Telegraph tell of Putin’s UKIP fear in Stoke
How can the Chief Political Correspondent and Deputy Political Editor of The Telegraph put their names by this muck? Desperate stuff to get UKIP Leader Paul Nuttall into Parliament.
Cressida Dick appointed head of London Met Police
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Councils use Rogue Landlord Database cash to fund deportation raids
In September the Radical Housing Network revealed that government money originally earmarked for protecting vulnerable tenants from unscrupulous landlords is being used to fund deportation raids. The following pieces appeared in RT and VICE. This is how the Daily Mail spin it: Below…
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President Trump rude to Jewish and African American Reporters in first solo press conference
The President was rude to Jewish and African American reporters yesterday, uttered untruths about his election results, and was combative when asked about about his campaign’s contact with Russia. He also contradicted himself over the sacking of senior adviser Mike…
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Dance to the Muzak – Bannon and Trump read the Crowd
According to Dale Purves what we hear is often determined by our Darwinian programming which filters out sounds that don’t help us reproduce. Purves points to the McGurk Effect: How does this apply to modern politics? As mentioned in a previous post Lord Ashcroft has released…
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Trump hands keys to Goldman Sachs
Bins financial regulation & consumer protection Extreme Vetting, But Not for Banks – Rolling Stone — Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 3, 2017 But there is some hope, Government Sachs are facing some resistance outside their offices. .@GoldmanSachs security &…
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US Meat Industry welcomes UK-US Trade Deal
Shelves could be full of cheap American meat in UK supermarkets within two years. What does the meat industry think of the UK-US trade deal. — Oscar Rousseau (@OscarRousseau) 3 February 2017 Was the Brexit vote a vote for growth…
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Transatlantic Aliens
I came across Transatlantic Aliens in the bookshop today. The blurb referred to the cultural contribution made by Europeans who moved to the US in the 1930s and 1940s. By looking at how celebrated outsiders such as Theodor Adorno, Simone…
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Unions love Trump, Max Keiser to run in North Carolina
Max Keiser says Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Seduces Unions Max Keiser tells how Trump is seducing unions with his infrastructure plans and dropping TPP. Max Keiser to run in North Carolina In mid-January Max Keiser said he will announce his official…
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May praises Trump shortly before he bans Muslims from entering America, then visits Turkey who are paid to stop refugees from entering Europe
Special Relationship with Trump At yesterday’s press conference May talked about NATO and ISIS but chose not to mention the bonfire of rights and regulations and the deeper privatisation of NHS services and imminent entry of GM food, pesticides, cloned…
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Tories pick 25 yr old candidate to help UKIP Leader into Parliament
This is their way of helping UKIP Leader Paul Nuttall destroy the Labour party in the North. Could this backfire on the entire country? The election is on February 23rd. It had been rumoured that the Tories would field a…
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Tories to join forces with UKIP, say Huff Post sources
Tories to join forces with UKIP, say Huff Post sources The Conservative Party has struck a deal with UKIP and won’t field a candidate in the upcoming Stoke by-election, it was alleged yesterday. The story, reported by Martha Gill of…
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Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
As far as Donald Trump is concerned UK laws, like women’s private parts, are all up for grabs. He’s acquisitive by nature — so where are we headed? The Front Page of Today’s Telegraph is looking all excited about new US jobs. TELEGRAPH: May trade deal…
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Traitor May tells Trump to Back EU while claiming to extricate Britain from the EU. At the same time Murdoch turns Farage into EU migrant.
In November 2015 Theresa May was being lined up to lead the Out campaign. Nigel Farage said he’d have been delighted had she accepted. What side are you on? But then she backed Remain. In the speech she gave to…
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NYTimes: Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats?
Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats? It appears that Republicans listen better than Democrats! Or did Obama and the Clintons simply not pay enough attention to US unions?
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National Grid sells 61% stake in gas arm to Macquarie/CIC consortium
National Grid sells 61% stake in gas arm to Macquarie/CIC consortium – via @FT
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Worried about Peak Oil? Welcome to Peak Renewable!
