MPs lavish lunches for the price of a pizza subsidised by YOU the taxpayer
MPs have been urged to scrap their multi-million pound lunch subsidy amid fury at the cut-price Christmas lunches being offered in Parliament. Before MPs broke off for Christmas they enjoyed lavish lunches ��� including chargrilled partridge, salmon.
France Faces A Watershed Moment As Left Tries To Reinvent Socialism
Jospin, who at the time was readying the 35-hour work week long dreamed of by French Socialists, was impressed neither by Blairs Third Way nor Schroeders New Centre. But the talks made a deep mark on Valls, who 16 years later has become premier .
NYT: Obamas budget calls for stimulus spending, taxing the.
President Obama. Official portrait of Barack Obama. This New York Times lede is what some of us have been dreaming to see: President Obama will lay out a budget blueprint on Monday that amounts to an election-year bet that a plan for... This obamas budget. i agree with Squarewheel. Obama will not be progressive in any way, shape or form. If you pay attention you will see how Obama wants austerity everywhere. Both in Europe and here. i remember Hillary��.
Savings accounts are at risk as long as JP Morgan CEO gets everything he wants
In 2011, those statements might have come from the Occupy voices shouting in the streets of New York and on the Capitol steps. Now those statements are coming from inside Congress itself. Its a sea change in how we talk about Wall Street, and money.
EU exasperated with Britain over ��1.7bn bill
The EU is demanding the payment ��� which it wants by December ��� because the UK economy has performed better than expected over the past few years. In contrast, France is receiving a ��790million rebate from the EU as its economy struggles in a vicious .
Hollande warns France of tough spending cuts
His remarks marked a distinct change of tone for a government that has insisted to date it was avoiding austerity. They followed a pre-budget announcement that social welfare spending will be cut by ���9.5bn next year, including slashing the ���900 one-off .
Ted Cruz Wants To Fight Obama Over Immigration, But He Forgot About One Thing
Holder announced in late September that he planned to retire, and earlier this month, Obama nominated Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, to take his place. Holder has stated that he will remain in his. In a prime.
Hollande to Confront Rebels With Vote as He Clings to Austerity
Hollande is trying to rally support for an economic agenda that includes budget cuts, easing rent controls, a crackdown on welfare cheats and opening stores on Sundays as his support sinks in opinion polls and the economy stalls. A week. ���He faces.
Tories to freeze benefits to 10million families in new austerity drive
The Chancellor seized on Labour leader Mr Milibands failure to remember to mention the deficit in his conference speech last week, branding it a disqualification from the high office he seeks. Saying he wanted to level with voters, Mr Osborne said.
If Oil Disappears in the Desert, Does the Market Notice?
Libya is already paring back its budget, and a sustained drop in oil production could force even more austerity. In late October, the rump parliament slashed the budget by 20 percent because of the shortfall in oil revenues during the first half of the.
2013: July - October Political Notes - Richard Stallman
The most important point about bugging the phones of politicians in Germany, Spain and elsewhere is that the NSA was keeping Obama and Feinstein in the dark along with all of us. To stop snooping on a few allied leaders is not sufficient��.
First Draft Today in Politics
Credit John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times. Good Tuesday morning from Washington, where the combative Representative Michael G. Grimm, Republican of New York, has announced that he is stepping down; the antitax crusader Grover Norquist is.
2012: November - February Political Notes - Richard Stallman
23 February 2013 (Obama wants kill list memos kept permanently secret).. The New York Times covers how people keep traffic moving on the Mississippi despite the drought, but doesnt mention that people caused the drought. 21 February... US citizens: call for cutting the military budget before Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare.. The recession causes austerity, because of the euro zones rule that limits deficit spending, and the austerity causes recession (as it always does).
Setting the record straight about SEIU 1021
Scott dismisses this very real problem, calling the whole question of the CEO a relatively obscure topic not mentioned in the San Francisco Chronicle or the New York Times. So if the mainstream press doesnt cover the fight by the rank and file to.
Ryan Seeking to Cut Already Underfunded VA Budget
Committee Republicans, searching for ways to curb federal deficits and rein in galloping VA costs, are targeting 1.3 million veterans who claim priority group 7 or 8 status and have access to VA care.. [new] Ryan is Austerity King (16+ / 0-). They kinda make up the money threshold as they go along and with more and more cutbacks, it not only hurts the incoming new vets but killing the older ones in the system being pushed back and making tighter budgets when��.
Bill Black: The New York Times is Wowed that Obamas Six.
Rubin wants the job of Fed Chair to go to his top prot��g��e, Larry Summers.. The administration has been leaking primarily to the New York Times Binyamin Applebaum.. Jacob Lew and Furman share the characteristic of being Rubinites and leading architects and proponents of the ���Grand Betrayal��� (the effort to inflict austerity and cuts in the safety net).. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-04/how-the-bank-lobby-loosened-u-s-reins-on-derivatives.html.
US Should Talk to North Korea, Whoever Is in Charge
There is no stability in the regimes upper reaches: In his nearly three years at the top Kim has replaced upwards of half of the partys and militarys top officials, changing some positions multiple times. Whoever reigns, there is little reason to.
Spitfire List | ���Austerity��� Equals Fascism, Part 2: A Kindler.
(���As Europes Currency Union Frays, Conspiracy Theories Fly��� by Floyd Norris; The New York Times; 06/15/2011.). (���Kohl Says Monetary Line Aids Unity��� by Craig R. Whitney; The New York Times; 9/26/1992.) ���... Recession-hit Spaniards will this week be told to swallow yet more austerity as the government prepares a fresh round of reforms and another budget filled with spending cuts and tax increases that will allow it to seek a bailout from eurozone partners.
