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Whereupon we in turn then take advantage of it to create a blog-post http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2015/08/an-appeal-to-new-zealand-workers.html
Acupuncture works too…They did a controlled experiment and results showed a slight statistical effect … Only thing was that the researchers purposefully ignored the several contradictory acu-point charts recommended by practioners and deliberately just stuck the needles randomly into the person where-ever the fancy took them. But it worked according to the maths. Homeopathy is very dangerous when some who practice it do not even follow their own 'professional' organisations recommendations and substitute homeopathic vaccinations for real ones…I am surprised it is not treated as criminal…certainly would be if i passed off my own concoction as able to stop rabies, for instance.
What should be the musical anthem""We won't get fooled again"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMD_W_r3FgBut to be truthful, i thought it was drugs we all took that made the music good…
The Independent nails its banner to the flag-staff with this unashamed Yvette Cooper story…"she was moved to tears"…Maybe they too have learned the issue is one of honesty and sincerity and now make an emotional appeal for votes that is worthy of 'Drop the Dead Donkey' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/yvette-cooper-interview-leadership-candidate-makes-emotional-call-for-labour-to-be-the-party-that-makes-a-difference-10458299.htmlIn this party election and particularly if Corbyn is elected and the ensuing media de-legitimising of him, i hope people who study the media monitor the coverage because i am sure it will provide us with plenty of clues on how they will respond to our own possible (if at this time remote) growth of influence and power. I am minded of the arguments from the 19th century onwards of the importance of possessing our own press and today it is even more vital that we have direct access to mass media and that only can be by the internet unless we can afford the technology and have the people with the skills and talent to produce a socialist "Democracy Now"…maybe a internet radio like "Pacific" as a compromise…or exploring the potential of daily podcasts…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/gorillas-are-showing-signs-of-learning-to-talk-say-researchers-10456969.html?icn=puff-image-10Researchers have identified speech patterns in a gorilla, previously thought to be impossible for apes.
Exactly same procedure as the UK Labour Party election, with the same 3 quid democracy rule, ALBhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Labour_Party_leadership_election,_2015#ProcedureSimply wasn't any left candidate for Scottish Labourites to organise behind. They no doubt have all defected to the SNP and the Scottish Parliament gravy train. I see they have dragged Gordon Brown into endorsing Cooper. I wonder how many of the Scots audience listening to Corbyn actually voted Yes in the referendum and are ignoring that Corbyn is even against the compromise of increased taxation powers for the Scots.
Kezia Dugdale has won the Scottish Labour leadership election, beating outsider Ken Macintosh with more than 70 per cent of the vote – with 5,217 votes out of a claimed electorate of 21,000.No sign of any leftist entryism. No sign of any leftism whatsoever in Scottish Labour, actually. She said Jeremy Corbyn as leader would leave the party "carping from the sidelines"..hmmm??…and Scottish Labour’s general election success in Scotland was …ummm…one MP…
Are you sure, Completely, wrong?Surely if he is elected he will mitigate the effect of the welfare benefit changes on large numbers of workers and would that not meet W. Dunn's definition of a better share of wealth. Perhaps W. Dunn means the increased tax upon the capitalist class and the promises of ending tax avoidance will change the share of the surplus value that the capitalist class has to surrender to the State to pay for better social services and benefits. I also imagine if Corbyn fulfilled his "principles" of the past, trade union legislation will be relaxed once again to permit workers to exercise what industrial muscle they possess as you correctly and create a more advantageous battle-field in the class struggle. Being the cynic and sceptic i am, I simply don't believe he will ever be offered the opportunity to be Prime Minister. He'll have to change the Labour Party into something it is not and in a way Blair is right, it will destroy the Labour Party. Our press statement referring to Harold Wilson but it may well have gone further back into history and produced two analogies…the failure of a very strong ILP under Maxton and how they were cowed into obedience and, of course, Ramsay MacDonald, who also like many on the right of today's party would be prepared to sacrifice the Labour Party, as did the SDP in the 80s. Corbyn may well find himself the leader of a rump Labour Party. On this i'm merely guessing…What I can be sure of is that it will not raise the consciousness of workers to emancipate themselves and thus bring socialism a step closer but drag them up deeper up a blind alley, once again.
Tony Blair – "If Jeremy Corbyn becomes leader it … will mean …possibly annihilation." He neglected to add "within 45 minutes"
An update from the TAXRESEARCH website YMS cited a post from http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2015/08/12/robert-peston-on-peoples-qe/
Blair panics…http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/12/tony-blair-labour-faces-annihilation-if-jeremy-corbyn-wins-leadershipOnly reason i might be persuaded to vote Corbyn is the distinct possibility that Blair might face war crimes trial under Corbyn government.
"It's clearly true that if Corbyn hadn't have been standing the Labour leadership contest would have been boring and probably wouldn't have made the headlines any more than the one for the LibDem's new leader did."So true…You wouldn't have guessed that there is a leadership election for the leader of Scottish Labour, would you?The result will be announced on Saturday…Kezia Dugdale or Ken Mackintosh…Who? …Who cares?
