What do we know about the murder of Alton Sterling by Officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake in Baton Rouge, Louisiana? We know that on July 5th he was peacefully and with permission on private property selling CDs as he had for years. We are told by Police officials that he had a gun, which …
Tag: ek Politics
Jul 13 2016
Sore Losers, But Losers Nevertheless
Jeremy Corbyn Wins Right to Defend His Leadership of Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn won overwhelmingly a year ago, the leadership of the party. So he is a Social Democrat by you might say unnatural selection. The Labour Party’s parliamentarians were neoliberals. So he came to control a party whose members supported him strongly and supported …
Jul 12 2016
Corbyn Wins Ballot Vote!
A couple words of background. Jeremy Corbin was elected to lead the UK Labour Party about 10 months ago in a 60% – 40% blowout where each registered Party Member got one vote. The Blairite Parliamentary Party (actual Members of Parliament and their staffs) never liked him because he didn’t believe in their NeoLiberal agenda. …
Jul 12 2016
An Epitaph for Cameron
David Cameron’s worst lie is finally revealed: Larry the cat by James Kirkup, The Telegraph 12 July 2016 While the rest of the Cameron retinue is clearing out this week, Larry is staying on with Theresa May. Which raises all sorts of questions, but first: what sort of man moves house and leaves his cat …
Jul 11 2016
The Smart Money
Can We Ignore the Alarm Bells the Bond Market Is Ringing? by Neil Irwin, The New York Times JULY 11, 2016 The stock market can rise and fall for all sorts of reasons, and sometimes for no apparent reason at all. But the bond market, where trillions of dollars change hands and long-term interest rates …
Jul 10 2016
The Myth of the Center
There’s Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos- Jim Hightower It is hard to imagine what Angela Eagle and the Parliamentary Labour Party think they are doing. At best (from their standpoint) they keep Jeremy Corbyn off the ballot and his 60%+ (yup, 60%+) think they’re a bunch of …
Jul 09 2016
So, that Labour Party Election
I feel I’ve made it abundantly clear what side I am on. I think myself a modern day Marat (in fact I suffer from eczema just as he did, it’s an auto-immune disorder that is not at all contagious but psychologically damaging in that you imagine yourself a leper and are frequently treated as such. …
Jul 08 2016
About Stupid
Yes, I know we’ve moved beyond the mere torture and abuse of domesticated, eating animals though it’s far easier to generate sympathy for a mutilated cat or dog than it is of a Black citizen murdered by Police let alone some nameless first responder, wedding, or funeral guest reduced to a blood soaked spot of …
Jul 07 2016
Chicken Little
It’s hard to know how much cultural history we share. I was amazed and astounded that my brother, who attended the same schools I did, had picked up hardly any of Aesop’s Fables (long story beyond short, the dog in the manger can’t eat the grain because he’s a dog, duh, yet thwarts the cow …
Jul 07 2016
Overton Windows
The Not-So-Liberal Roberts Court by Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times JULY 7, 2016 The takeaway from the term that ended last week seems to be that by the time the Supreme Court, short-handed and stumbling in the wake of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, finally got its act together at the end of June, it …
Jul 07 2016
It’s Over.
First of all, allow me to point out that the Telegraph is not exactly what you would call a “Left Wing” newspaper. Defeated Labour rebels admit ‘it’s finished’ as Jeremy Corbyn refuses to resign as leader Kate McCann, Telegraph 7 July 2016 • 9:00am Labour rebels are in retreat after admitting that Jeremy Corbyn cannot …
Jul 06 2016
Spandau
Spandau Prison was built in 1876 on Wilhelmstraße. It initially served as a military detention center. From 1919 it was also used for civilian inmates. It held up to 600 inmates at that time. In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire of 1933, opponents of Hitler and journalists such as Egon Kisch and Carl von …