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Aug 31 2019
Flynn’s Day of Reckoning
I’ll skip over the history a bit and pick it up where Michael Flynn had basically finished co-operation with Mueller (as far as it goes) and went into court expecting the leniency Mueller recommended. Well, Emment Sullivan was having none of that and called Flynn a traitor to boot (he is actually). Then Flynn was …
Aug 30 2019
And Now, This.
Revolution haunts the air of Westminster. More than 50 rebel MPs pledge to convene alternative parliament by Jessica Elgot, The Guardian Fri 30 Aug 2019 More than 50 MPs from the main parties have pledged to occupy an alternative House of Commons if the prime minister suspends parliament in September, saying they are determined to …
Aug 30 2019
Another Failure of the NeoLiberal Paradigm
My favorite is The Myth of Shareholder Democracy, but this is right up there. Can we trust CEOs’ shock conversion to corporate benevolence? by Joseph Stiglitz, The Guardian Thu 29 Aug 2019 For four decades, the prevailing doctrine in the US has been that corporations should maximise shareholder value – meaning profits and share prices …
Aug 29 2019
England and Wales
And at the time (1283 CE) they were none too Happy about it. Today Wales is still very pro Brexit as are the Midlands. Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament if unaltered limits debate over Brexit to a 2 week window just before the witching hour of October 31st. I say unaltered since there are several …
Aug 28 2019
Can We Impeach Yet? Pretty Please?
(makes puppy dog eyes, expectant and pleading) I don’t know Nancy. Does Murder count as a ‘High Crime’? Gotta rate rate at least misdemeanor. In the morning news we find- ‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day. By Nick Miroff and Josh …
Aug 28 2019
Cartnoon
Perhaps, like me you have a Deyfuss block (I mean I knew about it, but it it was not clear to me that it was a broader indictment of deeply entrenched and rampant anti-Semitism in the French Military, indeed French Society) althought yours probably is related to some different piece of Historical trivia. Many people …
Aug 27 2019
No connection at all.
Any thought that these two things are correlated, or that either of them is correlated with the 2016 campaign, is roundly denied by Institutional Democrats. To steal a trope from Chris Hayes, Thing 1- New Poll Shows ‘Deep and Boiling Anger’ Towards Political Establishment Still Widespread by Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams August 25, 2019 If …