even the Irish didn’t do that).

Nor did America fight alongside Britain in her hour of need in 1940, when Hitler threatened invasion and the Luftwaffe blitzed London. No, in 1940 America was enjoying a very profitable period of neutrality, and did not join Britain in the war until Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Similarly, back in 1956, Eden called Nasser the “Mussolini of the Nile”. A bad mistake. Nasser was loved by the Arabs, not hated as Mussolini was by the majority of Africans, especially the Arab Libyans. The Mussolini parallel was not challenged or questioned by the British press. And we all know what happened at Suez in 1956. When it comes to history, we journalists let the presidents and prime ministers take us for a ride.

I’m driving to Philladelphia with Gilfred Godfrey. We are attending the Philly Phanatic’s annual Memorial Day party. When we drive there, I’m constantly saying, “ok Gilfred, turn up the radio.”

The idea that there is some direct link between the money supply and inflation is absurd on its face. Do any businesses raise their prices because the Fed has put money into circulation? How many businesses even have a clue as to how much money is in circulation? In the real world, prices are set by supply and demand. If any business tried to raise their prices just because the Fed has put more money into circulation they would soon find themselves wiped out by the competition – at least as long as we are in this situation of having enormous excess supply.

This story should be old hat to those who have studied Keynes. In a period of high unemployment, like the present, governments can literally just print money. Not only will this put people back to work, this process can also lay the basis for stronger growth in the future by creating better infrastructure, more energy efficient buildings, supporting research and development of clean energy and improving the education of our children

Priest attached to party balloons vanishes in Brazil

he prefers a clear, active, intense confusion to any ‘wise passiveness,” to any calm and  clouded two-sidedness–whenever he sees that there is something to be said for both sides, he speaks up for the underdog, hard, so that his work is a Permanent Revolution of an anarchist emotional kind, and he himself spins willingly on the wheel of things.

This quote about poet Dr. William Carlos Williams, really stands wonderfully well alone, particularly as a guide for one’s political passions in a sense not crudely narrowed into political contests, selecting the better contestant in the ever more dreary game show curtain choked realm of everyday politics, nor exclusively for the emotionally pulling movements of the day, for certain legislation of the like….