Now that OPEC are cutting production to stop Oil prices from falling through the floor, will Mr. Trump & Theresa May usher in an age of Peak Renewable? Renewables require government subsidies, but governments give bigger tax breaks to…
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Trump backs Farage to be UK Ambassador to USA
Donald Trump: Nigel Farage would do great job as Britain’s US ambas… via
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Video: White America rejects American Values
ALEC The American Legislative Exchange Council are in the ascendant. Most Brits don’t even know who they are. But they hold the real clout around here. Trump Aide: Japanese Internment Camps are Precedent for a Muslim Registry White America…
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Times: Housebuilding on Greenbelt signals a return to post war tactics
The Devolution agenda: Outsource the cuts. Outsource the liability for the much needed infrastructure spend. Overrule councils if they dont do as they’re told. Otherwise give them full freedom. Freedom to get into debt. To sign LOBOs and PFI deals.…
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Is Murdoch backing Trump?
Makes perfect sense. Have Fox ever loved Hillary? Imagine Murdoch wanting to deal with May and Hillary. Why wouldn’t he prefer Trump, Corbyn and McDonnell? Similar overall view of the world but from different perspectives. Most people recruit in their…
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EU and Canada sign deal amid fears about future of trade policy
EU and Canada sign deal amid fears about future of trade policy – via @FT What prospects for a UK trade deal with either EU or Canada? Both know how desperate UK is to sign a deal.
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How star central banker Mark Carney turned into a Brexit target
How star central banker Mark Carney turned into a Brexit target – via @FT Did Roy Hodgson or Fabio Capella come under this kind of sustained pressure to go? Who could they possibly replace him with? Or is the…
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Health and safety prosecutions treble in a year
Health and safety prosecutions treble in a year – via @FT Figures found via FOI by a law firm
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Telegraph thoroughly defrauds its readers over RBS – again
FCA accuse Sunday Telgraph of laundering RBS's reputation as FCA continues to . . . launder RBS's reputation.
Carney Quits
Carney out Farage in. Tory press are committing treason by not holding this shambolic government to account.
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Contra-Radical Guardian
Deconstructing the contradictions in Saturday's Guardian and a primer on Trumpy climate denial vs Clinton Greenwash.
Fallon ignores Brexit to Block EU Army — meanwhile UK Defenceless
Fallon Bypasses Brexit to Block EU Army Sir Michael Fallon has been unmasked as one of the UK’s biggest security threats. The FT has dug up a document addressed to the Defence Minister by General Sir Richard Barrons, the recently-retired head of the country’s Joint Forces…
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Drop Austerity, Tighten Borders, EU told
Post-Brexit EU Reform Two groups of EU countries are banding together to call for stricter internal and external border controls and an end to austerity at the first full post-Brexit EU meeting in Bratislava on Friday. Club Med Last Friday…
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The Strange Death of Globalisation
Attention This week Japan wrote an open letter threatening Britain with divorce. The Japanese government said its firms could quit UK over Brexit-related uncertainty. [gview file=””] And the Financial Times advised British companies to pay attention. A Call to ARMs But despite this, Japan’s SoftBank snapped…
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Crisis Management: Samsung Recall
What phone have you got? Apple / Samsung / Something Else Have you had it long? New / Less than a year / More than a Year Has it always worked? Yes / No What do you do…
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Hyper-Financialisation of Universities : Martin Wolf Vs Anthony Seldon
Strange to see FT’s resident Bilderberger Martin Wolf attacking University reform last week. Anthony Seldon is often quoted in the Sunday Times as an Education and Happiness Expert. He is Blair and Cameron’s official biographer and believes in “student experience”.…
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Vaz Quits in latest round of Post-Brexit Coup d’état
Vaz Quits Pillar of the establishment, Keith Vaz, has just resigned his position after being caught paying rent boys to have sex with him in his £2 million North London home. After the recent “Brexit” coup d’état the May…
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‘Zombie Apocalypse Factory’ Opens in London
Crick Institute — Charity or Business? With funding from several Health Trusts, Universities, and Research Institutes, the £650m Crick Institute is a registered charity and will have 1000 scientists and 250 support staff by the end of the year. The…
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UK Universities to give away football tickets, iPads, & Masters Degrees
UK Universities are adopting aggressive marketing strategies to compete in the Global Higher Education supermarket according to today’s Sunday Times. As well as offering free masters, iPads, and Premier League Football tickets, Universities are also incentivising overseas students to recruit…
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Cameron and Letwin plotted to cap bank tax
The Sunday Times claim a leaked document has revealed that David Cameron and Oliver Letwin wanted to “cap taxes for the banks”. According to the leaked memo Letwin endorsed Cameron’s plans for an “aggregated City tax take” which would have prevented…
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What happened to that €1.1 trillion ?
