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Jun 08 2017
May Loses Majority!
According to the Washington Post exit polling indicates that the Tories will lose 16 seats to finish at 314 (down from 330 before today) and Labour will gain 34 to finish at 266 (up from 232). A governing majority is 326 leaving the Tories 12 in deficit as opposed to a 4 seat cushion. This …
Jun 08 2017
Stiglitz on Austerity
From our other Nobel Laureate. This is framed around the British Snap Elections but really it’s universally applicable. Austerity. Does. Not. Work. In the long run it doesn’t work even for the .01%ers who favor it. It is simply Puritan Morality written as Public Policy. That’s not some wild eyed Lefty redistributionist theory, that’s Samuelson …
Jun 08 2017
For The Many, Not The Few
Don’t be so negative. Final speech before the election, not final speech ever. I’d trade 2 Obamas for him.
Jun 07 2017
An Election Of Hope
We were told Corbyn was ‘unelectable’. His fightback shows he’s anything but by Gary Younge, The Guardian Tuesday 6 June 2017 At a drinks party in central London, not long after Jeremy Corbyn had been elected leader of the Labour party first time round, a young journalist talked me through the facts as she saw …
Jun 07 2017
The Councils of the Quislings
Labour Centrists Have A Problem: Jeremy Corbyn Is Doing Too Well by Jim Waterson, BuzzFeed June 06, 201 The plan for Labour centrists, as much as there ever was one, went something like this: Jeremy Corbyn, faced with a snap general election called by a triumphant prime minister buoyed by stunning poll ratings, would inevitably …
Jun 05 2017
Pogrom
(A) violent riot aimed at the massacre or persecution of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews. The term originally entered the English language in order to describe 19th and 20th century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire. … Similar attacks against Jews at other times and places also became retrospectively …
Jun 04 2017
Ariana Grande Concert in Manchester
It’s on right now as a matter of fact on FreeForm which used to be ABC Family and before that Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network. Among the performers are Justin Bieber whom I’ve always hated and Ariana herself, who I liked when she was in Victorious and Sam and Cat on ABC/Disney’s rival Nickelodeon (some …
Jun 03 2017
Liar, Liar
Just a reminder, here at The Stars Hollow Gazette and Docudharma– your ‘Fake News’ Headquarters, we publish only the most scurrilous rumors and are not bound by good taste, election law, or fanciful notions of “objectivity in journalism”. Stockton- There are a lot of ways to practice the art of journalism, and one of them …
Jun 02 2017
Shifting Sands
At a certain point campaigning and polls for the British Parliamentary election on June 8th will shut off (because that’s how they do things in Europe). I’m going to attempt to keep you informed because something miraculous (and yet predicted by me during the Labour Leadership election) is happening- an unapologetically Socialist, Populist candidate, running …
Jun 01 2017
The ‘Trump’ Budget
There are many things to hate about The Donald, my personal favorite is that he takes perfectly good meat which has never given any cause of offense, incinerates it to the consistency of a Hockey puck, and then slathers it with ketchup so he can choke it down. The man is a barbarian. Of course …