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A rightwing insurrection is usurping our democracy | George Monbiot | Comment is free |... - 0 views

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  • A consultant who worked for the billionaire Koch brothers claims that they see the funding of thinktanks "as a way to get things done without getting dirty themselves".
  • From the beginning, senior journalists on the Telegraph, the Times and the Daily Mail volunteered their services. Every Saturday, in a wine bar called the Cork and Bottle, Margaret Thatcher's researchers and leader writers and columnists from the Times and Telegraph met staff from the Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Over lunch, they "planned strategy for the week ahead". These meetings would "co-ordinate our activities to make us more effective collectively". The journalists would then turn the institute's proposals into leader columns while the researchers buttonholed shadow ministers.
  • As Pirie's history progresses, all references to funding cease. Apart from tickets donated by British Airways, no sponsors are named beyond the early 1980s. While the institute claims to campaign on behalf of "the open society", it is secretive and unaccountable. Today it flatly refuses to say who funds it.
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  • Pirie describes how his group devised and refined many of the headline policies implemented by Thatcher and John Major. He claims (and produces plenty of evidence to support it) either full or partial credit for the privatisation of the railways and other industries, for the contracting-out of public services to private companies, for the poll tax, the sale of council houses, the internal markets in education and health, the establishment of private prisons, GP fundholding and commissioning and, later, for George Osborne's tax policies.
  • Today's parliamentary equivalent is the Free Enterprise Group. Five of its members have just published a similar manifesto, Britannia Unchained. Echoing the narrative developed by the neoliberal thinktanks, they blame welfare payments and the mindset of the poor for the UK's appalling record on social mobility, suggest the need for much greater cuts and hint that the answer is the comprehensive demolition of the welfare system. It is subtler than No Turning Back. There are fewer of the direct demands and terrifying plans: these movements have learned something in the past 30 years.
  • Once more the press has taken up the call. In the approach to publication, the Telegraph commissioned a series of articles called Britain Unleashed, promoting the same dreary agenda of less tax for the rich, less help for the poor and less regulation for business. Another article in the same paper, published a fortnight ago by its head of personal finance Ian Cowie, proposes that there be no representation without taxation. People who don't pay enough income tax shouldn't be allowed to vote.
  • Jon Snow on 04 Oct 12
     
    Le lobbyisme des corporations tourne à fond pour en finir avec l'état providence et ramener le monde à l'état sauvage. Merci les gars.
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Greek election, debt crisis and G20 Summit: Live - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • 10.21 Alex Banbury of Hamilton Capital has put together a list of countries' denials of contagion: "Spain is not Greece" - Elena Salgado, Spanish Finance minister, February 2010. "Portugal is not Greece" - The Economist, April 2010. "Greece is not Ireland" - George Papaconstantinou, Greek Finance minister, November 2010. "Spain is neither Ireland nor Portugal" - Elena Salgado, Spanish Finance minister, November 2010. "Ireland is not in ‘Greek Territory’" - Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan. November 2010. "Neither Spain nor Portugal is Ireland" - Angel Gurria, Secretary-general OECD, November 2010. "Italy is not Spain” - Ed Parker, Fitch MD, June 12, 2012 "Spain is not Uganda" - Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy, June 2012 "Uganda does not want to be Spain" - Ugandan foreign minister, June 13, 2012
  • Jon Snow on 18 Jun 12
     
    "Uganda doesn't want to be Spain" Ugandan foreign minister, june 2012 Ca sera la phrase de l'année! mdr On peut meme s'en faire un t shirt!
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I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Working people wanted to throw off the chains that Karl Marx had claimed were shackling them – and join the bourgeoisie which he hated. Their analysis of their situation was essentially correct. The increasing prosperity and freedom of the ensuing 20 years proved them right. But as we have surveyed the Murdoch scandal of the past fortnight, few could deny that it has revealed how an international company has bullied and bought its way to control of party leaderships, police forces and regulatory processes. David Cameron, escaping skilfully from the tight corner into which he had got himself, admitted as much. Mr Murdoch himself, like a tired old Godfather, told the House of Commons media committee on Tuesday that he was so often courted by prime ministers that he wished they would leave him alone.
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The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom - Telegraph Blogs - 0 views

