alanjjohnstone
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Who in Edinburgh Br. said i could start an argument in an empty house?Try this article on Catholic Marxism to get your ire worked up.http://spiritofcontradiction.eu/bronterre/2014/06/28/catholic-marxism#more-2761
Came across this article that shows at least for the investor their is going to be boom times.http://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Tokyo-Market/Japan-listed-firms-to-pay-record-stock-dividends-in-fiscal-2014Japanese listed companies this fiscal year are expected to pay a record 7.4309 trillion yen ($61.9 billion) in stock dividends, up 520 billion yen from the previous record of 6.9027 trillion yen, reached last fiscal year. The total is nearly five times the roughly 1.6 trillion yen Japanese banks paid in interest to depositors in fiscal 2013.Related story on record company profitshttp://asia.nikkei.com/Markets/Tokyo-Market/Corporate-Japan-s-profits-seen-scaling-new-heights-this-fiscal-year
The business war for landhttp://www.oaklandinstitute.org/sites/oaklandinstitute.org/files/Brief_CorporateTakeoverofUkraine_0.pdf
i do recall some years ago that the Le Pen National Front in France (publically supported by Brigitte Bardot) and also taken up by the NF in the UK embarked upon a campaign for animal rights highlighting halal. Of course, their concerns were not animal welfare but aimed at immigrants and it was indeed islamophobic in intention. Of course, when some advocates of vegetarianism list adherents one particular person is frequently ignored…Adolf Hitler.
This related article is well worth a read – FC United of Manchesterhttp://bleacherreport.com/articles/2338757-footballs-super-rich-owners-are-killing-the-game-fans-used-to-love
I thought this was a measured and fairly accurate over-view of the whole Ukrainian V Russia situation from its beginnings…As often the case, the media rarely presents an accurate time-line of events.https://consortiumnews.com/2015/02/13/the-putin-did-it-conspiracy-theory/
To return to the original topic i see the the Weekly Worker has an article on No Platformism that some will find an interesting readhttp://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1045/did-free-speech-allow-the-nazis-to-come-to-power/
Many thanks for the clarification but i was right in the sense that the legal reason is not the Lobbying Act but as your link says Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000 …So following this…shouldn't the political parties be paying for the TV debates which are by definition selective hustings? If so, could we make an official protest that they aren't following their own rules. i do note the get-out clauses in "good practice recommendations" but will the tv companies actually abide by these by issuing an official disclaimer before or after their broadcasts…i very much doubt it… Lets be awkward and those members with pedantic hair-splitting legalistic minds draft our official protest. Just cost the price of a stamp and might result in publicity….It worked for the Greens…Who knows …perhaps Cameron will say he won't participate unless the SPGB are involved.
The backlash against muslims in Francehttp://www.spyghana.com/anti-muslim-racism-in-france-on-the-increase/
http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Deals/Komatsu-to-develop-fully-autonomous-construction-machinery
Quote:Komatsu launched this month a service that aims to improve productivity and safety at construction sites via automated equipment, drones and cloud computing. Behind this move is a labor shortage due partly to Japan's declining birthrate, even as investment in construction grows for rebuilding from the 2011 earthquake and replacing old infrastructure.I'm glad it was resolved but their apology appears to be a little mealy-mouthed disingenious …of course, it was intended as the orginally informed us…we were not a "major" party. No decision was made to exclude us…we were simply ignored totally and no invite sent. As for their reference to the Lobbying Act, perhaps someone more in the know can tell me the reference. A quick google left me the impression that it is totally irrelevant to husting but is a financial regulation on payments to support political party campaigns. http://www.bond.org.uk/data/files/campaigns/Bond_-_Lobbying_Act_-_10_key_things_to_know.pdfPerhaps Rob will make an opportunity to remind the hustings that most of them were minor parties at one time …I look forward to the report of the hustings
The Independent carries the story, the BBC and the Guardian so far has not http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chapel-hill-shooting-three-young-muslims-gunned-down-in-north-carolina-at-their-family-home-10037734.html
A follow up to the previous posthttp://www.inc.com/associated-press/robots-are-replacing-human-factory-workers-at-fast-pace.html The Boston Consulting Group predicts that investment in industrial robots will grow 10 percent a year in the world's 25-biggest export nations through 2025, up from 2 percent to 3 percent a year now. The investment will pay off in lower costs and increased efficiency. Robots are getting cheaper. The cost of owning and operating a robotic spot welder, for instance, has tumbled from $182,000 in 2005 to $133,000 last year, and will drop to $103,000 by 2025, Boston Consulting says.And the new machines can do more things. Old robots could only operate in predictable environments. The newer ones use improved sensors to react to the unexpected. Robots can be reprogrammed far faster and more efficiently than humans can be retrained when products are updated or replaced-Robots will cut labor costs by 33 percent in South Korea, 25 percent in Japan, 24 percent in Canada and 22 percent in the United States and Taiwan."As labor costs rise around the world, it is becoming increasingly critical that manufacturers rapidly take steps to improve their output per worker to stay competitive," said Harold Sirkin, a senior partner at Boston Consulting and co-author of the report. "Companies are finding that advances in robotics and other manufacturing technologies offer some of the best opportunities to sharply improve productivity."
The Pope castigates capitalism again and calls for a nice capitalism once more
Quote:“St John Paul II, in the inauguration in this hall of the First Conference on Nutrition in 1992, warned the international community against the risk of the 'paradox of plenty', in which there is food for everyone, but not everyone can eat, while waste, excessive consumption and the use of food for other purposes is visible before our very eyes. Unfortunately, this 'paradox' remains relevant. There are few subjects about which we find as many fallacies as those related to hunger; few topics as likely to be manipulated…“Aim your gaze and heart not towards an emergency pragmatism that shows itself to be perpetually provisional, but instead an approach aimed at removing the structural causes of poverty. Let us recall that the root of all evil is inequality”, says Francis, repeating his words in the apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium: “we have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion. … It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. … The excluded are not the 'exploited' but the outcast, the 'leftovers'.It is therefore necessary, if we really want to solve problems and not become lost in sophisms, to remove the root of all ills, which is inequality. To do this, there are some priority decisions to be made: to renounce the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and to act above all on the structural causes of inequality”.
