TIME FOR CHANGE - AFTER NEW LABOUR
By Salma Yaqoob
The tide has certainly turned. For decades, ideas that were once were a reference point for social progress have been derided and marginalised. Now the neo-liberal consensus, which was certain of its own invincibility, has been swept aside by what could well be the greatest financial crisis in history. Millions can now see with their own eyes that the emperor has no clothes.
It is an opportunity, certainly, for the left to reassert a vision of a new world. Already, practical and common-sense arguments of the left are being rehabilitated: that we should be the masters of the economy rather than its servants, that the state should direct investment to meet the needs of society, and that those who are most able to pay should make the...
Today the price of a barrel of gas went to $4.07 here in Ohio. The price of a barrel of oil is 140 dollars. It has doubled since last July. And it isn't even July yet.Everyone and the media are talking about energy prices and inflation.I watch the stocks channel and all day they talk about oil.That's all the news talks about too.I went to the cigar store to get cigarettes and everyone was talking about it sitting around smoking cigarettes.It seems self-evident now something is wrong.People are starting to realize this but not really. People still think it has something to do with their cars. I watched this thing on FOX news tonight on energy and they were showing things about cars. The people in the cigar shop were talking about their cars. Everyone is talking about cars.This is...
So, I've talked about Don't Trip Up here before. But this is truly the most right-wing blog post I've ever read from a Labour blogger. I worry about giving it the light of publicity, but I trust you, fair readers, to appreciate its abundant and obvious extremism.I don't dispute Dennis MacShane's central argument in that Labour shouldn't be by necessity opposed to cutting tax. But I disagree with MacShane's approach and timing. We already have a budget, Dennis, and it's already pretty low-tax, compared to other countries.On the blog post itself, one can already see where Mr Farrington has, once again, tripped himself right up. Firstly there is this:"Labour should consider taxation unavoidable, yet evil. It is necessary because if funds certain public services (roads, security, the rule of...
BUY GOLDThat is my new year's resolution. The gold price continues to rise and I cannot see any reason why it would not continue given the world is going to continue to become more unstable. Instability causes the gold price to go up because it is the most reliable asset. Our currency strengths may become volotile and you wouldn't want your life's saving becoming nothing more than printed paper. Should things get extremely bad, gold will become acceptable tender again.We are Being Farmed, Our Money System is a Fraud Operated by thePrivate Banking Elite And Our Government(s).by Mister Smith...Many Yrs ago, Money had value, it was coined from Gold and Silver, People kept this Money in Banks for safekeeping, In return the Banks would Issue Redemption Notes. At any time you could go to the...