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  • But there was also something very phony and hypocritical about all the shock and outrage expressed in parliament. MPs spoke about the week’s dreadful events as if they were nothing to do with them. I cannot accept that this is the case. Indeed, I believe that the criminality in our streets cannot be dissociated from the moral disintegration in the highest ranks of modern British society. The last two decades have seen a terrifying decline in standards among the British governing elite. It has become acceptable for our politicians to lie and to cheat. An almost universal culture of selfishness and greed has grown up.
  • Most of the people in this very expensive street were every bit as deracinated and cut off from the rest of Britain as the young, unemployed men and women who have caused such terrible damage over the last few days. For them, the repellent Financial Times magazine How to Spend It is a bible. I’d guess that few of them bother to pay British tax if they can avoid it, and that fewer still feel the sense of obligation to society that only a few decades ago came naturally to the wealthy and better off.
  • Our politicians – standing sanctimoniously on their hind legs in the Commons yesterday – are just as bad. They have shown themselves prepared to ignore common decency and, in some cases, to break the law. David Cameron is happy to have some of the worst offenders in his Cabinet. Take the example of Francis Maude, who is charged with tackling public sector waste – which trade unions say is a euphemism for waging war on low‑paid workers. Yet Mr Maude made tens of thousands of pounds by breaching the spirit, though not the law, surrounding MPs’ allowances.
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  • A great deal has been made over the past few days of the greed of the rioters for consumer goods, not least by Rotherham MP Denis MacShane who accurately remarked, “What the looters wanted was for a few minutes to enter the world of Sloane Street consumption.” This from a man who notoriously claimed £5,900 for eight laptops. Of course, as an MP he obtained these laptops legally through his expenses.
  • Or take the Salford MP Hazel Blears, who has been loudly calling for draconian action against the looters. I find it very hard to make any kind of ethical distinction between Blears’s expense cheating and tax avoidance, and the straight robbery carried out by the looters.
  • The Prime Minister showed no sign that he understood that something stank about yesterday’s Commons debate. He spoke of morality, but only as something which applies to the very poor: “We will restore a stronger sense of morality and responsibility – in every town, in every street and in every estate.” He appeared not to grasp that this should apply to the rich and powerful as well.
  • The Prime Minister excused his wretched judgment by proclaiming that “everybody deserves a second chance”. It was very telling yesterday that he did not talk of second chances as he pledged exemplary punishment for the rioters and looters.
  • But there are those who do not. Certainly, the so-called feral youth seem oblivious to decency and morality. But so are the venal rich and powerful – too many of our bankers, footballers, wealthy businessmen and politicians.
  • Let’s bear in mind that many of the youths in our inner cities have never been trained in decent values. All they have ever known is barbarism. Our politicians and bankers, in sharp contrast, tend to have been to good schools and universities and to have been given every opportunity in life. Something has gone horribly wrong in Britain. If we are ever to confront the problems which have been exposed in the past week, it is essential to bear in mind that they do not only exist in inner-city housing estates. The culture of greed and impunity we are witnessing on our TV screens stretches right up into corporate boardrooms and the Cabinet. It embraces the police and large parts of our media. It is not just its damaged youth, but Britain itself that needs a moral reformation.
  • Jon Snow on 13 Aug 11
     
    "Let's bear in mind that many of the youths in our inner cities have never been trained in decent values. All they have ever known is barbarism. Our politicians and bankers, in sharp contrast, tend to have been to good schools and universities and to have been given every opportunity in life. Something has gone horribly wrong in Britain. If we are ever to confront the problems which have been exposed in the past week, it is essential to bear in mind that they do not only exist in inner-city housing estates. The culture of greed and impunity we are witnessing on our TV screens stretches right up into corporate boardrooms and the Cabinet. It embraces the police and large parts of our media. It is not just its damaged youth, but Britain itself that needs a moral reformation." On remplacera Britain par France, USA, etc. Papier simple mais Ô combien rafraîchissant en ces heures d'hypocrisie. Tout est à refonder! Magnifique, non! edit: A relier à cet article de Cabanel sur Agoravox: Le cas français. On a la presse qu'on mérite. Oborne c'est l'édito d'un des plus grands journaux anglais. Et nous, un simple site tenu par des individus lambdas. La valeur reste cependant la même. http://www.agoravox.fr/actualites/citoyennete/article/une-ripoublique-irreprochable-98682
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Al Gore, GIEC, Prix Nobel et... "Bullshit!" : La Science au XXI Siècle - 0 views

