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There are other issues and riks, one concern is the ownership of passwords and getting accounts back off members once they're allowed on.I wonder if it would be worth ivnesting ina somethign like a Hootsuite account:https://hootsuite.com/That might give us a safer back end and allow control.This is relevent as we're coming up to the GLA and Welsh Assembly elections, and we really need twitter accounts for the campaigns…
Went to see it last night: it's a very good attempt to analyse the 2008 crash. yes, it does appear to blame greed and corruption by big banks (strangely making the people who actuially made shit loads of money out of the crash 'heroes' because they saw it coming).It starts from the creation of mortgage bundle bonds, which were given top rating by the credit agencies. these were a safe and secure investment, based on bundling the small returns on lots of mortgages in order to make a concentrated big return. Naturally, since this brought in lots of money, the banks piled into this market, and started being less fussy about selling mortgages, and also packaging (and mixing and repackaging) their poroer quality loans into the mix.It covers the conflict of interest between the fund managers and the banks, and between the banks and the credit agencies.What it misses, is why:1) The bottom fell out of the housing market (why couldn't people go on paying for or taking out mortgages.2) Why banks would start to go into these riskier investment areas in the frist place.i.e. it misess out the real economy. The reason why banking was boring and staid in the '70s was that thre were safe and valuable returns to be made from an expanding economy.The time it goes and talks to mortgage holders (i.e, ordinary working peopel) it's a stripper who has been encouraged to speculate in buying multiple houses based on dodgey mortgages she was told she could just roll over, i.e. someone else engaged in speculation. So, effectively, it seals off any relation to wages, income or real econonomic activity.
Vin wrote:I just don't get it. It is like a committee of members standing outside a venue preventing me from holding a party meeting. Can anyone come on here and justify this obstruction? It requires an explanation.I'd have thought the analogy would be the editorial committee refusing to print a submitted article from a member.
https://twitter.com/PeterRNeumann/status/691202963424034816Watch the video, it demonstrates the economic warfare being waged by IS, they are forbidding people to do any work (as the video says, if people would rather not work than join IS, that is resistance). But they are buying the loyalty of children. It's horrific. This demonstrates that the most effective weapon we have against IS is actually taking in the refugees, the more the population is drained, the weaker their support is…
Crick continues to chip away:http://blogs.channel4.com/michael-crick-on-politics/ramsgate-sleazebuster-refers-tory-14000-hotel-bills-kent-police/5214An member of the public has complained to the police.They will have to investigate, and this could go off like a bomb: keep an eye on it, since, as we run up to the election, a re-run at thanet, and a Tory sleeze headline could do some real damage…
Oh, and for the record, Bielefeld doesn't exist… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy
We weren't the only ones to notice this:http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/publications/Reports/KempLancasterPowerCuts201512V3.pdf
Obviously, first and foremost Marx was a communist: his ideas about the proletariat being capable of bringing communism about was the starting point.As we can see:https://marxists.anu.edu.au/archive/marx/works/1845/02/15.htm
Engels wrote:People ask how this theory is to be translated into reality, what measures we propose to prepare its introduction. There are various ways to this end; the English will probably begin by setting up a number of colonies and leaving it to every individual whether to join or not; the French, on the other hand, will be likely to prepare and implement communism on a national basis. Not much can be said about how the Germans will start since the social movement in Germany is new. Meanwhile, among the many possible ways of preparing, I would like to mention only one which has recently been much discussed — the carrying through of three measures which are bound to result in practical communism.Marx and Engels were not dogmatic about the method of attaining communism (but they knew full well it would be the end of buying and selling).However, whatever their views on nationalism, it has to be said that it is a repugnant ideology as vile as racism.
https://www.google.co.uk/finance?q=INDEXFTSE:UKX(choose the All option) for the FTSE over the last 30 years. If I'm looking at it right, the peak this time is on the trend line, which means can only go down below trend fairly quickly if we slump.
robbo203 wrote:Yes I agree 100% . I just dont see the point in labour time accounting in a socialist society (not to be confused with labour vouchers but I dont see much point in them either). Quite apart from the bureauccacy involved in monitoring labour time there is the intrinsic problem of how you weight differnet kinds of labour. For example skiiled versus unskilledAs I tried to raise on another thread, there is the algorithm here:http://www.spliddit.org/apps/tasksThat doesn't start from skilled/unskilled, but the most frequent i.e. most needed) task, and asks participants to rank in terms of that task. Over umpety thousan iterations of peopel scoring, we'd have a clear idea of the relations between various tasks, and people's willingess to perform them.
Paul Mason can see the cycle, and is deeply pessimistic:http://blogs.channel4.com/paul-mason-blog/governments-tackle-unsustainable-global-economic-trends/4336
Mason wrote:But don’t let the apparent symmetry of the peaks fool you. This pattern of boom and bust is progressively destructive. The first peak destroyed the company pension system, whereby skilled workers and the salariat could expect to retire on around 2/3 their final salary. The second peak destroyed the global banking system, hiked government debts to levels usually seen at the end of world wars and left the entire global economy on life support. The third downturn is happening because the effectiveness of that life support is running out.Oooh, Crick has the bit in his teeth:http://blogs.channel4.com/michael-crick-on-politics/electoral-commission-act-tory-thanet-expenses
Crick wrote:What stood out for me was a series of four bills claimed by the Conservatives for the Royal Harbour Hotel in Ramsgate last spring, in the constituency Nigel Farage was hoping to win, and which saw a fiercely-contested campaign. The hotel bills total £14,213.18 for the five weeks of the short campaign, from 30 March to 7 May.Yet the legal expense limit in Thanet South for that period was £15,016.38, and according to the Conservatives’ local expense return for the constituency, submitted last June, they spent £14,837 on the campaign, just £179 short of the legal limit. If one included the hefty bills from the national figures for the Royal Ramsgate Hotel – and I suspect many experts would argue they should be – then the total to elect Craig Mackinlay as the MP comes to £29,050, almost twice the legal spending limit in that seat.As he says, election eturns a to some extent fictional, and would not withstand foprensic examination (hence, he notes the gentleman's agreement not to challenge, since I suspect everyone would be found to be in breech). However, given how outgunned UKIP were, tehre may be quiet rammifications. This will have been noted.
Some societies would have used more labour time than necessary (a point Morris makes), the builders of the likes of Stonehenge may have eschewed production methods that used less labour in favour of using more (to demonstrate the nyumber of followers in their band). Arguably, socialism will be ends driven, and will not necessarilly try to spare labour. Whilst indicative labour planning might be useful we shouldn't be dictated to by it.
jondwhite wrote:Isn't Labours main hope to win the election? Isn't political influence reflected by funding not the other way around?It's not a one way street, sometimes the party that looks like it will win will attract the funds (as capitalists like to back winners)…
Quote:“Last time everyone talked about how it was the first social media election,” he said. “This time around it actually was and no one noticed.”As a result, the Conservatives’ online efforts were barely noticed by journalists because they targeted disengaged voters in marginal constituencies outside London with Facebook advertising.
