One of the least attractive features of the anti-Democratic Neo Liberal Elites is their arrogant “I know better than you” attitude, and willingness to impose their dictatorial whims on a populace despite widespread opposition. So it is in Norway where they are shutting down analog FM Broadcasting using equipment and licenses that are cheap making …
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Jan 05 2017
A Catalog of Mendacity and Fail
A Tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Don’t be fooled. Populism won’t help Democrats win again by Al From, The Guardian Wednesday 4 January 2017 07.00 EST America’s political map is a sea of Republican red. To change that Democrats need to do better among the forgotten middle class …
Jan 04 2017
The Wisdom of Dean Baker
Can’t We Kill the Deficit Hawk Industry? by Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research 04 January 2017 Just to be clear, there is no reason to be giving more money to Donald Trump’s billionaire friends as he proposes, but the argument is not that it will “blow up” the deficit and add to …
Jan 04 2017
Richard Milhous Nixon: Traitor
“If the President does it, it’s not illegal.” Yeah, but this was before he was President. In 1968 the United States was inches away from concluding a peace accord with North Vietnam and ending the Vietnam War. On October 22nd 1968, Nixon ordered H.R. Haldeman to stop it. Haldeman did this by encouraging South Vietnamese …
Jan 03 2017
Populism and ‘Fake’ News
At Tech Dirt today, Mike Masnick has a story up about the wave of Government proposals to censor news they news they don’t like. In this case the Government is Italian and Masnick cites this piece from Politico– Italy joins calls for fake news crackdown By Zoya Sheftalovich, Politico 12/30/16, 7:13 AM CET “Post-truth in …
Dec 29 2016
More Idiocy
Yup, we’ve moved beyond moronic. George Will (or those that believe his lies) require supervision. Denialism on Trade by Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research 29 December 2016 It is really amazing how the political and economic establishment types feel the need to deny that trade can actually have a negative impact on …
Dec 29 2016
Blame Obama and the Trans Pacific Partnership
A certain class of Institutional Democrat, the Neo Liberal Bi-Partisan Centrists, is anxious to blame Hillary Clinton’s defeat, which while shocking is not surprising, on Russia, the Intertubz, the Hippies, or Bigots (about whom the truest thing I’ve read is that not all Trump voters are Racists, but all Racists voted for Trump). They are …
Dec 28 2016
The Economics of Neo Liberalism
Don’t get me wrong, there are many other aspects of Neo Liberalism that are pernicious, like their anti-democratic elitism, Puritanical Calvinism, and arrogant ignorance coupled with an unjustified and delusional sense of accomplishment, but the cornerstone foundation of their monumental temple to intellectual irrelevance is their beliefs that- Markets are rational and self regulating Private …
Dec 27 2016
The Sanders Book Tour
Over the Thanksgiving Holiday Bernie Sanders was on tour promoting his new book (and political organization) Our Revolution. Frankly, I can’t remember if I drew it to your attention at the time though I think it unlikely given when it appeared. Fortunately Amy Goodman and Democracy Now have chosen to highlight it again this week …
Dec 26 2016
Hessians
A reprint from 2007 but as true today as it ever was. As U.S. troops return to Iraq, more private contractors follow By Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart, Reuters WASHINGTON Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:17am EST The U.S. government is preparing to boost the number of private contractors in Iraq as part of President Barack …
Dec 24 2016
Marley was dead.
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead …
Dec 24 2016
An Economics Documentary
Nothing to see here and who knows how long it will stay up. Download now if you care. I’ll not be updating because it’s a fool’s game.