2012: May - August Political Notes - Richard Stallman
Although Obamas new fuel efficiency standards are a step forward, they dont go far enough. Here are.. The Lib Dem leader proposes a wealth tax to reduce austerity in the UK.. Everyone: ask the New York Times to pay attention to the basic questions about Julian Assanges extradition... Mainstream US media are praising Paul Ryan as a great expert on the budget, and pretending that there is a problem that needs a drastic solution such as he proposes.
A faux war in Wisconsin | America under Obama | spiked
The protests have been sparked by Republican governor Scott Walkers proposal to reduce 170,000 public workers take-home pay (by means of requiring higher contributions to pensions and healthcare), remove meaningful��.
2013: March - June Political Notes - Richard Stallman
This is the result of the budget cuts which are intended to ruin and then destroy the NHS. 30 June.. Whats happening is that Obama refuses to release them, and wants to pretend he is not responsible for the decision. Quite a... New York Times editors and columnists think Snowden should have obeyed orders instead of his oath to defend the Constitution.. In the UK, workers pay has suffered more from the current austerity attack than in the Great Depression.
Obama On The Defensive On Government Spending, Debt
He accused Obama of inflating the debt that he had pledged to reduce and ballooning the federal budget deficit with the 2009 economic stimulus and 2010 health care bill after saying he would cut it sharply. Obama, in. Obama called Romneys claims a cowpie of distortion and would saddle the debt with $5 trillion in new tax cuts, likening it to trying to put out a prairie fire with some gasoline. What happens is, the.. Time PERIOD: Six Month Ending May 27, 2012
Italy in Crisis: Monti and the dictatorship of austerity | ROAR.
Ruling over Rome like a new Caesar, in the words of TIME Magazine, the unelected Mario Monti effectively runs Italy as a modern dictatorship of austerity.. The Deputy Economy Minister Vittorio Grilli (who is still on the board of the Monti-founded think tank Bruegel), said that, ���the package should ensure that Italy meet its target of a balanced budget by 2013... [40] Gaia Pianigiani, ���Monti Selects Areas to Cut to Reduce Italys Budget,��� The New York Times.
Dont Cut Entitlements, Do This Instead - Daily Kos
Washingtons recent focus on political scandals has distracted attention from a deficit deal, but with debt-ceiling and budget fights looming in the near future (on top of the current sequester cuts), backers of austerity (the. The Center for American Progress argues that there is no point in seeking any deal with the GOP because they have made it perfectly clear that they wont ever compromise with the Democrats --- at least, not while Obama is still the President.
Icing on the Cake and The Doctor Blake Mysteries reviewed by CHRISTOPHER.
First, he insisted on trying some wartime austerity cake recipes, including one made from potatoes and another that recommended using paraffin if there was no lard. Then he dragged self-professed cake hater Jenny Eclair, a feminist comedienne, into a.
Eurozone Must Brace for New Shocks
The eurozone needs to take measures to insure itself against disaster: looser monetary policy by the European Central Bank to increase inflation; a new drive for structural reforms, especially in France and Italy but also in Germany; and some loosening.
AandE departments already straining from winter demand, NHS Sir Bruce Keogh.
He said high expectations from the public and budget cutbacks were also making it more difficult for the NHS to succeed. Sir Bruce defended proposals to overhaul the health system to create supercentre specialist AandE departments. The Keogh review .
Quote of the Day: The 4th Amendment Takes Another Hit.
Randolph really doesnt mean anything if all the police have to do is remove you from your doorway and then come back a few minutes later. So the 4th. Assuming a Dem succeeds Obama, one or all will be gone and replaced. Remove that fifth. Troops within the U.S. are normally quartered within military bases owned by the federal government, but when fighting overseas, there may have been times when civilian homes were taken over temporarily. When our��.
Euromess: The View From Germany | Mother Jones
Now, with the euro itself in danger, many American and British commentators are calling for the ECB to loosen its fiscal monetary* reins. But without. to Europe. Paul Krugmans piece in the New York Times today is a prime example.. In the United States, it seems to me, the debate on Europe is framed by domestic-minded Democrats like Krugman who attempt to set up a parallel narrative in order to explain the failure of Obamas economic policies. I might be��.
How the CIA Spent the Last 6 Years Fighting the Release of.
However, the Senate Intelligence Committee wants to investigate. Lawmakers say they expect. Obama says he will not prosecute the CIA employees who acted on the Justice Departments orders and nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past. April 20, 2009:. After that is complete in mid-February, the committee will vote again on how much of the report should be declassified, the New York Times reports. The CIA does not��.
Obamas Budget Seeks to Loosen Austerity Reins
In his penultimate budget, Mr. Obama proclaimed victory in the long climb from deep recession and said the time had come to loosen the strictures of austerity to invest in the nations future, laying out a plan likely to shape the 2016 presidential.
Quote of the Day: Mammograms Shouldnt Be Pawns in a.
If youre not going to be swayed at all by a randomized controlled trial of 90,000 women with 25 year follow up, excellent compliance, and damn good methods, it might be time to consider that theres really no study at all that will. This isnt coming from people who are anti-woman or who are just trying to slash budgets... And once a woman knows she has a suspicious lump, she wants it out... A new photo book offers few clues about the woman behind the camera.