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  • les changements climatiques deviendront-ils un bouc émissaire fantomatique pour masquer la crise économique et sociale d'une société minée par les délocalisations industrielles et financières, la spéculation, les inégalités... ? Même en présence d'ouragans et de sécheresses, quelle est la véritable source des pires problèmes, si ce n'est la situation sociale qui fait payer les conséquences par les couches les moins « favorisées » de la population ?
  • Certes, si la justesse des actuels modèles climatiques est actuellement mise en cause, cela ne signifie pas pour autant que des conclusions opposées à l'actuelle théorie de l'influence humaine sur le climat finiront nécessairement par s'imposer. Tout simplement, des questions essentielles en la matière restent ouvertes et le travail de recherche doit se poursuivre.
  • Mais pourquoi un Prix Nobel aussi « rapide » que celui accordé en 2007 à Al Gore et au GIEC ? De notre modeste point de vue, l'interrogation persiste après examen détaillé de la page de la Fondation Nobel consacrée à ce prix : http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/20..., et des différents communiqués, motivations et interventions auxquels elle renvoie. Et si quatre ans plus tard, Al Gore débite des discours à base de « pseudo-science » et de « Bullshit ! » à l'adresse des avis discordants, que convient-il d'en penser ? Voici la prose litigieuse de l'ancien Vice-Président des Etats-Unis : « They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message : "This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes." Bullshit! "It may be sun spots." Bullshit! "It’s not getting warmer." Bullshit ! ».
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  • Ce n'était pas fini. Cette semaine, les médias anglophones font état d'une nouvelle « charge » particulièrement violente d'Al Gore contre les « climatosceptiques » vendredi dernier. Mail Online écrit le 30 août : « Climate change deniers will be despised just like racists one day, says Al Gore » ; The Telegraph, « Al Gore likens climate change sceptics to racists » ; etc... Al Gore oublie, ou ne sait pas, que précisément des théories ouvertement racistes avaient dominé l'anthropologie « majoritaire » européenne au XIX siècle et pendant une partie du XXème. Voir à ce sujet notre article « Wikipédia et neutralité (II) ».
  • Jon Snow on 03 Sep 11
     
    Ce débat n'en finit pas de prendre de la hauteur... , ou plutôt de descendre au ras du caniveau.
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Le texte qui fait parler toute l'Angleterre - lesoir.be - 0 views

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  • La démesure des décisions judiciaires, favorisées par le soutien du chef du gouvernement, font depuis trois jours largement débat. Plus encore, les critiques s'élèvent contre l'analyse des autorités. Le Premier Ministre a en effet accusé « la culture » des émeutiers, qui « glorifie la violence, montre un manque de respect de l'autorité et parle des droits mais jamais des responsabilités », et dont profiteraient « les gangs des rues ». Pour y répondre, il réclame « plus de disciplines dans nos écoles », « un système judiciaire criminel qui marque une claire et lourde ligne entre le bien et le mal ».
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      Jon Snow on 13 Aug 11
       
      On en revient aux bons vieux classiques moraux et autoritaires.
  • La plus violente diatribe à son encontre est venue de Peter Oborne, l'éditorialiste politique en chef du quotidien de droite The Telegraph, dont l'écrit a été repris par ses concurrents et relayés massivement sur Twitter. Il estime que « la criminalité dans nos rues ne peut pas être dissociée de la désintégration morale des plus hauts rangs de la société moderne britannique. Les deux dernières décades ont vu un déclin terrifiant des standards au sein de l'élite gouvernante britannique. Il est devenu acceptable pour nos politiciens de mentir et de tricher. (.) Il n'y a pas que la jeunesse sauvage de Tottenham qui a oublié qu'elle a des devoirs aussi bien que des droits, mais aussi les riches sauvages de Chelsea et Kensington ».
  • Enfin, conclut-il, alors qu'il y a quelques semaines « le Premier Ministre excusait son erreur de jugement en embauchant l'ancien directeur de la rédaction Andrew Coulson en clamant que « tout le monde mérite une seconde chance », il était très parlant qu'il n'a pas parlé de seconde chance lorsqu'il a requis une punition exemplaire pour les émeutiers et les casseurs. « Ces doubles standards de Downing Street sont symptomatiques des doubles standards répandus au sommet de notre société. (.) Bien évidemment, ces derniers sont intelligents et assez riches pour être certains qu'ils obéissent à la loi. Cela ne peut être dit des malheureux jeunes femmes et hommes, qui sans espoir et aspiration, ont causé tellement de désordre et de chaos ces derniers jours. Mais les émeutiers ont cette défense : ils suivent tout simplement l'exemple montré par les figures plus âgées et respectées de la société ».
  • Jon Snow on 13 Aug 11
     
    Je m'en vais chercher l'original.
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