Catégorie : Politics

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, Feb 11, 2014.

You would have thought that, after all this time, economics would change. Or be changing. Or even be hinting at the possibility of changing. However, while there are a few encouraging signs, there is precious little sign of said motion inside the citadels that dominate the discipline. We still have a profession stuck in a most unprofessional rut, pursuing thinking that reflects not the world around it, but itself.   Continuer la lecture de « Do over? »

• Former BBC Journalist and Bilderberg Expert Tony Gosling, 21.30 min, uploaded by wearechange, June 7, 2013;
• Tony Goslin Captured Live on Ustream …, 69.07 min, uploaded by Goodisplanetearth gipetv, August 20, 2013: see also Ustream, /videos;
• Freemasonry: The firm within the firm, on Russia Today RT, Jan 23, 2014: Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist;
• The Snowden Files: How to turn another hero into a villain, on Russia Today RT, Feb 7, 2014: Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist …;
• Tony Gosling also on unwelcome guests.net; on public interest.co.uk; on YouTube-search; on Google Web-search.

Proposed public service overhaul includes education hit squads to boost performance of failing schools or teachers – Published on The Guardian, by Patrick Wintour, Feb 9, 2014.

Parents are to be given a new power to call in a specialist team to boost the performance of failing schools or teachers, under a set of wide-ranging public service reform plans to be laid out on Monday by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband.

The improvement team, working separately from Ofsted, will have powers to set out school improvement plans, order greater collaboration between schools or even remove failing headteachers. The body would have powers to intervene with academies, free schools and community schools.  Continuer la lecture de « Ed Miliband: Labour will give parents power to oust headteachers »

… an interview with Leo Panitch – Published on red pepper, January 2014.

Globalisation and Imperialism: … //

• … Is it really the case that other states have not also assumed the responsibility for promoting and protecting global capitalism?
• That’s a good question, one that’s not fully resolved. The US is a new type of empire that only rules in conjunction with other states, especially G7 states. It’s not merely an imposition. It requires a lot of institutional coordination and interpenetration. That said, the Germans in particular have been recalcitrant in taking responsibility for ‘failure containment’ in light of financial volatility. Neither has Japan been very forthcoming. By contrast, the relationship between UK and US Treasury is particularly close in playing this failure containment role, although the UK accepts that the US is the senior partner, if for no other reason than it has greater capacity. Continuer la lecture de « To challenge global capitalism we must first understand it »

english:

• 271 PHOTOS of the Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony, on Huffingtn Post (scroll down for the diaporama), Feb 8, 2014;
• Voluntary and involuntary declines in labour supplied – Or: the difference between the Great Depression and the Age of Doris Day, on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by merijnknibbe, Feb 7, 2014;
• Modeling financial instability, on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Steve Keen, Feb 7, 2014;
• World Health Organization warns cancer ‘tidal wave’ on horizon, on Malta Today, Feb 4, 2014: The globe is facing a « tidal wave » of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists …;
• Total ban on GM food production mulled in Russia, on Russia Today RT, Feb 3, 2014;   Continuer la lecture de « all these links remaning on my Dashbard »