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Handing €1.1 trillion of public money to ANONYMOUS bankers with no publicly available audit trail is an act so corrupt as to be beyond comprehension. Yet that is what…
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Corbyn ‘delighted’ Remain Camp Boss just two days before EU Referendum
Jeremy Corbyn delighted Remain Boss, Roland Rudd, with his multiple TV appearances & speeches in the run-up to the EU referendum vote. Rudd admitted this on Bloomberg TV two days before the vote. The exact quote is at 3m 37s:…
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(B)anal Banter with Blair & Blunt
It is well known that Tony Blair has friends in high places and that, legally speaking, he knows how to get away with anything. Teflon Tony He is known as Teflon Tony because, although bad things are said about him,…
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Letwin on Brexit
Oliver “Deregulation Bill” Letwin has been appointed head of the Number 10 Brexit Unit. In this Defence Select Committee video taken today he is questioned about the forthcoming Brexit negotiations. Given that he is ex-Rothschild and the author of a…
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Brexit London: We are Scaling?
How does scaling benefit London? Does the same principle apply to Brussels? Should power in Brussels really be seen as so much worse than in London? Izabella Kaminska asked Geoffrey Brian West at the FT’s Festival of Finance.
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London Museums targeted by Protestors due to Oil & Arms sponsorship
The British Museum and the London Transport Museum were targeted by activists yesterday afternoon. Both Museums take sponsorship money from serial human rights offenders BP and weapons manufacturer Thales. For more information on the protest click here
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Brexit: City fix for Renmibi Trading?
Brexit & China Is Brexit bad news for the City of London’s relationship with China? City Fix Or will the City find a way to remain a global Renminbi trading hub?
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Food Crisis, Jo Cox, Rampant PR
Food crisis Vs Financial crisis Food giants Mars and Cargill, and the World Wildlife Fund, are partnering with the US Defense Department to role play future food crises. Participants start off declaring that poverty alleviation is the key to reducing terrorism and war and…
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Dr Sarah Wollaston — the woman who backed TTIP & BREXIT
Double U-Turn Sarah Wollaston, chair of the Health Select Committee, joined the Brexit camp for a few weeks and then left it a few days before the Sun came out for Brexit. The government had previously relied on her statements in…
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Chinese Central Bank Clobbers All UK Students By Raising Rents & Tuition Fees
Real Media’s latest video reveals how the UK’s proposed University Laws have been drafted to suit the People’s Bank of China — also known as the Chinese Central Bank — the world’s second largest financial institution. UCL Rent Strike I…
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Chinese Central Bank Clobbers All UK Students By Raising Rents & Tuition Fees
Real Media’s latest video reveals how the UK’s Proposed University Laws have been drafted to suit the People’s Bank of China — also known as the Chinese Central Bank — the world’s second largest largest money machine. UCL Rent Strike…
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Disgraced Brexit Cheerleader for PM?
If the UK votes for Brexit, Dr Liam Fox, the disgraced ex-Defence Minister responsible for getting the UK involved in conflict in Libya and Syria before being sacked for Cronyism in 2011, could become Prime Minister. Is this really happening?…
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Flash Mobs & FinTech
Is an act still genuinely human once it’s been captured by Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, & the Pentagon? Or does the commodification of behaviour make things change? In the attention economy going viral signifies adding value This Texan Star…
